The News Review:
- As US Market Wanes Norman Sees Golf’s Future in Global Terms
- Golf | Greg Chalmers Jeff Klauk tied for lead at US Bank
- Barkley is bad golf good fun
- U assistant golf coach Phillip Bryan still standing at US Amateur …
- Cartoon Network cements Turner’s golf deal
As US Market Wanes Norman Sees Golf’s Future in Global Terms
New York Times
Norman who won the 1986 British pen here said Wednesday that he has had to lay off 20 employees and was not optimistic about a quick return to normalcy in the United States market. Skip to next paragraph.
Golf | Greg Chalmers Jeff Klauk tied for lead at US Bank
Seattle Times
Bank Championship has only a few notable names when compared with the British pen. But the lack of star power doesn’t deter Greg.
Barkley is bad golf good fun
San Francisco Chronicle
tmpl –> “Y’all better pay damn attention” he shouted. “That’s right in my wheelhouse. Give him this: The man with the most infamous swing in golf doesn’t take himself seriously. Barkley came here for the American Century Championship the annual celebrity tournament starting today outside South Lake Tahoe and spent Thursday’s exhibition round spraying wayward shots sharpening his comedy routine and providing lively entertainment for the many fans who showed up to see him. Here’s the strange part: I was his caddie. Barkley didn’t even mind if I took notes more reliably than I read putts. He greeted me on the practice range with a smile and a quip – “You’re getting hazard pay today huh?” – and stayed in good spirits throughout our 5-hour 45-minute journey around Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course.
U assistant golf coach Phillip Bryan still standing at US Amateur …
NewsK.com
Amateur Public Links. And his chance will come on his home course. "It’s a big golf tournament but I don’t have to go stay in a hotel” Bryan said. "I get to sleep in my own bed get to come out here and do my own thing then go back and just live normal. ”Bryan 23 has spent most of the week weaving through pats on the back in the clubhouse and collecting bigger and bigger galleries as the 64-man bracket has shrunk to just eight in his first competitive tournament since September. In his morning match at the Jimmie Austin U Golf Club Bryan beat No. 5 seed Gene Webster Jr.
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Cartoon Network cements Turner’s golf deal
Reuters
With Turner just having lost its TV rights to the first two rounds of the British pen Championship beginning next year to ESPN — this is the last year TNT will have the golf major which began Thursday — there were rumblings that TNT was in jeopardy of not having its deal with PGA of America renewed which would have taken Turner out of the televised golf business after 2011. But Turner pitched an extension by suggesting that Cartoon Network and Cartoon Network Enterprises the licensing arm of the network could work with the PGA to target kids and get them interested in golf at an early age. Now Turner will keep rights to the PGA Championship and the PGA Grand Slam of Golf which features the winners of the four majors through 2019. “ur pitch excited PGA officials and it helped us extend our TV rights deal with them” said David Levy president of sales distribution and sports at Turner Broadcasting System. Under the terms of the deal Cartoon Network Enterprises (CNE) which was formed in 2005 will act as the PGA of America licensing agent to create kid-targeted consumer product lines including apparel that will be co-branded. CNE also will create events in various cities targeting kids and work with retail stores to promote the product lines. Cartoon Network will offer on-air contests and sweepstakes tied into the PGA and run public-service announcements about golf.