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Posts about: sean foley

“We call him the Dalai Lama”

Interesting Steve Elling piece on Sean Foley — though the only real surprise is that it has taken so long for Foley to get some strong American coverage. Thanks to reader “Geoff” (yep, tongue in cheek there) for the tip.
Steve Elling writes an interesting take on Foley, not that much of the information would surprise [...]


Sympatico Column: Ames’ Win and Foley’s Role

My latest column examines the role of Sean Foley in Stephen Ames’ win at Disney on the weekend. Given that many think I’ve been pretty hard on Foley — though I’m not sure that’s actually true — I’ll say I really enjoyed my hour-long conversation with him. I’ll post some of that conversation at a [...]


U.S. Open Week — Weir on Young Canucks: “We’ve got a lot of talent”

Ottawa Sun writer Chris Stevenson has a good story about the round Mike Weir played with Andrew Parr and Nick Taylor on Monday at Bethpage. Despite lousy whether, the group managed to get out on the course. Weir joked that at 39 he could still compete with the pair, though Parr probably bombed it by [...]


The Air Goes Out of Sean Foley

Last week on the Fan 590 radio’s golf show, Fairways, which airs at an ungodly early hour, had Sean Foley, a regular correspondent and swing coach to Sean O’Hair and Stephen Ames, on to talk about “compressing” the golf ball.
Score editor Bob Weeks was also on the show, and asked Foley what compression entails:
Weeks: When the ball [...]


National Post Golf Guide in Today’s Paper

I might not be writing regularly for the National Post any longer, but I did act as the editor of the paper’s golf magazine, which is a supplement in today’s Financial Post Business Magazine (in today’s paper).
In case you don’t get today’s paper — you can find the  articles below online. The only one that appears [...]