]> http://www.golfgearreview.com/mikedudurich.php http://www.golfgearreview.com/mikedudurich.php chris@gearreviewnetwork.com (Chris Bereznay) RSSgenr8 from XMLhub.com en http://www.golfgearreview.com/mikedudurich/3164.html I can’t say that I’m a huge Michelle Wie fan.<br><br> She’s a gifted golfer and, even at 20 years old, has shown glimpses of the talent we’ve heard about for the last 10 years or more. So I do have t...</p> http://www.golfgearreview.com/mikedudurich/3161.html The 2009 “regular season” on the PGA Tour is over.<br><br> So is the Fall Series, the add-on to that regular season, made up of tournaments with lesser purses but, at the same time, provide those who...</p> http://www.golfgearreview.com/mikedudurich/3140.html Soooooooooo, while those at the pinnacle of the PGA Tour’s food chain finish off their 2009 season with a lucrative week in China, those desperately trying to get a foot in the door at the bottom end ...</p> http://www.golfgearreview.com/mikedudurich/3126.html I’ve said this before and probably will say it many, many more times.<br><br> In a lot of ways, I respect professional golfers much more than a lot of other athletes in the “play for pay” business. A...</p> http://www.golfgearreview.com/mikedudurich/3116.html Look around your town or city and if you don’t readily find a tennis court that’s greatly underused or overgrown, you’re in a rare locale.<br><br> Those tennis courts are the target of a creation kno...</p> http://www.golfgearreview.com/mikedudurich/3095.html Pardon me while I wax parochial for a few words.<br><br> I am a life-long resident of western Pennsylvania, an area of the world that lacks the sunshine and warm weather of some parts of the world, b...</p> http://www.golfgearreview.com/mikedudurich/3077.html It’s my opinion, and one that’s widely shared among those who have ever participated in a golf trip, that what happens in the days and months prior to the trip itself is critical to the success of the...</p> http://www.golfgearreview.com/mikedudurich/3073.html Sometimes, things are almost too good to be true.<br><br> I mean, seriously. The world’s best player, who took a long time to warm up to these team championships, providing the Presidents Cup-winning...</p> http://www.golfgearreview.com/mikedudurich/3066.html Two days into the eighth edition of the Presidents Cup, things are just about where they should be.<br><br> The United States team has a 6 ½-5 ½ lead over the Internationals, built in large part in t...</p> http://www.golfgearreview.com/mikedudurich/3062.html In Part I of this series, I regaled you with a Reader’s Digest version of a four-man golf trip to central Florida, a trip that had only a bit of drama and was pretty much straight golf. No games, no b...</p> http://www.golfgearreview.com/mikedudurich/3056.html They are known by a variety of names.<br><br> Golf trips, buddy trips, man-cations, getting-away-from-work-and-the-family-for-a-week.<br><br> By whatever name they’re known, getting away for a week ...</p> http://www.golfgearreview.com/mikedudurich/3051.html Say it ain’t so, Tom!<br><br> What possibly could the odds be of a guy being in control of two major championships in the same calendar year, coming to the 72nd hole of each and … winning neither? http://www.golfgearreview.com/mikedudurich/3043.html With the last big stroke play tournament in their rear-view mirrors, the elite players in the world turn their attention to San Francisco’s Harding Park Golf Course and the eighth playing of the Presi...</p> http://www.golfgearreview.com/mikedudurich/3041.html It took long enough, but the PGA Tour finally got what it’s been yearning for: Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson finishing one-two (and two-one) and standing next to one another on the victory stand. http://www.golfgearreview.com/mikedudurich/3037.html Stop me if you’ve heard this one.<br><br> Tiger Woods 2009 is golfing his ball better than anyone else, hitting shots that few of his competitors can even dream of and with 36 holes of a tournament i...</p> http://www.golfgearreview.com/mikedudurich/3036.html If it wasn’t so sad, it would almost be laughable.<br><br> The PGA Tour, with healthy contributions from FedEx, has worked tirelessly to make the FedEx Cup the raging success it seemed to be when it ...</p> http://www.golfgearreview.com/mikedudurich/3031.html Something very rare happened not very far from my house last week.<br><br> In a suburb southeast of Pittsburgh at a place called Greensburg Country Club, two holes-in-one were recorded.<br><br> In t...</p> http://www.golfgearreview.com/mikedudurich/3026.html Players on the PGA Tour get the opportunity to compete on historic courses in a lot of spectacular places. Do Augusta National, Pebble Beach, Oakmont, Winged Foot, Oakland Hills, Olympic Hills ring an...</p> http://www.golfgearreview.com/mikedudurich/3020.html Funny game golf.<br><br> How many times over the course of the years have we heard how difficult it is for professional golfers back up a really low round with another low round?<br><br> Obviously t...</p> http://www.golfgearreview.com/mikedudurich/3015.html OK, consider this a pop quiz.<br><br> What’s the name of the men’s amateur golf tournament in which names like Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Bob Jones, Jack Nicklaus, Padraig Harrington, Paul Casey an...</p> http://www.golfgearreview.com/mikedudurich/3009.html Believe it or not, there are people in the world who don’t realize the significance of the birthday we’re celebrating today.<br><br> A day before the solemn observance of 9-11, golfers, non-golfers, ...</p> http://www.golfgearreview.com/mikedudurich/3008.html Since its inception, the FedEx Cup and its contrived playoffs has raised many an eyebrow because of a perceived lack of “buzz” in the golfing world.<br><br> And, indeed, the idea of Vijay Singh being...</p> http://www.golfgearreview.com/mikedudurich/3003.html So, while sitting at a table in a fashionable steakhouse recently, the topics of conversation among five golf-type guys were varied.<br><br> But it always came back to golf. And then, just before des...</p> http://www.golfgearreview.com/mikedudurich/2998.html It is on rare occasions that a convergence of two completely different enterprises comes together so magnificently.<br><br> A rather simplistic idea, Patriot Golf Day combines something we love to do...</p> http://www.golfgearreview.com/mikedudurich/2995.html It is said that the FedEx Cup playoffs are not for the underdog.<br><br> While the initial event of the four-event featured the top 125 players in the year-long FedEx Cup points chase (the number dro...</p>