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- Golf-Major winner Yang to head China Open field (Reuters via Yahoo! Sports)
- Golf: Ballesteros set for return at special St Andrews event (TVNZ)
- Golf Channel Tour hits Upstate (The Greenville News)
| Golf-Major winner Yang to head China Open field (Reuters via Yahoo! Sports) Posted: 06 Mar 2010 09:03 PM PST BEIJING, March 7 (Reuters) - Asia's first major winner Yang Yong-eun will head the field at next month's $2.5 million China Open golf tournament, which is co-sanctioned by the OneAsia and European Tours. South Korean Yang will be joined by Swede Henrik Stenson at the April 15-18 event at the Suzhou Jinji Lake International Golf Club, Jiangsu province, the China Daily reported. China has been a happy hunting ground for the 38-year-old South Korean, who overhauled Tiger Woods to win last year's U.S. PGA Championship at Hazeltine. "I have great memories of my breakthrough victory at the HSBC Champions in Shanghai in 2007," said Yang. "To become the first Asian golfer to win a major was a huge achievement. "With that success comes responsibility—an opportunity to help develop Asian golf on the world stage." Stenson has also tasted victory on Chinese soil, winning the World Cup of golf with fellow Swede Robert Karlsson at Mission Hills in 2008. (Reporting by Alastair Himmer in Tokyo. Editing by Peter Rutherford. 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. |
| Golf: Ballesteros set for return at special St Andrews event (TVNZ) Posted: 06 Mar 2010 11:47 PM PST  Source: ReutersSeve Ballesteros Seve Ballesteros is on course to make an emotional return to St Andrews in July for a special four-hole event on the eve of the British Open, according to the president of the Spanish Golf Federation (RFEG). "He wants to be on the first tee at St Andrews for the four-hole tournament and he will probably be there," Gonzaga Escauriaza told Reuters in an interview. "Seve is doing much better. He was doing very well last summer when he started playing again but then he went through radiotherapy and chemotherapy - that weakened him a bit but now he's started to get better and better." Five-times major winner Ballesteros was diagnosed with a life-threatening brain tumour in 2008 which required four operations. The 52-year-old Spaniard is among 32 former champions who have been invited to play four holes at St Andrews on July 14, the day before the 150th anniversary British Open. Previous winners like Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson, Arnold Palmer, Peter Thomson, Gary Player and Nick Faldo are also scheduled to play the first, second, 17th and 18th holes on the Old Course. "He (Ballesteros) will be very happy to be there and I've met his son and he said he wants to caddie for him," said Escauriaza. "All his family are very motivated for him to come back to the game. "It will be very emotional for a lot of people and for him too because of course he won at St Andrews in 1984. He has started to practice again and is able to play some holes especially as his home is right near to a course." Escauriaza also said Ballesteros was fully behind the RFEG's bid to host the 2018 Ryder Cup. Sweden, Netherlands, Portugal, Germany and France are the other countries in the running, with the winning bid to be decided in April 2011. "He (Ballesteros) wants the Ryder Cup to be held in Spain," said Escauriaza. "He is with us and that is very good news. "Without Severiano we would probably still be playing Great Britain and Ireland v United States. It's because of him that GB and Ireland became a European team (in 1979). "One of the strengths of our bid is we have Seve on board - that's huge," added Escauriaza. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Golf Channel Tour hits Upstate (The Greenville News) Posted: 06 Mar 2010 11:15 PM PST Golfers throughout the Upstate will have the chance to compete in local tournaments and regional qualifiers for a national championship as the Upstate Tour division of The Golf Channel Am Tour debuts this month. The first stop on the Upstate Tour will be the Upstate Kick-Off Classic at River Falls in Duncan on March 27. It will be the first of 20 tournaments in Greenville, Spartanburg and Columbia this spring and summer, ending with the Musgrove Mill Championship in Clinton Aug. 28. The Golf Channel Am Tour culminates with the finals at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra, Fla. in September. There will be various regional qualifiers throughout the Tour's season. "It's a great opportunity to build golf in the Upstate and give amateurs a place to play competitively on some nice courses at reasonable rates," said Chris Tucker, the Upstate director of the Golf Channel Am Tour. Tucker has secured public and private courses in the Upstate for the Tour. There will be flighted divisions for men, women, juniors and seniors. "They (participants) need a USGA handicap for a basis," said Tucker. "If they don't have one, we will actually keep them in a tournament index. … After each tournament, scores will be entered in a handicapping system." Scott Keeler can be reached at 298-4270. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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