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What to do about ever increasing driving distances in golf

Imagine a fictional three ball featuring top golfers from 1900, 1930 and today. On the first tee our 1900’s golfer is happy to send the ball 180 yards down the fairway, although he’s not so happy when he sees the 1930’s player knock his drive 60 yards further to 240 yards. However, both are down-hearted …

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Small Cities – Big Winners

Since Padraig Harrington won in the British Open in 2007, Irish golfers have won 20% of golf’s Majors. This is quite a haul for a country with a population of 6.6m people and begs the question of how country demographics helps talent develop? Small is beautiful Research from Canadian academic Jean Cote and colleagues provides …

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