The News Review:
- Foes: Woods will be fine in ’09
- This Week in Golf – January 8th through January 11th
- Disc golf soaring in popularity in the Inland region
- Golf fees to increase 2 to 2.5 percent
Foes: Woods will be fine in ’09
USA Today
His hope is to play at least one event before that possibly in March at the Arnold Palmer Invitational in rlando where he is defending champ or the World Golf Championships-CA Championship near Miami. Woods began hitting full shots with short irons last month. He will build up strength in the pool gym and on the golf course. “I’m actually stronger in my legs than I think I’ve ever been” Woods said. “But still the ligament is only going to heal so fast. “How is the leg going to respond to more hours of practicing more playing more holes of play playing at home? How is it going to recover from day to day to day? All this is unknown. Mark ‘Meara has seen Woods hitting golf balls on the Isleworth range.
This Week in Golf – January 8th through January 11th
Sports Network
Last year the 27-year-old South African defeated Garth Mulroy and Magnus A. Carlsson in a playoff. The Golf Channel will have coverage of all four rounds. Next week the European Tour heads to the United Arab Emirates for the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship where Germany's Martin Kaymer captured last year's event.
Disc golf soaring in popularity in the Inland region
Press-Enterprise CA
Instead he plays with a bag full of Frisbees. Valencia 36 of Hemet is one of a few disc golfers who frequent Echo Hills Golf Course in Hemet. Disc golf is similar to traditional golf. But instead of driving a ball into holes players aim discs at metal baskets.
Golf fees to increase 2 to 2.5 percent
Salina Journal KS
5 percent beginning today. Salina city commissioners Monday voted 4-0 (Mayor John Vanier was absent) to approve a new fee schedule for the course. City staff initially proposed to commissioners increases that ranged from 3 percent to 9 percent. Two dozen golfers attended a city commission meeting last month to oppose the increases and asked for rates even lower than those in place in 2008.
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