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In a new weekly podcast in Golf World Monday, PGA Championship winner and victorious U.S. Ryder Cup captain Paul Azinger will discuss the week in golf with Golf World Editor-in-Chief Jaime Diaz.

This week, Azinger and Diaz talk about Matt Kuchar’s swing overhaul, Kevin Na’s steady maturation, and what continues to plague Tiger Woods.

Mergers, acquisitions and consolidation have been a part of the headlines on the golf manufacturing side in recent weeks, but now the golf retail space is getting in on the game and in a big…

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The competitive rangefinder category continues to expand, making it increasingly more difficult for a company to differentiate itself. GolfBuddy has done so with its latest offering, the GolfBuddy Voice, that with the push of a…

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I want to write about slow play but I can’t get started.

In the May “Stuff I Like” video, David Owen explains how he organizes his vast collection of golf memorabilia.

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Ever let your clothes do your talking for you? Watching Rickie Fowler in his head-to-toe Sunday orange makes that old adage “silence is golden” pop into my head. If clothes can actually speak, Fowler’s get-ups…

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On a Mother’s Day when just about everyone associated with the Players — from tour pros to volunteers — wore pink to celebrate Breast Cancer Awareness Day, the closest Tiger Woods came to honoring that was the colorful energy drink he occasionally pulled from his golf bag. Apparently, Woods is in his own world when it comes to discussing his golf game as well.

Following a final-round 73 that included a dismal front-nine 40, he offered this stunning assessment:

“Just one of those things where Joe (LaCava) and I were talking about that on the front nine, I didn’t really hit any bad shots, and all of a sudden, I had a bogey, a birdie and a double,” Woods said.

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LaCava is Woods’ caddie. He also just might be the world’s most patient listener. Then again, he is getting paid a lot more than most psychiatrists.

No bad shots? Excuse me? Did we hear that right? How about the sand wedge over the green on No. 1? How about the 9-iron from the middle of the fairway into the water on No. 4? How about the drive on the par-4 fifth? Or your tee shot on the par-3 eighth, both of which could barely be tracked on the computer screen by the PGA Tour’s ShotTracker?

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Here’s what you need to know from this past weekend’s NCAA Women’s Regionals and the 24 teams that are advancing to the NCAA Women’s Championship May 22-25 at Vanderbilt Legends Club outside of Nashville, Tenn….

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It was an odd Sunday at the Players Championship, one in which the final-round focus was bookended by men responsible for the most groans and grins.

The winner by a smile was Matt Kuchar, whose two-stroke victory at the TPC Sawgrass buttressed the notion that he is a major champion in training.

Kuchar, 33, has become an assembly line mass producing top 10s — 20 in the previous two seasons (which would explain his grinning year to year) and five already this year. More importantly for the months ahead, four have come in the most important tournaments with the strongest fields to date: the Players (first), the Masters (a tie for third), the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship (T-5) and the WGC-Cadillac Championship (T-8).

A month from now, Kuchar will be returning to U.S. Open at the Olympic Club outside San Francisco, where as an amateur in 1998 he tied for 14th and was tied for fourth through 36 holes. It doesn’t make him a favorite, but he isn’t a long shot, either.

Kuchar’s happy nature, even on a TPC course capable of inflicting so much misery, gave the Players a happy ending that wasn’t inevitable in the wake of the negative reaction to the man everyone was lamenting.

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