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1 week ago | 
thespectator.com | Patrick Kidd |Grace Curley |Bill Kauffman |Kevin Cook
Eighteen years ago, half his lifetime away, Rory McIlroy made his debut as a professional golfer at the British Masters at The Belfry, Sutton Coldfield. The Northern Irish teenager began with a respectable round of 69 and finished 42nd to earn a shade over £10,000.
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1 week ago | 
thespectator.com | Patrick Kidd |Grace Curley |Bill Kauffman |Kevin Cook
Eighteen years ago, half his lifetime away, Rory McIlroy made his debut as a professional golfer at the British Masters at the Belfry, Sutton Coldfield. The Northern Irish teenager began with a respectable round of 69 and finished 42nd to earn a shade over £10,000.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Ryan M. Spaeder |Kevin Cook |Roger Alton |Teresa Mull
Hope springs eternal. With Opening Day 2025 under our belts, however, you cannot shake the feeling that America’s pastime, like its politics, is a two-party system. The Los Angeles Dodgers enter the season as the incumbent World Series champions, having triumphed over the New York Yankees last October. Who expects this year to be much different?
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2 months ago | 
thespectator.com | Kevin Cook |Roger Alton |Teresa Mull |Peter Hasson
Shohei Ohtani had a baseball season for the ages. The Dodgers’ sensational designated hitter hit fifty-four home runs and stole fifty-nine bases to become the founding member of baseball’s 50/50 club. Even before his Dodgers won the World Series and Ohtani won the National League’s MVP award, sportswriters were calling him the best player in baseball history. His heroics bring a key question into play: is Ohtani’s 2024 season one of the greatest performances in sports history?
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Kevin Cook |Stephanie Johnson |Brandon Stanton |
Chock-full of fascinating golf trivia, pithy profiles of players, and fairway dramas. Cook’s third book on golf is a captivating tale of what many thought impossible: winning the game’s four majors in a row. In a breezy, assured style, Cook begins with a brief biography of Tiger Woods and his family and an insightful short history of golf balls, including Woods’ switch to a new brand.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
aarp.org | Kevin Cook
Pro golfers, from left, Hale Irwin, 79, Bob May, 55, and Gary McCord, 76, offer tips to improve every facet of your game after age 50.
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Jul 28, 2024 | 
linkedin.com | Kevin Cook
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. raised the level of a global conversation on Friday at the Nashville Bitcoin Conference when he threw down the gauntlet with his "strategic asset" speech. Here was the key 2.5 minute mic drop from RFK...
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
spectator.co.uk | Kevin Cook
Text size Line Spacing Comments Share Share Kevin Cook Golf keeps getting weirder Linkedin Messenger Email Golf has never been weirder or better. In 2022, the upstart LIV Golf, funded by Saudi Arabia’s $700 billion sovereign wealth fund, took on PGA Tour, poaching stars including Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson and Brooks Koepka. Mohammed bin Salman’s regime lured them by shovelling oil money into their pockets, with Mickelson signing for a reported $200 million. A graying, 42-year-old Sergio...
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Kevin Cook
Golf has never been weirder or better. As the season shifts into high gear with the Masters this month, the staid old game keeps surprising players and fans. Three years ago, Covid threatened to put the most social sport on life support. Some of us diehards played through the first spring and summer of the pandemic, when bunker rakes disappeared because their handles might spread the virus.
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Jan 23, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Kevin Cook |Toby Young
Quick — can you name boxing’s heavy-weight champion? If you’re like most readers, you drew a blank. If you’re a sports fan you may at least have heard of Ukraine’s Oleksandr Usyk, who holds three of the world’s four heavyweight title belts. Usyk has a good story: an Olympic gold medalist in 2012, now unbeaten and untied in twenty-one pro bouts, he took time out from training to serve as a soldier in his country’s war with Russia.
