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Toledo enters Toshiba Classic with heavy heart after brother’s passing

March 13, 2013

By RANDY YOUNGMAN Newport Beach – This is the week Esteban Toledo has been looking forward to for a long time, because this is his first full year on the 50-and-over Champions Tour and this is the week the Toshiba Classic makes its annual stop at Newport Beach Country Club. “I feel like it’s my [...]

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Why doesn’t Tiger play Riviera anymore?

March 13, 2013

By WIL BARNES The last time native Los Angelino Tiger Woods teed it up at Riviera CC in the Northern Trust Open was 2006 when he shot 69 – 74 and withdrew due to the flu. In 2005 he missed the cut. And now for the last seven years the World’s #2 has stayed away [...]

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A memorable week for Riviera and John Merrick

March 8, 2013

By WIL BARNES Pacific Palisades, CA. – On what was an insanely gorgeous Saturday afternoon in Pacific Palisades, a few of us were seated high above the 18th green at Riviera Country Club in the Northern Trust hospitality tent when I spotted Jamie Mulligan walking alongside his pupil John Merrick up the 42 steps to [...]

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Club pro makes cut at Riviera, Block party becomes birthday celebration

February 15, 2013

  BY RANDY YOUNGMAN – Pacific Palisades – While stuck in Sunset Boulevard traffic on the way to Riviera Country Club on Friday, Michael Block apologized to his son, Dylan, for having to work on his 8th birthday and promised that the family would celebrate in style next week. Dylan’s response floored Block, the head professional [...]

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Block party at Riviera: Arroyo Trabuco pro opens with 69 at Northern Trust

February 14, 2013

By RANDY YOUNGMAN PACIFIC PALISADES – An unscheduled Block party broke out at Riviera Country Club on Thursday during the opening round of the 2013 Northern Trust Open. Michael Block of Aliso Viejo, the head professional at Arroyo Trabuco Golf Club in Mission Viejo, made an eagle on the par-5 first hole and stayed on [...]

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Best. Phoenix. Open. Ever.

February 9, 2013

In 1997 I took a position on one of the rocks on the tee box of the rowdy 16th Hole at the TPC Scottsdale for over three hours watching twosome after twosome arrive up the embankment, through the crowd to the tee. I was working on a story for a national magazine about the uniqueness [...]

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Woods on PGA Tour season opener: ‘It’s nice to be back’

January 22, 2013

By RANDY YOUNGMAN LA JOLLA – Tiger Woods hasn’t won at Torrey Pines since the 2008 U.S. Open, which must seem like an eternity to him considering his successful track record on the scenic municipal course overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Put it this way: Woods virtually owns Torrey Pines. He has won eight tournament titles [...]

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Clinton holds court in La Quinta

January 17, 2013

  By RANDY YOUNGMAN LA QUINTA – Former President Bill Clinton, whose foundation is a sponsor and charity recipient of the Humana Challenge, entertained the media shortly after the first round of the 2013 tournament got underway at three desert courses. A sampling of Clinton’s wit and wisdom during a Q&A in the media room [...]

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Nashville’s Brandt Snedeker is ‘California Dreaming’

January 10, 2013

 By WIL BARNES During the second round of the 2007 Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines, I was sitting in the media lunch room when my friend and colleague Jeff Rude of Golfweek came by, tapped me on the shoulder and said, “Get up. Let’s go see this kid shoot 59.” I looked at him [...]

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PGA Tour ’13: What can we expect?

January 3, 2013

By WIL BARNES In 2012 on the PGA Tour we were introduced to some new faces and saw a resurgence of some old ones, most notably that of Tiger Woods who won three times and finished second on the Money List to the new star in golf Rory McIlroy. It would appear that they will [...]

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