| Introduction |
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Conventions Used in This Book |
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3 | (1) |
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How This Book Is Organized |
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Part I: Walking the Short Game |
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Part II: The Long and Short of It: Short Game Technique |
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Part III: Short Game Strategies |
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Part IV: Short Cuts to the Short Game |
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4 | (1) |
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5 | (1) |
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5 | (1) |
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6 | (1) |
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Part I: Walking the Short Game |
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7 | (44) |
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Approaching the Short Game Statistically |
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10 | (1) |
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Approaching the Short Game Athletically |
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11 | (1) |
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Giving Yourself the Best Shot |
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12 | (1) |
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Making Practice a Priority |
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13 | (3) |
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Recognizing the importance of practice |
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13 | (1) |
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Developing a practice plan |
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14 | (1) |
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15 | (1) |
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16 | (5) |
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16 | (1) |
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16 | (1) |
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17 | (1) |
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Maintaining unreasonable expectations |
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17 | (1) |
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18 | (1) |
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18 | (1) |
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Ignoring textbook technique |
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18 | (1) |
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Getting too far from your work |
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19 | (1) |
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Experiencing death by deceleration |
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19 | (2) |
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Discerning the Short Game Certainties |
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21 | (12) |
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Recognizing the Peril and the Opportunity |
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22 | (1) |
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22 | (1) |
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22 | (1) |
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Viewing the Variables: Terrain and Conditions |
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23 | (2) |
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Accounting for the obvious |
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23 | (1) |
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24 | (1) |
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Understanding Your Options |
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25 | (1) |
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Weighing Your Goals and Expectations |
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26 | (1) |
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Playing in the Subconscious |
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27 | (1) |
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Zeroing In On the Target Line |
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28 | (2) |
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Visualizing the target line |
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29 | (1) |
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Standing close to the target line |
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29 | (1) |
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Grasping the Importance of Feel |
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30 | (1) |
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Obeying the Captain: Allowing Your Front Hand to Lead |
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30 | (1) |
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Centering on Ball Position |
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31 | (2) |
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Gearing Up for the Short Game |
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33 | (18) |
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Going Short-Game Clubbing |
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34 | (1) |
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Sorting Through the Short Sticks |
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35 | (5) |
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36 | (1) |
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36 | (3) |
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Deciding which clubs to use |
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39 | (1) |
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Calling All Putters Great and Small |
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40 | (6) |
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41 | (2) |
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43 | (2) |
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45 | (1) |
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Finding the Putter That Fits You |
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46 | (2) |
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48 | (3) |
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49 | (1) |
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49 | (1) |
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Give it a home of its own |
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49 | (1) |
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49 | (1) |
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50 | (1) |
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Part II: The Long and Short of It: Short Game Technique |
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51 | (72) |
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Chipping Off the OI' Block |
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53 | (14) |
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54 | (1) |
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Choosing the Chip over the Putt |
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54 | (1) |
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Picking Your Chipping Tool |
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55 | (1) |
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Chipping Goals and Expectations |
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56 | (1) |
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Mapping Out a Chip-Shot Strategy |
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56 | (1) |
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56 | (6) |
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57 | (2) |
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59 | (2) |
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61 | (1) |
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Too Close for Comfort: Paul Runyan's Greenside Chip Trick |
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62 | (5) |
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67 | (20) |
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Distinguishing the Pitch Shot |
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67 | (1) |
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Covering Distance and Avoiding Hazards |
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68 | (1) |
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69 | (1) |
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Pitching Goals and Expectations |
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69 | (1) |
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Planning Your Pitch-Shot Strategy |
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70 | (1) |
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71 | (5) |
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Determining your flight plan and velocity |
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72 | (1) |
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72 | (2) |
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74 | (2) |
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Pitching a Fit over Additional Complications |
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76 | (11) |
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Pitching over water hazards and bunkers |
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76 | (1) |
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77 | (1) |
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Pitching from a bare, tight lie |
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78 | (1) |
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79 | (3) |
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Pitching from uneven lies |
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82 | (5) |
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87 | (18) |
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Setting Your Bunker Goals and Expectations |
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87 | (2) |
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89 | (1) |
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89 | (8) |
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Assessing the sand variables |
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89 | (3) |
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92 | (1) |
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Raising clubface awareness |
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92 | (1) |
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92 | (2) |
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Picking a target and taking aim |
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94 | (1) |
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Taking a sand-sweeping swing |
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95 | (2) |
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Executing Bunker Shots from Troubled Lies |
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97 | (8) |
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Negotiating uphill and downhill lies |
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98 | (2) |
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100 | (2) |
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102 | (3) |
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Putting Your Best Foot Forward |
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105 | (18) |
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Tossing Your Putting Prejudice Aside |
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105 | (1) |
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Recognizing the Importance of Putting Skills |
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106 | (2) |
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106 | (1) |
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Getting in your opponent's head |
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107 | (1) |
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Putting Goals and Expectations |
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108 | (4) |
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Setting goals: Holing putts in two |
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108 | (1) |
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Meeting your expectations |
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109 | (2) |
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111 | (1) |
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Rolling with the Fundamentals |
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112 | (8) |
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112 | (1) |
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113 | (2) |
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115 | (1) |
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116 | (4) |
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Reading the Break of the Greens |
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120 | (3) |
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121 | (1) |
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121 | (1) |
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Spilling a bucket of water |
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121 | (1) |
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121 | (1) |
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Watching other players' putts |
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122 | (1) |
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Part III: Short Game Strategies |
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123 | (56) |
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Waging (and Wedging) a Ground Campaign |
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125 | (12) |
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Gaining an Advantage by Keeping the Ball Low |
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125 | (4) |
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126 | (1) |
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Choking down for a knockout knock-down |
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127 | (2) |
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129 | (2) |
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129 | (1) |
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130 | (1) |
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130 | (1) |
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130 | (1) |
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Discovering the Famed Texas Wedge |
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131 | (2) |
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133 | (1) |
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Pulling the Pin . . . or Leaving It In? |
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134 | (3) |
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134 | (1) |
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135 | (2) |
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Selecting Putting Strategies and Remedies |
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137 | (12) |
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138 | (1) |
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138 | (4) |
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139 | (2) |
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141 | (1) |
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142 | (1) |
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143 | (1) |
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Defeating the Yips and Other Putting Maladies |
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144 | (5) |
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145 | (1) |
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146 | (3) |
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Taking an Unconventional Approach |
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149 | (14) |
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150 | (2) |
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152 | (1) |
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153 | (1) |
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153 | (1) |
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154 | (1) |
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154 | (1) |
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155 | (1) |
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Splishing After You Splash |
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156 | (1) |
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Hitting Lefty (or Righty) |
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157 | (4) |
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159 | (1) |
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160 | (1) |
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160 | (1) |
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Carrying an opposite-handed club in your bag |
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161 | (1) |
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Rehearsing the Unconventional |
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161 | (2) |
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163 | (6) |
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Focusing On the Flop Shot |
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163 | (1) |
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Choosing to Hit a Flop Shot |
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164 | (1) |
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164 | (1) |
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Deciding Against the Flop Shot |
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165 | (4) |
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Knowing the flop shot's dark side |
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166 | (1) |
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Considering your other options |
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166 | (3) |
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Keeping Your Head in the Game |
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169 | (10) |
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Regrouping When the Wheels Come Off |
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170 | (2) |
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170 | (1) |
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Overcoming paralysis of analysis |
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171 | (1) |
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Realizing that it ain't your fault |
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172 | (1) |
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Weathering the Heat of the Moment |
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172 | (2) |
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173 | (1) |
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174 | (1) |
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174 | (1) |
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Staying Positive with Self Talk |
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175 | (1) |
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Dispelling the Clouds of Doubt |
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176 | (1) |
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Pacing Your Swing with a Phrase |
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177 | (2) |
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Part IV: Short Cuts to the Short Game |
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179 | (46) |
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Warming Up to the Short Game |
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181 | (14) |
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Limbering Up Before You Play or Practice |
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182 | (6) |
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182 | (1) |
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Working the upper arms and shoulders |
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182 | (4) |
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186 | (1) |
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Readying your wrists and forearms |
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187 | (1) |
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188 | (3) |
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Making the short game at home on the range |
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189 | (2) |
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Spending time on the green |
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191 | (1) |
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191 | (4) |
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Utilizing the perfect pre-round warm-up |
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192 | (2) |
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194 | (1) |
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195 | (8) |
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195 | (2) |
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197 | (1) |
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Bingo, Bango, Bongo (Jingles) |
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197 | (2) |
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199 | (1) |
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200 | (1) |
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201 | (2) |
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Tricks and Treats: Techniques and Tools to Improve Your Game |
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203 | (14) |
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204 | (3) |
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204 | (1) |
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Becoming a one-armed bandit |
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205 | (1) |
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Tuning your swing with music |
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206 | (1) |
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Practicing in the Sand and on the Green |
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207 | (6) |
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207 | (2) |
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209 | (1) |
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210 | (2) |
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212 | (1) |
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213 | (4) |
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Stretching your putting skill |
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213 | (2) |
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215 | (1) |
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Asking your mirror, mirror |
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215 | (2) |
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217 | (8) |
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Feeling like Seve Ballesteros |
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218 | (1) |
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Escaping (Not Sleeping in) Bunkers like Gary Player |
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219 | (1) |
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Living Hard and Playing Soft like John Daly |
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220 | (1) |
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Scrambling like Lee Trevino |
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221 | (1) |
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Putting like Ben Crenshaw |
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222 | (1) |
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Finishing like Annika Sorenstam |
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222 | (1) |
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Yipping like Johnny Miller |
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223 | (2) |
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225 | (32) |
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Ten Simple Secrets of Short-Shot Success |
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227 | (4) |
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227 | (1) |
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227 | (1) |
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Swing Along the Target Line |
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228 | (1) |
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Maintain Consistent Speed |
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228 | (1) |
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Salute the Lead Hand as the Captain |
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228 | (1) |
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Let the Ball Get in the Way |
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228 | (1) |
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229 | (1) |
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Keep Realistic Expectations |
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229 | (1) |
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Roll the Ball on the Ground |
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230 | (1) |
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Recognize that Every Putt is Straight |
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230 | (1) |
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Ten Ways You Can Practice Off the Course |
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231 | (8) |
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231 | (1) |
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232 | (1) |
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Get Attached to Your Wedge |
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233 | (1) |
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234 | (1) |
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234 | (1) |
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235 | (1) |
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235 | (1) |
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236 | (1) |
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Play Other Sports and Games |
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237 | (1) |
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Read This Book When Necessary |
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237 | (2) |
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Ten of the Greatest Short Shots Ever |
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239 | (10) |
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239 | (1) |
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240 | (1) |
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241 | (1) |
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Rocca Rocks the British Open |
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242 | (1) |
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243 | (1) |
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244 | (1) |
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245 | (1) |
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246 | (1) |
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One Small Shot for Mankind |
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247 | (1) |
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Payne's Putts at Pinehurst |
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247 | (2) |
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Ten Great Short Game Golf Courses |
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249 | (8) |
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The Old Course at St. Andrews: Fife, Scotland |
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250 | (1) |
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Pinehurst #2: Pinehurst, North Carolina |
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250 | (1) |
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Stadium Course, TPC at Sawgrass: Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida |
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251 | (1) |
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Ballybunion Old Course: County Kerry, Ireland |
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252 | (1) |
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Threetops at Treetops Resort: Gaylord, Michigan |
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252 | (1) |
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Strategic Fox, Fox Hills Golf Club: Plymouth, Michigan |
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253 | (1) |
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Indian Creek Country Club: Miami Beach, Florida |
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254 | (1) |
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The Ocean Course at Kiawah Island Golf Resort: Charleston, South Carolina |
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254 | (1) |
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Augusta National Golf Club: Augusta, Georgia |
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255 | (1) |
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Club de Golf Valderrama: San Roque, Cadiz, Spain |
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256 | (1) |
| Index |
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