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 This Week at TravelGolf.com: August 17, 2004
Watching Tiger Woods during last week's PGA Championship was like
witnessing
Michael Jordan playing out the string for the Washington Wizards. There
were
still moments of the old brilliance, but nothing close to memorable. And
so
now we can say it: Tiger has become (gasp!) average.
From Butch Harmon to the tantalizing Elin Nordegren, theories abound.
Whatever the cause, I want the old Tiger back. When Jordan was merely
average, I could accept it because of his advancing age and incredible
accomplishments. But Tiger is only 28. This is hardly time to begin
settling
for mediocrity. Judging by the tone of his most recent press
conferences,
however, something is clearly missing. The old Tiger would have been
positively ticked after missing so many putts last week. The current
version
just seems resigned to his fate.
While we wait for Tiger to put it all together again (and he will, believe
me), be sure to check out our usual full roster of reviews and travel
features, including news from Myrtle Beach, where Oyster Bay Golf Links is now open after several
key upgrades. The course re-did all its greens, replacing the old-fashioned
Bermuda with state-of-the-art TifEagle Bermuda. And all in just
seven weeks. As always, your comments are welcome on any topic. Have a great week.
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One of the last places you might look to play 18 holes would be right
next
to the 400,000-acre, alligator-filled
Okefenokee Swamp in South Georgia. Yet, that's exactly where the state
of
Georgia decided to place The Lakes
at Laura Walker State Park, one of eight courses the Georgia State Park
system. It's a nifty little layout, as
National Golf Editor Tim McDonald reports, that isn't too long and has
wide
welcoming fairways. But don't
go into the woods without a club and be prepared for some undulating
greens
at the course.
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It took a three-hour motion picture to accomplish what hundreds of
rounds,
dozens of infomercials and endless ridicule from buddies couldn't -- it
got
our reviewer to trade in his knife for a gun. The knife being his circa
1995
Callaway Great Big Bertha War Bird. The gun being a fresh off the
assembly
line TaylorMade 540XD. The battlefield being none other than Doral's
famed
Blue Course, a.k.a. the Blue Monster.
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product reviews
Associate Editor Tom Mackin takes a look at three new golf-related books
that recently hit the market,
but can recommend only one of them. He gives a "birdie" to "The Future
of
Golf in America" by Geoff
Shackelford, saying the author provides plenty of thought-provoking
storylines in this affordable and
worthy addition to any golf library. But he only pars TV commentator
Johnny
Miller's new book "I Call the
Shots - Straight Talk About the Game of Golf Today."
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