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  • Classic CourseFall 2020Featured
    By Tod Leonard
    October 29, 2020
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    Classic Course: San Diego’s Beloved Coronado Golf Course

    For one week in September of 1958, San Diego’s little island community of Coronado was awash in Hollywood glamour. Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon had ...
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  • Spring 2020
    By Tod Leonard
    April 23, 2020
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    A Place for Everyone: Mission Bay GC

    AT MISSION BAY GC, “THE VIBE IS REALLY GOOD” Jeff Friesen looks like he just walked off the boardwalk at San Diego’s Mission Beach. The 20-year-old ...
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  • TrendsWinter 2020
    By Tod Leonard
    January 25, 2020
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    Tee Time Tech

    It is a system that existed not so long ago at the Torrey Pines golf courses, but now seems as antiquated as speaking to a live ...
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  • Fall 2019Travel
    By Tod Leonard
    October 20, 2019
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    San Diego Flies High

    It was on my bucket list for years. Whenever I covered a tournament at Torrey Pines or played the seaside municipal courses, the big, colorful birds ...
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  • Spring 2019
    By Tod Leonard
    April 26, 2019
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    All In The Family: The Stars Just Keep Lining Up For Amanda Balionis

    THERE WAS NEVER a question that Amanda Balionis was going to eventually fall in love with golf. It was just a matter of when. Her maternal ...
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  • At The TurnSpring 2019
    By Tod Leonard
    April 26, 2019
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    The Pride of San Diego: Balboa Park Golf Course Celebrates Its Centennial

    In the months following the end of World War I, the people of San Diego were ready to relax and recreate again. The city, in turn, ...
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  • ProfilesWinter 2019
    By Tod Leonard
    January 21, 2019
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    A Life Rebuilt Through Golf

    From the moment Tony Perez heard Jacque Keeslar bellow, he knew he was dealing with a different kind of character. Perez had convened a handful of ...
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  • Fall 2018Travel
    By Tod Leonard
    October 18, 2018
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    Irish Ayes: An Epic Journey That Just Keeps Getting Better

    ON A NARROW ROAD in Ireland more than 20 years ago, riding in a tour bus after a day of golf and a few rounds of ...
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  • Classic CourseSpring 2018
    By Tod Leonard
    April 26, 2018
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    Legendary Links: La Jolla Country Club Set to Host the 119th SCGA Amateur Championship

    The story is so far-fetched, so unbelievable to the current members of La Jolla CC that many pass it off as apocryphal. Except it’s been written ...
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  • EquipmentSpring 2018
    By Tod Leonard
    April 26, 2018
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    Triple Threat: Three Ways to Improve at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa

    Many resorts boast of offering “championship” golf, but at the Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, the word has veracity. Everyone from Jack Nicklaus ...
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FeaturedThe PodiumWinter 2021

Ely’s Gift to Golf

Dr. Irving P. Krick was long ago consigned to history’s footnotes, and is now largely forgotten. A renowned meteorologist, Krick was enlisted to provide General Dwight D. Eisenhower with long-range weather ...
  • Dark Clouds on Muni Golf’s Horizon

    By Craig Kessler
    January 15, 2021
  • Farewell to Arms

    By Jill Painter Lopez
    January 15, 2021
  • Western Waltz: 18 Fave Holes From the Rockies to the Pacific

    By Joe Passov
    January 15, 2021
  • Eternal Sportsman: The Dual Passions of Bode Miller

    By Judd Spicer
    January 15, 2021
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