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<description><![CDATA[Northern California golf reviews and news and information from ABC7 News (KGO TV) Wayne Freedman.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:26:25 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>A winter golf escape to Scottsdale, Arizona</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Every December, my buddies and I escape to Phoenix/Scottsdale for a media preview and golf tournament.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:14:45 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Clear Creek Tahoe course review</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Variety is key for Clear Creek. Holes play to the left, right, uphill, downhill, short and long.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:13:53 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Four Rounds in Mississippi</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Southern Mississippi redefines golf value within our lower forty-eight states.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:25:15 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The Grand Golf Club Review</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Wayne reviews the Grand Golf Club of San Diego.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:05:20 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Golfing in China</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It could have been any course, anywhere. I faced a slightly downhill shot into a breeze--- 160 yards to a back pin on a bluff, with a steep drop and water lapping below. Instinct suggested the seven iron, but my head preferred the six.]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[It could have been any course, anywhere. I faced a slightly downhill shot into a breeze--- 160 yards to a back pin on a bluff, with a steep drop and water lapping below. Instinct suggested the seven iron, but my head preferred the six.]]></dig:D3text>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:28:06 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Clear Creek Tahoe course review</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Variety is key for Clear Creek. Holes play to the left, right, uphill, downhill, short and long.]]></description>
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<title>Grayhawk Golf Club, Raptor Course</title>
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<description><![CDATA[You've heard of this place and seen it on television as part of the Anderson Consulting World Championships and the Tiger Woods World Golf Challenge.  Grayhawk has all the credentials to attract players seeking drama in desert golf. But if you aren't a big stick, and only a mere mortal, what's it like to play there---heaven or hell?]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[You've heard of this place and seen it on television as part of the Anderson Consulting World Championships and the Tiger Woods World Golf Challenge.  Grayhawk has all the credentials to attract players seeking drama in desert golf. But if you aren't a big stick, and only a mere mortal, what's it like to play there---heaven or hell?]]></dig:D3text>
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<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:11:13 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Kauai Lagoons Golf Club, Kiele Course</title>
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<description><![CDATA[If golf never tested our patience, it would be hardly worth playing. Golf raises hopes and then dropkicks them. Just wait a hole or two---or maybe a day.]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[If golf never tested our patience, it would be hardly worth playing. Golf raises hopes and then dropkicks them. Just wait a hole or two---or maybe a day.]]></dig:D3text>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:36:51 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Las Sendas Golf Club</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It's not often that playing a round of golf requires circumnavigating a small mountain. But, thanks to architect Robert Trent Jones, Jr., at Las Sendas  you'll have a grand time doing both. The "mountain" around which this course revolves is wild and rugged. According to local legend, it was named "Spook Hill" by Tom Mix, star of over 300 cowboy movies (mostly silent) prior to 1935. Apparently rattlesnakes regularly wandered off its rocky slopes into the screen cowboy's adjoining ranch, frightening his cattle. But ranches and livestock have since been supplanted by dense residential development and one very interesting golf course.]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[It's not often that playing a round of golf requires circumnavigating a small mountain. But, thanks to architect Robert Trent Jones, Jr., at Las Sendas  you'll have a grand time doing both. The "mountain" around which this course revolves is wild and rugged. According to local legend, it was named "Spook Hill" by Tom Mix, star of over 300 cowboy movies (mostly silent) prior to 1935. Apparently rattlesnakes regularly wandered off its rocky slopes into the screen cowboy's adjoining ranch, frightening his cattle. But ranches and livestock have since been supplanted by dense residential development and one very interesting golf course.]]></dig:D3text>
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<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:25:21 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Legend Trail Golf Club</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Thinking of taking a golf junket to the Scottsdale area, but apprehensive about how brutal you've heard desert golf can be?  No worries if you make Legend Trail your first stop! For one, this place is a stark contrast to many of the severe layouts in the area. Architect Rees Jones has provided comparatively generous fairways free of demoralizing cross bunkers. Fairway traps are set up parallel to the line of flight and with the exception of holes 11 and 12, there are no blind shots or long forced carries. The white tees are very playable at 6400 yards and, thanks to the management oversight of Troon Golf, you can bank on superb course conditioning and all around service.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:38:59 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Los Prados Golf Course</title>
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<description><![CDATA[If you wonder where Las Vegas locals play, here is one of your answers.]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[If you wonder where Las Vegas locals play, here is one of your answers.]]></dig:D3text>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:16:29 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Four Rounds in Mississippi</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Southern Mississippi redefines golf value within our lower forty-eight states.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:25:15 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Ocotillo Golf Resort</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In a region known for arid, rocky, target desert golf, here is a course that plays to the opposite.  Ocotillo Golf Resort's  three nines feature a reputed twenty-seven miles of  shoreline.]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[In a region known for arid, rocky, target desert golf, here is a course that plays to the opposite.  Ocotillo Golf Resort's  three nines feature a reputed twenty-seven miles of  shoreline.]]></dig:D3text>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:31:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Poipu Bay Golf Course</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Not many bad amateur golfers can claim to have beaten Vijay Singh on a hole of golf. Singh does not know, of course, nor would he care, but I do, having made a par three to his seven on the 193/166/143/119 yard 11th at Poipu Bay.]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[Not many bad amateur golfers can claim to have beaten Vijay Singh on a hole of golf. Singh does not know, of course, nor would he care, but I do, having made a par three to his seven on the 193/166/143/119 yard 11th at Poipu Bay.]]></dig:D3text>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:45:51 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Puakea Golf Course</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Well designed golf courses need not shout their greatness with overtly difficult or spectacular holes. Instead, they quietly earn a player's respect through eighteen games in the forms of par threes, fours, and fives. Often, the sum of those parts creates a more memorable experience than any one hole.]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[Well designed golf courses need not shout their greatness with overtly difficult or spectacular holes. Instead, they quietly earn a player's respect through eighteen games in the forms of par threes, fours, and fives. Often, the sum of those parts creates a more memorable experience than any one hole.]]></dig:D3text>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:01:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The Boulders, North Course</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The North Course at The Boulders Resort may be less spectacular geologically than its companion The South, but is every bit its rival in sporting challenge. Here too, you'll find the trademark theme defining the "Boulders experience": lush, immaculate fairways hemmed in by menacing cactal flora, exfoliated granite outcroppings, and voracious bunkers.]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[The North Course at The Boulders Resort may be less spectacular geologically than its companion The South, but is every bit its rival in sporting challenge. Here too, you'll find the trademark theme defining the "Boulders experience": lush, immaculate fairways hemmed in by menacing cactal flora, exfoliated granite outcroppings, and voracious bunkers.]]></dig:D3text>
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<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:24:15 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The Currituck Club</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In 1997, Golf Magazine rated  The Currituck Club  among the Top 10 Courses You Can Play. That was before developers began building million dollar houses along the fairways, but it remains a good and extremely well-groomed challenge for your game.]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[In 1997, Golf Magazine rated  The Currituck Club  among the Top 10 Courses You Can Play. That was before developers began building million dollar houses along the fairways, but it remains a good and extremely well-groomed challenge for your game.]]></dig:D3text>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 02:09:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The Mirabel Club</title>
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<description><![CDATA[If you need to ask how much, you cannot afford it. The  Mirabel Club,   near Scottsdale, Arizona, is one of those places.]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[If you need to ask how much, you cannot afford it. The  Mirabel Club,   near Scottsdale, Arizona, is one of those places.]]></dig:D3text>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:54:41 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The Plantation Course, Hawaii</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It has been a long time since I felt good about finishing a round at plus eleven. But, after playing Kapalua's Plantation Course from the back tees in a four club wind,  that's practically chirping.]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[It has been a long time since I felt good about finishing a round at plus eleven. But, after playing Kapalua's Plantation Course from the back tees in a four club wind,  that's practically chirping.]]></dig:D3text>
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<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:29:31 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>TPC at Scottsdale, Arizona</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This is the home of the Phoenix Open,  that January tournament with drunken, near riotous crowds, and as you stroll these fairways, you can almost hear the echoes. Why?  The course has omnipresent spectator mounds which sometimes surround entire holes.  Mounds, but no people. Ghost mounds?]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[This is the home of the Phoenix Open,  that January tournament with drunken, near riotous crowds, and as you stroll these fairways, you can almost hear the echoes. Why?  The course has omnipresent spectator mounds which sometimes surround entire holes.  Mounds, but no people. Ghost mounds?]]></dig:D3text>
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