Archive for August, 2009

Golf Tips – A Widow by Choice – Belief.Net

A Widow by Choice – Belief.Net
I think the press made a grave mistake in calling Arnold, Jack, and myself the “Big Three.” I think the “Big Three” were Winnie Palmer, Barbara Nicklaus, and Vivienne Player. I never would have imagined that a game could save a man’s life. But a

Swing Stars – Indian Express
It isn’t easy being 13-year-old Gurbani Singh, who’s just returned from the Evian Junior Masters Golf Tournament in France. She started her summer with the Queen Sirikit in Bali, followed by the Asia Pacific tournament in Thailand capping with

At Hudson camp, junior golfers get into the swing of the game – St. Petersburg Times
Learning how to approach a tough lie, Peyton Schaefer, 13, works on a bunker shot at the junior golf camp at the Links Golf Club. Ray Cisbani’s junior golf camp is a little like summer school. There are lessons, physical fitness exercises, even tests

Two Rivers YMCA Hole in One Contest – WQAD
Win tickets to fly! Six finalists shoot for a guaranteed first place prize of two round-trip airline tickets courtesy of AirTran Airways and Quad Cities International Airport and a $500 Golf Discount Gift Card! Plus, daily prizes awarded to top 10

Fred Funk rolls to US Senior Open title – Charleston Daily Mail
CARMEL, Ind. — Fred Funk took a back-nine victory lap in the U.S. Senior Open. Funk won by six strokes and broke the tournament record with a 20-under total. He shot a 7-under 65 on Sunday at Crooked Stick. “It’s something I really didn’t fathom

Steady play lifts Tabbert to victory in Women’s County Am – La Crosse Tribune
HOLMEN — Katie Tabbert didn’t do anything spectacular to make up five strokes over the final three holes of the La Crosse Tribune/Midwest Professional Appraisal Women’s County Amateur Golf Championship on Sunday at Drugan’s Castle Mound

Golfers recall their ‘aha’ moments of inspiration and validation – Akron Beacon Journal
Boo Weekley’s aha moment came in 1997, when he tossed the hard hat and Kevlar suit he wore to clean 1-million-gallon chemical tanks at the Monsanto plant in Pensacola, Fla., and volunteered to be laid off. Weekley stepped aside so a man with three

WOODS BACK IN THE SWING – FOXSports.com
The world number one turned a one-shot 54-hole lead into a three-stroke victory over Roland Thatcher, John Senden and Greg Chalmers at Warwick Hills Golf and Country Club in Grand Blanc. It gave him his fourth title of the year and enabled him to