The News Review:
- Briefs | Golf: GM, Tiger will part after nine years
- Knife-wielding robber with underwear on head stopped by civilians …
- Golf | Ailing Paula Creamer goes to hospital
- Tommy Armour III wins Callaway Golf Pebble Beach Invitational
- Aussie golf events ‘always a struggle’
- Storms on the Horizon for the Golf Industry
- All-Midstate boys golf team
Briefs | Golf: GM, Tiger will part after nine years
Seattle Times, United States
Woods, a global icon in sports with his 14 major. GolfGM will end endorsement deal with Woods: General Motors is bailing out on Tiger Woods.
Knife-wielding robber with underwear on head stopped by civilians …
Salt Lake Tribune, United States
The 48-year-old is suspected of approaching a clerk at Golf in the Round (600 W. 3300 South), demanding money and threatening the clerk with a 10-inch butcher knife, police wrote in a statement. The clerk noticed the man was wearing men’s underwear as a mask and replied, “You gotta be kidding,” police wrote. When the robber moved forward with the knife, the clerk tried to wrest it away.
Golf | Ailing Paula Creamer goes to hospital
Seattle Times, United States
“The best position for me is hunched over,” she said. Norway’s Suzann Pettersen (68) had the best third round. Other tournaments• Defending champion Tommy Armour III birdied the final two holes to take a five-stroke lead over Rich Beem in the Callaway Golf Pebble Beach Invitational in California. Armour shot a 7-under 65 at Pebble Beach for a 14-under 202 total. Brock Mackenzie (73 at Spyglass Hill), an ex-Washington Huskies standout, is tied for 12th at 211. Jeff Gove (75 at Pebble Beach) of Seattle is tied for 29th at 217. • Oliver Wilson (65) of England held off a charge from Bernhard Langer (63) of Germany to take a one-stroke lead after three rounds of the Hong Kong Open.
Tommy Armour III wins Callaway Golf Pebble Beach Invitational
Monterey County Herald, CA
Armour drained a 36-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole Sunday to hold off Scott Simpson and Brock MacKenzie and win the 37th annual Callaway Golf Pebble Beach Invitational. With the win, Armour, 49, becomes the first back-to-back winner in Invitational history and only the second player to win two Invitational titles. Fellow PGA Tour veteran Mark Brooks won the event in 1992 and 2002.
Aussie golf events ‘always a struggle’
The Age, Australia
Senior will tee up for his 30th Australian Masters at Huntingdale this week, the only man to have played the event each year since it was first staged in 1979. The 49-year-old, who plans to compete on the seniors tours in Europe and the United States once he turns 50 next July, wants to return to play in Australia each summer. But while proud of the constant stream of Australian golfers making their mark overseas, he conceded the future of the nation’s golf circuit was dimmer. The Victorian government had to step in last month to financially underpin the Masters – which will move venues next year – after the NSW government did a similar thing with the Australian Open earlier this year. “It’s been increasingly difficult to generate money in Australia to put on good golf tournaments and it’s always going to be a struggle,” Senior said on Tuesday. “We’ve got so many sports fighting for the same money, we’ve got the football and the rugby and we’re all fighting for the same promotional dollars and it’s tightening up. “So it’s great that the government has come in and propped up quite a bit of us.
Storms on the Horizon for the Golf Industry
New York Times, United States
— This is the hypnotic time of year in Florida, where the skies are cobalt, the breezes soft and the daytime temperatures hover right around an even-par 72. Behind the massive hedges that surround the lush tropical setting of Trump International Golf Club here, the top 32 golfers from the 2008 season on the L. Tour are loosening up for a run at the $1 million first prize in the ADT Championship season finale later this week.
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All-Midstate boys golf team
The Tennessean, TN
>> Pets: Two poodles, Gator and Bailey. >> Favorite course: “The Copperhead course at Innisbrook Golf Club in Tampa, Fla. It’s a good in-between club. Two of them at my home course, RiverWatch (Golf Club) on No.