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...swing itself. Today's back-friendly swing is more upright, with the hips and shoulders more level throughout the swing, to promote easier rotation. Even the idea of keeping your head down throughout the swing is on the way out, says top teaching pro Darrell Kestner. Superstars David Duval and Annika Sorenstam, he notes, have both taken to letting their head and eyes leave the ground at or even before impact, rather than lagging behind as the body comes out of its turn and releases toward the target. "That's the newest back-friendly swing change," says Kestner, "where...
This week the two greatest golfers in the world, David Duval, 27, and Tiger Woods, 23, will play in the Masters, the greatest of golf tournaments. It offers the tantalizing possibility of a head-to-head shoot-out between two of the game's rocket launchers, and the kind of Jack Nicklaus vs. Arnold Palmer face-off that can make golf absolutely riveting television. Alas, there are eight dozen more golfers in the field. Let's hope they...
That may not be well enough to handle Duval, a quiet man given the nickname "Rock" who rolls into Augusta, Ga., having recently won a minor major, The Players Championship, against a tougher field than he'll face at Augusta. That victory punctuated an altogether astonishing 18-month run of golf. Late in the season of Tigermania, Duval won his first-ever PGA tournament. He won the next week too, and then the next. "We knew [that] once David got going, he'd win a bunch," Davis Love III said last week. "But we never expected a roll like this...
...Duval's win at TPC last week had an overarching specialness in that it came on the same afternoon as his golf-pro dad's first win on the Senior Tour. His relationship with his father Bob has had its ups and downs, all of them traceable to late 1980, when David's elder brother Brent was found to have a rare blood disorder, aplastic anemia. David donated bone marrow, but Brent died soon after of graft-vs.-host disease. Nine-year-old David wondered if he had contributed to his brother's death and became a subdued, serious child...
...Duval was the pro at Timuquana Country Club in Jacksonville, Fla., and the golf course became David's refuge. It would not shield him then, nor could it later, when his parents divorced, finally, in 1996. But things have since improved. Duval has reconciled with his father, while his mother has fought her way back from depression. Duval's longtime girlfriend, Julie McArthur, has said it can't be coincidental that David's breakthrough in golf arrived as he and his family achieved a certain stasis...