Glorious US Open Golf Winners: 四月 2011

2011年4月28日星期四

MSU Women's Golf Wins OVC Title

MSU earned the OVC’s automatic bid to the NCAA Championship. The Eagles on Monday were placed in the NCAA Central Regional, joining 23 other teams that will compete at the Warren Golf Course in Notre Dame, Ind., May 5-7. The top 10 teams at the Central Regional will advance to battle the 10 best teams from the East and West Golf No.1 Lee Westood Annoyed By Discussing Not Enough Titles Regionals in the NCAA Finals May 18-21 in Bryan, Texas.“I think the selection committee does a nice job in trying to spread out the talent in this country to where the top 25 teams are equally spread out,” Barker said. “We’re just going to continue to do what we’ve been doing and work on our short game. It’ll be a longer course for us.”No matter how the Eagles fare in the NCAAs, they have already put an exclamation mark on one of the best years in the rich history of MSU athletics.

The MSU women’s golf squad captured the first OVC title in school history this past weekend at the GreyStone Golf Club in Dickson, Tenn. The Eagles sat atop the leader board from start to finish of the three-day event.“We’ve been talking about this since we started the program,” MSU head coach Stephanie Barker said. We want to be in contention every year for a championship.”The Eagles did not just contend – they dominated.MSU shot an 890 (292-307-291) for the tournament, 14 strokes ahead of second-place Murray State. The Eagles’ final-round score of 291 Saturday broke the conference record of 292 they established two days earlier."We’ve been playing so well the whole year and we worked really hard for this,” said junior Emma Jonsson, who finished in first place after carding rounds of 70, 73 and 75 (+2) to win by a single stroke over teammate Paige Lausier.Jonsson was named the tournament’s Most Valuable Player while Lausier and Marisa Kamelgarn were selected to the All-Tournament Team.Lausier’s third-round 69 tied the all-time OVC Championship lowest round mark.

2011年4月27日星期三

Brittany Kelly Were Selected to Competed In NCAA Regionals

Kelly, who has set the Ball State career scoring average record, becomes the first female golfer in school history to advance to the NCAA Regional. She is one of six individuals chosen for the Central Regional, and one of 18 individuals selected overall.

Kelly is scheduled to tee off the first round May 5 at 8:55 a.m., and May 6 at 1:15 p.m. She is scheduled for an 8:55 a.m. tee time May 7 for the Luke Donald Loses Playoff In PGA Tour final round.A 2010 and 2011 All-Mid-American Conference First Team selection, Kelly was also named to the 2010 MAC All-Tournament Team and was a 2009 All-MAC Second-Team selection.She played in all 11 events for the Cardinals this season and led the team with a 75.30 average. Kelly managed a season low 71 twice in 2010-11, while her 69 at the 2007 MAC Tournament Preview is a career best and ties for the lowest round in Ball State history. She managed eight top-20 and seven top-10 finishes as a senior, including two second-place showings and a ninth place finish at the MAC Championships.

Senior Brittany Kelly has been selected to compete at the NCAA Central Regional May 5-7 at Warren Golf Course in Notre Dame, Ind. She is the first female golfer in school history to advance to the NCAA Regional."It feels pretty good to know that my season isn't over and I have another opportunity to play collegiate ball," Kelly said.Eighteen individuals were selected to compete at the NCAA Regional.Kelly has been outstanding this season, placing in the top 10 seven times and in the top

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20 eight times. She was honored with the Mid-American Conference Golfer of the Week Award three times and led the team with a 75.30 average.Kelly said she doesn't feel nervous to play at the NCAA Regional.

2011年4月26日星期二

A Diverse Golf Team For West Lafayette

West Lafayette's golf team is a really mutily-talent and diverse one.Junior Jake Weiss may miss some practice time this week because of his involvement in the school musical.Sophomore Chris Park practices as often as possible, even though his symphony orchestra commitment has included a trip to McIlroy Revives From The Awful Masters Carnegie Hall, where he got to play the piano.Junior Sean Busch, the team's best player and the medalist during early season invitationals at Harrison and Twin Lakes, finds time to practice football -- he is the starting quarterback -- and basketball -- he's a starting forward.unior Rett Berry couldn't crack the lineup as a freshman and was the team's student manager. Now, he is the No. 2 player.Lone senior Tyler Heister, who is headed to Purdue to major in mechanical engineering technology, barely broke 100 as a freshman. Now, he consistently shoots in the low-to-mid 80s.The Red Devils, who won the Harrison Invitational and were third in the Twin Lakes Invitational, also have one of the state's deepest teams.

West Lafayette's current starting lineup includes Heister, two juniors and two sophomores. That could change by the weekend."Each player has their own strength," Heister said. "Sean is an all-around good player. Jay Chapman gets good scores."Gaurav Mittal has a good short game. Each player has one thing at which he is really good. That helps everyone."Like many high school golfers, Heister played youth baseball but realized his skills were better suited for another sport.

2011年4月25日星期一

SCSU Women's Golf Team in Second Round

The Lady Bulldogs, who shaved 24 strokes off their Saturday opening round of 351, were seven strokes back of Alabama State, who fired a 36-hole total of 671 to earn the title. Two-time defending champion Hampton was third with a 690. Two strokes back and in fourth was Bethune-Cookman, which carded a 692. Rounding out the top five was Prairie View, who was at 729.

Senior Honesty Biggers (84-82) and sophomore Marina Terry (87-79) each carded a 36-hole total of 166 to pace Coach Sandy Burris' Suggestions To Increase Your Ball Striking Lady Bulldogs. They were followed by freshman Tiana Jones with a (82-87) 169 and sophomore Cabriel Duren with a (93-89) 182.

Burris said she was heartened by the play of her team for the final round, which catapulted SC State from third after the first 18 holes on Saturday to its runner-up finish on Sunday.

"We made up a lot of strokes in the second round," said Burris. "I'm pleased at the way we fought back, making up almost 30 strokes and finishing just seven strokes out of the lead. We played much better golf on Sunday."In St. Cloud State’s new multiple look offense, Dorsett is lining up in the slot on occasion and taking option handoffs from the quarterback.With five-time All-American wide receiver Fred Williams as the main target last year, Dorsett was used mostly on short slant routes. He caught 24 passes for 174 yards, but had no touchdowns.Even with Williams gone, more than a few people expect the Huskies to be a national contender next season.

2011年4月23日星期六

Martin Laird and Tiger Woods Final Round

Martin Laird, the winner was much delighted to end an excellent US Masters appearance with a dream blend along Tiger Woods. However, the world number five was in fabulous form at the start of his final round on the final day of the first major of the year but going out in 31.Tiger Woods was disappointed with his score on the back nine Masters Career Of Schwartzel at Augusta on Sunday as he missed out a fifth US Masters 2011 title.Martin Laird insisted the opportunity of playing with Tiger Woods for the first time and seeing first hand how he made a breathless last-round charge for the title with a blistering 67 made his week.Woods got off to a nice start there and posted 31 and then on the back nine, he could have scored a few more. Tiger face nine included four birdies and an eagle, but on his way back he was powerless to keep the run going. He has finished with a final round 67 to end the tournament on 10-under-par – four shots behind the eventual winner, Charl Schwartzel.His entire weekend hits were excellent, so that was a great feeling. He had to be committed to his spots and did that all week.According to the sources – Martin Laird stated that, it was a lot of fun playing with Tiger on Sunday at Augusta, when he is making a charge up the leader board.

2011年4月22日星期五

What Make Golf So Popular on Television?

What Mmake Golf So Popular on Television?

What is driving the increase in television ratings for the game this year? It's not Tiger Woods will win again.Golf Channel reported the first quarter of 2011 was the most-watched quarter in the 24-hour cable channel's history. It reported 25.2 million unique viewers from January through March, better even than the 2009 first quarter that featured Golf Will Be The Game Of Young GuysTiger Woods returning to the game after knee surgery. Much of the increase can be attributed to a new partnership with NBC, Golf Channel says.So why the big changes this year? Much of the decline last year, at least on the PGA Tour, was laid at the feet of Tiger. Woods has driven golf ratings for the last two decades, but he didn't play much golf last year and didn't win a tournament. The thinking was that allowed casual fans to drift away. Sure, Woods is back this year, but other than a strong run on the front nine Sunday at the Masters, Woods really hasn't been part of the conversation for his play. And Woods wouldn't have anything to do with better ratings for tournaments that he doesn't play in, or for ratings in LPGA events.In fact, there doesn't really seem to be one single answer to why ratings are up. Yes, Golf Channel and NBC are feeding off of each other. Yes, the Masters is always a rating giant. Yes, even with 20 percent gains, the LPGA is not penetrating into a huge number of households.It might be puzzling, but the higher ratings for golf this year are the kind of puzzle the tours are happy to try to figure out.

2011年4月21日星期四

China's Golfer Will Bloom in the Near Future

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opened its first modern golf course only 26 years ago and its leading player is a modest 92nd in the world. But when Tiger Woods and Sir Nick Faldo say the future is bright for the country’s aspiring golfers, it is time to take notice.

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now has nearly 500 courses, including the Mission Hills complex, which has 12 championship courses and will host the World Cup in November. Building the infrastructure has been the easy part but Woods believes a generation of contenders will soon eBig Review Of TaylorMade R9 merge. “It’s incredible the talent that these guys have,” Woods said after running a training clinic with five of China’s potential future stars, including a 12 year-old who shot 67. “They don’t usually play in front of this many people so it’s great to see them still going through their routines and hitting these shots. Their future is very bright. It’s going to be fun watching them develop.” “There are many young players at my age,” he adds, “and one day one of them will be

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’s star.” His mother is more explicit. “We will face difficulties, the twists and turns on our way, but the goal is clear,” she says. “It is the green jacket.

2011年4月20日星期三

Why Is the Grip So Important for golfers?

Your putting grip can make or break your golf game. Putting is one of the most important swings that you need to master and is key to how many strokes you will have. About half of a golfer's score is attributed to putting. It is the most essential of all golfing techniques. And Golfers Think On Rudolph although this is true, most golfers spend most of their time on their drive strokes. EVERY good golfer is a good putter, so practicing your short game is incredibly importantIf you want to have a powerful, accurate golf swing it pays to understand how to maximize the effectiveness of your grip

The grip is often known as the steering wheel of the golf swing, in the sense that a good grasp of the golf club will get your shots to their destination. Making sure your hands are appropriately placed to guide your swing is the first obstacle to overcome, if you want a perfect golf swing.

Remember, as you read this, that a golfer’s grip is a powerfully individual component of their golf swing. Every golfer’s ideal grip is as different as their choice of clubs or golf shirt. Now, this does mean you’re going to have to hit some balls to perfect your own individual approach, but there are some key secrets to a good grip, for every golfer

2011年4月19日星期二

The way to become a good long putter

First of all, becoming a good long putter is a combination of good feel and good mechanics. To be a good long putter, you must have good pace and rhythm to your stroke. There should be no "hit" in your stroke. The backswing and the follow-through should be the Masters Career Of Schwartzel same distance.Count to yourself when practicing long putts. Say "One and two" for good tempo. Some of the things I see in poor long putters is off-center hits. For example, if you hit the ball toward the toe of the putter, you will lose compression of the face to the ball, and you will most likely come up short of the hole.Most long putts come up short. I think a good rule of thumb is to try to keep the ball on the high side of the hole, and try to hit the putt a foot past the hole. Most three-putt greens take place because you come up short of the hole and the ball finishes on the low side of the hole.

To be a good long putter, light grip pressure is a must along with keeping that pressure constant throughout the stroke. Poor putters are always tightening their hands on the club as they go through the stroking process. Of course, this causes the dreaded "yips.''The right hand and arm only drill. To do this drill, just putt several balls with your right hand and arm only. This will give you the feel of the distance.Putting at different distances with clubs on the ground. Do these drills and then practice trying to put that 40-footer inside an imaginary, two-foot circle.

2011年4月18日星期一

Way to pick an instructor or trainer

what should we do about this problem? It’s very simple: just realize that more is not better for golf instruction and to continue to read and listen to golf tips with a very discriminating eye. Over the years, I have now come to the realization that Tiger Woods Will Appears In Video Game most published golf instruction is designed for the better player and that a tip that works for the 5-handicapper could be a waste of time for a 20-handicapper. Not that it isn’t good advice, but the 20-hdcp should stop looking for more advice and start to work on something that will give him the greatest reduction in score for the time spent.

The other way to go is to pick an instructor or trainer and stick with them with a full set of lessons. You will need to actively ignore any other golf instruction that has the slightest hint of conflict with your lessons. If you run into something your instructor hasn’t taught you about, check with him/her. That is why golf lessons are spaced at least a week apart. Spaced repetition has long been known to be how we humans best learn things. It’s also why you can’t remember a darn thing about a subject 2 weeks after cramming for test on it.

2011年4月16日星期六

What makes Yani Tseng so excellent

Vision54's Pia Nilsson and Lynn Marriott, who famously coached Annika Sorenstam and have worked with Tseng, agree. "One thing that makes Yani great and it's useful for the average golfer," says Nilsson, "is she keeps things simple and uncomplicated. She knows she doesn't want to be in the Play Box more than five seconds. Annika Does Cherry Hills Deserve PGA Tour always kept things simple and it helped her save energy to play well more often. Yani is the same way in that respect."Says Marriott: "Another thing is that she knows how much down time there is in golf between shots, and she is aware and good at making sure she enjoys herself between shots. Two reasons--to relax and save the focus for hitting shots and not having destructive self-talk but to create happy/fun energy."

Tseng also works periodically with putting and short-game guru Dave Stockton. It's clear when you see her on the greens that Stockton's philosophy is prevalent. There is a no-nonsense style: her mechanics are solid. She takes one look at her target and makes a decisive stroke before doubt can set in, her left wrist staying square to her line. Vision54's Pia Nilsson and Lynn Marriott, who famously coached Annika Sorenstam and have worked with Tseng, agree. "One thing that makes Yani great and it's useful for the average golfer," says Nilsson, "is she keeps things simple and uncomplicated. She knows she doesn't want to be in the Play Box more than five seconds. Annika always kept things simple and it helped her save energy to play well more often. Yani is the same way in that respect."

2011年4月15日星期五

Tiger Woods finally looked like himself again

Rory McIlroy goes to the weekend at the Masters with a two-stroke lead, a worthy reward for two superb days of golf by the 21-year-old from Northern Ireland. But all eyes will be on the guy who's three shots back, in a position that used to be more familiar. Woods shot a 6-under 66 today, his best round at the Masters since he captured the last of Masters Masters Competition About The Tradition May Need To Beware Flying Ball his Wilson And His Golf Performance four green jackets in 2005. "I've played myself back in the championship,'' he said. Woods hasn't shot this low at the Masters since his 65 in the third round of the '05 tournament when he went on to beat Chris DiMarco in a playoff. A lot has changed since then. Woods is mired in the longest winless streak of his career - 20 tournaments over 17 months - and he's still dogged by a sex scandal that ended his marriage and tarnished his image. After a sluggish start to the second round, Woods got going with three straight birdies around the turn, a perilous par save at the 11th, then strung together three more birdies through the middle of the back nine.

Woods just missed making it four in a row, pushing a slick putt at No 16 wide of the hole. But he ended with a flourish, knocking his approach from under the trees to within 10 feet of the pin. He rolled that one in and pumped his fist one last time. "Anytime you shoot 66 in a major, it's going to be good,'' Woods said. "I'm very pleased about that. Very pleased.'' Rory McIlroy fretted about an errant chip that nearly slid into the water, a few putts that didn't fall in the cup on the back nine. That's about it. Phil Mickelson scrambled for a 70 in the first round despite hitting fewer fairways than anyone in the 99-player field. His erratic play continued Friday, forcing him to spend more time saving pars than chasing birdies, as he shot a 72.

2011年4月14日星期四

The members of Augusta National are powerful and elite

The members of Augusta National are, by and large, obscenely rich, powerful and elite. Sexist, too, if you believe that it’s unacceptable to not have a female member, as Augusta is said to operate. (The club does not disclose its membership policies.)But the view of them as a sort of aging band of confederate freemasons stuck in the past ignores Does Cherry Hills Deserve PGA Tour the Woods Is Associated With Nicklaus In Masters evolving nature of one of the world’s most exclusive clubs.Since Billy Payne took over as chairman in 2006, and members like the affable, laid-back Kiwi Craig Heatley have assumed senior roles, the place has become far more welcoming as it shifts into the 21st century. For instance, next year fans will be able to apply for tickets online for the first time.But the greatest legacy of the Payne era is that without being obviously disrespectful to those who came before — principally past chairman Hootie Johnson — the Masters itself has again become Youth Golf Movement In Masters the most exciting major.After Tiger Woods hit 3 wood and had 87 yards into the last hole a decade ago, the old guard decided that Augusta National needed to be “Tiger-proofed.”

They went overboard. The tournament lost its identity as the course was stretched almost 500 yards longer and made much more difficult to play.There’s nothing wrong with the US Open being a torturous grind; there’s room for that, just as the British Open demands the winner to negotiate not just the course but also the elements.But polite applause for a well-earned par never has been in the lexicon of the Masters, where only three times in 75 tournaments has an over-par score won.

2011年4月13日星期三

PGA golf is headed back to Colorado

The 2014 BMW Championship will mark the first time since the 1985 PGA Championship that the world’s top male professional golfers have tested Cherry Hills’ challenging layout.“Cherry Hills welcomes the opportunity to once again showcase our course and to put Denver at the center of the golf world in September 2014,” said John Elway, Cherry Hills president. “An important component of our club’s rich heritage has been to offer a worthy venue Masters Competition About The Tradition for the world’s finest professional and amateur golfers. Hosting the 2014 BMW Championship reaffirms our commitment to opening our course for competition at the highest level.Past champions at Cherry Hills have included some of golf’s finest players – Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Phil Mickelson, Hubert Green, Andy North and Ralph Guldahl – reflecting the quality of the challenge the William Flynn-designed course presents.Cherry Hills’ tradition of supporting championships and scholarships makes it a worthy host for the 2014 BMW Championship. The club has been a leading partner with the WGA in developing Evans Scholars candidates among its caddie ranks. The WGA has sponsored the Evans Scholars program since 1930, providing full-tuition Does Cherry Hills Deserve PGA Tour and housing scholarships for caddies at 19 colleges and universities nationwide. Six caddies from Cherry Hills are current Evans Scholars at the University of Colorado, and 32 Evans Scholars Alumni caddied at Cherry Hills.

“Since the inception of the BMW Championship, one of our goals has been to help raise more money for the Evans Scholars Foundation,” said Dan Creed, Vice President of Marketing, BMW of North America. “We are pleased to bring the BMW Championship experience to the Denver area and, in turn, increase the support of the Evans Scholars Foundation in this community.”

2011年4月12日星期二

Johnson bought out the owners of River Oaks Golf Course

Johnson bought out the owners of River Oaks Golf Course and changed the name of the course to the Golf Club of Bucyrus. He hopes the changes he plans will keep some of that money in Bucyrus -- and stave off failure.Johnson was 10 percent The Hot News Of Augusta National owner of the course with the last group of owners. He didn't want to see his work over the past seven years go to waste. With the only other option being foreclosure, he decided to buy the course and change its image from the inside out."I live on it now. I grew up living on it," Johnson said. "I felt like, with the right management, we can make a profit. We are really going to try to get some revenue out of the restaurant."To do that, Johnson hired a hometown product to operate the golf facility and a chef to oversee the kitchen.

Randy Blankenship, a 2000 Bucyrus High school graduate, spent five years as an assistant pro at Westbrook Country Club in Mansfield after graduating from the Professional Golfers Career College in Florida.The chef, Cartell Raysor, worked previously at the Warehouse in Marion as a sous chef."It will be mostly comfort food in the restaurant," Johnson said. "We will have steaks, chicken, seafood -- he makes great chicken wings. It will be a lot of American fare. And we are still going to have a golfer's menu for a quick turn.

2011年4月11日星期一

Rory McIlroy is certainly disappointed in his latest performance

As in seven major championship titles for McIlroy. That is correct, after watching McIlroy fade down the Magnolia Lane backstretch, I've never been so confident.Columnists from around the globe are quickly comparing McIlroy's disappearing act to Woods Hit A Nice Shot In Masters the famed Greg Norman collapse way back in 1996.Norman, as it was written then and now, choked away a six-stroke lead by shooting a final-round 78.The bogey binge allowed Nick Faldo, not yet knighted, to pocket the green jacket after a sterling 67.Norman, however, already was a seasoned veteran at that stage of his career, coupled with a reputation of fast starts and shoddy finishes.My guess is that McIlroy's final-round 80, while obviously frustrating to the professional and dramatic to the golf masses, will only catapult the 21-year-old from Northern Ireland to bigger and better things.Think about it.Only the embattled Woods had similar command over the lurching fairways and slate-top greens at Augusta National at such a young age. And we all know what kind of feeding frenzy Tiger went on after blistering the '97 field by 12 strokes.You can talk about the mental trauma all you want, how losing a four-stroke lead in any tournament, let alone a major, can make you question your overall toughness.

2011年4月9日星期六

Excellent choice for golf lessons in Austin

Austin is the country's number one golf destination, and as such, there are a variety of places to take lessons. Most any area golf course or Woods Hit A Nice Shot In Masters club will be able to point you to instruction and classes. To find the best place to take golf lessons for you in Austin, you need an idea of what type of lessons you are looking for.Tina Bradley Mayers provides golf lessons for women in the Austin area. Tina's tips appeared in Texas Golfer Magazine and she has affordable lesson options for you. You can get a private lesson, a group lesson, or an on-the-course lesson to meet your needs.

Another excellent choice for golf lessons in Austin is from O. Henry Golf. Here you can get private lessons, golf instruction, group golf lessons and other golf clinics. O. Henry golf will help you become the best golfer you can be by identifying the type of golfer you are, including strengths and limitations and creating an individualized game plan for you. The instruction here is much more personalized than your typical golf lessons and for someone looking for more than "just the basics", then this is a top choice.

2011年4月8日星期五

The Masters is Golf Heaven

I am a little scared here. I enjoy good-natured hell-raising at a sporting event—if this was the New York Jets against the New England Patriots at New Meadowlands Stadium, I would not live in fear of embarrassing myself. I know I would not be the most outrageous or uncivil person in attendance. Those freaks are my freaks. I prefer baseball at night, when the crowd always gets weird. I like the Preakness from the infield, among the passed-out, sunburned bodies. I enjoyed every agitated second of LeBron's first trip back to Cleveland. I have Find Golf Courses In New York City been to WWE pro wrestling, and liked it waaaay more than I should admit.The Masters, now in its 75th year, is a different endeavor. There's a genteel way of doing things here, and it demands respect. I will confess I spent a pathetic amount of time before this trip trying to decide what to wear. I figured Augusta National was no place for my Johnny Damon JOHNNY IS MY HOMEBOY T-shirt and that vulgar Billy Ripken T-shirt I really shouldn't ever wear in public but do. I ruled out my jeans, my flip-flops, my hooded sweatshirts and anything that would make me look like I was at, you know, a Dolphins game. Instead, collared shirts were folded in my luggage. I found a pair of khakis I have worn exactly once, to a wedding. I thought shorts would be too casual, but that proved to a mistake—there are plenty of people here in shorts. (Khaki shorts. Not UFC shorts.)

But I don't mean to make it sound stuffy; Augusta is a place of contrasts. You get a whiff of it when you're driving up to the course down Washington Road. Across the street from the Blast To The Past Dollar Store, there's an elegant billboard of Phil Mickelson hawking Rolexes. People can spend thousands of dollars to walk through the gate—a Masters badge is one of the all-time Bucket List tickets—but the parking is free.

2011年4月6日星期三

Lewis knows life as a pro is different than life in college

Lewis, 26, earned her can't-miss tag through a great career at the University of Arkansas. She won 12 college events, including the 2007 NCAA Division I individual championship. That same year she finished tied for fifth as an amateur at the Kraft Nabisco Championship. The next year she turned pro and immediately tied for third in the U.S. Women's Open. Lewis was medalist in the LPGA qualifying tournament that year.“I thought Tiger May Still Deny His Private Life coming off that (2008) Open it would be kind of instant success and I'd be rolling right along, but I kind of hit a rut a little bit at the end of my rookie year, and I was kind of lost,” said Lewis, who finally hit the winner's circle Sunday at the Kraft Nabisco Championship. “I was like, ‘What am I doing out here,' and didn't really know what to do.

”Lewis knows life as a pro is different than life in college, where she could rely on coaches and teammates.“It didn't help I was halfway across the world by myself playing in Japan and Korea and all that for the first time, and I wasn't playing good golf,” Lewis said. “And I didn't really have a coach at the time, so I didn't know what I was doing with my swing.”Lewis' parents encouraged her to surround herself with a good coach and a support team. Lewis found swing coach Joe Hallett and began making other changes to her approach.“I had missed three greens in 36 holes and missed the cut. So I knew I needed to do something else,” Lewis said. “My college coach, Shauna Estes-Taylor, she kind of told me about this aim point, which is a greens reading method, and she's like, ‘Let me just show you a little bit and just kind of get a general understanding.' So I learned the basics and I finished top 10 at Arkansas. And I was kind of like, maybe there's something to it.”

The closest the PGA Tour comes to the Grand Strand

Both The Heritage tournament in Hilton Head Island and Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte, N.C., have been amassing player commitments, even though their player registration deadlines are at least 10 days away.The two events are the closest the PGA Tour comes to the Grand Strand - each about a four-hour drive away.It could conceivably be the final opportunity for golfers to play a PGA Tour event at Harbour Town Golf Links in Hilton Head, which has hosted an event since 1969, because the tournament is without a title sponsor both this year Woods Is More Relaxed Now and moving forward. Tournament organizers have been in dire search of a new title sponsor for more than a year, since longtime title sponsor Verizon announced it was diminishing its role with the event. It's possible that the tour would take the tournament away and move it to another location if a title sponsor isn't found by the fall.Both Sergio Garcia and Mike Weir played The Heritage last year for the first time since at least 2002, and said their decision was at least in part to help show support for the tournament and its importance to the tour.Prior commitments to the 2011 Heritage include defending champion and reigning FedEx Cup champion Jim Furyk, reigning U.S. Open champion Graeme McDowell of Northern Ireland, world No. 10 Matt Kuchar, five-time Heritage winner Davis Love III, fellow former Heritage winners Stewart Cink, Boo Weekley and 1997 British Open champion Justin Leonard, two-time major winner John Daly, Clemson alum Jonathan Byrd, 2010 U.S. Open winner Lucas Glover, former Masters winners Trevor Immelman and Zach Johnson, and 2011 tournament winners Johnson Wagner and Mark Wilson.

2011年4月2日星期六

Scotland's Laird out to emulate Zoeller as first-time winner at Augusta

Rather appropriately for the man who has just breathed life into the creeping corpse that was professional Scottish golf, Martin Laird does not accept the notion that as an Augusta debutant his Masters challenge is terminally destined to Martin Laird Also Hold American Dream be pushing up the azaleas.Why not do a Fuzzy Zoeller and become the first first-timer to don the Green Jacket in 32 years? After all, last Sunday he did a Sandy Lyle, by winning his second event on the PGA Tour after decades of Tartan failure in the United States. Seven days on from having his hand clasped by Arnold Palmer at the back of Bay Hill's 18th green, the 28-year-old is still trying to take it all in. The reaction, as he says in an accent part-Taggart, part-Miami Vice, has been "a wee bit awesome"."I had so many messages from family, friends, from people from home I hadn't heard from in years," he said. "The phone didn't stop until Wednesday. Although there were some very special ones, nothing topped meeting Mr Palmer like that. It was the first time I'd ever spoken to him. It can't get much better."

2011年4月1日星期五

Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson struggle in lead up

After their final rounds of the Arnold Palmer Invitational, though, Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson were proverbial miles from contention.Neither was a factor at the top of the leaderboard all weekend as they finished in a tie for 24th at one under, seven shots behind Scottish winner Martin Laird.Yet, Woods and Mickelson insisted they were feeling good about their games before the Masters.Both headed to Augusta National early this week to play practice rounds.Afterwards, Woods returned home to Florida while Mickelson, who likes to play his way into Augusta National And Jack Nicklaus majors, headed to Texas to play in this week's Houston Open."It was a very good week and a week I needed to see," Woods said.I really hit the ball well and the things that we were working on the last couple weeks, really, really felt comfortable."I felt I was able to control just about every shot."It's getting better every week I've played, and I just need to keep progressing and hopefully it will peak two more Thursdays from now."A year ago, with Woods in hiding for months after the news golf channel of his sex scandal broke, the Masters was his first tournament of 2010, and he tied for fourth.This year, Woods has played four tournaments - a tie for 44th at Torrey Pines, a first-round loss to Thomas Bjorn in the World Match Play in Arizona, a tie for 10th at Doral and the tie for 24th at Bay Hill, a course where he has won six times."It's nice to have got some tournaments under my belt (this year)," Woods said."Now it's nice to be actually (in) more tournament shape going in."

Lipton bi-monthly back in Tema on Saturday

It’s back-to-batan this Saturday April 2 as the Lipton bi-monthly golf tournament returns to the Tema Country Golf Club.According to a press release signed by Ebenezer Bright Adanlanu, Manager of the Tema Country Golf club, the one day 18-hole tournament is expected to attract about 100 golfers from across Ghana and is sponsored by Unilever Martin Laird Also Hold American Dream Ghana Limited under the Lipton brand name.Lipton have promised to make the 2nd competition of 2011 a memorable one with mouthwatering prizes for the various winners as they maintain a quest to also increase he membership of the Tema Golf Club by inviting more youth to play.

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