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The Masters 2025 App Review

The Masters 2025 App is now ready for download. If you have the 2024 Masters App simply update in your App Store. Launch the App and get ready for the first Major of the year.   If you have never experienced The Masters App, you will be impressed. This is the ideal companion whenever you watch

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Soleta Golf Club

Nick Price designed Soleta Golf Club east of Sarasota.

When I play a golf course for the first time, I ask myself, “Could I play this track every day?”  Soleta Golf Club is a new Nick Price-design winding through pristine sandy ‘scrubland’ 20 miles east of Sarasota.  While I had doubts along the way, Soleta is the ideal course to play multiple times a

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Gillespie 9 Preview

This is a preview post for the Gillespie 9, the short course that is part of the Bobby Jones Golf Club here in Sarasota, Florida. Gillespie 9 is planning to open on May 31st, Friday.  I had a chance to spend some time with Richard Mandell, the project architect and John Sparrow the General Manager

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Miakka Golf Club Groundbreaking

Today I attended a groundbreaking ceremony at Miakka Golf Club.  The site is about 30 miles east of Sarasota or the Sarasota Bradenton airport.  The golf course is scheduled to open in late 2025. The space is expansive. The property is enormous, with 1100 acres Dedicated to golf, with two miles of river frontage on the

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World Champions Cup Summary

Final day at some point one of the 3 teams will be hosting this cup, claiming the inaugural World Champions Cup.  In this World Chapions Cup summary post, I will talk about the golfers, and the golf course, but mostly about the format. A Three team match that is a hybrid between stroke and match

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GolfToons Golf Merch

Golf Merch from GolfToons

You probably didn’t know you needed a GolfToons shower curtain, and you might not have known such Golf Merch existed.  You are in luck!  It does exist.  We now have a collection of GolfToons merchandise. And we are adding more all the time.  Over the years, we have had random requests for T-shirts and other

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Best Golf Podcasts

Best Golf Podcasts from Breaking Eighty with Your Golfer's Almanac number 3

Okay – – –  Our golf history podcast made a few lists for Best Golf Podcasts in 2002!   Pretty Cool … Your Golfer’s Almanac is getting noticed, and we thought to share the good news here on our GolfToons blog. 100 Best Golf Podcasts You Must Follow in 2022 – #45 with a bullet? From

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IceRays Sun Sleeve Review

Golfing with Black Ice Rays UV Cooling Sun Sleeves used in a blog post by GolfToons about Sun protection and skin cancer avoidance.

IceRays Sun Sleeves Review This IceRays Sun Sleeves Review is long overdue. But when I look back on the golf year of 2020, I find many excuses. Allow me to explain. The year started with cool weather here in Southwest Florida, the “Golf Coast,” as some call it. I did not need any sun protection

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Small But Mighty

Aerial view of Palm Beach Par 3 Golf Course seen from the Atlantic Ocean and included in article by Michael Duranko of GolfToons titled 'Small but Mighty' originally published in The Golf Supplier.

Bigger doesn’t always mean better The Golf Supplier originally published ‘Small But Mighty’ about the Palm Beach Par 3 Golf Course on 12/9/2020 as part of the Travel section. See other articles by Michael Duranko. The Palm Beach Par 3 Golf Course is stunning. Family-friendly and challenging to any golfer, regardless of skill set.  When

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Zero Friction Golf Glove Review

Zero Friction Neon blue golf balls shown in a box of 12 and a single ball used in Our Clever Golf Blog by GolfToons at www.golf-toons.com

Zero Friction Golf Glove Review My morning email inbox included a 20% discount on a golf glove I have wanted to try. I added a dozen balls to my online shopping cart, submitted my purchase, and started my day.  And this is my Zero Friction Golf Glove Review. Update August 2021 I bought three more ZF

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The Masters Distraction

Caped and masked golfer on the tee box with two golf buddies commenting that crime has increased since the Masters, Golfing Super Hero is an original golf cartoon by Marty Glass

This is The Masters. Most of our work can wait until next week, when we will be distracted by talking about what happens on Sunday in Augusta, Georgia. The Masters Distraction! Golf is an addiction as we discussed in the original post for Golfing Super Hero – GolfToon 69. <Click through and read our essay

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TeeShirt with a GolfToon

TeeShirt with a GolfToon using Unwanted Compliments - GolfToons 19 used with permission from GolfToons

This is pretty cool, a teeshirt with a GolfToon. Bill, a newsletter subscriber asked if he could use one of our GolfToons for a special gift. For a very reasonable licensing fee we said YES! Here is our Unwanted Compliments – GofToons 19 on a TeeShirt. While we do not know the inside joke, we

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Where the Golf Gods Relax

Picture of The Greatest Par 3 in the World, hole number 6 at Cruit Island Golf Club included in the article Where Golf Gods Relax by Michael Duranko of GolfToons.

The Golf Supplier originally published ‘Where Golf Gods Relax’ on 10/21/2020 as part of the Hidden Gems series. Here is a link and a link to ‘Clipped Wings’, a preview to the 2020 US Open at Winged Foot that appeared on 10/9/20. More than just Emeralds. It is unsurprising to find a hidden gem in a country

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Clipped Wings

Winged Foot Hole 1 from the Golf Supplier for Michael Duranko Clipped Wings US Open Preview

This story Clipped Wings was originally published by The Golf Supplier on 9/9/2020 Here is a link. Clipped Wings I have been lucky enough to play Winged Foot once. But that is another story you can read here. While I don’t remember too much about the golf course from more than 25 years ago., I know

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Winged Foot Once

Winged Foot Golf Club Entrance sign for GolfToons Golf Blog Winged Foot Once

Winged Foot Once I have been lucky enough to play Winged Foot once.  A college buddy had a client cancel at the last minute, and I was the lucky sub.  They sent a car to Battery Park City on the southern tip of Manhattan for me, and then we picked up my buddy in Midtown,

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James Bond Golf

Illustration by Golfucos reproducing a scene from James Bond Dr. No with a woman putting and Bond crouching with a gun.

I saw a recent post from an artist on Instagram, @Golfucos. They do golf related illustrations that I like a lot. This scene is from the 1st James Bond movie, Dr. No. Bond in a crouch position with his weapon drawn on a woman putting in high heels. Very cool. This image got me thinking

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ON POINT BALL MARKER REVIEW

A titleist golf ball in front of an On Point Ball Marker used in a product review by Michael Duranko of GolfToons

On Saturday I tried out my new On Point ball marker for the first time. Our golf league played at Legacy Golf Club in Lakewood Ranch near Sarasota, Florida in late January 2020. I got my On Point ball marker at the PGA show last week. This On Point ball marker review is the first

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