“Golf enters 'corridor of power'” plus 2 more |
- Golf enters 'corridor of power'
- Golf-Venezuelan's PGA triumph seen to prove Chavez wrong
- Callaway Golf declares a quarterly dividend
| Golf enters 'corridor of power' Posted: 24 Jan 2011 04:15 AM PST 24 January 2011 Last updated at 07:01 ET New Scottish Open host Castle Stuart Golf Links lies within a strip of land with a bloody past and, in the future, could become one of the most developed areas of the Highlands and Islands. Known as the A96 Corridor, the strip covers several hundreds of acres stretching between Inverness and Nairn and flanked by the Moray Firth and the B9006 road. Highland Council has produced a masterplan to guide development in the area over the next 30 years. What has already been planned could make the corridor powerful in terms of job creation and the delivery of further education in the region. Highlands and Islands Enterprise has proposed creating an education and research campus at Beechwood on the eastern outskirts of Inverness. It would provide a new base for the prospective University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI), which is tipped to secure full university status later this year. New townConsortium Inverness Estates Ltd has proposed creating a new town on farmland a short distance away. To be built in phases, 2,550 homes, a school, two hotels, churches and shops could be constructed on 194 acres (78 hectares). Moray Estates Development Company Ltd also has plans for a new town at Tornagrain, mid-way between Inverness and Nairn. If it goes ahead it would provide homes for 10,000 people. Historically, the strip of land has provided the backdrop to bloody episodes in Scotland's past. The golf course takes its name from a 17th Century stronghold of the Stuart's. Following the death of her husband, the Dauphin of France, Mary Queen of Scots gave land in the area to her half-brother, James Stuart. She granted him the title Earl of Moray and he ruled Scotland as regent until his murder. Jacobite battleCastle Stuart was completed in 1625 but soon after was attacked and taken over by members of Clan MacIntosh. The Stuarts paid them off and regained control of the castle. The property fell into ruin during Oliver Cromwell's rise to Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland. Later rebuilt, the castle is today run as a luxury holiday accommodation and a tourist attraction. The A96 Corridor also includes the site of the 1746 Battle of Culloden. On the night before the battle, Jacobite forces attempted to ambush government troops camped at Nairn. The night march was aborted and the Jacobites regrouped at Culloden where they were defeated in the battle. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Golf-Venezuelan's PGA triumph seen to prove Chavez wrong Posted: 24 Jan 2011 09:57 AM PST * Venezuelan golfers proud of Jhonattan Vegas's PGA win Venezuelan golfers hailed compatriot Jhonattan Vegas's PGA Tour win as a big advance for their sport in the baseball-obsessed nation and proof socialist leader Hugo Chavez's disparagement of golf was misplaced. The 26-year-old Vegas, who learned golf thanks to his father's job as a caddy, won a first PGA title in only his fifth start after a playoff for the Bob Hope Classic on Sunday. [ID:nN23132080] "I'd never heard such commotion," said Carlos Whaite, executive director of Venezuela's golf federation, who watched Vegas's triumph on TV with scores of excited kids and other golf fans after a children's competition in Caracas. "This is the greatest thing that has ever happened to Venezuelan golf beyond our borders," Whaite told Reuters. Unlike most of soccer-mad South America, the all-consuming national sport here is baseball, which was first introduced to the country by U.S. oilmen. Golf, by contrast, is a niche game which the firebrand Chavez denounces as a "bourgeois" sport played on land that would be better used to build houses for slum-dwellers. Half a dozen courses have been closed in recent years, and the president has urged golf clubs to give up land to pitch tents for families made homeless by floods late last year. Julio Torres, who runs a national golf school, said Vegas's relatively poor roots and dark skin in race-conscious Venezuela showed that golf was not just a sport for the rich. "We want the people in government who still don't like golf to realize that it's not like that," he told Reuters. "He (Vegas) is of humble extraction, is colored, and has made it into the big leagues of golf through hard work," he said. FEEL-GOOD FACTOR Vegas's triumph briefly displaced baseball headlines in Venezuela sports sections on Monday, adding to a growing sporting feel-good factor after another local boy, Pastor Maldonado, recently made it into Formula One. [ID:nN09242947] Those who have known and watched Vegas from an early age said his talent was obvious. "I wouldn't say it's a surprise that he's won, just that it came so soon," Torres said. Born in the eastern city of Maturin, Vegas began playing at the age of two on a course run by an oil company, before moving to the United States in 2002. He graduated from Texas University and turned professional in 2008. The first and only PGA Tour player from Venezuela, long-hitting Vegas clinched his maiden title on the U.S. circuit on Sunday in a gripping three-way playoff with Americans Gary Woodland and Bill Haas. He became the first rookie to win the event in 52 years, after making a miraculous par at the second extra hole, and he said he hoped his breakthrough would attract more players to the game in his homeland. "I really hope it means change, people changing (their view) about the sport," he said, adding that a putting session with his father Carlos after Saturday's fourth round had helped calm him down. The ever-smiling Vegas earned a $900,000 winner's cheque, and an invitation to this year's U.S. Masters. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Callaway Golf declares a quarterly dividend Posted: 24 Jan 2011 10:33 AM PST On Monday January 24, 2011, 1:33 pm EST CARLSBAD, Calif. (AP) -- Callaway Golf Co. said Monday that it declared a quarterly dividend of a penny. The dividend will be paid March 15 to shareholders of record as of Feb. 18. Callaway Golf, based in Carlsbad, Calif., makes and sells golf clubs and golf balls. It also sells golf clothing, footwear and accessories. The company also declared a quarterly dividend on its convertible preferred stock of $1.875, also to be paid March 15 to shareholders of record as of Feb. 18. The company's common shares rose a penny to $7.75 in afternoon trading. Follow Yahoo! Finance on ; become a fan on Facebook. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| You are subscribed to email updates from Golf - Yahoo! News Search Results To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
| Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610 | |
0 comments:
Post a Comment