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- Golf's Colin Montgomerie's 'sex' story banned
- Golf can worsen an existing shoulder injury
- Golf: Gahman has another busy summer
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| Golf's Colin Montgomerie's 'sex' story banned Posted: 11 Aug 2010 09:09 PM PDT Golf's Ryder Cup is threatened by scandal after European team captain Colin Montgomerie reportedly won a legal battle to block an embarrassing story about his private life. Scottish star Montgomerie, who's known as Monty, is said to have won a legal injunction in Britain's High Court to gag a former girlfriend and ban newspapers from reporting her story or printing related photos. But that hasn't stopped fervent speculation on the Internet and in golf circles about the nature of the story and pictures. The Arizona Republic's Bob Young reported that the story and photos relate to "an alleged sex scandal," and added, "frankly, we doubt anybody really wants to see photos of the full Monty."  Getty Images Colin Montgomerie But Golf.com last night reported Montgomerie had sought the court order to stop the publication of "private details of a personal, intimate and sexual relationship" with former model Paula Tagg, whom he dated in 2006 and who has also been barred from talking. In June, Montgomerie was caught cheating on his wife of two years, Gaynor Knowles, with a former neighbor, Joanne Baldwin. Montgomerie issued a statement saying he had put his marriage "under considerable strain," but that he and his wife were "working through these problems." At a PGA Championship press conference yesterday in Wisconsin, Montgomerie said: "I know a lot of you are having fun right now at my expense . . . I can categorically say that there's no injunction" against Britain's News of the World. When asked if there was an injunction against "Paula Tadd [sic]," Montgomerie said, "Excuse me, I'm here to talk about the Ryder Cup, OK. Please, no further questions on that or any other subject regarding . . . my private life. By definition that is private." Montgomerie will lead the European team against the US in October's Ryder Cup in Wales. His London-based rep was not available for comment last night. Five Filters featured article: "Peace Envoy" Blair Gets an Easy Ride in the Independent. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Golf can worsen an existing shoulder injury Posted: 11 Aug 2010 07:40 PM PDT By Doug Smith You would be hard-pressed to find a foursome anywhere that does not include at least one member who does not have, or has had, a back injury. Wrist ailments also are common among golfers, and Tiger Woods is not alone in suffering a knee injury. Maybe I have not been listening, but until recently I had not heard of many shoulder problems among golfers. In the past few months, though, they appear to be everywhere. Tom Kite underwent major shoulder surgery last fall. It took a few months of rehabilitation, but he's back on the Champions Tour. Cary Petri has been a major figure in Austin golf since he was no taller than the elongated putter he now uses, but he was out of action for several months last winter and spring after undergoing shoulder surgery. Lisa DePaulo, a well-known golf pro and entrepreneur, and Trey Caldwell, one of the area's top amateurs, have been playing with pain and are considering their treatment options. A gentleman I know, Hugh Radney, is an avid golfer, but a chronic shoulder condition has kept him off the course for months. These are just a few of the golfers I know of with shoulder problems, and I'm sure there are many more. It made me wonder what was going on, so I talked to Dr. Carey Windler, who has a practice at Austin Sports Medicine and serves as the orthopedic surgeon for University of Texas athletics. "Golf by itself generally does not create a shoulder problem, but it will aggravate a condition that is already there," Windler said. "What's happened is that (shoulder) treatment and surgical procedures have evolved over the last 10-20 years, so people are doing something about the problem and you are hearing more about it. "The golf swing involves a lot of torque and can put a lot of stress on joints. A common problem for golfers, or in any activity, is the overuse of a repetitive motion over a long period of time. Whether it's a golfer, pitcher, tennis player, or what have you, that repeated motion over 20, 30 or 40 years can cause a lot of wear and damage on a joint. The same condition can happen to a 23-year-old, but at that age they are more resilient and won't suffer the same problem." Windler stressed again that improved treatment options have changed the way patients deal with shoulder problems. "Several years ago, a person would have just eliminated the activity that was causing the pain," Windler said. "Most people can get around in normal life with a bad shoulder, whereas they would probably have something done about a knee or back injury." Those who already have a shoulder injury are probably doing some kind of therapy, and Windler said there are precautions others can take to avoid a shoulder problem. "A normal warm-up and stretching is good," he said. "And there are a series of exercises you can do that reduce the risk of injury. It's difficult for somebody who is not in pain or does not have a problem right now to get into a routine like that, but it will definitely help." Juniors gather again There's one more major junior tournament in the area before school begins in less than two weeks. The American Junior Golf Association's Stars of Texas All Star Championship will be held Tuesday through Aug. 19 at Grey Rock Golf Club. A field of 59 boys and 14 girls will compete in the 54-hole event. Fifteen-year-old Stratton Nolen of Westlake High School should be a player to watch. Since his victory in July at the Firecracker Open, he has tied for 11th in the Texas State Junior Championship and tied for fourth in last week's George Hannon Invitational at the University of Texas Golf Club. Austin has been the site of an AJGA tournament every year since 1996. PGA threesome Austin will be represented by three players at the PGA Championship, which begins today at Whistling Straits in Kohler, Wis. Anderson High School graduate Troy Matteson will join University of Texas exes Mark Brooks and Justin Leonard in the field. Matteson is second on the PGA Tour in greens in regulation with a mark of 70.83 percent. Austin's Omar Uresti, who did not get into the PGA Championship, leads the Tour in driving accuracy at 75.7 percent. Five Filters featured article: "Peace Envoy" Blair Gets an Easy Ride in the Independent. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Golf: Gahman has another busy summer Posted: 12 Aug 2010 06:00 AM PDT Golf is a game that has been known to crush a man's spirit with one bad bounce, only to resurrect it two holes later before finally stomping his hopes of finishing at even par into the ground like an unwanted spider crawling along a kitchen floor as he double-bogeys on the 18th. Yes, this is golf. Frustrating. Mind-numbing. Addictive. Brilliant. Travis Gahman knows it all too well, and at the age of 21, he feels more comfortable than ever before on a golf course. "Absolutely," Gahman said. "I haven't been nervous on a golf course this whole year, just because of all those school golf tournaments I had in the fall and spring at Bridgewater [College]. You're not only playing for yourself, you're playing for your team and school, so there's more pressure, and you just deal with it." Gahman, a 2007 Souderton High graduate who is entering his junior year at Bridgewater College in Bridgewater, VA, played in several amateur tournaments this summer, including the 40th Annual Lakeview Amateur Tournament and the 2010 Loudon Mutual Valley Open, both of which he won. In the Lakeview Tournament, held in mid-June at Lakeview Golf Course near Harrisonburg, VA, where Gahman lived for part of the summer with his sister and brother-in-law, the Souderton native shot a 72 and a 68 for a combined score of 140 (-4) in the Championship Flight to win by seven strokes. "I got a new swing in the middle of June, about two days before the Lakeview Amateur in Virginia, and I won that and qualified three days later for Publinks," Gahman said. "My old swing was working here and there, but if my timing was wrong, my miss-hits were bad. And now, with this new swing, my miss-hits are much better than they were. Golf is a game of misses. Golf is a game of the best misses and my misses are getting better." At the Valley Open—played at Heritage Oak Golf Course (Harrisonburg), Lakeview and Spotswood Country Club (Harrisonburg) in late July—Gahman shot a 66 (-4), a 71 (-1), and a 70 (-1) for a combined score of 207 (-6) to beat the nearest pro by five strokes and the closest amateur by 11 strokes. In late June, Gahman, after he won at Lakeview, returned to the area to play in the USGA Amateur Public Links Championship Qualifier at Jeffersonville Golf Club. He shot a 69 and a 71 to finish even at 140. "That was like 38 guys for two spots," Gahman said. "Then that qualified me down to Greensboro, Bryan Park. I played a national tournament." A few days later, Gahman took second at the PPGA Publinks Championship at Jeffersonville where he shot a 69 (-1). Last summer, Gahman defeated Mike Brown to win the Publinks Championship. At the USGA Amateur Public Links Championship held at Bryan Park Golf and Conference Center in Greensboro, N.C., the 2009 PPGA Player of the Year qualified for match play by hitting a birdie on the first playoff hole, the 10th hole, of a 13-for-six playoff. "One hundred and fifty-six guys for 64 match-play spots," Gahman said. "And through six holes I was five-under. And I kind of blew up on the back nine, but I made it through the 36 holes. I made it on the number and I was in a 13-for-6 playoff." In match play, Gahman, seeded 62nd, was paired up with No. 3 seed Patrick Reed, the third ranked amateur player in the world. "He played well," Gahman said. "He was five-under through 12 holes. I birdied the first and then it went downhill from there. I didn't play well and lost." Reed was up seven holes after they had played 12 to clinch the win. In late July, Gahman shot a 75 (+4) at the Montgomery County Amateur at Ravens Claw before withdrawing in the second round at Blue Bell Country Club on Aug. 1. He also shot an 80 (+8) and a 74 (+2) at the U.S. Amateur Qualifier earlier this month. On Monday, Gahman began his quest to finally make the cut at the 94th Pennsylvania Open in his third time at the annual event. "My first goal is to make the cut, but I'm playing much better than I have been," Gahman said, who failed to reach that goal after shooting 78-71—149, six shots shy of the cutline in the tournament held at Applebrook Golf Club. "First I'd be happy to make the cut because I'm going into this course blind as well. But I feel like my game is good enough that I can hit around, see what's around me and make the cut. Top 10 would be great. Top 20 is plenty good for me for the whole state of Pennsylvania, including amateur and pros." Gahman entered the spring season with plenty of confidence. In his first season playing for Bridgewater, a Division III program, he set a school record for the best single-season scoring average with a 74.888 average besting Grady Ruckman's record average of 74.909 according to the team's website. Gahman earned a birdie on the final hole of the 2010 NCAA Division III Golf Championships at the Hershey Links Course in Hershey to make school history. Gahman also set a school record for an 18-hole score during his first tournament round with the team. "And then I went downhill from there," he joked. "But at the end of the year we made nationals for the first time in school history by winning our conference championship for the first time; that was an automatic bid. At nationals, its four days, but after two days it cuts down to the top 23 teams. We were tied for 24th, but I was fortunate enough to make it through playoffs as an individual." Gahman said one area he still struggles in, like most golfers, is the mental aspect of the game. "It's definitely a struggle, especially when you know you can hit shots and you don't, and you see other people hitting those same shots," Gahman said. "Golf is definitely a mental game, I'm trying to work on it, it's not good at all right now, but it's better than what it has been."
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| Posted: 11 Aug 2010 10:19 PM PDT GOLF PGA Championship Tee TimesAt Whistling Straits Golf ClubSheboygan, Wis.All Times EDTYardage: 7,514; Par: 72First and Second RoundsThursday-FridayHole 1-Hole 108 a.m.-1:15 p.m. — Bo Van Pelt, Scott Hebert, Vaughn Taylor 8:10 a.m.-1:25 p.m. — Stephen Gallacher, Keith Ohr, Derek Lamely 8:20 a.m.-1:35 p.m. — Steve Marino, Rob Labritz, K.J. Choi 8:30 a.m.-1:45 p.m. — John Merrick, K.T. Kim, Martin Laird 8:40 a.m.-1:55 p.m. — Hiroyuki Fujita, Bubba Watson, Alvaro Quiros 8:50 a.m.-2:05 p.m. — David Toms, Steve Elkington, Mark Brooks 9 a.m.-2:15 p.m. — Michael Sim, Ryan Palmer, Matt Bettencourt 9:10 a.m.-2:25 p.m. — Matt Jones, Brian Davis, Ricky Barnes 9:20 a.m.-2:35 p.m. — D.J. Trahan, Edoardo Molinari, Thongchai Jaidee 9:30 a.m.-2:45 p.m. — Marc Leishman, Fredik Jacobson, Brian Gay 9:40 a.m.-2:55 p.m. — Rhys Davies, Ben Crane, Mark Sheftic 9:50 a.m.-3:05 p.m. — Raphael Jacquelin, Ryan Benzel, Brendon De Jonge 10 a.m.-3:15 p.m. — Sonny Skinner, David Horsey, George McNeill 1:15 p.m.-8 a.m. — Paul Goydos, Tim Thelen, Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano 1:25 p.m.-8:10 a.m. — Jason Dufner, Troy Pare, Anders Hansen 1:35 p.m.-8:20 a.m. — Rory Sabbatini, Chris Wood, Brandt Snedeker 1:45 p.m.-8:30 a.m. — Ross Fisher, Mike Weir, Chad Campbell 1:55 p.m.-8:40 a.m. — Kevin Sutherland, Ernie Els, Dustin Johnson 2:05 p.m.-8:50 a.m . — Jeff Overton, Darren Clarke, Kenny Perry 2:15 p.m.-9 a.m. — Steve Stricker, Rory McIlroy, Adam Scott 2:25 p.m.-9:10 a.m. — Henrik Stenson, Zach Johnson, Lucas Glover 2:35 p.m.-9:20 a.m. — Phil Mickelson, Graeme McDowell, Louis Oosthuizen 2:45 p.m.-9:30 a.m. — Justin Rose, Tim Clark, Nick Watney 2:55 p.m.-9:40 a.m. — Trevor Immelman, Angel Cabrera, Hunter Mahan 3:05 p.m.-9:50 a.m. — Ross McGowan, Mitch Lowe, Bill Lunde 3:15 p.m.-10 a.m. — Simon Dyson, Bruce Smith, Kris Blanks Hole 10-Hole 18 a.m.-1:15 p.m. — Tim Petrovic, Rich Steinmetz, Jason Day 8:10 a.m.-1:25 p.m. — Rickie Fowler, Justin Leonard, Ryo Ishikawa 8:20 a.m.-1:35 p.m. — Stuart Appleby, Kyle Flinton, Soren Kjeldsen 8:30 a.m.-1:45 p.m. — Jim Furyk, Geoff Ogilvy, Charl Schwartzel 8:40 a.m.-1:55 p.m. — Luke Donald, Tetsuji Hiratsuka, J.B. Holmes 8:50 a.m.-2:05 p.m. — Jerry Kelly, Paul Casey, Anthony Kim 9 a.m.-2:15 p.m. — Padraig Harrington, Davis Love III, John Daly 9:10 a.m.-2:25 p.m. — Sergio Garcia, Stewart Cink, Martin Kaymer 9:20 a.m.-2:35 p.m. — Y.E. Yang, Vijay Singh, Tiger Woods 9:30 a.m.-2:45 p.m. — Retief Goosen, Ryan Moore, Francesco Molinari 9:40 a.m.-2:55 p.m. — Corey Pavin, Ian Poulter, Camilo Villegas 9:50 a.m.-3:05 p.m. — Rob Moss, Charles Howell III, Gregory Bourdy 10 a.m.-3:15 p.m. — Jason Schmuhl, Troy Matteson, Danny Willett 1:15 p.m.-8 a.m. — Fredrik Andersson Hed, David Hutsell, John Senden 1:25 p.m.-8:10 a.m. — Bryce Molder, Chip Sullivan, Carl Pettersson 1:35 p.m.-8:20 a.m. — Koumei Oda, Colin Montgomerie, Matt Kuchar 1:45 p.m.-8:30 a.m. — Heath Slocum, Soren Hansen, Cameron Beckman 1:55 p.m.-8:40 a.m. — Boo Weekley, D.A. Points, Seung-Yul Noh 2:05 p.m.-8:50 a.m. — Jaosn Bohn, Miguel Angel Jimenez, Wen-chong Liang 2:15 p.m.-9 a.m. — Tom Lehman, Shaun Micheel, Mike Small 2:25 p.m.-9:10 a.m. — Peter Hanson, Yuta Ikeda, Ben Curtis 2:35 p.m.-9:20 a.m. — Stephen Ames, Oliver Wilson, Bill Haas 2:45 p.m.-9:30 a.m. — Kevin Na, Shane Lowry, Scott Verplank 2:55 p.m.-9:40 a.m. — Sean O'Hair, Danny Balin, Robert Karlsson 3:05 p.m.-9:50 a.m. — Kevin Stadler, Stun Ingraham, Charlie Wi 3:15 p.m.-10 a.m. — Robert McClellan, Jimmy Walker, Simon Khan
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