n Golf: As PGA season opens Tiger is the elephant in room

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- n Golf: As PGA season opens Tiger is the elephant in room
- How Can a GPS Help Your Golf Game? Ask Garmin
- More to the Big Easy than just his golf
- lmsted teams with Inner City Golf Club
- Xerox Golf Classic won’t go on this year

n Golf: As PGA season opens Tiger is the elephant in room
San Francisco Chronicle  USA 
tmpl –>(01-07) 21:09 PST –n Golf tinkered with one of those fashionable list columns to launch 2009 – say 10 story lines to watch in the coming PGA Tour season which begins today in Maui. nly a boilerplate list might suggest all story lines are created equal and that’s clearly not the case.
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How Can a GPS Help Your Golf Game? Ask Garmin
PC Magazine 
Club recommendations? f course. The only thing caddies have to do is carry the bag.

More to the Big Easy than just his golf
International Herald Tribune France 
But it goes beyond the golf. “I've had a lot of things that I've had to kind of put in place away from golf” Els said. “There's been a lot of things happen in our family. That's been more important than anything else. You guys report on golf all the time. You don't report on the whole picture.

lmsted teams with Inner City Golf Club
Bizjournals.com NC 
The conservancy will promote golf educational opportunities for the city’s youth through a partnership with the. The club a year-round golf program founded in 1993 provides mentors to students ages 6 to 18 to teach them about golf and give them opportunities to practice and play on an indoor course during the winter and outdoor courses in the warmer weather. Participants are also taught life skill lessons.

Xerox Golf Classic won’t go on this year
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle NY 
Because no other title sponsor could be found tournament director Don Jeffries of the Rochester Broadway Theater League the organization that ran the event and was one of its benefiting charities informed the PGA Tour that the tournament would have to take at least this year off. “When Xerox dropped the sponsorship we made it very clear to the PGA Tour that RBTL would not be interested in hosting if we couldn’t get a title sponsor” Jeffries said. “With the economic times the way they are they just couldn’t put up money to sponsor a golf tournament when they’re laying people off; it wasn’t a doable deal. “Jeffries said several local companies were contacted in an effort to find new sponsorship but none was willing to put up the purse money which last year was $600000. There are a few tournaments on the tour that do not have corporate title sponsorship but Jeffries said it’s a tremendous burden to operate. Jeffries continues to shop for a title sponsor in the hope that the event can be added to the Nationwide schedule in 2010. He said a deal would likely have to be in place by September or ctober.

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