The News Review:
- Business below par in Augusta
- Sports Briefing | Golf Casey Wins in Playoff for First PGA Victory
- The most exciting major in golf?
- Cary Whole Foods Market to donate 5% to Jimmy V. golf classic
- Keeping Score Change to Rules of Golf Is Unequal on Its Face
- Golf: Kim ties for lead avoids wind
- A look at this week in boys golf
Business below par in Augusta
USA Today
The Double Eagle Club sits across Washington Road from Augusta National where The Masters begins Thursday. It provides meals for people being entertained at the tournament as well as tee times for those who want to play golf on area courses before each day’s round. Those tee times can range from $1500 to $2000 for a foursome. Last year Boulus booked about 50 people. This year she has about 20. “People come here to watch golf and I guess they get the fever to play golf” said Danny Williams who describes himself as an event planner.
Sports Briefing | Golf Casey Wins in Playoff for First PGA Victory
New York Times
css); Sports Briefing – Golf – Casey Wins In Playoff For First Pga Victory – NYTimes. for his first PGA Tour victory beating J. Holmes with a bogey on the first playoff hole. Casey a 31-year-old Englishman has nine international victories but had never won in the United States.
The most exciting major in golf?
MiamiHerald.com
You can’t be serious you’re thinking. A women’s major? Tsk tsk. If you really love golf — and there’s no reason you’d be reading this if you didn’t — you will take this seriously. First no major over the last four years has had more exciting finishes than the Kraft Nabisco Championship men’s or women’s. Each final round has played out like the last two minutes of a close March Madness game. The latest example: Brittany Lincicome’s stunning buzzer-beating 200-yard half-court shot to within four feet of the 18th hole Sunday to set up an eagle and her first career major championship. Lincicome — who had two previous wins to her name but was a relative unknown until Sunday — trailed Kristy McPherson by a shot heading to the final hole.
Cary Whole Foods Market to donate 5% to Jimmy V. golf classic
Bizjournals.com
Foundation for Cancer Research which is based in Cary. The tournament has raised more than $14 million in 15 years. The Whole Foods Market in Cary is located at the Waverly Place shopping center at the intersection of Kildaire Farm Road and Tryon Road.
Related from Maniafest: Cary’s Annual Kite Festival
Keeping Score Change to Rules of Golf Is Unequal on Its Face
New York Times
The United States Golf Association announced in August that after years of deliberation it was changing its rules regarding the grooves on the face of golf clubs. Skip to next paragraph Multimedia.
Golf: Kim ties for lead avoids wind
San Jose Mercury News
Kristy McPherson and San Jose’s Christina Kim teed off well before the wind started gusting and jumped into the lead at 6-under 138 at the midway point of the LPGA Tour’s first major of the season. McPherson shot a 70 and Kim had a 69 at Mission Hills in Rancho Mirage where palm trees swayed and flags snapped in the breeze. “I was very fortunate with that draw” said Kim whose last victory was at the 2005 Tournament of Champions. “I just had my fingers crossed.
A look at this week in boys golf
The Star-Ledger – NJ.com
“I’m happy with the way I’m hitting the ball but I have a lot to improve. I practice hard at Neshanic Valley about two-and-a-half hours on the weekends and I’m looking to get back my rhythm. I played in two American Junior Golf Association events one last November and another in February in Texas and did well in that one finishing 35th in a field of 75 against top competition. ”Last season Edfort won the North Jersey Group 4 and Skyland Conference tournaments placed second in Somerset County and 12th in the Tournament of Champions.