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azgolf.org - 11/20/2009

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For those of us who have watched the LPGA grow up in Phoenix over the past 30 years, seeing women s golf ride off into the sunset was a painful experience Wednesday. After all, it wasn t that long ago 2005 -- that the LPGA left Tucson after a similar run ended with no corporate sponsor. Now ...

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GeoffShackelford.com: "In other words, outsourcing is great thing. In fact, it’s worked so well in our downtrodden economy over the past 10 years that the hunch here is it will have a similar effect for the LPGA."

Mostly Harmless: Paging Bill Huffman...and Geoff Shackelford

Waggle Room: FanPosts: 2010 LPGA Derangement Syndrome sufferer- Bill Huffman

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Bill Huffman makes some great points on how the LPGA is shooting itself in the foot.. LPGA hangs Phoenix out to dry http://bit.ly/4G2t0z 11/20/2009

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"In other words, outsourcing is great thing. In fact, it’s worked so well in our downtrodden economy over the past 10 years that the hunch here is it will have a similar effect for the LPGA."
GeoffShackelford.com — [image] Love the passion in Bill Huffman's take on the LPGA leaving Phoenix. Seems Bill reads the USA Today and was not too taken with Commissioner Mike Whan dropping the "G" word in a story authored by Steve DiMeglio. No, not Tim Finchem's growth mantra, but the other "G" word due to become Finchem's new favorite after his Asian trip. Huffman, after laying out the situation in Phoenix, writes: Whan, who has about as much experience running a professional golf tour as Bivens or zilch -- said it s not all bad despite how it looks. Of course, he made no reference to the fact there will be no LPGA tournament in Arizona for the first time since 1980, ...

Paging Bill Huffman...and Geoff Shackelford
Mostly Harmless — Bill Huffman is a very angry man right now. And it's hard for me to blame him. If it were the Wegmans in Rochester that had bitten the dust and not the Phoenix event in his neck of the, uh, desert, I'd be far madder than he is. But with ...

2010 LPGA Derangement Syndrome sufferer- Bill Huffman
Waggle Room: FanPosts — ... Golf writing has hit some horrible lows this week. Right now the half assed meme that is being spread is the lack of American golf tournaments on next year's schedule. Steve Elling took a whack at it, and I blasted him in return. Now Bill Huffman comes to bat. ...