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Explaining the Fried Egg Lie in Golf and How to Play It

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A fried egg can be delicious! Unless the one on your plate is the fried-egg lie in golf. That fried egg is a nasty species of bunker shot that many recreational golfers — all golfers, really — dread seeing. A "fried egg" or "fried egg lie" in golf happens when your golf ball hits soft or wet sand and winds up partially buried in the bunker. Only the top half or so of the golf ball remains visible above the sand, looking, in a way, like the yolk in the middle of the white part of a fried egg.
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Most Years In a Row With a Win on the Champions Tour

The Champions Tour record we're focusing on here is consecutive years with an official tournament victory. What is the most years in a row that a golfer has won a Champions Tour event? You might not think such streaks could be very long given that golfers on the senior circuit are already 50 years old when they are getting started.
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How to Play the C.O.D. Golf Game

C.O.D. (or COD) is the name of a golf game format for a group of four golfers who enjoy riding in golf carts. In an 18-hole round, each member of the quartet in a C.O.D. partners for six holes with each other member of the foursome.
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The Korn Ferry Tour's New Name ... and All Its Old Names

What is the Korn Ferry Tour? It's the newest professional tour in golf. No, wait, that's not quite right: It's actually the same tour it's always been, just with a new name.
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John Q. Hammons Hotel Classic Winners (LPGA Tournament)

The John Q. Hammons Hotel Classic (also called the SemGroup Championship) was a golf tournament on the LPGA Tour played in the first decade of the 2000s, one that boasted a sterling roster of champions.
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'Seven Days in Utopia' Golf Movie

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Seven Days in Utopia is a movie released in 2011 that stars Robert Duvall and Lucas Black and is based on a book by golf mental coach and teambuilding speaker David Cook. The movie (and the book it is based on, as well as follow-on products) is a heavy mix of Christian theology with familiar sports-movie themes.
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Most Birdies In a Row at the End to Win a PGA Tour Tournament

If a golfer birdies, say, the final three holes of the tournament and that propels the golfer to victory, then we say that golfer made three birdies in a row to win. Do you know what the record for that is on the PGA Tour?
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Watch Arnold Palmer's Game Show Appearances in the Early 1960s

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Did you know that Arnold Palmer appeared on two television game shows in the early 1960s? It's true, and you can watch those appearances here.
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How to Play the Golf Game Called 'Mulligan and Recall'

Mulligan and Recall is a golf game for a group of four golfers who pair off into two teams. So it's two-vs.-two. You can play it as match play, stroke play, anything you like. But the key to the game is found in its name:
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Golfers Who Won the Same Major 3 (or More) Times in a Row

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Winning the same major back-to-back is rare in modern golf. But winning the same major back-to-back-to-back — three consecutive wins? It's been decades since that happened. But it has happened a total of six times in the history of golf's professional majors: once in the PGA Championship, once in the U.S. Open, four times in the British Open, never in The Masters.
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