- Golf: Sergio surges to front in The Barclays
- President sweet on golf course
- Golf tourney flyover scares Eastside neighbors

Golf: Sergio surges to front in The Barclays
San Jose Mercury News
18 to drill another pressure-packed putt. “That’s what I play for. I’ve had very very cool golf experiences and that’s easily in the top three. Maybe the best golf experience I’ve ever had in my life” Zeigler said. “He didn’t make a bogey from the eighth hole until the last one and I was 2 down. To have to make birdies on a course like this just to come back is just about impossible. He played so steady.

President sweet on golf course
USA Today
Local pros who’ve watched the First Golfer say he smacks his driver about 235 yards is best at the short-iron game — and can always work on his putting in the val ffice. Perhaps most important he’s got the golf bug they say and wants to improve.

Golf tourney flyover scares Eastside neighbors
KING5.com
– Several people lit up the phones in the KING 5 Newsroom Friday morning startled by the scene of a Boeing 777 being escorted by what appeared to be a pair of military fighters. "We are all freaked out here” said Barbara Shastko of Duvall.
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- ak Tree National to get 2014 US Senior pen
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ak Tree National to get 2014 US Senior pen
The Associated Press
— fficials from ak Tree National say the Edmond kla. golf course will host the 2014 U. fficials said Thursday that they had lured the prestigious event to their course which was formerly known as the ak Tree Golf Club.

Liberty justification
Boston Globe
Behind him the Statue of Liberty. It’s a setting that makes maintaining eye contact rather difficult. For three years now a playpen to the rich and famous Liberty National this week will let the world enjoy the breathtaking views that drew Fireman here in the first place. Back then if you could ignore the stench the only nice thing about the place was the sweeping vista of New York City and its proximity to this country’s beacon of freedom.

Champions Challenge: Nichlaus Weir to Compete in Miller Golf …
Salt Lake Tribune
The charity event created by Johnny Miller is in its 12th season. A two-person scramble is scheduled for ct. 10 that will allow the public to compete for two playing spots with a professional or celebrity in the ct.
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- Solheim Cup showed market there for women’s golf
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- Tiger Woods puts on a show raises dough
- This Week in Golf – August 27th through August 30th

Solheim Cup showed market there for women’s golf
The Canadian Press
This rock star treatment though was for the women. From the practice rounds to the closing ceremony fans – young and old male and female hardcore golfers and people who don’t know a pitch from a putt – packed the Solheim Cup and players delivered with one of the most riveting events in years. It was the perfect advertisement for women’s golf. The next question is could it also be the remedy for the LPGA Tour which has seemed more like a bad soap opera in recent months?”You want to know how this will help the LPGA? I just think if more people could come out and actually watch us play – I’ve been out here as you guys know a long time and I’ve never seen the golf that these women play now” veteran Juli Inkster said Sunday night. “We have a great product and the more people see that and write about it it’ll be great for us. “Like everything else the economy has taken its toll on the LPGA Tour. There are 28 official money events this year six fewer than last year.

11000-year-old mammoth tooth found on golf course
USA Today
Scott Beld a research specialist at the University of Michigan’s Museum of Paleontology tells the paper the tooth appears to be from a Columbian mammoth which can grow as tall as 13 feet. The 10-pound tooth appears to be from a female adolescent Beld says. The owners of the Morrison Lake.

bama Goes Straight from Bernanke Announcement to the Golf Course
ABC News
That event lasted all of six minutes. Then it was straight to the golf course for another round. bama golfed nine holes at the Mink Meadows public course in Vineyard Haven with perennial golf buddy and aide Marvin Nicholson Michael Ruemmler a member of the White House advance team and Sam Kass a White House chef. The president stopped on his way out to the course to shake hands with golfers who gathered on the clubhouse porch. “I hope I didn’t mess anyone’s day up” Mr.

Tiger Woods puts on a show raises dough
Boston Herald
Woods likely the most recognized sports figure of his generation landed at the Turning Stone Resort as the featured guest in the Notah Begay III Foundation Challenge. Despite prices that started at $330 the exhibition event was sold out drawing approximately 3500 to the Atunyote Golf Club. Talk about earning power. Begay who was Woods’ golf teammate at Stanford generated a quick million dollars in gross revenue in one day. It pays to have Tiger — who rarely does exhibitions — on your Fave Five list.
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This Week in Golf – August 27th through August 30th
Kansas City Star
write(“#nonmember{display:none;}”); } else { document. But this week’s Barclays will be the first big-time professional tournament hosted by the three-year-old course which was built on a piece of contaminated land in Jersey City. The task of building the course included covering the property with something akin to a plastic bag then several feet of sand on top of that.

- Ahead of the Bell: Callaway Golf Patent Dispute
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- Hugo Chavez Takes a Swing at Golf
- Golf tournament wraps up in Detroit Lakes
- Hotel Check-In’s Q&A with Wyndham CE Steve Holmes: Why sponsor …
- W.Va. links birthplace of American golf for sale

Ahead of the Bell: Callaway Golf Patent Dispute
Forbes
‘s business prospects despite a court ruling that was a setback for the sporting goods company. Court of Appeals reversed a ruling involving a patent dispute favoring Callaway and returned the case to the U.
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n Golf: Tiger to get a challenge
Washington Times
After all it’s impossible to overlook his legacy of perfection as a front-runner. In 14 chances from the 54-hole major pole Woods (8-under 208) has never failed to convert a lead or share of a lead into victory. The numbers are equally staggering in all PGA Tour events where golf’s 33-year-old leviathan boasts a 47-3 record with 16 straight conversions as a third-round leader. The history clearly means nothing to Ireland’s Padraig Harrington (6-under 210) and South Korea’s Y. n an excellent scoring day when Woods was expected to race further into red figures and away from the flagging field the international duo put a few dents in Sir Swoosh’s aura of invincibility. While Woods was busy posting a scratchy conservative 71 on Saturday Harrington carded a steely 69 and Yang a sterling 67 both men halving Tiger’s 36-hole lead by pulling within two strokes of the world No.

Hugo Chavez Takes a Swing at Golf
Wall Street Journal
Fresh from nationalizing almost every capitalist enterprise that yields a profit (or used to anyway) Latin American strongman Hugo Chavez has found a new class enemy: golf. Declaring it a “bourgeois” sport the Venezuelan leader has ordered the shut-down of some of the country’s best-known golf courses. For a socialist like Mr. Chavez banning golf might be considered ahem par for the course even if he is of course a bit late to the game. The likes of China Russia and Cuba banned golf decades ago—although today they all enjoy practicing their swing. Perhaps this is exactly the historic precedent Mr.

Golf tournament wraps up in Detroit Lakes
WDAY
(WDAY Sports) – Golf fans in the area descended to Detroit Lakes today just for a chance to watch history in the making at the Pine to Palm. xbow’s Amy Anderson the only woman to ever reach match play now was one win away from the finals. She was facing Fargo South grad Tom Hoge in the semis. By: Dom Izzo WDAY RELATED CNTENTfunction getAudiobject(movieName){if (navigator.

Hotel Check-In’s Q&A with Wyndham CE Steve Holmes: Why sponsor …
USA Today
which kicks off today. I’m not a golf fan but I was intrigued by the fact that Wyndham’s going ahead with its sponsorship of a high-profile golf championship at a time when high-end hotels are feeling the fallout from corporations shying away from splashy corporate events.

W.Va. links birthplace of American golf for sale
The Associated Press
— West Virginia’s akhurst Links is up for sale — the birthplace of American golf where sheep roam the fairways and modern technology takes a back seat to hickory-shafted clubs. wner Lewis Keller said that after 50 years it’s time for someone else to oversee the White Sulphur Springs course that held its first competition in 1884. The asking price for the nine-hole course and its museum — $4. Keller hopes a new owner can be found to maintain akhurst Links in its current playable state.

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W.Va. links birthplace of American golf for sale
The Associated Press
— West Virginia’s akhurst Links is up for sale — the birthplace of American golf where sheep roam the fairways and modern technology takes a back seat to hickory-shafted clubs. wner Lewis Keller said that after 50 years it’s time for someone else to oversee the White Sulphur Springs course that held its first competition in 1884. The asking price for the nine-hole course and its museum — $4. Keller hopes a new owner can be found to maintain akhurst Links in its current playable state.

Mickelson just can’t find a groove
Newsday
–>Mickelson just can’t find a groove. – Phil Mickelson is caught between the sublime and the ridiculous real life and real golf dealing with missed putts and dealing with a wife and mother both battling breast cancer.
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Singh’s putting comes up short
Salt Lake Tribune
– Vijay Singh is nothing if not a diligent — all right obsessive — worker and he will try anything if he believes it will make his golf game better. Two weeks ago though Singh changed from something radical — a long putter — back to something more traditional. Now in his second week with his regular-length putter he’s rolling the ball well enough to be in the mix at the 91st PGA Championship at Hazeltine National Golf Club. Singh shot an even-par 72 in Friday’s second round and is 3 under through the first two days of the tournament right in contention on a leaderboard that includes Tiger Woods and Padraig Harrington who are both former winners of this event just as Singh is. And into the weekend as he goes for his third PGA title Singh has that long stick close by.

- Australia’s Pampling grabs early lead at Reno golf
- Signature W.Va. golf club will drop tournament
- SC golf tournament to raise money for students
- Devil Ball Golf
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Australia’s Pampling grabs early lead at Reno golf
AFP
Myself and my caddie were definitely working overtime making sure we got the right club. “Former PGA Championship winners Paul Azinger Steve Elkington and Shaun Micheel led a group of nine players at three-under 69. Defending Reno pen champ Parker McLachlin also shot 69 at the Montreux Golf and Country Club course. The Reno event has a modest field this year as most of the PGA Tour’s big names are competing at this week’s WGC-Bridgestone Invitational in Akron. Pampling stepped up his play Thursday after nailing a six-foot birdie putt at number four. He then sank a 10-footer for another birdie two holes later and posted his lone bogey at number nine. A bad tee shot by the two-time USPGA winner in high wind led to the bogey.

Signature W.Va. golf club will drop tournament
Daily Mail – Charleston
–The announcement that a major PGA Tour event is heading to The Greenbrier next year isn't entirely good news for north central West Virginia. The Pete Dye Golf Club in Bridgeport will no longer host the annual Nationwide Tour Players Cup a major economic booster for that region of the state in the last six years. Players Cup Executive Director Tim McNeely said officials are pulling the plug on the event because The Greenbrier Classic – which is slated to feature the world's best golfers – would overshadow the secondary PGA outing and likely limit his ability to gather sponsorships. "It would supercede our event and rightfully so" McNeely said. "It's a great thing for West Virginia and America's resort. To host a PGA Tour event of that magnitude would overshadow our event.

SC golf tournament to raise money for students
USA Today
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn says nearly 500 golfers will play in the 19th annual Rudolph Canzater Memorial Classic held Friday through Sunday at five golf courses near Lake Marion. The South Carolina Democrat says the golf tournament will raise more than $400000 to help 125 students pay for their freshmen year of college. The students will receive college scholarships laptop computers and software during a dinner Saturday in their honor. Clyburn says the dinner’s featured guest will be former NBA star Alonzo Mourning. Clyburn and some friends started the tournament. It was renamed for a founder who died at age 49 of an aortic aneurism.

Devil Ball Golf
Yahoo! Sports
Today we present to you a way to keep up with the most famous golfer on the planet. The item: TigerTrax app for iPhone 99 cents at.

Poker player drops golf lawsuit
The Associated Press
— Dusty Schmidt a pro online poker player has dropped a lawsuit against the United States Golf Association to have his amateur golfer status reinstated. Schmidt said Wednesday that after consulting with several legal experts he wasn’t able to come up with anything that he thought would be strong enough to win his case. A former top junior golfer in Southern California Schmidt played professionally for several years before he suffered a heart attack in 2004 when he was just 23. During his recovery Schmidt discovered online poker and became one of the game’s top players. He says he has made more than $3 million in the game sometimes earning more than $100000 in good months.

Golf flexibility exercises and stretches for your golf game
PGA Tour
CM – Golf flexibility exercises and stretches for your golf game. Almost any golfer professional or amateur needs to perform golf flexibility exercises to improve their golf swing. The reason why is directly related the requirements of the golf swing.
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WNBA’s Sparks to help PGA promote golf
Bizjournals.com
The Game Day Experiences promotion which kicks off Friday in Minneapolis will provide free golf instruction from local professionals from the PGA and the. The Los Angeles promotion is Aug.

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McLachlin revamped swing after 2009 win at Reno
USA Today
— Defending champion Parker McLachlin chose a rather unconventional way to celebrate his first victory on the PGA tour last summer at the Legends Reno-Tahoe pen. He decided to revamp his entire swing. “From the outside looking in people could say “Well you just won why would you change?”‘ McLachlin said before first-round play began in windy conditions Thursday at Montreux Golf & Country Club. “”Your swing can’t be that bad. You just won by seven shots. ‘ Well I would have won by 10 or 11 if I would have actually swung the golf club where I could hit more than four greens on 18 holes on Sunday” he said. The 30-year-old Hawaii golfer tied the course record with a 62 in the second round a year ago then shot a final-round 74 to hold on and win at 18-under-par 270.

This week’s golf tournaments
San Jose Mercury News
Mickelson was the 1996 World Series of Golf winner at Firestone. Advertisement yld_mgr. place_ad_here(“adPosBox”);… Singh is winless in 17 PGA Tour starts this year. Sam Snead holds the tour record for victories in a single tournament winning the Greensboro N… Sam Snead holds the tour record for victories in a single tournament winning the Greensboro N. Legends Reno-Tahoe pen When: Today-Sunday.

The Greenbrier to host PGA golf tourney
West Virginia Public Broadcasting
com news 2009 0806PGAJustice. mp3 The Greenbrier will host a major golf tournament next summer and for the next six years.

Poker player drops golf lawsuit
The Associated Press
— Dusty Schmidt a pro online poker player has dropped a lawsuit against the United States Golf Association to have his amateur golfer status reinstated. Schmidt said Wednesday that after consulting with several legal experts he wasn’t able to come up with anything that he thought would be strong enough to win his case. A former top junior golfer in Southern California Schmidt played professionally for several years before he suffered a heart attack in 2004 when he was just 23. During his recovery Schmidt discovered online poker and became one of the game’s top players. He says he has made more than $3 million in the game sometimes earning more than $100000 in good months.
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- Funk provides another big moment for senior golf
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- Henningsson wins Moravia Silesia pen
- Colorado Golf Club adds to resume
- Sand-greens golf lives on in Nebraska

Funk provides another big moment for senior golf
The Associated Press
— Fred Funk’s eye-popping performance at the U. Senior pen has provided the latest boost of energy for senior golf. Less than a month after Tom Watson’s second-place finish at the British pen got golf fans buzzing Funk set a tournament record by finishing 20-under par to win by six strokes Sunday. He shot a 7-under 65 on the final day at Crooked Stick to beat Hale Irwin’s previous record set in 2000 by three strokes.

Carter says his golf game is a ‘total mystery’
USA Today
Carter once was a man of streaks but no longer. He missed the West Virginia pen in June for the first time in more than a decade because he was on a business trip out West. His string of 13 straight West Virginia Golf Association player of the year awards was snapped last year by Amateur winner Tim Fisher. Carter won the Amateur 11 times in a 12-year span and his overall total is second all-time only to Bill Campbell’s 15. His streak of 10 straight wins from 1995 to 2004 is a national record for state Amateurs. Reaching Campbell’s win total has never been a goal of Carter’s. He’s thankful for what he’s already done.
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Henningsson wins Moravia Silesia pen
The Associated Press
A flurry of three birdies in the later stages of the back nine brought him back into contention with Little who had four birdies and two bogeys in his final round. Miguel Angel Jimenez of Spain who helped design the 7155-yard course finished tied for 17th with four other players after finishing at 4 under. Bernhard Langer won the last event in the Czech Republic at the Karlstejn Golf Club course near Prague 12 years ago. Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Colorado Golf Club adds to resume
Denver Post
The way things are going the beautiful 1100-acre course in Parker may soon find itself at the epicenter of the sport. “This may be better than we even thought” said Mike McGetrick the nationally renowned swing coach and managing partner at the course. “The process is such that you have to prove yourself and for the PGA of America and the LPGA to pick Colorado Golf Club says a lot about what we have. ” With the club already preparing for the 2010 Senior PGA Championship next May the LPGA announced Saturday the 2013 Solheim Cup matches will be contested at CGC.

Sand-greens golf lives on in Nebraska
The Associated Press
— That’s no misprint at the bottom of the Riverside Golf Club scorecard: “Please remember to rake your greens. “Matt Nicholas who grew up playing at this nine-hole course nestled alongside the Platte River in central Nebraska is almost a scratch golfer on sand. He feels a childhood attachment to the place. “I started playing here when I was 5 years old started playing league when I was 12″ he said. “I feel like it’s my own little paradise.

- Jackson is a late bloomer in golf
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- Sand-greens golf lives on in Nebraska
- Lions WR Bryant Johnson sidelined after golf-cart accident
- Golf-Webster goes one stroke clear at Moravia Silesia pen
- Kentuckiana golf notebook: Fuqua gets double dose of good news

Jackson is a late bloomer in golf
Kansas City Star
He didn’t really take up golf until he was 16 years old and didn’t get serious enough about it to start playing in amateur tournaments until he was 26 or 27. Now as a 50-year-old amateur he’s leading the U. Senior pen through 36 holes at an unprecedented pace — no golfer had ever started 11-under par through 36 holes in tournament history.

Colorado Golf Club adds to resume
Denver Post
The way things are going the beautiful 1100-acre course in Parker may soon find itself at the epicenter of the sport. “This may be better than we even thought” said Mike McGetrick the nationally renowned swing coach and managing partner at the course. “The process is such that you have to prove yourself and for the PGA of America and the LPGA to pick Colorado Golf Club says a lot about what we have. ” With the club already preparing for the 2010 Senior PGA Championship next May the LPGA announced Saturday the 2013 Solheim Cup matches will be contested at CGC.

Sand-greens golf lives on in Nebraska
The Associated Press
— That’s no misprint at the bottom of the Riverside Golf Club scorecard: “Please remember to rake your greens. “Matt Nicholas who grew up playing at this nine-hole course nestled alongside the Platte River in central Nebraska is almost a scratch golfer on sand. He feels a childhood attachment to the place. “I started playing here when I was 5 years old started playing league when I was 12″ he said. “I feel like it’s my own little paradise.

Lions WR Bryant Johnson sidelined after golf-cart accident
Detroit Free Press
“It was superficial wounds a lot of road-rash kind of things and he’s not ready to practice. He still has some open wounds and things like that.

Golf-Webster goes one stroke clear at Moravia Silesia pen
Reuters UK
Sweden’s Martin Erlandsson birdied six times in a row on hisway to 10 birdies on the day and a six-under par 66 although heremained six shots shy of Webster’s lead after just makingFriday’s cut. First-round leader Tano Goya of Argentina shot a two-underpar 70 after struggling on Friday but could not recapture hisopening-day form staying five strokes off the lead. Spain’s Miguel Angel Jimenez among the favourites for theevent at the Prosper Golf Resort course he helped designed inthe Czech north-east was at five-under par. European Tour rookie Chris Wood coming off a third-placefinish at the British pen earlier this month was further downat four-under par going into Sunday’s final day. (Reporting by Petr Josek; Writing by Jason Hovet; Editing bySonia xley; To comment on this story:sportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.

Kentuckiana golf notebook: Fuqua gets double dose of good news
Louisville Courier-Journal
Amateur Championship. Fuqua considered a senior at UK last spring fired a 67-65132 to make the field for the U. Amateur during a 36-hole qualifier Wednesday at Lakeside Golf Course in Lexington. He won by three strokes and is currently the only Kentucky player to qualify. Louisville resident Matt Savage is an alternate for the Aug.
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Jackson is a late bloomer in golf
Kansas City Star
He didn’t really take up golf until he was 16 years old and didn’t get serious enough about it to start playing in amateur tournaments until he was 26 or 27. Now as a 50-year-old amateur he’s leading the U. Senior pen through 36 holes at an unprecedented pace — no golfer had ever started 11-under par through 36 holes in tournament history.

Sand-greens golf lives on in Nebraska
The Associated Press
— That’s no misprint at the bottom of the Riverside Golf Club scorecard: “Please remember to rake your greens. “Matt Nicholas who grew up playing at this nine-hole course nestled alongside the Platte River in central Nebraska is almost a scratch golfer on sand. He feels a childhood attachment to the place. “I started playing here when I was 5 years old started playing league when I was 12″ he said. “I feel like it’s my own little paradise.

Technology is hurting golf and USGA needs to turn back the clock
Indianapolis Star
Well not steroids per se. Take a look at some of the seniors who’ve invaded Carmel this week for the U. Senior pen and it’s obvious some of the boys are getting their goods from Krispy Kreme and not BALC.

When Golf Lost Its Stodginess
Wall Street Journal
If golf was to so mercilessly expose my shortcomings then I would steadfastly refuse to expose myself to it any more than necessary. f course with my having come of age in the 1960s and ’70s this was not a particularly difficult stance to maintain. Golf on TV back then was a notch below even professional bowling in terms of excitement and exactly on par with it in my mind in terms of the “ennui factor”—the stultifying complacency of suburban-den Saturdays wherein sleepy overworked fathers slouched beside beanbag ashtrays their torpor barely disrupted by the intermittent ball swipes muffled applause and hushed announcer voices emanating from curtained-speaker TV consoles everywhere. Golf on TV was for me synonymous with stasis and senescence and surrender: a world of plaid-panted men with Banlon-bulged midriffs being watched by the very same the only difference being that the guys on the screen moved around a bit more. All of which makes the forthcoming confession quite difficult: I have in recent years taken to watching golf on television.

Arnold Palmer opens North Carolina State golf course on Friday
The Canadian Press
— Arnold Palmer sent a wedge shot about 50 yards down the driving range to open the golf course he designed at North Carolina State. Palmer appeared at a ceremony Friday marking the opening of the US$12-million Lonnie Poole Golf Course a par-71 layout on N. State’s campus that measures 7358 yards. The course offers views of Raleigh’s skyline and is the first built inside the city’s Interstate 440 beltline since 1948.

Park’s women’s golf team is NAIA Scholar Team of the Year
Kansas City Star
write(“#nonmember{display:none;}”); } else { document. The program under the direction of head coach Kelly DeFeo finished in the top spot with a 3. 97 grade-point average during the 2008-09 academic year. A record total of 837 teams a 12 percent increase over last year were honored.
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PGA plans golf tournaments in Louisville
Bizjournals.com
Jim Remy president of The PGA of America and Joe Steranka CE of the PGA will take part in the news conference. A PGA official who asked not to be identified confirmed that the Palm Beach Gardens Fla. -based organization will hold the 2011 Senior PGA Championship and the 2014 PGA Championship at. The official declined to disclose additional information.