Bob CollinsTiger Woods is back and so are the duffers playing courses in Minnesota, apparently. Coincidence? Probably. But it’s indisputable that Woods did for golf in the ’90s what President Truman did for the hat. When his career collapsed, so did a lot of golf courses.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Tag: Golf
Occasionally, justice prevails for the innocent, but the story of Valentino Dixon, whose conviction for murder was vacated today after he served 27 years, tells us that there are likely innocent people in prison because they can’t draw pretty golfscape scenes. Read more →
All Sioux Falls Christian senior Kate Wynja had to do yesterday to win the second round of the Class A state golf meet and her second high school championship was stay quiet.
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The rules are the rules and it doesn’t matter if Emily Nash, 16, of Lunenburg, Ma., beat all the boys by four strokes in a high school golf tournament. She doesn’t get the trophy for winning the tournament, nor the right to advance to a state tournament for winning the tournament she won, but didn’t. Read more →
Golf’s decline is illustrated this week with word that two urban golf courses are on death’s doorstep. The Minneapolis Parks Board will vote next month on a plan that to close the Hiawatha golf course because of continuing costs of pumping groundwater will likely curtail 18-hole golf at Hiawatha Golf Course. And the Pioneer Press Read more →
Kaylee Gossen, a junior from Marshall, could’ve just kept quiet and she’d be on her way to the state high school golf tournament.
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Golf is struggling and an incident over the weekend explains why. Golf, and its fans, are insufferable. Read more →
Avert your eyes, golf purists. The PGA is going to allow its golfers to wear shorts, it was announced this week.
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There’s a plan in Duluth for stemming the red ink resulting from Minnesota falling out of love with the game of golf: Less golf. Read more →
Beware the golfer scorned, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources found out last night at a hearing on the DNR’s decision to close its only golf course. Read more →
Golf has been in a decline for years now but from the sound of an article in the Mankato Free Press today, the patrons of Fort Ridgely golf course never saw the Department of Natural Resources’ announcement this week coming. Read more →
This is the moment that has the golf world in an uproar.
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That golf is on the decline isn’t much of a story anymore; it’s been happening for years. But as more communities close down their public golf courses, a philosophical question begins to surface: Does everything have to make money? Or even break even? Read more →
It’s a good time to be a golfer, but for the fact there aren’t all that many golfers anymore.
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Golf courses here once would stay open until Christmas in good weather. In a warmer-than-normal fall this year, many courses have already called it quits for the season. There’s little to suggest it’ll make a comeback. Read more →