The News Review:
- KJ Choi takes first-day lead in LG Skins Game
- Swedes win World Cup of Golf
- Your call Mum: Robert Allenby
- Sports Briefing | Golf Sorenstam Lifts International Teamfriedel …
- Letter: Don’t encourage disc golf crybabies
- Council to take up golf fees
- Dimples: The final frontier of golf (ball) technology?
KJ Choi takes first-day lead in LG Skins Game
Los Angeles Times CA
Two-time defending champion Stephen Ames and Rocco Mediate playing in his first Skins Game were shut out on the first nine holes. With the foursome halving the final five holes of the front nine $900000 of the event’s $1-million purse is still up for grabs in today’s final nine holes at Indian Wells Golf Resort. “Everybody here is a good player good games and good short-game players” Choi said. “I was just really focused on 100 yards and inside. The focus paid off for Choi who missed a 12-foot birdie on the first hole that could have won a skin but then made four birdies in the next seven holes. Choi halved the second hole with Mediate with birdies then won the $75000 carry-over money on the third with an easy three-foot birdie while Mickelson and Ames missed the green long and Mediate missed a 90-foot birdie putt.
Swedes win World Cup of Golf
Minneapolis Star Tribune MN
Sweden finished with a 9-under-par 63 in alternate-shot play to beat Spain’s Miguel Angel Jimenez and Pablo Larrazabal by three strokes. Americans Ben Curtis and Brandt Snedeker (73) finished ninth 14 strokes back at 13 under. • Annika Sorenstam celebrated two big victories in her second-to-last event before retiring. For starters in the Lexus Cup in Singapore the International team captain waited out a lightning delay to finish off Asian counterpart Se Ri Pak 3 and 2 in the opening singles match the longtime stars’ first match-play showdown.
Your call Mum: Robert Allenby
Melbourne Herald Sun Australia
She’s my biggest fan. She has been there since day one. " Allenby arranged a golf cart and his brother-in-law drove Sylvia to watch her son play the last four holes. "She said to me on Saturday she would like to come out Sunday" Allenby said. "Sunday morning I spoke to her to see how she was and she said she would come out in the afternoon. I knew she was coming out somewhere around the 15th. " Los Angeles lifestyle guru Peter Crone spent last week counselling the Allenby family — the golfer is the youngest of four children.
Sports Briefing | Golf Sorenstam Lifts International Teamfriedel …
New York Times United States
css); Sports Briefing – Golf – Sorenstam Lifts International Teamfriedel Sets Appearance Record – NYTimes. The 37-year-old Friedel who started the streak in August 2004 with Blackburn overtook the record set by Portsmouth’s David James in April. ¶Ali Hawkins scored in the 102nd minute Friday night as North Carolina defeated visiting Texas A&M 2-1 in double overtime in the quarterfinals of the N.
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Letter: Don’t encourage disc golf crybabies
Enterprise-Record CA
It’s a classic conservative smear campaign complete with fear mongering misrepresentation and shrill vitriol. The minions and thugs of the “disc golf where we want it or else” movement are verbally rhetorically and physically harassing members of the City Council who have worked all along to find a compromise site that is practical and not environmentally sensitive. No one opposes disc golf but it needs to be properly located.
Council to take up golf fees
The Daily Advertiser LA
The increases at the Wetlands would become effective Jan. The increases at Les Vieux Chenes would take effect in January 2010 and the fee increases at all three courses would become effective in January 2011. According to the ordinance regular green fees at the Wetlands would go to $30 on weekdays and $35 on weekends and holidays.
Dimples: The final frontier of golf (ball) technology?
WorldGolf.com AZ
Just when you thought golf technology had hit a speed bump comes word that future advancement lies in … dimples?As in dimple patterns on a golf ball designs of which apparently are still in the stone age according to stories this weekend. Heck and I thought they couldn’t possibly improve on.