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One of my favorite fashion-forward golfwear companies is Abacus, a Swedish firm that mixes style and performance with more than a bit of European flair. I first wrote about Abacus after the PGA Show two years ago and make it a point to check in from time to time. This year's show, which is nearly done, was the perfect place to look in again. Shirts, pants, rainwear, sweaters, ruggers, accessories—Abacus offers a full line for both men and women that is especially notable for its bright colors, visible in the images on this page. Most of the clothing is appropriate off ...

Here at The A Position we’re given a topic to address (or not) each month for The A List feature, in a neat 150 words or so. The January challenge was pretty much the same as last year’s--to make fearless predictions about the golf year ahead. Click here to see just how far off the tracks The A Position writers careened then. This year we enlisted the prognosticating skills of Jimmy Roberts of NBC Sports to lend the expertise gleaned from his many interviews with the game’s top players, surely adding more gravitas to our wild imaginings keen and insightful looks ...

Morgan Pressel and a few of her LPGA Tour friends got together Sunday and Monday and raised $475,000 to fight breast cancer. The amount, which superstars Paula Creamer, Cristie Kerr, Brittany Lincicome, and Lexi Thompson helped Pressel raise at Boca Raton’s St. Andrews Country Club in the annual Morgan & Friends Fight Cancer event, pushed the Morgan Pressel Foundation charity over the $2 million mark. Pressel, who lost her 43-year-old mother to the disease in 2003 (when the golfer was just 15), hosted the tournament, as she has for five years, in memory of Kathy Krickstein Pressel. The funds support patient ...

In Part 1 of our 2012 player previews, we look at how Luke Donald reached No. 1 last year and what he needs to do to stay there and what progress (if any) Tiger Woods made in 2011 and what he needs to do to get back to No. 1. Luke Donald Donald made a big leap forward in 2011 because he morphed from a player who makes a lot of pars to a player who makes a lot of birdies. In 2010, Donald ranked 109th on the PGA Tour in percentage of holes where he made a birdie or eagle but ...

My wife gave me the t-shirt for Christmas (and took the picture). I think she might be on to me. But Happy New Year all, and here's to a fun road ahead for 2012.

In the coming years, private clubs in general face increasing risks and may not be a sustainable model.  It pays to be careful.   Since 2000, golf in America have been steadily declining by most all measures and with that many people have been exiting the private golf clubs.  Increasingly many private clubs have been forced to close or restructure, often allowing the public to share the facilities.  There has been new unexpected fallout – fights between the clubs and their departing members.   Clubs are now seeking to recapture unpaid dues, and fees and assessments while members are seeking to recover initiation fees ...

LANSING, Mich. - Gov. Rick Snyder today announced Michael Patrick Shiels, of East Lansing, will serve on the Michigan Travel Commission. The commission helps Michigan’s travel industry grow. “One of the key components to building a better and stronger Michigan is to continuously promote all the attractions our state has to offer, including our beautiful lakes and great landmarks,” Snyder said. “Michael Patrick Shiels is a great addition and uniquely positioned to be a great asset to the commission.” Shiels is a travel writer and talk radio and TV host of “Michael Patrick Shiels in the Morning” on the Michigan Talk Network in ...

Certifresh Cigars totally rock and I would know.  I love to have a great cigar over the course of a round of golf.    Often I forget to bring one from home and end up smoking an old stale one from a pro shop humidor or an old cigar long forgotten from one of my golf bag's pockets, an expensive long forgotten cigar, now cracked and essentially wrapperless. So in Scottsdale last week I was given a pack of Certifresh Cigars.  There were 4 medium sized cigars of different makes and flavors -all of them excellent makes and flavors, well chosen and ...

It wasn’t just the plate of caballo – roasted horse – sitting in front of me at El Patio, an open-air restaurant in Havana’s Plaza de La Cathedral that made the night in Cuba surreal. It was also the sight of the dramatic moonlight illuminating the crumbling Catedral San Cristobal - completed in 1777 and purported to, at one time, house the casket of Christopher Columbus – and the sound of the five classical musicians playing in the square. Beauty…sustaining…in a forbidden fiefdom left behind by time and politics.   Havana is by no means a foodie destination, but I washed down ...

Bettye Danoff, one of 13 founding members of the LPGA, died on Thursday in McKinney, Tex. She was 88. Here is a link to the New York Times story.