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- World Golf Glance (AP via Yahoo! Sports)
- BRIEF-Golf-British Open returning to Hoylake in 2014 (Reuters via Yahoo! Sports)
- Is it illegal to drink and ride a golf buggy? (BBC News)
- Jobs in Golf Profile: Bryan Haas (PGA)
| World Golf Glance (AP via Yahoo! Sports) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 11:02 AM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. WORLD GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPS Accenture Match Play Championship Site: Marana, Arizona. Schedule: Wednesday-Sunday. Course: Dove Mountain, The Ritz-Carlton Golf Club (7,849 yards, 7,177 meters, par 72). Purse: $8.5 million. Winner's share: $1.4 million. Last year: Australia's Geoff Ogilvy won the event for the second time in four years, beating England's Paul Casey 4 and 3 in the 36-hole final. Last week: Dustin Johnson became the first player in 20 years to win consecutive Pebble Beach National Pro-Am titles, beating David Duval and J.B. Holmes by a stroke. … Australia's Andrew Dodt won the Avantha Masters in India for his first European Tour title. England's Richard Finch was second, a stroke back. Notes: Three-time winner Tiger Woods is taking an indefinite leave to sort out his personal life. … Phil Mickelson is skipping the event to take a family vacation that was delayed because of his wife's treatment for breast cancer. … Riviera winner Steve Stricker is the top seed in the 64-man event. Stricker, the 2001 winner in Australia as the 55th seed, will open against England's Ross McGowan. … Ogilvy, seeded 10th, will face Sweden's Alexander Noren in the first round. Ogilvy is 17-2 in the event. … Johnson will open against Camilo Villegas. … The tournament is in its second year at the Jack Nicklaus-designed Ritz-Carlton. On the Net: http://www.pgatour.com PGA European Tour site: http://www.europeantour.com US PGA TOUR Mayakoba Golf Classic Site: Playa Del Carmen, Mexico. Schedule: Thursday-Sunday. Course: Mayakoba Resort, El Camaleon Golf Club (6,923 yards, 6,330 meters, par 70). Purse: $3.6 million. Winner's share: $648,000. Last year: Mark Wilson won his second US PGA Tour title, beating J.J. Henry by two strokes. Wilson also won the 2007 Honda Classic Last week: Dustin Johnson became the first player in 20 years to win consecutive Pebble Beach National Pro-Am titles, beating David Duval and J.B. Holmes by a stroke. Notes: Duval is in the field along with K.J. Choi, John Daly, Stuart Appleby, Heath Slocum, Mark Calcavecchia and Mexico's Esteban Toledo and Jose Trauwitz. … Erik Compton, a two-time heart transplant recipient, is making his first start of the year. … Greg Norman designed the El Camaleon course. … Mayakoba is 35 miles south of Cancun on the Caribbean coast. … The Phoenix Open is next week, followed by the Honda Classic in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. On the Net: http://www.pgatour.com US LPGA TOUR Honda PTT LPGA Thailand Site: Pattaya, Thailand. Schedule: Thursday-Sunday. Course: Siam Country Club, Old Course (6,469 yards, 5,915 meters, par 72). Purse: $1.3 million. Winner's share: $195,000. Last year: Mexican star Lorena Ochoa won the first of her three 2009 titles, rallying for a three-stroke victory over South Korea's Hee Young Park. Paula Creamer, three strokes ahead entering the final round, shot a 73 to finish four strokes back. Notes: Ochoa tops the 60-player field along with Michelle Wie, Jiyai Shin, Suzann Pettersen, Paula Creamer, Cristie Kerr, Natalie Gulbis, Anna Nordqvist, Morgan Pressel, Juli Inkster and Thai stars Virada Nirapathpongporn and Russamee Gulyanamitta. … The tour has been off since Nordqvist won the LPGA Tour Championship on Nov. 23. … Pettersen won the October 2007 event, beating Laura Davies with an eagle on 18 after blowing a seven-stroke lead. … The tournament also is sanctioned by the Thailand Ladies Golf Association. … The HSBC Women's Champions is next week in Singapore. The tour will open its U.S. schedule on March 25-28 with the Kia Classic in Carlsbad, California. On the Net: http://www.lpga.com CHAMPIONS TOUR Allianz Championship Site: Boca Raton, Florida. Schedule: Friday-Sunday. Course: The Old Course at Broken Sound Club (6,807 yards, 6,224 meters, par 72). Purse: $1.7 million. Winner's share: $255,500. Last year: Mike Goodes won his first tour title, beating Fulton Allem by a stroke. Goodes turned pro two years earlier after playing top amateur golf while working in plastics recycling. Last week: Fred Couples won the ACE Group Classic for his first Champions Tour title, holding off Tommy Armour III by a stroke. Couples closed with an 8-under 64, while Armour—making his Champions Tour debut—matched the tour record for lowest score in relation to par with an 11-under 61. Notes: Couples is taking the week off. … Paul Azinger is coming off a 21st-place tie last week in Naples in his senior debut. … Mark O'Meara missed the cut last week in the PGA Tour's Pebble Beach event. … The tour is off next week. Play will resume March 5-7 with the Toshiba Classic in Newport Beach, California. On the Net: http://www.pgatour.com OTHER TOURNAMENTS Men SUNSHINE TOUR: Telkom PGA Championship, Thursday-Sunday, Country Club Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa. On the Net: http://www.sunshinetour.com TOUR OF THE AMERICAS/PGA EUROPEAN CHALLENGE TOUR: Abierto International de Golf Copa Antioquia, Thursday-Sunday, Club Deportivo El Rodeo Sede La Macarena, Medellin, Colombia. On the Net: http://www.tourdelasamericas.com and http://www.europeantour.com Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. | |
| BRIEF-Golf-British Open returning to Hoylake in 2014 (Reuters via Yahoo! Sports) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 08:02 AM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. LONDON, Feb 16 (Reuters) - The Royal Liverpool Golf Club at Hoylake is to host the 2014 British Open. The links course has been on the Open rota of venues since 1897 and has staged golf's oldest major on 11 occasions, the last time in 2006 when Tiger Woods won. "We are delighted the Open is returning to Royal Liverpool after a relatively short period of time," said director of championships David Hill in a news release by the Royal & Ancient organisers. The 2006 edition attracted an overall attendance of 230,000, a record for the championship in England. (Writing by Tony Jimenez, editing by Justin Palmer; To query or comment on this story email sportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com) Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. | |
| Is it illegal to drink and ride a golf buggy? (BBC News) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 07:29 AM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. | Welsh rugby star Andy Powell has been charged with drink-driving after being arrested in a golf buggy at a motorway services. What are the rules on drinking and driving vehicles other than cars? Drinking and driving a golf buggy is, like drinking and driving a car, something which may well attract the long arm of the law. The same goes for those navigating a quad bike or mini motorbike while under the influence. But in these scenarios there is no strict alcohol limit, as there is with when driving a car. So South Wales Police have charged rugby player Andy Powell with "driving a mechanically propelled vehicle whilst unfit through drink", under the Road Traffic Act 1988. In such cases, it is up to the court to decide what constitutes being unfit to drive on a road or other public place. "This could lead to an anomaly where somebody is driving a mechanically propelled vehicle which is not a motor vehicle, whilst over the prescribed limit, for example a golf buggy," says Nick Freeman, the lawyer known as Mr Loophole for his skill at finding ways to get celebrity clients off driving offences. "That person might be over the prescribed limit, but not unfit to drive... and therefore escape prosecution." There is no definitive list of what is classed as a mechanically propelled vehicle, or MPV, but the Home Office says that as well as cars, lorries and buses, it includes other motorised vehicles such as mini motorbikes and quad bikes. "It includes steam-driven and electrically-driven vehicles, as well as petrol and oil-driven," says Mr Freeman. But mobility scooters are defined in law as motor vehicles, so someone caught drunk at the controls could be charged with either being unfit to drive, or being over the legal limit to drive. In one recent case, drink-driving charges against a woman in Oldham were dropped, despite accusations that she'd been nearly three times over the limit while on her mobility scooter. While the details of the case are unclear, it's possible a mobility scooter may be exempt if travelling on a footpath or bridleway. At the time, a Crown Prosecution Service spokesman explained the complexities of the case: "Technically, mobility scooters are classed as motor vehicles and therefore the full range of motoring offences would apply. "However, the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970 exempts mobility scooters from certain offences when used within the stipulated regulations." Two wheels It is also against the law to cycle while drunk. Section 30 of the Road Traffic Act states: "A person who, when riding a cycle on a road or other public place, is unfit to ride through drink or drugs (that is to say, is under the influence of drink or a drug to such an extent as to be incapable of having proper control of the cycle) is guilty of an offence." If convicted, the maximum penalty is a fine of £1,000. But such convictions are rare, says Paul Ford, a partner at Kirwans solicitors in Liverpool. "I've only dealt with a handful over 10 years, they are few and far between and on that basis not generally prosecuted." And there are laws against navigating a ship while impaired through drink. The Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003 also states that it is illegal to operate a boat while over drink-drive limit. The government is currently considering changing the law so anyone navigating a boat less than seven metres in length and with a maximum speed of seven knots would be exempt from the alcohol limit. But there is another means of propelling oneself fast from A to B which is not covered by alcohol laws, says Mr Freeman. "There is no drink-driving limit for skiing which is farcical. There's nothing to regulate the amount skiers have if they're bombing down after lunch." It is not covered by any of the above laws, because skis are not motorised or mechanically propelled. In all of the scenarios above, the law is open to interpretation, which is why some charges of drink-driving may be dropped, and in other cases people are prosecuted. Print Sponsor Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Jobs in Golf Profile: Bryan Haas (PGA) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 05:01 AM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. Editor's note: Bryan Haas is the Director of Golf Operations at Riverside Casino & Golf Resort, home to the Blue Tio Ridge & the Riverside Performance Studio in Riverside, Iowa. Haas was elected to PGA Membership in 1994 and has been employed by Riverside Casino & Golf Resport for two years and employed in the golf industry for 23 years. Background Riverside Casino & Golf Resort is home to Blue Top Ridge, a 7,505-yard Rees Jones Design and was ranked No. 3 by GOLF Magazine in its "Best New Places to Play;" and was No. 5 by Golf Digest in "Best New Places to Play." Additionally, Riverside Casio & Golf Resort houses the Riverside Performance Studio which is a 3-Studio bay facility that opens up to the practice range with state of the art technology and open year-round. The studio features V1 four-way digital video, K-Vest, Titleist TPM launch monitor, two Accusport launch monitors, Titleist, Cobra, Nike & Callaway fitting systems and bio-mechanics testing. What are your responsibilities as director of golf operations? I am responsible for creating and managing the overall budget of golf operations, the hiring of the PGA Professionals on staff that manage day to day operations, setting the standards of operations (SOP), managing expectations of the overall golf operations and all of the marketing and golf public relations What do you like most about your job? I like all of the different hats that I wear: • Director of a corporation And you also work for Titleist? Yes, I am a consultant to Titleist Fittingworks. I teach PGA Professionals regarding the use of the Titleist fitting system. I help choose shaft matrix and with general fitting processes. The GIVE (Golf for Injured Veterans Everywhere) program started at Riverside Casino & Resort. What has been your experience working with the program? I was asked to participate on the founding board as an independent participant. Being a PGA member, a Director at Riverside Casino and born in Germany due to my father serving in the Army, I was a good fit to see things from all three sides of the Foundation. As a PGA Professional, there is nothing better than seeing golf help a person make a better life for themselves. In fact, I recently received a phone call from one of the original GIVE participants. He left a message on my cell phone saying that a bunch of them had gotten together and I and the other GIVE teachers and board members were the talk of the meeting. He mentioned how grateful they were for what we had given them. I must say, I feel the same way. I am very grateful for what they have given me. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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