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By Top 50 Coach John Howells with Michael Weston
Diese Geschichte stammt aus der September 2024-Ausgabe von Golf Monthly.
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Diese Geschichte stammt aus der September 2024-Ausgabe von Golf Monthly.
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Clubs with two 18-hole courses
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At this time of year, we face a lot of bunker shots from compacted sand and need to make the necessary adjustments to change how the club enters the sand.
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OZARKS NATIONAL
This outrageously attractive course, which opened in 2019, is one of five brilliant and very different designs at the expansive Big Cedar Lodge resort in Missouri.
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FOR THE LONG RUN"
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PLAYERS TO WATCH IN 2025
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A GRAND ESTATE
Goodwood in West Sussex may be steeped in ancestral history, but about 20 years ago it elected to take its golf offering down a very different route...