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My year in golf: Julie Williams

golfweek.com 28 Dec '12, 2pm

My year in golf: Julie Williams: Golf on my beat this year was fast-paced and unpredictable, and... #sports #golf

Editor's note: For our entire "My Year in Golf" series, click here. • • • The No. 1 criticism I hear about our sport is that it can lack excitement – golf moves too slow and takes too long to play. My fourth year covering it at the women’s amateur and college level was nothing like that. And if there was a theme to the year, it was that match play lends a totally different feel to competitive golf. I had never seen links golf in the flesh until traveling to Nairn, Scotland for the Curtis Cup in June. Early week, the eight U.S. team members, all current college players, told me how much of an adjustment they were having to make to links golf. Just from following them around Nairn Golf Club, I could tell the howling, bone-chilling north wind was going to be a major factor. The pot bunkers and gorse were downright frightening. As an aside, I had the chance to escape mid-week ...

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