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THE MASTERS REPORT

MAGNOLIA MIKE! Fogg Trumps Masters Field With Sizzling 64 From the little college town that could. From the hardwood floors of Horton High and Bowdoin College. From the golf gutter to its most hallowed grounds and treasured title. After years of turmoil, strife and spherical frustration, the man known simply as Fogg made Wolfville great …

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FRIDAY @THE MASTERS

~THE FINAL SHOT~ The time for talking has come to an end. It’s time to put the ball in the air. I thought a short video might help inspire you as you stand over a difficult shot Saturday. Just think of how these men felt standing over their shots, in that moment in time. It’s …

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THURSDAY @THE MASTERS

THE COUNTDOWN IS ON Players, Patrons Ready for 2018 Masters Final preparations for Saturday’s 6th annual KWGA Masters are under way and a bevy of participants could be seen on the course for Wednesday’s Men’s Night where conditions were borderline nightmarish. Ken-Wo showed just how difficult a short course can play if the winds pick …

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WEDNESDAY @THE MASTERS

WHERE THE MASTERS WILL BE WON… AND LOST Everyone at Ken-Wo knows that their rounds depend on good inner thoughts, relaxation, some Ibuprofen and maybe a good bounce or two along the way. Some golfers depend on those bounces while others wince in pain at the very thought of their ball nearing a tree line …

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TUESDAY @THE MASTERS

BUFFUDLED NO MORE? Grampy Looks to Snap Major Drought This year’s KWGA Masters brings with it the annual question. When will the KWGA’s Best Player to Have Never Won a Major finally break through? For Grampy, the question has dogged him relentlessly for five years, so much so that the Windsor Spitfire has left the …

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MONDAY @THE MASTERS

THE MASTERS MESSIAH Can Weasie Really 3-Peat? Saturday kicks off the Major Championship season in the KWGA and you can’t talk about the 2018 KWGA Masters without first talking about Brent “Weasie” Locke. The two time back-to-back champion returns this Saturday to defend, and yes, flaunt his green jacket in front of a group of …

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2018 RYDER CUP IN PICTURES

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CHESTERFIELD RUGBY REPORT

MAN, MYTH…LEGEND BIP STRIKES AGAIN AT “THE CHESTERFIELD” Shinnecock Hills CC, Ken-Wo GC or Chester, it doesn’t seem to matter to the KWGA’s newest star, a man so famous he is now known by only one name. No, it is not Prince or Tiger or Liberace…it’s Ken-Wo’s own, BIP. On a week that saw the …

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LEGENDS MEMORIAL REPORT

“LEGENDARY” PERFORMANCE October Dawns on Legends Lounge There was just always something about that old brick and mortar facade in Coldbrook that would tingle my loins, kinda like the same feeling I would get climbing the rope in gym class back in middle school. With that being the inspiration and sometimes backdrop for this tournament, …

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SKOAL BANDITS REPORT

BARRYON MY WAYWARD WESTWARD SON Bannister-Hennigar Outlasts Skoal-Force Winds! As legendary Jim Lahey used to quip during some of his drinking binges, “Can you hear it coming Bubs? The Winds of Sh** are here buddy.” So it was Saturday morning at the Skoal Bandits Shootout as a 70 km/hour westward gale force wind attacked KenWo …

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CAPTAIN CRAZY REPORT

SCORE ONE FOR MYRTLE! Grampy Tips the Bottle at The Captain As renowned English poet and writer Robert Southey wrote in 1809, “Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.” So it was Saturday afternoon at the Captain Crazy Invitational as our beloved Grampy’s 49 winter rounds in Myrtle Beach, SC cruelly …

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FLOWER CART REPORT

  “TRAINOR” WHEELS A LA CART! BIP HANGS ON FOR FIRST CAREER WIN…IN ANYTHING Somebody once tried to convince me that the world was flat…and Saturday someone could have tried to convince me that a golfer could finish 8-11-5 and win a golf tournament and I would have told them both to jump off a …

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2018 FEDEX CUP PREVIEW

The 2018 season is upon us and that means it’s time to peer into the future. Making predictions in the KWGA is akin to managing a herd of wildebeest crossing the Serengeti River, but here goes anyway. PLAYOFF FAVOURITES WAYNE “GRAMPY” BURKE (2-1) 2017 2016 2015 2014 Playoff Results 5th 1st 9th 3rd 2014, 2017 Lost in …

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Welcome to 2018 Season

Fellas… The time has come to start getting ready for the 2018 KWGA Season. I need to know the following… 1.) KWGA Renewal- There is a poll on the TOP RIGHT HAND SIDE of the website. Please click on YES or NO followed by CONFIRM so that I know your status for 2018. If you have forgotten your LOG IN information, just contact …

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DEUTSCHE BANK REPORT

FEDEX CUP SEMI-FINALS DEUTSCHE BANK CHAMPIONSHIP The air was thick with play-off anticipation Saturday morning along with a brisk, chilly wind and drizzle that angrily greeted the combatants at venerable KenWo GC for the Semi-Finals of the FEDEX Cup. After advancing from last week’s quarter-finals, the quartet of The Commissioner, Mr. Wildcat, Grampy and The …

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HOLLY SONDERS REPORT

Countless hours of watching…studying, and yes, embarrassingly enough, fantasizing about Holly came to a climax Saturday afternoon as The Commissioner held off a fast role playing Bannister-Hennigar to win the 2017 Holly Sonders Golf Channel Memorial for the second time. Time and again The Commissioner summoned his inner Holly moan when things got difficult down …

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PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP REPORT

Sound the submarine alarm…the waters off the Coast of KenWo are once again no longer safe to swim after the KWGA’s fiercest fish made filet mignon out of the field Saturday morning at the 2017 KWGA Players Championship. Backed by a school of dolphins, mermaids and manatees, The Shark gnashed  and punctured his playing competitors …

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THE HERITAGE REPORT

Braving monsoon rain and fogged up fairways, two “Noah’s” took centre stage Saturday morning, taking turns building their own “L’arch de Triumph” in sharing the 2017 Heritage Classic title at what has become known as KenWo Golf Club & Aquirium. In yet another challenging weather day on Tour, the duo of Luvable (Cuddles) Grampy & …

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2017 MASTERS REPORT

They don’t post pictures on scorecards…and Masters champions are not supposed to be able to hunt like Tarzan and scream like Jane…but nobody told that to the KWGA’s Weasie Locke, who became the first ever to win back to back Masters at venerable KenWo GC Saturday afternoon. After five days of slashing and hacking around …

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TUESDAY @THE MASTERS

Tuesday brought unsettled weather to KenWo which may have proved to keep many KWGA’ers away from preparations heading into Saturday’s Masters, but not for two notables who managed to sneak rounds in. Last week’s Herbin Experience winner Double-Double and The 4th Reich made hay where others saw cow dung, squeezing in 18 holes in the …

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