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For golfers, a hole-in-one is kind of the holy grail of the sport. It's something we all achieve for but is almost impossible to actually achieve.

Don't tell that to Jack Nicklaus.

Competing in the annual Masters Par 3 Contest on Wednesday with playing partners Gary Player and Ben Crenshaw, who filled in for the still injured Arnold Palmer, the North Palm Beach resident recorded a hole-in-one on the fourth hole after hitting his shot 15 feet past the hole and watching it spin back and in the cup.

Making it even more special was the fact that it was the first time Nicklaus ever recorded an ace at Augusta National in any facet. Before yesterday he had never done it in a recreational, practice, or tournament round.

Here is a video of the…

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From April 16th to April 18th, the Jupiter High School's Color Guard will be competing in the 2015 Color Guard World Championships put on by WGI in Dayton, Ohio.

The competition will begin on Thursday the 16th with the preliminary rounds, concluding with the finals on Saturday the 18th.

The Jupiter High Color Guard has had an incredibly memorable 2015 up to this point. In the month of March, they not only won their division in the Orlando area Color Guard finals, but they returned a few weeks later and won their division in the Southeast Regional Color Guard finals as well. Both times they scored the highest in Jupiter High School Color Guard history

As a result, the Jupiter High School Color Guard will make their first ever trip to the WGI World…

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The calendar has turned to April, meaning that spring is officially here.

For us golf fans, that can only mean one thing, The Masters is upon us. The azaleas have begun the bloom, the pimento cheese sandwiches are being made, and come Thursday we will get a "hello friends" from Jim Nantz.

The first major of the year is upon us and it truly is the most wonderful time of the year. As always, the storylines heading into this week are plentiful. None are bigger though than two golfers that call our area home, heading down Magnolia Lane going in vastly different directions.

On one side, Jupiter Island resident Tiger Woods, who will be teeing it up in competition for the first time in two months and whose game is the biggest question of Masters week.…

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Another Florida Swing has come and gone, and as has been so many times in the past, those four weeks featured some of the most exciting golf of the 2015 season. When you break it down, the Florida Swing took place over four weeks, in four different Florida cities and featured two playoffs, an unscheduled Monday finish, two tournaments being won on the 72nd hole, a club toss, a Bear Trap, Snake Pit, and Blue Monster, oh yea and the likes of Arnold Palmer and "The Donald" himself. Here is a look back at the 2015 version of "The Florida Swing"

The Honda Classic- Kicking off the Florida Swing for yet another year, this tournament, held at PGA National in Palm Beach Gardens, has become one of the top draws on the PGA Tour year with it becoming an…

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Dustin Johnson has had a good go of things lately.

He sold his house on the Loxahatchee River and boght a new waterfront house on the Intracoastal in the new Frenchman's Harbour community in North Palm Beach. He and his fiance Paulina welcomed their first child back in January, a son named Tatum. Johnson also went out and won the WGC-Cadillac Championsip at Doral, the second stop in the Florida swing. He then came back this weekend and managed a T6 finish at the Valero Texas Open despite having back luck with weather the first two days being in the early-late draw at TPC San Antonio.

You can also add setting a new course record to his acolades as of late.

In between his win at Doral and his sixth place finish in San Antonio, Johnson took a trip…

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Tiger Woods might not be playing golf right now on the PGA Tour, but he is sure keeping himself busy with golf off the course.

According to a report on golf.com, Woods has been selected to redesign a golf course in Beijing, China. The course will become a flagship in a group of a dozen or so private clubs that will provide members access to all the courses in that group.

This will be Tiger's first foray into the Asian market, and the report goes on to say that the deal is a lucrative one, paying him almost $17 million for the two-course deal.

Woods will redesign the Beijing Tain'an Holiday Golf Club, a 27-hole facility just outside the capital. When it re-opens, it will be called Pacific Links National Golf Club. Pacific Links International, a…

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In March of 1965, the PGA of America was at a crossroads. It was looking for a new place to house its offices but wasn't sure where to go.

John D. MacArthur, wanting to be under the PGA branch invited them to come look at his club. He offered to let them work out of his clubhouse at PGA National Golf Club (now the present day BallenIsles). The PGA of America complied and thus began the now 50 year history of the partnership between the PGA of America and the Palm Beach Gardens area.

The area back then, however, looked nothing like it does today. I-95 ended at PGA Boulevard, known back then as Monet road. Northlake Boulevard was a gravel road west of US 1. Today's PGA National did not exist, and other than MacArthur’s PGA National Golf Club…

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Abacoa Golf Club will play host to the 6th Annual Hannah's Home Golf Classic on April 18th.

The event is being put on by Hannah's Home of South Florida and will feature a closest-to-the-pin competition, a long drive competition, and a hole-in one competition with the opportunity to win a 2 year lease on a car from Schumacher-Buick in West Palm Beach.

The day will feature registration at 7am with a shotgun start at 8am. Following golf, there will be a luncheon and prize presentation beginning at noon.

Cost of the event is $200 per player and includes green fees, cart, favor bag, refreshments, snacks, lunch, and awards. Sponsorship opportunites are also available, ranging from $150 up to $5,000.

Hannah's Home is a residential program providing…

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Brooks Koepka does not have a history of withdrawing from golf tournaments. In fact, heading into this weekend, he had yet to withdraw from an event during play on either the European or PGA Tours.

That streak came to an end on Sunday, when Koepka had to withdraw from the Arnold Palmer Invitational after 11 holes with a rib injury. It wasn't just any rib injury either. Koepka's rib had actually become dislocated earlier in the week and played through until he just coudln't go anymore.

"They put it back in place twice yesterday and it didn't pop out again today, it's just very painful and very tough to breathe. It's not fun," the Palm Beach Gardens resident said.

Koepka said the initial dislocation occured before his round started on Saturday. He…

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At Arnold Palmer's traditional Wednesday before the Arnold Palmer Invitational press conference, the King announced that come May all 18 of Bay Hill's greens and the practice greens will all be completely re-done.

Come May 15th, Palmer will close down Bay Hill for the majority of the summer while all 18 greens and the practice putting greens get a complete overhaul.

"I have every intention on May the 15th of closing the golf course and re-doing all 18 greens and the putting green," Palmer said. 

At one point, nine holes will be open and available for members and guests, but as Palmer put it, if you want to play 18, you will have to play it twice.

"The golf course will be closed most of the summer and we will have nine holes open and it will be…

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