Friday, February 26, 2010

“Midnight Golf in Downtown Detroit (Time Magazine)” plus 2 more

“Midnight Golf in Downtown Detroit (Time Magazine)” plus 2 more

Midnight Golf in Downtown Detroit (Time Magazine)

Posted: 26 Feb 2010 12:54 PM PST

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One of the great things about the current drive for rebirth in Detroit is that hope and initiative emerge from the least likely places. Golf is not the kind of thing you expect to thrive in any metro center—and as for the Detroit area, well, you know, golf is reserved for those tony folks outside of town in their country clubs, right?

Not at Marygrove College.

There, a program called called Midnight Golf has proved extraordinarily successful over the last few years. Now, working with the SI Golf Group, nationally-renowned course architect Tom Doak is designing a state-of-the-art practice facility right in downtown Detroit. You can read all about the extraordinary project here.

This kind of stuff surprises me and doesn't surprise me on an ongoing basis. The national stereotype of Detroit is so ingrained that even after you've been covering the place for a while, it still has some force. That's why I find myself surprised. But the truth is that in example after example, the city defies that stereotype. In one sense, the city's transformation will be a move away from every aspect of that stereotype. The future city will be smaller, not this monument of manufacturing. It will be a multi-industry town, not a three-company city. It will be multi-racial and more geographically integrated than it is now. And its education system won't resemble anything like the current mess it has. All these things will have to happen as the city revives.

And it's unusual projects and ideas, from the least likely of places, that might well drive that change.

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Golf-Asia could host a women's major - LPGA chief (Reuters via Yahoo! Sports)

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 09:02 PM PST

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SINGAPORE, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Asia is clearly capable of hosting one of women's golf's major championships in the future, according to new LPGA commissioner Michael Whan.

The top four professional women's tournaments do not have the tradition or stability of the men's equivalents but none has ever been played outside North America or Europe.

"There is certainly zero doubt that the (Asian) markets we are in can handle a major, that we can get media coverage, that we can get television coverage and that the players would come," Whan told Singapore's Straits Times newspaper.

"All of those check marks are checked and so is it feasible? The answer is yes, it is."

Of the current majors, only the Women's British Open is played outside the United States with the Kraft Nabisco Championship, LPGA Championship and U.S. Women's Open rounding out the quartet, as classified by the LPGA.

The Ladies European Tour classes the Evian Masters, which is played in France, as a major.

The lucrative Asian golf market is becoming increasingly attractive to professional tours with the men's U.S. PGA, European Tour and World Golf Championship all now sanctioning events on the continent.

In women's golf, however, the commercial growth has been matched by Asian playing success with seven out of the current top 10 on the LPGA money list hailing from the continent. (Reporting by Nick Mulvenney in Beijing; Editing by John O'Brien; To query or comment on this story email sportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)

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Cohen Trades Secrecy for Golf With Investors Lured by 30% Gains (Bloomberg)

Posted: 26 Feb 2010 08:16 AM PST

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Feb. 26 (Bloomberg) -- In late January, billionaire Steven A. Cohen hosted a golf outing for two dozen people at the Bear Lakes Country Club in West Palm Beach, Florida.
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