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 This Week at TravelGolf.com: June 08, 2004
When it comes to slow play, the LPGA has it right. While the PGA Tour issues a series of meaningless warnings, the LPGA is quick to impose two-stroke penalties for slow play. In addition to making the event more fan-friendly, the policy also sends a message to golfers everywhere: Slow play is a drag. When I noted last month's Wall Street Journal report on the decreasing number of golfers in America, many readers cited the amount of time required to play a single round. (High green fees were pointed to as the chief culprit.) Anyone with young children will tell you how tough it is to get away for a weekend round of golf. It's even tougher when you know that round could take as long as six hours. Each course needs to determine the best way to address the problem, but it's clear the PGA Tour could wield a stronger hammer. While we try to squeeze in a four-hour round this week, be sure to check out our usual full roster of reviews and travel features, plus course architect Bobby Weed's debut TravelGolf.com column, which coincidentally focuses on the five subtle causes of slow play. As always, your comments are welcome on any topic. Have a great week.
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Some tournaments don't need PGA stars to entertain. Spend one
day at this decidedly non-professional event and you'll see why
the Mario Lemieux Celebrity Invitational Tournament has a way of
making even the biggest guys feel like giddy little kids. With this
year's event set for June 10-13, staff writer Chris Rodell offers
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Bill Walters' golf vision took off in the mid-1990s, and now it's a booming golf-opolis bubbling with top courses such as the Desert Pines Golf Club. Desert Pines got Walters his start in Las Vegas, and its location is a huge plus for tourists. With its 4,000 pine trees, narrow fairways and risk and reward golf holes that have tourists and locals coming back for more, the course is a definite show-stopper.
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