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My name is Richard Davison. I was born in Belfast Northern Ireland but moved to Sonoma California when I was 13 years old. After playing golf in High School I was lucky enough to be recruited to play at several universities; I chose University of California at Davis and played on the golf team for 4-years. After college I turned professional and played various mini-tours throughout the Western US and Canada. I retired from playing competitively in 2000 and now write a golf column weekly for a local newspaper.
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Time to get "fit" posted on 12/12/2008
When it comes to golf, getting “fit” really has two meanings. Since Tiger Woods came on the scene and started the fitness craze in golf people generally think of the term in the sense of getting into the gym and working out. Although important and beneficial to your health, this doesn’t always necessarily help your golf game. Recently I had the chance to experience the other type of “fit”, a professional fitting with the Titleist FittingWorks. I used to think I knew a lot about equipment; I really enjoy learning about the new models that are coming out, what each player on tour is playing etc., but after my fitting I realized that I don’t even begin to know anything about equipment.
A little background on me; I played 4 years in college, garnered All American, turned Professional and played mini-tours for 3-years, with nominal success. During that time however, I was never once professionally fitted for my clubs. I always just played with what felt good; almost always adapting to the clubs. Being tall, I am 6’ 5”, I figured I needed to have very long clubs, so I always had my irons 1” over length. I was a blade guy, so I had a couple of sets of Mizuno’s over the years, really strong shafts, a degree or so upright and of course, over length. They proved to be okay, but I definitely didn’t hit them the way I think I could have. I could hammer the driver, but was really short with my irons; that should have been enough to clue me in that something was amiss, but it wasn’t.
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These skins need a little spice posted on 11/24/2008
It's Thanksgiving week and that can mean lots of things, but for golfer's it means that the weekend will be filled with what was once the most fun and exciting event on the non-PGA Tour schedule, the Skins Game. I stress the words, "was once" in that statement because the Skins Game has gone from the days of Arnold Palmer, Fuzzy Zoeller, Lee Trevino to Stephen Ames and a few other guys who had nothing else going on that weekend or didn't mind travelling to the desert for a couple of days of golf. Sergio Garcia is going to jump in this year to try and spice this dead horse up, but it's going to take something special. It used to be that playing a hole for $25,000 was impressive, but for the guys nowadays that's barely enough to get out of bed for. The jokin
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