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Mike Dowd

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Mike Dowd has been the PGA General Manager/COO and Head Golf Professional at Oakdale Golf & Country Club in Oakdale, California since 2001, is the NCPGA's 2013 Bill Strausbaugh Award Winner, and was nominated for the NCPGA's 2016 Teacher of the Year. He served three terms on the Northern California PGA's Board of Directors and chaired the Committees for the Growth of the Game and Communications in that time. He has introduced thousands of people to the game of golf since turning professional in 1990 and has coached dozens of collegiate and professional athletes, including his daughter Isabella who has just accepted a scholarship to play for Jessup University.

Mike currently lives in Turlock, California with his wife Julieanne and their daug
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Mike Dowd I've unfortunately not exactly experienced it yet. I've had more of a problem with too many ideas for books I want to write and not enough time to wri…moreI've unfortunately not exactly experienced it yet. I've had more of a problem with too many ideas for books I want to write and not enough time to write them. I do however get into a book and really not want to stop writing for streaks of time, and occasionally feel not quite in that same zone so to speak and then it's easier to get distracted with research.(less)
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Coming Home

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LIV and let DIE!

While I’ve privately railed against all things LIV, and what it’s done to the sport of professional golf, I’ve yet to publicly comment.  What could I say that Brandel Chamblee and other talking heads in the world of golf commentary who aren’t fans already haven’t?…  There are problems on so many levels with what the PIF has done by throwing obscene amounts of money at the game’s biggest names.  Bu

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Not really worth the time to get into it, but it should remove the handful of curse words and be labeled a teen novel. Felt on par with a Nancy Drew mystery, but marketed towards adults.
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