flagsticks

Mother Nature teed up plenty of golf Thursday in the British Open, thrashing the Lancashire Coast with chilling rain and bracing winds that whipped up whitecaps on the Irish Sea and bent flagsticks at Royal Birkdale.

Mother Nature scheduled the best tee times in the afternoon 2008

We feel prematurely nostalgic for Waveland in the winter, with the broken branches for flagsticks.

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At Garlenda, there was a breeze from the direction of the oceanyou could taste the salt in itbut the sunlight was what I think of as Italian sunlight: a yellow-gold that dusts the blades of grass and glints off the bunker rakes and flagsticks and has such an intensity that it feels capable of drying a soaked shirt in thirty seconds.

The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009

At Garlenda, there was a breeze from the direction of the oceanyou could taste the salt in itbut the sunlight was what I think of as Italian sunlight: a yellow-gold that dusts the blades of grass and glints off the bunker rakes and flagsticks and has such an intensity that it feels capable of drying a soaked shirt in thirty seconds.

The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009

At Garlenda, there was a breeze from the direction of the oceanyou could taste the salt in itbut the sunlight was what I think of as Italian sunlight: a yellow-gold that dusts the blades of grass and glints off the bunker rakes and flagsticks and has such an intensity that it feels capable of drying a soaked shirt in thirty seconds.

The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009

At Garlenda, there was a breeze from the direction of the oceanyou could taste the salt in itbut the sunlight was what I think of as Italian sunlight: a yellow-gold that dusts the blades of grass and glints off the bunker rakes and flagsticks and has such an intensity that it feels capable of drying a soaked shirt in thirty seconds.

The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009

The only concessions to speed were that no one could post scores higher than double-bogey and flagsticks could remain in the cup during putting.

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'' I don't think there's any way to Tiger-proof any golf course these days, short of pulling out the flagsticks. ''

Woods gears up for next challenge 2000

Norman put six strokes between him and Nick Faldo over the first three rounds of the Masters as he showed the kind of patience that pays off at Augusta National - going for position instead of flagsticks, waiting for opportunities instead of trying to create them.

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Anyway, the flagsticks at Royal Cinque Ports were bent over at the waist and making noises like a motorboat's outboard engine as the flags snapped, crackled and popped.

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