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Ronald Montesano

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Ronald Montesano writes for GolfWRX.com from western New York. He dabbles in coaching golf and teaching Spanish, in addition to scribbling columns on all aspects of golf, from apparel to architecture, from equipment to travel.

 

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  Prediction: Phil will win at Pinehurst in 2014

  Some might be tempted to call it quits after six runner-up finishes in the U.S. Open. Sam Snead finished runner-up in four, never once winning the championship. Jack Nicklaus matched Snead with four second-place results; however, he...

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  Justin Rose wins the U.S Open at Merion

  There was no fixed recipe for Sunday at Merion, no table where appetizers, main course or dessert added up to a certain outcome. Two double bogies sandwiching a birdie, followed five holes later by a hole-out eagle...

  • Posted 2 days ago
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  Debut of the Women’s Porter Cup

  Does it surprise anyone that, in 2013, there is not an established if informal summer tour for the finest female, non-junior, amateur golfers in the U.S.? It should and there isn’t. Along with the USGA and a...

  • Posted 13 days ago
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  Kuchar Avoids Drama in Memorial Win

  Many have written that Jack Nicklaus created a version of an homage to Augusta National golf club at his Muirfield Village golf club in Dublin, Ohio. If that is the case, he inadvertently mimicked another element offered...

  • Posted 16 days ago
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  Wells Fargo Championship Preview

  Affinity for a course suggests that Rory McIlroy should be cast in the role of favorite this week at Charlotte. Unfortunately for the 2013 PGA champion, 2010 Wells Fargo Championship winner and 2012 runner-up, his current form...

  • Posted 51 days ago
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  Cabrera follows Augusta loss with Argentina win

  On Sunday, April 21st, Ángel Cabrera signed for a final-round 64, then went into a playoff against countryman Rafael Gómez. The mano a mano duel ended quickly, as Cabrera birdied the first extra hole to win his...

  • Posted 58 days ago
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  Scott, Australia get their first green jacket

  Adam Scott and Australia donned a green jacket for the first time Sunday, as Scott defeated Angel Cabrera in a two-hole playoff. Both playoff combatants birdied No. 18 in regulation to finish at 9-under, two shots clear of...

  • Posted 65 days ago
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  Five reasons: Tiger should not play the weekend

  Irony is working overtime this Masters weekend. Tianlang Guan was assessed a one-stroke penalty for slow play and the social media world exploded with cries of jingoism and favoritism. Fortunately for Guan, he took the high road...

  • Posted 66 days ago
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  Big final day lifts Points to Houston Open Win

  D.A. Points was there at the beginning and he was there at the end, claiming his first PGA Tour victory since the 2012 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro Am. On a day when going low was the...

  • Posted 79 days ago
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  Fowler falters on the big stage

  Coming off a bogey on No. 15, Rickie Fowler had to know it was time to make something happen. He had closed within two shots of final-round playing partner Tiger Woods at the Arnold Palmer Invitational who,...

  • Posted 85 days ago
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  Stacy Lewis’ climb to the top

  As if a simple thing like a two-stroke penalty would be enough to derail the Lewis Express at the recent RR Donnelly LPGA Founders Cup. When you are 11 and they tell you that your spine isn’t...

  • Posted 92 days ago
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  My Own Call To Action

  In 1996, when our third child was about a year old, she went into the hospital for an unknown illness. I recall walking to the corner restaurant for my wife, who doesn’t tolerate hospital food well. In the entrance...

  • Posted 93 days ago
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  Man survives golf course sinkhole

  The 14th hole at Annbriar Golf Course in Waterloo, Ill., is a daunting affair. The mid-length par five doglegs left, weaves past bunkers before crossing a stream to a tricky green. For Mark Mihal, 43, his score...

  • Posted 97 days ago
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  Woods Stands Out in WGC-Cadillac Championship victory

  There were a few stories making their way around the PGA Tour as the World Golf Championships-Cadillac Championship drew to a close. One was the newly-discovered “Stricker Method,” in which a golfer reduces his schedule to spend...

  • Posted 100 days ago
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  Hallowed Ground: Pinehurst No. 2

  At St. Andrews, you suspect that the entire burgh has turned out to watch your initial tee ball. It’s not the case, as the shopkeepers have wares to sell and the even the starter has other interests....

  • Posted 111 days ago
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  The USGA comes to its senses with its Publinx decision

  The United States Golf Association has come to its senses on at least one topic. While I’ve been waiting for years for a bit of gender equity (USGA Senior Women’s Open, anyone?) and I don’t agree with...

  • Posted 127 days ago
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  A growing niche: Hickory Golf

  At first blush, a similarity emerges with historical re-enactment junkies and hickory golfers. Both sets of aficionados strive for authentic recreation of apparel and equipment. But here is where the two roads diverge. While the re-enactors hope...

  • Posted 131 days ago
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  Mickelson lips out a chance at 59

  Phil Mickelson tried to walk it home and he nearly did. “I couldn’t envision which side of the hole it could possibly miss on, and it ended up somehow just dying off at the end, catching the...

  • Posted 138 days ago
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  Gay comes from 6 back to win Humana Challenge

  “It’s hard to win out here.” Brian Gay’s simple and telling comment after winning the Humana Classic might have been spoken by any number of runners-up on Sunday. Two additional golfers joined him in a playoff and...

  • Posted 149 days ago
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  The hidden element of golf fitness: Nutrition

  If I were to utilize every beneficial golf fitness program that I’ve read over the years, I would: Be extraordinarily carved and buff Have dedicated 23 of 24 hours of each day to golf fitness An element...

  • Posted 155 days ago
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  Pulled In A New Direction? How To Putt Sidesaddle

  Now that the shoe has dropped and the two major governing bodies of golf have announced a plan to ban anchoring in the golf swing, a fair number of golfers and golf fans are left to ask...

  • Posted 179 days ago
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