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golf
How to create your own backyard miniature golf course
With summer starting next week, Southern Californians are looking forward to some outdoor recreation.
Guide dog helps champion blind golfer stay the course
Zohar Sharon can count on having the company of two others when he takes to the golf course — his caddy and his guide dog.
Golfing for good
Ethan Davidson estimates that he was only 5 or 6 when he heard the comparisons to Tiger Woods. “I was shocked,” he said. “I didn’t know I’d be that good, and I didn’t know I could pursue [golf] because I didn’t know I was that good. I thought I was just the average player.”
Four-wheel drive
From a distance, Sam Geta looks as if he is standing upright in an Elvis Presley-esque knock-kneed stance. He hits his approach shot and cheers triumphantly as his ball finds the edge of the green. He replaces the club in his golf bag, then lifts his legs one at a time back onto the accessible golf cart.
Golfer sues course, claims religious discrimination
As the PGA Northern Trust Open gets under way at Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, golfer Wade Morris finds himself on the sideline, a victim of what he says is religious discrimination.
Baja community begins where the land ends
Cabo San Lucas is at the western end of what has become a 20-mile corridor of hotels and gated communities known collectively as Los Cabos. In the last year a very visible and increasingly vibrant Jewish community is taking shape where the land meets the sea.
A Hole In One for a Good Cause
Bram Goldsmith, chair of City National Corporation, and his wife, Elaine, long-time supporter of the arts, donated $5 million to the future Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, with the result that a 500-seat theater will become the Goldsmith Theater.