Northern Irelands Graeme McDowell matched Els 66 to climb from 16th to joint sixth with Englands Paul Casey, Spaniard Alvaro Quiros, American Bill Haas and little-known Australian Alistair Presnell.

Despite being a hot-spot for golf, very few Southwest Florida courses and only one from Sarasota made the top 200 golf courses in America as ranked by Golfweek Magazine in the latest edition.

No public-access courses in the area made any of the magazines three rankings, which include Top 100 Classic American Courses built before 1960, the Top 100 Modern American Courses built 1960 and later, and not even the list of top Florida public courses, which offered some more spots to Sunshine State tracks.

He was 25th on the 2008 Nationwide Tour money list after posting nine top-10 finishes. But a tie for 37th at the season-ending Nationwide Tour Championship left him sweating out his PGA Tour status. Only the top 25 are guaranteed their cards -- Barnes has never made it through Q-school -- and he had to wait two hours to find out that he had secured the last spot.

Peter Villaber, Dante Becierra, and newbie Edwin Madrileno will hold the fort left by Antonio Asistio II and Rufino Bayron in the ICTSI-The Country Club camp when the P1-milion ICTSI-Sherwood Hills Classic begins this Thursday at the Sherwood Hills Golf Club.

Our thanks to Ross Meisner with the Midland College golf team for the lessons and the fun.

SEATTLE Former Snohomish County planning director Craig Ladiser pleaded not guilty today to two misdemeanor charges stemming from a drunken incident on a Redmond-area golf course.

The acts allegedly occurred while Ladiser, 59, was a guest at a golf tournament sponsored by the Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish Counties.

East Tennessee State edged the hosting Coastal Carolina by three strokes to win the event by shooting a 19-over par 883.

Pepperdines Josh Anderson and East Tennessee States Seamus Power tied for medalist honors. Both shot a 1-under par 215.

The team championship was shared by No. 14 UNLV and No. 12 UCLA, who finished at 35 over to best the Aggies and Trojans by nine shots. Texas Tech, which is ranked 19th, took fifth place at plus-47, eight strokes better than No. 4 Texas.

Freshman Meagan May was perfect at the plate with a pair of doubles and a home run as the Texas AandM softball team beat North Dakota State 5-2 on Sunday afternoon at the Aggie Softball Complex.

Jim McKenzie, Director of Golf Courses and Estates Management at The Celtic Manor Resort, has worked tirelessly with his greenkeeping team over the past few months to ensure the 24 golfers who tee up from October 1-3 will have the best playing conditions available to showcase their talents.

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Fisher said there has been no rebellion, that the players have done everything asked of them. It will be interesting to see how the players react when they no longer see their head coach atop the observation tower or in a golf cart, rather in the trenches during drills.

One travel writer has commented that there will be plenty to do on holidays to South Africa this summer other than watch the World Cup.

They had dress pants and suits; cashmere sweaters (and other sweaters); button down shirts; golf shirts and some really bad mesh underwear

Collins and Streelman, who birdied the par-4 seventh hole as darkness descended over Trump International Golf Club-Puerto Rico, were 12 under.

DORAL, Fla. - Ernie Els showed his South African protege what it takes to win a World Golf Championship. Just as important was that he showed himself how to win again, too.

Thai amateur Thidapa Suwannapura won the girls event at the Faldo Series Asia Grand Final at the Mission Hills Golf Club in Shenzhen, China last week.

The Thai received the trophy from six-time Major champion Nick Faldo. She will be invited to play in certain events on Asian and European womens tours.

Jason Bucci played varsity golf at Ohio State University and later became a golf pro at the Scarlet and Gray Course at OSU.

Prior to spinning dough and making meatballs, both men were golf pros at local country clubs.

The prosecutor in Nevada said that he would not even consider a criminal charge, because it has been so long that there is no evidence they would be able to gather.

We might lose a few seasonal members, and thats what happened at Scarborough Golf when they did this switch four or five years ago," Duck said. "They lost some members initially, but now theyre doing great.

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Derek Lamely, a Tour rookie, fired a course record 9-under 63 in the third round. The previous record of 64 was held by Bo Van Pelt (2008) and Matt Jones (2009). Lamely tied for 13th last year at the Puerto Rico Open.

Unlike football, a sport in which only the biggest and richest colleges can contend for a national title, basketball is more egalitarian.

MELBOURNE: Taiwans Tseng Yani fired a closing round of seven-under 66 to storm to victory in the womens Australian Open at the Commonwealth Golf Course yesterday.

The leggy brunette became fascinated by the unusual fitness activity after going to the Pole Divas studio in Prahran for a hens party last year.

Gale said she was on a fitness kick and was given a paddle board by her boyfriend, Andy Lee, for Christmas.

The traces of American soccer in Cuba faded away in the late 50s until they vanished for good. Forty years later its probable that many were shocked to see on the pitch of the university stadium "Juan Abrantes" a few boys playing something "strange": rugby. In 1993 I think was created the first Cuban team, the Indios Caribe and then other joined like "The Giraldillos", in 1997 and the club "Jose Marti", in 1999.