The News Review:
- Champ Johnson flirts with 59 in wet Texas golf
- Fergus wins rain-shortened Regions Charity Classic
- As if Golf Weren’t Taxing Enough
- Port fficials Use DHS Anti-Terror Cameras to Stop Golf Ball …
- Nevada’s Smith Finishes 57th at NCAA Golf Regional
Champ Johnson flirts with 59 in wet Texas golf
AFP
The 33-year-old defending champion fired a 10-under 60 in the rain-soaked third round of the 6. 1 million dollar PGA event coming within one shot of becoming just the fourth player in PGA history to shoot a 59. “I hit a lot of quality shots. I think I had to get up and down twice for par” Johnson said.
Fergus wins rain-shortened Regions Charity Classic
The Associated Press
2 on the money list and third in the Charles Schwab Cup standings. It was the first time a Champions Tour event had been limited to 36 holes because of weather since the Administaff Small Business Classic in 2006. Tournament director Brian Claar said some fairways of the Ross Bridge course on the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail were too soaked to play and some tee boxes were underwater though the final three holes were in the best shape. “The golf course became unplayable due to the saturation” Claar said. Under tour rules a third round could have been held Monday only if one more than half the players had finished and they can’t send them out to start it unless officials believe they can finish the round. Jones who was tied for the lead entering Sunday ended with a 69 to finish at 9 under. Joe Azaki was four strokes back and seven players finished at 7 under.
As if Golf Weren’t Taxing Enough
New York Times
Taxing golfers who endlessly pursue a little white ball around a wide-open field seems a bit like taxing dogs for chasing their tails. Far worse it is a gross underestimation of how much money can be made off the common overwhelmed golfer. California politicians eventually squashed Schwarzenegger’s idea but it would be easy to raise a ton of cash on any course with some simple golf tariffs. Skip to next paragraph.
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Port fficials Use DHS Anti-Terror Cameras to Stop Golf Ball …
FXNews
— Golf balls are bombarding the Port of Everett and anti-terrorism cameras are being trained on a residential neighborhood to hunt down the source. Port officials believe someone on Rucker Hill is whacking golf balls down the hill onto port property endangering dozens of workers and millions of dollars worth of equipment and cargo. “We’re trying to use any means possible to stop it aside from posting somebody in the field of fire all day and night” said Ed Madura a port security official. The port says the flying golf balls constitute a threat to personal safety. Pointing video surveillance cameras toward the likely source is an appropriate use of the equipment port officials say.
Nevada’s Smith Finishes 57th at NCAA Golf Regional
KL
The Sun Devils turned in a nine-stroke victory over regon (837). ASU regon Texas A&M San Diego and USC and individual Brady Johnson of BYU all qualified for the 2009 NCAA Division I Men?s Golf Championships May 26-30 at the Inverness Club in Toledo hio. For Nevada Smith finished the season with a team-best 72.