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Major(s) News & Notes February 16th, 2023

The Genesis Invitational has arrived!

A mini-major is upon us in LA as new U.S. Open exemptions and Final Qualifying sites are announced.

Plus, insights from McIlroy and Scott, This, That, Tweets and Reads.

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Tiger Talks: Tuesday At The 2023 Genesis Invitational

Water hazards are among the best and most thrilling of natural strategy, and sometimes artificial water hazards are well conceived. Like everything else, such trouble should not be overdone. As noted before, diversity, and yet again, variety, is the spice of a golf course. GEORGE THOMAS

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Netflix And Shill: A Review of Full Swing

Water hazards are among the best and most thrilling of natural strategy, and sometimes artificial water hazards are well conceived. Like everything else, such trouble should not be overdone. As noted before, diversity, and yet again, variety, is the spice of a golf course. GEORGE THOMAS

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Wrap: Scheffler Repeats, Tiger To Play Genesis

Water hazards are among the best and most thrilling of natural strategy, and sometimes artificial water hazards are well conceived. Like everything else, such trouble should not be overdone. As noted before, diversity, and yet again, variety, is the spice of a golf course. GEORGE THOMAS

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/ Geoff Shackelford

Masters champ Scottie Scheffler defends in Scottsdale where he kicked off his magical 2022 run.

Plus, after drops by Schauffele and Scheffler, Tour needs more free drop accountability.




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Major(s) News & Notes, February 9, 2023

Tour pros would rather go through an IRS audit than play in a pro-am. Publicly they say they love meeting interesting people and how great the pro-ams are. In truth, they loathe them. They're out there for six hours, see countless bad shots and hear the same stale jokes. If Tim Finchem announced next Monday that pro-ams were henceforth eliminated, he'd find 200 cases of champagne on his porch Tuesday morning. TOM WEISKOPF

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/ Geoff Shackelford

We hardly knew ye: the Swilcan patio is gone. A final analysis on the St Andrews Links Trust boondoggle.

Plus, new 13th tee is official, CBS's predictive technology and whether it should come to Amen Corner (a poll!). I also share news of the USGA's cool new droid, some early Netflix docudrama reviews for Full Swing, plus This, That, Tweets and Reads.




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LA North: The First And Second Holes

Kicking off a deep dive into the 2023 U.S. Open course by looking at the first two holes at Los Angeles Country Club’s North Course.

This one is for the most devoted Quadrilateral subscribers, but there is still time to sign up to read about these two and the rest of this amazing George Thomas and Billy Bell redesign.

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Weekend Wrap: The Crosby Spills Into Monday And A St Andrews Controversy

A Monday shootout awaits at Pebble Beach thanks to wind and modern green speeds.

Plus, other weekend winners are crowned and a round-up of the Swilcan Stone Patio disaster.

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Major(s) News & Notes, February 2, 2023

Pebble Beach is back with a refreshed 8th just in time for the AT&T and this July’s U.S. Women’s Open.

Plus, Phil returns with less weight, key Augusta National members are spared of LIV discovery, the ANWA field is announced, Peacock's massive losses mount, and much more.

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Weekend Wrap: Wins For Homa, McIlroy and CBS

Max Homa wins a thrilling Farmers at Torrey Pines. Rory McIlroy opens with a win for the first time ever. And CBS has a strong start to the PGA Tour season.

All that plus deep thoughts on the Reed rules situation and Mickelson’s lament of joggers.

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Major(s) News & Notes, January 26th, 2023




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George Thomas, Billy Bell And L.A. North

Kicking off the march to 2023's U.S. Open with a look at the architects who transformed a mediocre course into a masterpiece.

This is the first of several looks at Los Angeles Country Club’s North Course as we begin the march to June.

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Weekend Recap: Rahm, Perez And Henderson Triumph

The game as played on the golf course represents only a modest part of the pleasure, enjoyment and satisfaction that comes to a person because he is a golfer. Unfortunately, the avid interest of the golfer does not always attach itself to those stroke-by-stroke recitals so frequently provided by average golfers in average locker rooms; but the lore of the game. the story of its development and of the stirring deeds of the great players of the past must always command the respectful attention of all who play golf at all regularly. To become reasonably knowledgeable in such matters comes close to being an obligation of a true golfer. BOBBY JONES

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Major(s) News & Notes January 19th, 2023

Busy week in the world of majors and surrounding nonsense!

In the latest weekly news and notes I dissect news of the CW taking on LIV plus scheduling reveals for NBC and CBS major coverage.

Plus, the bvest of GQ's Netflix doc story, Davis Love is back (again), the 2031 Ryder Cup favorite is in Spain, Scott Stallings gets his invite (finally), old auction news and a bunch of Reads.

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Weekend Wrap: Masters Field Gains Two

Si Woo Kim captures the Sony and a Masters invite.

Plus, Fernandez de Oliveira's LAAC win lands him three major invites, Continental Europe takes the Ryder Cup audition, Paul Azinger's PAC comment and Nelly Korda signs with Nike.

All that and more in the latest Quadrilateral!

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Major(s) News & Notes, January 12th, 2023

Good visibility is indispensable if the holes are to present a problem which needs to be thought out with thoroughness in the matter of attack. But visibility should not be unduly stressed, and blindness of a kind can be a virtue. TOM SIMPSON

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Coming In 2023: An Urgency To Improve Golf On TV

If Dr. MacKenzie or Donald Ross or any of the other great architects came back now, I wonder what would they think of carts, equipment, and what they’ve done to their courses. I never knew them, but I’ve studied their lives, their courses, and their thoughts on the game. I think they’d take a dim view of it. For centuries golf had had a strong enough backbone to hold onto its beliefs. BEN CRENSHAW

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Major(s) News & Notes, January 5th, 2023

Choices demand decisions and the making of decisions sooner or later leads to doubt. Uncertainty in the mind of the player is a far better and more universally fair defense than distance alone. The greater the technical skills of the player, the greater defense that doubt becomes. BILL COORE

/ Geoff Shackelford

Remembering golf's most prolific winner, Kathy Whitworth.

Plus, the Scott Stallings Masters invite mishap, Fitzpatrick's Ryder Cup hot take, Barry Lane, NBC changes made official and much more.

Subscribe free here, you’ll always get a weekly edition at the very least. Its going to be a wild year in major news!


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Does Early Season Play Foreshadow Augusta Success?

Choices demand decisions and the making of decisions sooner or later leads to doubt. Uncertainty in the mind of the player is a far better and more universally fair defense than distance alone. The greater the technical skills of the player, the greater defense that doubt becomes. BILL COORE

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2023 Predictions!

New Year's Day--Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink, and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever. We shall also reflect pleasantly upon how we did the same old thing last year about this time. However, go in, community. New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls, and humbug resolutions, and we wish you to enjoy it with a looseness suited to the greatness of the occasion. MARK TWAIN

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Major(s) News & Notes, December 22, 2022

I think I should outlaw any attempt made by architect or inventor to deprive the game of any of its various strokes, or to take from it any of those features which require skill in the play. ROBERT HUNTER

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