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First Tee Course Reporters

Mon, 12 Mar 2010 05:39:00 GMT

Sara has been a part of The First Tee of San Antonio since 2005. She is currently a senior at Douglas MacArthur High School in San Antonio, Texas. She was the first participant at the Chapter to achieve Ace level certification in The First Tee Life Skills Experience. Sara moved to the Unites States from Mexico with her family at the age of twelve, a fact that makes her stellar grades in high school even more impressive. Her rigorous academic course load includes Advanced Placement English, Government, Calculus and Economics. Sara plays a very active roll at her school and is involved in National Honor Society and the Mexican American Physicians Hispanic Association. She also devotes several hours per week to her varsity golf team. Sara qualified for the Wal-Mart First Tee Open at Pebble Beach in both 2008 and 2009. Each week, Sara

New ownership making a difference at golf club

Mon, 11 Mar 2010 05:40:00 GMT

First and foremost, is the quality of the golf course," said Chris Brandt, the clubs general manager since 2008. "The family has purchased new equipment for the golf course that has made it possible to give consistent conditions that rival and surpass that of high-end

My dad and I have been looking to purchase a golf course since I was a little kid," said Kevin, who played golf at Valdosta State University. "People who have been coming here for 15 years have told us that the course is in the best shape it has ever been in. "

Suspicious Maui Fire Destroys Golf Course Home - Honolulu News Story - KITV Honolulu

Mon, 10 Mar 2010 05:38:00 GMT

A large house fire this weekend at the Plantation Golf Estates in Kapalua may have been intentionally set, officials said.

Pacer golfers host Palmetto Intercollegiate Aiken Standard Aiken, SC

Mon, 09 Mar 2010 05:41:00 GMT

USCA will definitely have a home-course advantage this week. The Pacers home golf course, the Palmetto Golf Club, was founded in 1892, and its recognized as the fourth oldest golf course in the United States. For the tournament, the course will feature a 6,617-yard, par-70 setup.

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Pinehurst No. 2 to Be Restored to Ross Vision The Pilot

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:26:00 GMT

When you see it and feel Pinehurst, you know its something different, Crenshaw said in the release. In Ross mind, it was the best way he believed a course should be played his masterpiece. His courses are so beautifully balanced, intended to test every part of your game. This piece of ground was special to him. To contribute our ideas here is a high, high honor.

It is not our intent to radically change this golf course, Coore said in the release. Were trying to uncover it, not recover it. Were trying to take what Ross left and perhaps bring it back to the character and definition of what was once here. In short, well bring the strategy back and reinstate its character.

Boom time for golf in China Sport

Mon, 07 Mar 2010 20:28:00 GMT

But the government wants Hainan to become a tourist paradise, to attract wealthy visitors from Japan, Korea and further afield, and the locals have dubbed Hainan a "special golf development zone" where mainland restrictions do not apply. The biggest project is the latest development by the Mission Hills Group its Hainan club, when completed, will be the worlds largest, with a breathtakingly bourgeois 22 courses.

Last years decision to add golf to the Olympic programme from 2014 means more money for golf from the state-run sport system. "Entering the Olympics will greatly push forward the development of golf in China," Wang says. "A platform will be built through the provincial sports authorities to popularise the sport among the youth. Golf in China will enjoy explosive growth. "

Garrido and Davies share lead in Malaysia - Golf

Mon, 06 Mar 2010 05:39:00 GMT

I am very pleased," said Garrido, who holed several long birdie putts on Thursday. "I think that on any golf course starting with a 65 is a great score, particularly round here where the climate is completely different from the one I have been used to in the last couple of months with the snow in Madrid. "

NOTES: Defending champion Anthony Kang shot a one-over 73 on Thursday and is tied for 71st place. Darren Clarke also shot a 73 in round one. Chinnarat Phadungsil is the low man on the course. He is three-under through 16. The first round will resume at 6:45 p. m. (ET) Thursday night.

If Pocono golf courses feel going green too costly, think again

Mon, 05 Mar 2010 05:38:00 GMT

More than a dozen courses throughout northeast Pennsylvania attended the seminar. At least two Poconos golf courses Glen Brook Golf Club in Stroud Township and Shawnee Golf and Country Club in Shawnee-on-Delaware have been working toward certification in the Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Program for Golf Courses.

If just half of the nearly two dozen golf courses within the BWA started using less fertilizer a method encouraged by Audubon International that could stimulate the fish population and increase the watersheds overall health.

Woods Back On Course - KOLD News 13 live, local and late breaking-

Mon, 04 Mar 2010 05:38:00 GMT

TUCSON, AZ (KOLD)- After being in family counseling in Arizona for more than a week, Tiger Woods is back home in Florida and back on the golf course.

The source also says that Woods has been back to his golf and fitness routine, hitting balls at a driving range not far from where he crashed his SUV in November.

Woods has taken time off from golf ever since revelations of his extramarital affairs.

Sawgrass Resort Linked to Tiger Woods Apology Files Bankruptcy - BusinessWeek

Mon, 03 Mar 2010 05:41:00 GMT

Sawgrass Resort Linked to Tiger Woods Apology Files Bankruptcy

The course is known for its iconic 17th hole. Architect Peter Dye, a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame, placed the green on an island in a small lake. It has since become a magnet for pro and weekend golfers, who hit some 120,000 balls each year into the surrounding water.

RQB Resort LP listed assets and debt of as much as usd. 500 million each in Chapter 11 documents filed yesterday in U. S. Bankruptcy Court in Jacksonville, Florida. RQB Development also sought protection. The resort is the home of the TPC Sawgrass golf club where Tiger Woods apologized on for his marital infidelity.