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Huge PGA Tour Superstores Open in Plano, Frisco
By James McAfee |
Taking the Home Depot concept of bigger is better to the golf market, Golf & Tennis Pro Shop, Inc. has expanded to the Dallas market with the addition of PGA Superstores in Plano and Frisco. First-time shoppers are amazed at the sheer sizes of these stores—65,000 square feet at 8700 Preston Road in Frisco and 70,000 square feet at 600 Accent Drive in Plano.
“I’ve never seen so much stuff in one store,” one shopper could be overheard saying on a recent visit to the Plano store. “It’s not like any other golf store I’ve been in before.”
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Best of North Texas Resorts
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Phoenix Golf: Old Meets New
By Art Striklin
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The only problem with Phoenix-area golf, if problem can be the right word for a place with great courses, great weather, great variety and beautiful scenery, is choosing where to start. Because like the endless golf buffet, you could play a different course nearly every day in the so-called Valley of the Sun, and not hardly ever sample the same layout choices twice. Yeah, I know golfing life is tough when you have to decide between challenging courses full of history and scenery, not to mention the average 75 degree wintertime temperatures, but that’s Phoenix golf.
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Gary Player
Golf’s Globe-Trotting Black Knight Talks About 50 Years at The Masters |
| At the ripe young age of 71, South African Gary Player, golf’s globe-trotting Black Knight, has barely slowed down. He’s the winner of the career grand slam, one of only five men in golf history to do that, and the only one ever to win the British Open in three different decades.
Player has captured 140 tournaments around the world including the 1978 Shell Houston Open, his last on
the PGA Tour. This month, he plays in his 50th Masters at Augusta National Golf Club, joining Arnold Palmer
as the only players with a half-century of Masters Memories. He also has plenty of memories from the Lone Star
State as well, designing a golf course at The Woodlands and another practice facility at Marshall Ranch in the
Austin area, and he makes dozens of golfing trips here. |
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The Best Resorts of South Texas
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Guide to Finding the Golfer’s Holy Grail – 20 More Yards
By Bill Choung |
In search of a perfect driver so we can hit the ball 20 yards longer and straighter, most of us by now have gone through some kind of a driver fitting session using a launch monitor. We are now all familiar with terms like launch angle, spin rate, dispersion ratio, velocity and descending angle—terms used by NASA scientists, not by weekend golf warriors. We’ve tried it all—square heads, heads with screws, heads that look like soft balls, green shafts, purple shafts and bimatrix shafts. But most of us are still in search of our Holy Grail, the magic stick that will help us hit it longer and straighter.
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