The News Review:
- This Week in Golf – November 6th through November 9th
- NouvEON Golf Tournament Raises $4000 for Local Teen’s College Fund
- Electing another golf nut is par for the course
- Marriott Golf Names The Rookery at Marco ‘Property of the Year’
- Crystal Announces Its First-Ever Asia Golf Itinerary
This Week in Golf – November 6th through November 9th
Sports Network
Two weeks ago, Compton carded a four-under 68 in the final round of the first stage of Q-School to move on to the second stage. Just as he did at Q-School, Compton will be allowed to use a golf cart as he recovers from his heart operation. Ames won for the third time on the PGA Tour. He finished one stroke clear of Tim Clark, who is the PGA Tour's career money leader without a victory. Ames' winning score of 17-under par last year was five strokes worse than any of the previous seven winning scores. Between 2000 and 2006, the winning scores ranged from 22-under par to 26-under.
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NouvEON Golf Tournament Raises $4000 for Local Teen’s College Fund
MarketWatch
3, 2008
CHARLOTTE, N. A day of
fun, friends and fellowship, the tournament is a fundraiser for Buddy’s Fund,
a college scholarship fund created in honor of Tristan “Buddy” Withers.
Electing another golf nut is par for the course
guardian.co.uk, UK
Another source announces that George W Bush has begun to beat his father, even as the 84-year-old 41st president is now playing off the ladies’ tee. The old game has been, you might say, par for the course down the last century and beyond with as many as 15 of George W’s 20 most recent predecessors boasting a devotion to a pastime which, I suppose, plays well with party strategists looking for an uncontroversial photo-call activity extolling good manners and trad values. Of the sacrilegious quintet, William Taft, in office between 1909 and 1913, would have struggled to swing a club round his 24-stone girth; Herbert Hoover (1929-33) was an angler (“All men are equal before a fish”); Harry Truman (1945-53) bravely berated golf’s “country-club tweedy snobs”; Jimmy Carter (1977-81) thought the same and Calvin Coolidge (1923-29) asked: “What remotely is the point in chasing a little white ball around a large green field for half a day?”The two most fabled Democrat presidents, Franklin D Roosevelt (1933-45) and John F Kennedy (1961-63) both loved the game as young men, though each had to give up playing – the former, of course, being stricken with polio, the latter – said by Alistair Cooke to have had “the most beautifully rhythmic and composed of swings” – due to severe back problems. A trio over whom the game’s more prissy guardians of etiquette continue to tut-tut are Democrats Lyndon Johnson (1963-69) and Bill Clinton (1993-2000), who would both, by all accounts, rely on charitable “unseeing” opponents as they littered their rounds with gimmes and free-shot “mulligans” as if they were an everyday part of the game and, similarly, the Republican Richard Nixon (1969-74), whose already suspect integrity was convincingly exposed in the autobiography of leading US pro Sam Snead when the player bitterly accused the president, during a pro-am tournament, of “smugly throwing a new ball out of a thicket, over the trees on to the fairway”.
Marriott Golf Names The Rookery at Marco ‘Property of the Year’
MarketWatch
3, 2008
ORLANDO, Fla. This award is based on performance excellence for current and previous years in various categories such as golf sales, round improvements, program development, personnel development and leadership, and more. “We are pleased to recognize the team at The Rookery as our ‘Property of the Year,’” said Claye Atcheson, Vice President of Marriott Golf. “The entire golf operation has performed at an exemplary level, thus making them truly deserving of this award. ”
The Rookery’s recently renovated Naples beach resort clubhouse expansion has been recognized as one of the top clubhouse remodeling projects in the country, serving as a finalist in Golf Inc.
Crystal Announces Its First-Ever Asia Golf Itinerary
MarketWatch
Guests will be able to sharpen their skills on board
and ashore with instruction from a guest celebrity golfer and PGA golf pro. Crystal Symphony’s 11-day itinerary from Hong Kong to Singapore offers a
roster of onboard lectures, clinics, contests and events, including the chance
to win a free Crystal cruise. Every detail of the Crystal Golf Program is arranged in six-star fashion,
from onboard practice with TaylorMade equipment — the No. 1 driver on the PGA
Tour — to cocktails, caddy and cart service on the greens.