Articles by Grant Dodd

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Tiger: Is there anything left to say?

IN: News | BY: Grant Dodd | DATE: 15 May 2008

Bing. There’s an e-mail in the in-box. Quickly, I note that it’s from Lord Fotheringham-Smythe AO, Chairman of iseekgolf. “Better see what his nibs wants.” “My good man, that Tiger...
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Tiger: The Power and the Passion

IN: News | BY: Grant Dodd | DATE: 30 Mar 2008

One of the world’s leading golf coaches was asked recently by one of his charges (a player in the top 75 players in the world) why it was that Tiger...
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A Rank Decision

IN: News | BY: Grant Dodd | DATE: 29 Feb 2008

I know people who love the Academy Award winning movie, “The English Patient”. I know others who think it is the greatest celluloid travesty they have ever had the misfortune...
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A New World Order For Golf?

IN: News | BY: Grant Dodd | DATE: 01 Feb 2008

If you are a stock market observer at present then you will likely be either intrigued or extremely nervous. The latter condition applies to those who have taken a ‘long’,...
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Psyched Up: The Dark Side of Golf

IN: News | BY: Grant Dodd | DATE: 08 Jan 2008

John Crampton must have felt like Osama bin Laden in front of the United States congress. Addressing a group of reluctant, somewhat hostile, NSW State Amateur squad members on the...
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Nostalgia: The Disease of Aging

IN: News | BY: Grant Dodd | DATE: 28 Nov 2007

Something profound happened to me recently. I was at customs in Brisbane Airport, writing down my birth date on the immigration form, and the page jumped out at me. For...
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Crunch time as Aussies fight for tour cards

IN: News | BY: Grant Dodd | DATE: 23 Oct 2007

It was the best of times, the worst of times, wrote Charles Dickens. His ageless assessment of the human condition might well be applied to the atmosphere surrounding the final...
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Fed Up: Has the PGA Tour got it wrong?

IN: News | BY: Grant Dodd | DATE: 07 Sep 2007

Hands up if you understand what the FedEx Cup is all about. Keep your hand up if you care to find out. Unfortunately for the USPGA Tour, the general response...
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British Open: The major Major

IN: News | BY: Grant Dodd | DATE: 13 Aug 2007

“This is British Open?” It was a deceptively simple question, in effect rhetorical, and more a statement than anything requiring a response. It didn’t matter how I responded anyway. Other...
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Bambi vs Golfzilla: Drugs in Golf

IN: News | BY: Grant Dodd | DATE: 18 Jul 2007

The only thing more predictable than an Australian athlete denying the veracity of a positive drug test is the ferocity with which the Australian public will defend his or her...
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The X Factor

IN: News | BY: Grant Dodd | DATE: 07 Jun 2007

There is an ad floating around on the internet at the moment featuring US Ryder Cup star Chad Campbell. In it, he says, “When I was growing up, my dad...
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Gary Edwin: Different Strokes

IN: News | BY: Grant Dodd | DATE: 19 May 2007

If you want an insight into the addictive nature of golf, take a visit to the iseekgolf.com forum page. It’s like a shooting gallery for golf junkies where every craving...
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