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- No Sunday charge at Augusta National, just a weary battle – Golf
- Ochoa gains eligibility to Hall of Fame with rousing triumph – Golf
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- Friday Masters telecast draws 3.1 cable rating, highest ever – Golf
- Area’s golf boom is losing steam
- LINCICOME: Honorable athletes do exist; they all play golf
- Golf Notebook: Marquette golfer, Pine-Richland graduate, doesn’t…
No Sunday charge at Augusta National, just a weary battle – Golf
ESPN – Apr 13, 2008
addVariable(“adminOver”, “3564912″); so. write(“player”); AUGUSTA, Ga. — Their faces told the story, and what was left unsaid by weary eyes and pained expressions was screamed by body language that articulated the frustration of the day.
Ochoa gains eligibility to Hall of Fame with rousing triumph – Golf
ESPN – Apr 13, 2008
She stayed focused on her game, even as the crowd grew to thousands by the end of the day. But by her last stroke on the 18th hole Sunday, the emotions were too much. The Mexican star had just won her third straight tournament and qualified for the LPGA Tour Hall of Fame, all at home, surrounded by family, friends and fans.
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SportingNews.com – Apr 13, 2008
(AP) — Steve Flesch was doing just what he needed to do in brutal conditions. Plod along, make a bunch of pars and hope it would be enough to win. Then he got to Amen Corner. After dunking his ball in Rae’s Creek, Flesch didn’t have a prayer.
Friday Masters telecast draws 3.1 cable rating, highest ever – Golf
ESPN – Apr 13, 2008
– ESPN’s first year of Masters coverage was a big hit. The broadcast of the second round Friday was the most-viewed golf telecast on cable, producing a 3. It’s the first time either of the first two rounds of the Masters has drawn a 3. Coverage of Thursday’s first round produced a 2.
Area’s golf boom is losing steam
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Apr 13, 2008
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Area’s golf boom is losing steam
Is it a case of too many courses or not enough golfers?
Sunday, April 13, 2008
By Gerry Dulac, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. 13 at Olde Stonewall Golf Club in Ellwood city is lined with 13 bunkers. The creation of public courses with high-end greens fees and country club-like conditions like Olde Stonewall has slowed to a halt.
LINCICOME: Honorable athletes do exist; they all play golf
Rocky Mountain News – Apr 13, 2008
byline –> Sunday, April 13, 2008 Reassurance comes from golf, as it often does, that sports is not so bad after all, not just full of drug cheats and sucker punchers, hustlers and self-promoters, though the noise they make drowns out the little moments of genuine honor. To be sure, one small act of honesty will not change the big picture, nor will any committee of Congress call before it an amateur golfer named Michael Thompson and demand to know why he called a penalty on himself in the Masters when only he knew why he should. They could demand, what kind of example is that for the kids, hurting yourself that way?This would be in the Masters on Friday, far from the ensuing drama, far from Tiger Woods, which is usually the same thing. On the 15th hole, with a chance to birdie, to put himself below the cut line, Thompson stepped up to his putt and, for no reason he caused, his golf ball moved. There are rules against the sort of thing.
Golf Notebook: Marquette golfer, Pine-Richland graduate, doesn’t…
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Apr 13, 2008
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Golf Notebook: Marquette golfer, Pine-Richland graduate, doesn’t let nasty fall slow down his game
Sunday, April 13, 2008
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It would be cryptic, perhaps even insensitive, to say Mike Van Sickle had a great fall. He did — on the course and off.