Curb Your Game

Larry's Five Stages to Golf Nirvana

With the new 8th season of his HBO Series, Curb Your Enthusiasm, set to kick off July 10th, Larry David is letting fans in on what may be the most rational and stable part of his life. And surprise, surprise, it's his golf game. Sure, as he admits in a debut article he wrote for The New Yorker magazine, David's game has gone through all the machinations and idiosyncrasies of his character on the show. (Who, after having seen what arguably is the best show on TV, would doubt that D... Full Story
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Courses & Travel
Fore Day Flight

Aside from those living in the Pac NW, flying into the town of Kelowna, in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley, may take the better part of a day after a likely layover in Seattle or Portland. However, once you arrive at the far north end of the Sonoran Desert and the home of icewine and Canadian golf, it's a Full Story

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    Just down the hill from the empire walls protecting some of golf's biggest equipment manufacturers used to be the Four
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Lifestyle
A Beer for Every Tee Box

Colorado Beer Week Logo More often than not, the problem with charity golf tournaments as I see it, is the fact that each foursome playing is remains disconnected from the rest of the event to some degree or another while they are on the course. Meanwhile, the great thing about a bar is that you could enter alone and walk out wi Full Story

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    Inside the locker room at the Turnberry Isle Resort and Club in Aventura, Florida, it doesn't take long to run into som
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    Sure, The Masters has ended and, like Tiger, you didn't get fit for a new green jacket on the first Sunday of April. We
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    There are not many better finishes to a round of golf than the start of a great beer. Sure, it happens in clubhouses ar
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Equipment
Fly Right

There's a great video on the New York Times website by Bill Pennington for his On Par series about the Polara Golf company and their anti-slice ball, which this screen shot was pulled from. Basically, Polara has created a golf ball with shallower dimples around the seam, or vertical center line, and deeper Full Story

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    Just down the hill from the empire walls protecting some of golf's biggest equipment manufacturers used to be the Four
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    Sometimes, marketing campaigns are so transparently contrived that I wonder who would ever be tempted enough to actuall