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Author:	Richard Lees	Created:	9/3/2008 9:31 AM
STREAMERS will attempt to reveal bits and pieces of one golfer's fascination. To quote from Shivas Irons in Michael Murphy's Golf In The Kingdom: "...namely that fascination that frees our journey through worlds and opens doors to where we want to go. Forgettin' and rememberin', losin' and findin' our original face... we come to discipline and the loveliness of rules, the very loveliness of the game o' gowf. Fascination is the true and proper mother of discipline. And gowf is a place to practice fascination. The grace that comes from such a discipline then begins to enter our lives... And as fascination is practiced, a capacity develops to put forth streamers of heart power for the ball to fly on."

ONE WINS -- THE OTHER DOESN'T
	By Richard Lees on 9/10/2008 9:49 AM

ONE WINS -- THE OTHER DOESN'T When Camillo Villegas started smelling the finish line in his first Tour victory at the BMW last weekend, it was interesting to note that his demeanor sharpened and elevated and, in fact, turned inward with intensity. When Sergio Garcia has gotten close, his reactions have been very different: he starts looking up at the sky, at his clubs, at spike marks on greens, at the long grass of the rough he suddenly finds himself stuck in.

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PASATIEMPO
	By Richard Lees on 9/8/2008 1:20 PM

*PASATIEMPO* Our 16-year Anniversary event at Pasatiempo on 08.21.08 was a wonderful day of golf played, as is par for the Society, on one of the world’s great courses, as well as in the hearts and minds of all the lucky members who journeyed to Santa Cruz this year. For, this year Fred Shoemaker, of Extraordinary Golf, offered up the keynote before we hit the links, and it was nothing less than “The Mystery of Golf Revealed.” I first encountered Fred at my very first Shivas event ...

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