The News Review:
- PEACHTREE CITY: Riding the bus to school is best but golf carts …
- Galveston golf course reopens with help from hardy grass
- Girls golf/boys tennis finals roundup
- Golf: Day 1 to St. Viator boys, New Trier girls
- GL-Golf-Lite
- Division I boys state golf: Ignatius has irksome day, only 10 back
- State Golf: HF girls sit in third, hope to step up
PEACHTREE CITY: Riding the bus to school is best but golf carts …
Atlanta Journal Constitution, USA
mp3 –> Community Voices PEACHTREE CITY: Riding the bus to school is best but golf carts are cool, too By Jill Howard Church For the Journal-Constitution Saturday, October 18, 2008 You’d think at a time when gas prices and environmental concerns are rising, taking the bus to high school would be a no-brainer. But apparently looking cool trumps saving fuel, so I hear, and there’s a stigma about riding the school bus after a certain age. I’ve heard through the “green grapevine” that students at McIntosh refer to the bus as the “loser cruiser,” and that many high school buses have low ridership because students are taking either golf carts or cars to school instead. The former is great, since most carts are electric and they collectively take up less parking space (even though there’s still not enough of it, judging from the overflow I see near my doctor’s office). The cart paths are safer than the streets, and driving a cart is good practice for driving a car (and heaven knows teen drivers need practice). However, this isn’t even an option at Starr’s Mill, which doesn’t let students drive carts to school for reasons I don’t fully understand and definitely don’t agree with. However, the thought that kids are driving cars to school when taxpayer-funded buses are available seems pretty dumb, economically and ecologically.
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Galveston golf course reopens with help from hardy grass
Houston Chronicle, United States
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GALVESTON — Workers removed a 30-foot shrimp boat from the seventh hole of Galveston’s municipal golf course Friday, allowing it to open for the first time since it was inundated by Hurricane Ike last month. The sand traps and the satellite-directed sprinkler system still need repair, but Moody Gardens Golf Course is ready for business starting today, General Manager Bill Pushak said. “We just want to get the golf course open,” Pushak said. “Hopefully we’re gong to have some customers come through the door and get the island back to normalcy. ”
Pushak said the course would never have opened so soon without the salt-resistant Paspalum grass placed on the course during a $17 million revamp last year by Moody Gardens, which operates the golf course under an agreement with the city.
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Girls golf/boys tennis finals roundup
MLive.com, MI
Mount Pleasant faces an uphill battle entering Day 2 of the Division 2 girls golf state finals after scoring a 395 on Friday, good for seventh place out of 15 teams and 143 strokes behind leader Battle Creek Lakeview (252) at Ypsilanti’s Eagle Crest Golf Course. Lauren Peffer scored an 87 to lead the Oilers, followed by Kelsey Coyne (98), Hannah Brem (101), Haley Sommerville (109) and Sarah Ouellette (126). “We started out slow, but they got back into their game after the first couple of holes. Our goal is to finish in the top three and have fun; anything can happen on the last day,” said Mount Pleasant coach Kathy Burlington. Girls golf state finals— Midland Dow junior Kim Dinh is 13 strokes back of individual co-leaders Amy Meier of Rochester and Gabby Yurik of Rochester Hills Stoney Creek with an 82 after Day 1 of the two-day Division 1 state finals at Michigan State University’s Forest Akers East Golf Course.
Golf: Day 1 to St. Viator boys, New Trier girls
Chicago Tribune, United States
Viator has a five-stroke lead after Friday’s opening round of the Class 3A boys golf finals in Bloomington, Ill. Barrington’s Ross Frankenberg shot a 4-under 68 and is one stroke off the individual lead. In 2A, Wheaton Academy’s David Flynn holds a one-stroke lead after his opening-round 70. Wheaton is in third place, six strokes behind Normal U-High.
GL-Golf-Lite
CNET News, CA
1 GL Golf Lite is a recreation of the popular golf game for Mac optimized for the iPhone or iPod Touch. Though you’ll only be able to play four holes with this ad-supported version, GL Golf Lite offers plenty to make paying for the full version enticing to any golf fan. 0 stars Average User Rating: Be the first to rate this product! Downloads: 3 Requirements: iPhone 2.
Division I boys state golf: Ignatius has irksome day, only 10 back
The Plain Dealer – cleveland.com, OH
The Wildcats were angry golfers Friday, not at all happy with their eighth-place standing. Ignatius’ 333 team total is only 10 strokes less than what first-round leader and defending state champion Dublin Jerome posted — which means a state title is within the team’s grasp.
State Golf: HF girls sit in third, hope to step up
Southtown Star, IL
- Hanging heads, sagging shoulders and tears on at least one cheek described members of Homewood-Flossmoor’s girls golf team Friday. That belies the numbers. The Vikings are right in the fight, just three shots out of the team lead, held by New Trier, with 18 holes remaining. It’s a measure of how high their expectations are that the reaction to scoring a bit higher than they hoped was so low. Sophomore Ashley Armstrong was ticked off at scoring 6-over-par 78 at Stone Creek Golf Club.