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It's a Ground Under Repair relaunch, as we join the Sports Talk Florida podcast network!  That makes it as good a time as any to explore the belief that Golf Is For Everybody.  Ground Under Repair also previews the Open Championship to be held in Carnoustie, Scotland, and a curious rumor about Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson playing for ten million dollars.  

It's all about golf clubs on Ground Under Repair this week as Pure Science Golf's John Reynaud joins the show to talk about his business and their approach.  There are many places to get golf clubs custom fitted, but Pure Science Golf takes an extremely personalized approach that seeks to help improve the game of any golfer, from a devoted scratch player to your average once-a-week golfer.  We talk about John's methods, the benefits of custom clubs, and a few things about golf clubs that most of us never think about.  

Check out Pure Science Golf's website here.

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Henry Wallmeyer of the National Club Association joins the show to talk about a lobby for private clubs.  Henry discusses his run-ins with the decision-makers of Washington, D.C., as well as the benefits to playing golf at a private club.  

For more on the NCA, visit their website here.

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Francis Ouimet Scholarship Fund Executive Director Bob Donovan joins the show to talk about the fund, the PGA's involvement with charities and organizations like his, Ouimet's legacy, and the PGA Tour Pro-Am experience.  

More on the Ouimet Scholarship Fund:  ouimet.org

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Ponkapoag golf course is famous largely as Rick Reilly's 1988 example of a beaten up public golf course.  "Ponky" then became the inspiration for a Reilly book, and the reputation stuck with the course.  On further examination, it's far more than the Ponky of Missing Links these days, including a brush with greatness that few golfers in the Boston area would believe.

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Narratives can be powerful in sports, and they can make people believe things about those sports that aren't true.  That is a problem facing golf these days, as the perception out there is that golf is suffering.  The narrative, however, is far from reality.  The National Golf Foundation tracks these things, and their research suggests that people are picking up the game of golf more than they ever have before.  The NGF explains where the game could stand to grow, where it's already growing, and the role of the oft-discussed Millennial generation in the game's future.