2008 Volvo Masters - Golf European Tour

Golf PGA European Tour
2008 Volvo Master
Cadiz, Spain
Oct 30 - Nov 2, 2008

Tournament: Volvo Masters Final
Club: de Golf Valderrama
Country: Sotogrande, Cadiz, Spain
Date: October, 30 2008 - November 2, 2008
Prize Fund: €4,250,000

Prize Money Breakdown

1. 708,000
2. 472,000
3. 266,000
4. 212,000
5. 180,000
6. 148,400
7. 127,000
8. 106,000
9. 95,000
10. 85000

TV Coverage: TrueSpor 4, Starsport, GD Sport

More Information

• Draw sheet Round 1 & Tee Time
  
• Volvo Masters 2008 Entry List
• Full Prize Money Breakdown Volvo Masters 2008

Go to Official Site

2008 Alfred Dunhill Links Championship

Golf European Tours
Alfred Dunhill Links Championship
October 2-5, 2008

Course : Three Course

• St Andrews (Old Course) Course ---– Windy, cold, wet!
• Carnoustie Course -----Classic links, Cold and windy on Sunday
• Kingsbarns Course-------A lot of bunkers so accuracy from tee will be rewarded

Past winners: 2007 – Nick Dougherty

Prize Fund: $5.0 mil.

1. € 545,811
2. € 363,872
3. € 205,006
4. € 163,743
5. € 138,854
6. € 114,620

TV Coverage
FOX Sport, Sky Sport, TrueVision 61 VIASat Golf

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2008 The Tour Championship

PGA Tour
2008 The Tour Championship
September 25-28, 2008

Course: East Lake Golf Club
Place: Atlanta, GA
FedExCup Points: 110,000
Purse: $7 Million
Winning : $1,260,000
Yards: 7,154
Past Winner: Tiger Woods

Field : 2008 Players
TV Coverage: Starsport, GD Sport, Truesport4

Background
The Tour Championship was historically the final event of golf's PGA Tour season. Since 2007, it has been the final event of the FedEx Cup, the competition for the first official championship trophy for the PGA Tour season. Beginning in 1997, the event alternated between Champions Golf Club in Houston, Texas and East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Georgia; since 2004, East Lake has been the event's permanent home. It is one of the richest tournaments on the tour.

Through 2006, the top 30 money winners on the PGA Tour after the penultimate event qualified for the event. It took place in early November, the week after the comparable event in Europe, the Volvo Masters, which allowed players who are members of both the PGA Tour and the European Tour to play in both end of season events. After the Tour Championship, the money list for the season was finalized. There were, and still are, a number of additional events between the Tour Championship and Christmas which are recognized by the PGA Tour, but prize money won in them is unofficial. Also, because this tournament's field is not as large as other golf tournaments, there is no 36-hole cut; all players who start the event are credited with making the cut and receive some prize money.

Since 1998, the Tour Championship winner, if not already exempt by other means, receives a 3-year PGA Tour exemption

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2008 Ryder Cup Singles Pairings

Results 2008 Ryder Cup
USA 16 1/2 Europe 11 1/2


2008 Ryder Cup Singles Pairings

USA lead Europe 9-7

Sunday's Singles Pairings and Schedule
and Predictions
(ET)
12:03 PM: Kim (USA) vs. Garcia (EUR)
12:14 PM: Mahan (USA) vs. Casey (EUR)
12:25 PM: Leonard (USA) vs. Karlsson (EUR)
12:36 PM: Mickelson (USA) vs. Rose (EUR)
12:47 PM: Perry (USA) vs. Stenson (EUR)
12:58 PM: Weekley (USA) vs. WIlson (EUR)
1:09 PM: Holmes (USA) vs. Hansen (EUR)
1:20 PM: Furyk (USA) vs. Jimenez (EUR)
1:31 PM: Cink (USA) vs. McDowell (EUR)
1:42 PM: Stricker (USA) vs. Poulter (EUR)
1:53 PM: Curtis (USA) vs. Westwood (EUR)
2:04 PM: Campbell vs. Harrington (EUR)

Team USA Points Breakdown
(Total 18 in Fourball / Foursome devide 2 = 9)

• Phil Mickelson 2.0
• Stewart Cink 1.0
• Kenny Perry 1.5
• Jim Furyk 1.5
• Anthony Kim 1.5
• Justin Leonard 2.5
• Ben Curtis 0.5
• Boo Weekley 1.5
• Steve Stricker 0.5
• Hunter Mahan 3.0
• J.B. Holmes 1.5
• Chad Campbell 1.0

Team Europe Points Breakdown (7)

• Paul Casey 0.5
• Sergio Garcia 1.0
• Søren Hansen 0.5
• Padraig Harrington 0.5
• Miguel Angel Jiménez 0.5
• Robert Karlsson 1.0
• Graeme McDowell 1.5
• Ian Poulter 3.0
• Justin Rose 2.0
• Henrik Stenson 1.5
• Lee Westwood 1.0
• Oliver Wilson 1.0

2008 Ryder Cup Singles Review and Prediction

• Kim is rooky for Ryder Cup and get more points in last two days but for experience difficult to passed Garcia--Europe get 1
• Mahan get most points same Poulter for two day, I give USA
• Leopard better Karlsson ---USA
• Mickelson vs Rose is the dream match for Ryder Cup--For play in Home I give USA
• Perrly vs Stenson ---Europe
• Boo Boo Bears I cheer him---USA
• Holme will won Hansen---USA
• Jiminez got low points but can won Furyk---Europe
• Mcdowell will won Clink---Europe
• Poulter will won Stricker----Europe
• Westwood can past Ben---Europe
• Campbell vs Harington maybe discuss 2008 Ryder Cup--USA

Conclude USA get 6 points from single then Total 15 points. Europe ger 6 points to 13 points. But Campbell, Boo and Holme are the changes for USA.

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2008 Ryder Cup - First Day Results

2008 Ryder Cup - First Day Results

September 19, 2008

• P. Mickelson / A. Kim - P. Harrington / G. McDowell--USA Wins 2 Up
• S. Stricker / B. Curtis - I. Poulter / J. Rose -----Europe Win 4&2
• J. Leonard / H. Mahan - S. Garcia / M. Jiménez----USA win Wins 4 & 3
• J. Holmes / B. Weekley-L. Westwood / S. Hansen--------Halved

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Boo ooo - Thomas Brent Weekly Biography

Boo Boo Bear and Booooooooooo

After Boo Boo Boo phenomenal in 2008 Ryder Cup everypeople love him and create good feeling to follow 37th Ryder Cup.

Boo Biography
Birth date: July 23, 1973
Place: Milton, Florida, U.S.
HW: Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) Weight 210 lb (95 kg)
Nationality: United States of America
College: Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College
Career: Turned Pro 1997 and Curretn PGA Tour
Professional wins 2 (PGA Tour: 2)

Best Results in Major Championships
Masters T20: 2008
U.S. Open T26: 2007, 2008
British Open T35: 2007
PGA Championship T9: 2007

Thomas Brent "Boo" Weekley (born July 23, 1973) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.

Weekley was born in Milton, Florida. He turned professional in 1997 and played on mini-tours until 2002, when he qualified for the PGA Tour. He made the cut in only five of 24 events that year, and lost his tour card. From 2003 through 2006, he played on the Nationwide Tour, finishing well enough in 2006 to again qualify for the PGA Tour. His first victory came at the Verizon Heritage in April 2007.

Weekley's good form at the start of the 2007 season included two top 10 finishes before his victory, after which he reached a new career high of 55 in the Official World Golf Rankings. Later in 2007, he entered the top 50 of the rankings. He represented the United States at the 2007 OMEGA Mission Hills World Cup with Heath Slocum and finished in 2nd place.

In 2008, Weekley successfully defended his title at the Verizon Heritage, and rose into the top 25 of the rankings.

Weekley's nickname comes from Yogi Bear's sidekick, Boo Boo Bear.

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2008 Ryder Cup - Valhalla Kentucky USA

The Ryder Cup 2008

Valhalla Golf Club
Louisville, Kentucky, USA
September 19-21, 2008

USA vs. Europe
or PGA Tour vs European Tours

Team USA
Captain: Paul Azinger
Team Members
Phil Mickelson, Stewart Cink, Kenny Perry, Jim Furyk, Anthony Kim, Justin Leonard,Ben Curtis, Boo Weekley, Chad Campbell, J.B. Holmes, Hunter Mahan, Steve Stricker

Team Europe
Captain: Nicholas Alexander Faldo (Nick Faldo)
Team Members
Paul Casey, Sergio Garcia, Soren Hansen, Padraig Harrington, Miguel Angel Jimenez, Robert Karlsson, Graeme McDowell, Ian Poulter, Justin Rose, Henrik Stenson, Lee Westwood, Oliver Wilson

Ryder Cup Schedule (ET)
September 19, 2008
8:05 a.m. Foursomes Start
12:45 p.m. Fourball Start

September 20, 2008
8:05 a.m. Foursomes
12:45 p.m. Fourball---------

TV Coverage: NBC, ESPN, Starsport, CCTV5, ThiaTV7

Other Information

• Boooo Weekly
• First Day Results and Standings
• 2008 Ryder Cup Singles Pairings (Sunday Pairings)
  

Background
The Ryder Cup is a golf trophy, donated by Samuel Ryder, which is awarded biennially in an event called the "Ryder Cup Matches" between teams from Europe and the United States. The Matches are jointly administered by the PGA of America and the PGA European Tour.

The competition began following an exhibition match in 1926 of a team representing American professionals against a similar one representing the British PGA on the East Course, Wentworth Club, Virginia Water, Surrey, UK, with the first competition taking place in 1927.

Early matches between the two sides were fairly even, but after the Second World War, repeated US dominance led to a decision to extend the representation of the British & Irish team to Europe in 1979. This change was partly prompted by the success of a new generation of Spanish golfers of the time, including Severiano Ballesteros. He and Antonio Garrido were the first Spaniards to play in the event in 1979. Europe has also been represented since then by players from Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Sweden.

As a result of this change the event has enjoyed more competitive matches, with Europe winning seven times and retaining the Cup once, compared to six American wins.

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2008 PGA Championship - Oakland Hills Golf Club

2008 PGA Championship (90th)
August 7 - 10, 2008
Fourth Major of Year

Fourth Major no Tiger and open Olympic but cannot miss the PGA Championship.

Location:United States
Established: 1916
Course: Oakland Hills Country Club in 2008
Length:Par 70 Yardage 7,395
Tour: PGA Tour / PGA European Tour / Japan Golf Tour
Prize Fund: $7,000,000
Past Winner: Tiger Woods

Tournament Schedule
Field and Tee Time Official Site

TV Coverage: ESPN, StarSport, CCTV, Truesport4


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Background
The PGA Championship (U.S. PGA Championship) is an annual golf tournament conducted by the PGA of America as part of the PGA Tour. It is one of the four major championships in professional golf, and it is the golf season's final major, usually played in mid-August. Due to its distinction as the season's final major, the PGA Championship is nicknamed "Glory's last shot". It is an official money event on the PGA Tour, the European Tour, and the Japan Golf Tour, with a purse of $7 million.

In line with the other majors, winning "The PGA" gives a golfer several privileges which make his career much more secure, if he is not already one of the elite of the sport. PGA champions are automatically invited to play in the other three majors (the Masters, U.S. Open, and the Open Championship) for the next five years, and are exempt from qualifying for the PGA Championship for life. They also receive membership on the PGA Tour for the following five seasons and invitations to the Players Championship for five years.

The PGA Championship has been held at a large number of venues, some of the early ones now quite obscure, but currently it is usually staged by one of a small group of celebrated courses, each of which has also hosted several other leading events.

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Golf Live Score from PGA Tour

Golf Live Score
PGA Tour

Live Leaderboard from PGA Tour

World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational 2008

The 2008 World Golf Championships
Bridgestone Invitational
July 31 – August 3, 2008

Tournament: PGA Tour / PGA European Tour / Japan Golf Tour
Location: Akron, Ohio
Course: Firestone Country Club
Length: Par 70 / Yardage 7,400
Purse: $8,000,000
Official Site: WGC

Tee Time and Field : Official Site

TV Coverage
The 2008 World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational will be broadcast in over 200 countries. U.S Television broadcast by GOLF CHANNEL and CBS and outside Skysport GD sport CCTV TrueSport

Back Ground
The WGC-Bridgestone Invitational is one of the annual World Golf Championships for male professional golfers. It is sanctioned and organized by the International Federation of PGA Tours and the prize money is official money on both the PGA Tour and the PGA European Tour. The event, sponsored by NEC through 2005 and known as the WGC-NEC Invitational, was established in 1999 as a successor to the World Series of Golf, which was also sponsored by NEC.

The tournament changed sponsorship in 2006, with Bridgestone taking over from NEC as title sponsor. As a part of the five-year sponsorship agreement, the event will continue to be held at its traditional site of the Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio.

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137th The Open Championship

137th Open Championship

Royal Birkdale
Southport, Lancashire, England
Jul 17-20, 2008
Start Time 09.00(GMT)

The Open 137th comes to Royal Birkdale and is the ninth time. And no Tiger

Tour: PGATour, Europeantour, Asian Tour
Country: Lancashire England
Length: Par 70 Total 7173 yards
Past Winner: 2007-Padraig Harrington Prize Fund- € 6,162,532
: 2006-Tiger Woods


TV Coverage: BBC I/II , GD Sport / CCTV5 / StarSprot(not confirm)


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Background
The Open Championship, or simply The Open (sometimes referred to as the British Open outside the UK), is the oldest of the four major championships in men's golf. It is the only major held outside the USA and is administered by the R&A, which is the governing body of golf outside the U.S., Canada and Mexico. The Open is played on the weekend of the third Friday in July, and is the third major to take place each year following The Masters and the U.S. Open and before the PGA Championship. The event takes place every year on one of nine historic links courses in the United Kingdom. In 2007, The Open had a prize fund of £4.2 million (at the time, approximately €6.197 million or $8.638 million). Historically, The Open's prize money was consistently the least of the four majors; since 2002 it has been the highest. Uniquely among the four Major championships, the Open features a four hole playoff for all golfers tied at the end of regulation, with the playoff continuing into sudden death holes if players remain tied after four holes.

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Golf Tour This Week July 10-13,2008

Golf This Week
July 10-13, 2008

This is warm up for The Open 137th with Scottish Open.

LPGA Tour
Tournament: Jamie Far Owens Corning Classic
Club: Highland Meadows Golf Club
Country: Sylvania, O.H, USA.
Purse: $1,300,000
Par: 34-37, 71
Yardage: 6,428
Field & Pairing: Official Site
TV Coverage: ThaiTV7, CBS

European Tour
Tournament: The Barclays Scottish Open
Club: Loch Lomond
Country: Glasgow, Scotland
TV Coverage: TrueSport4


PGA Tour
Tournament: John Deere Classic
Club: TPC Deere Run
Country: Silvis IL, USA .
Purse: $4.2 million
Winner: $756,000
Field & Schedule: Official Site
TV Coverage: CBS

Rocco Mediate could win U.S. Open 2008 - Playoff Day 5

U.S. Open 2008
Play Off
Day 5
Time 11.00 (CET)

Rocco could won U.S. Open 2008 after round 4 and need playoff with Tiger.

TV Coverage: ESPN TCN and Starsport
Board band Media: PGA or USOPEN.org

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Rocco Mediate Biography

Rocco Anthony Mediate (born December 17, 1962) is an American professional golfer. Mediate was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of Greensburg, Pennsylvania. He attended Florida Southern College and turned professional in 1985.

Mediate's career has been dogged by back trouble and he started using a long putter early on because of this. In 1991 he became the first player to win on the PGA Tour using a long putter when he won the Doral-Ryder Open. He picked up another victory at the 1993 KMart Greater Greensboro Open, but he then had a long lay off due to a ruptured disk, but returned to the Tour in 1996 playing under a special medical extension and performed steadily. He picked up wins on the Tour in 1999, 2000 and 2002. He worked hard to improve his fitness to minimise his back problems, and in 2003 returned to using a conventional putter. He has featured in the top 20 of the Official World Golf Rankings. At the 2006 Masters, Mediate was in contention to win the event on the final day until he took a septuple-bogey ten on the par three 12th hole.

On October 9, 2006, it was announced that Rocco would become an on-course reporter for The Golf Channel's 2007 PGA Tour coverage. He played in the 2005 World Series of Poker's Main Event, as well as the 2001 Blem Classic of Las Vegas. He is also a distant cousin of D.C. United footballer Domenic Mediate.

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US Open 2008 Schedule

U.S. Open 2008
Golf Championship
June 12-15, 2008

Course: Torrey Pines GC
Place: La Jolla, California, USA
Par : 71
Yardage: 7,607
Tour(s): PGA Tour, European Tour
Format: Stroke play
Purse: $7,000,000
Past Winner: Angel Cabrera

TV Coverage: ESPN Starsport Truesport4


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Hot Topics From USOPEN.com

Woods To Play With Mickelson

The USGA released the top pairings Wednesday for the U.S. Open. In an unusual twist, Tiger Woods, coming off injury, will be paired with Phil Mickelson the first two rounds.
more..
For more information : Field & Pairings / Tee Time goto Official Site

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Background
United States Open Championship, commonly known as the U.S. Open, is the annual open golf tournament of the United States. It is staged by the United States Golf Association in mid-June, scheduled such that the final round is always played on the third Sunday, which is Father's Day. It is one of the four major championships in golf and is on the official schedule of both the PGA Tour and the European Tour. From 2008, it will also be an official money event on the Asian Tour, with 50% of Asian Tour members' earnings counting towards the Order of Merit.

The U.S. Open is staged at a variety of courses, set up in such a way that scoring is very difficult with a premium placed on accurate driving. Normally, an Open course is longer than normal and will have a high cut of rough (termed "Open rough" by the American press and fans), hilly greens (such as at Pinehurst No. 2 in 2005, which was described by Johnny Miller of NBC as "like trying to hit a ball on top of a VW Beetle"), and pinched fairways. Some courses that are attempting to get into the rotation for the U.S. Open will normally be rebuilt to have these features. Rees Jones is the most notable of the "Open Doctors" who take on these projects.

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Wales Open 2008 - European Tour

European Tour
The Celtic Manor Wales Open 2008
May 19 - Jube 1 , 2008

Club: The Celtic Manor Resort, Newport, Wales.
Format: Stroke play
Prize Fund: £1.8m First prize - £300,000
Past Winner

• 2007 Richard Sterne - South Africa
• 2006 Robert Karlsson - Sweden
• 2005 Miguel Ángel Jiménez - Spain
• 2004 Simon Khan - England

Field : Goto Official Site

TV Coverage: Sky TV

The Memorial Tournament 2008

The Memorial Tournament 2008
PGA Tour

Date : May 26 – Sunday Jun 1, 2008
Club: Muirfield Village Golf Club · Columbus, Ohio
Prize Fund: $6 million
Winning Share: $1,080,000
Par: 72
2007 Winner: K.J. Choi

Schedule
May 26, 2008 Practice Round
May 27, 2008 Practice Round / Jack Nicklaus Golf Clinic
May 28, 2008 Practice Round

May 29-June 1, 2008 The Memorial Tournament

Field 75 player goto PGATour.com



Background

The Memorial Tournament is a PGA Tour golf tournament which is closely associated with Jack Nicklaus. It is played on a Nicklaus-designed course at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio, a suburb of Nicklaus' home town of Columbus. The golf course passes through a large neighborhood called Muirfield Village. There is a statue of Jack Nicklaus teaching a young child how to golf along Muirfield Drive.

As a restricted field event on the PGA Tour, only the first 75 players on the previous years money-list are guaranteed invites.


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Golf Schedule This Week May 15-18, 2008

Golf Tournament This Week
May 15-18, 2008

European Tour
Tournament : Irish Open
Place: Adare Manor Hotel & Golf Resort, Ireland.
Prize Fund:€2,500,000

PGA Tour
Tournament: AT&T Classic
Place: TPC Sugarloaf, Duluth, GA, USA .
Prize Fund:$5,500,000

LPGA Tour
Tournament : Sybase Classic presented by ShopRite
Place: Upper Montclair Country Club, Clifton, N.J, USA.
Prize Fund:$2,000,000

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Golf Channel This Week May 8-11, 2008

Golf Tour
May 8-11, 2008

PGA Tour
Tournament: THE PLAYERS Championship
Club: TPC Sawgrass (THE PLAYERS Stadium Course), Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, USA .
Prize Fund:$9 million
The Player Championship Field: Goto Official Site
Tee Time & Live Leader board: Official Site

European Tour
Tournament: Methorios Capital Italian Open
Club: Castello di Tolcinasco G & CC, Milan, Italy.
Prize Fund: €1,700,000

LPGA Tour
Tournament: Michelob ULTRA Open at Kingsmill
Club: Kingsmill Resort & Spa, River Course, Williamsburg, V.A, USA.

Golf Tournament This Week May 1-4, 2008

Golf Tournaments
May 1-4, 2008

LPGA Tour: SemGroup Championship Presented By John Q. Hammons
Club: Cedar Ridge Country Club, Broken Arrow, O.K. USA.

USPGA Tour: Wachovia Championship
Club: Quail Hollow Club, Charlotte, NC, USA .
Prize Fund: $6.4 million
Winner: $1,152,000
Official Site: www.wachoviachampionship.com
Tee Times & Fields: www.wachoviachampionship.com
Live Leaderboard: www.pgatour.com

European Tour: Open de Espana,
Club: Real Club de Golf de Sevilla, Seville, Spain.
Prize Fund: €2,000,000
Entry List go to Official Site: www.europeantour.com

Asian Tour: GS Caltex Maekyung Open
Club: Nam Seoul GC, Seoul, Korea (South).

Golf Standford International Pro-Am 2008 - Pairings (Tee Times)f

Golf LPGA Tour
Standford International Pro-Am 2008
Pairings (Tee Times)
April 24, 2008

Round 1 Pairings
Tee #1
7:30 AM Kate Golden / Eun-Hee Ji
7:40 AM Gloria Park / Allison Fouch
7:50 AM Patricia Meunier-Lebouc / Soo-Yun Kang
8:00 AM Dorothy Delasin / Shi Hyun Ahn
8:10 AM Karine Icher / Giulia Sergas
8:20 AM Beth Bader / Su A Kim
8:30 AM Kyeong Bae / Seo-Jae Lee
8:40 AM Nicole Perrot / Jan Stephenson
8:50 AM Silvia Cavalleri / Jane Park
9:00 AM Jin Joo Hong / Louise Friberg
9:20 AM Hee-Won Han / Meena Lee
9:30 AM Momoko Ueda / Pat Hurst
9:40 AM Jee Young Lee / Sung Ah Yim
9:50 AM Lorie Kane / Grace Park

For Full Pairings and Tee Times go to Official Site
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Golf PGA Tour Nelson Championship 2008 Tee Times

Golf PGA Tour
EDS Byron Nelson Championship 2008
Tee Times
April 24, 2008

Tee #1
7:15 am Perez, Pat Quinney, Jeff Merrick, John
7:25 am Bohn, Jason Na, Kevin Garrigus, Robert
7:34 am Palmer, Ryan Scherrer, Tom Wi, Charlie
7:44 am Mahan, Hunter Senden, John Perry, Kenny
7:53 am Campbell, Chad Calcavecchia, Mark Maggert, Jeff
8:03 am Goydos, Paul Wetterich, Brett Pampling, Rod
8:12 am Kraft, Greg Gay, Brian Watney, Nick
8:22 am Estes, Bob McGovern, Jim Frazar, Harrison
8:31 am Quigley, Brett Van Pelt, Bo Green, Nathan
8:41 am Davis, Brian Uresti, Omar Stadler, Kevin
8:50 am Whittaker, Ron Turnesa, Marc Lutterus, David
9:00 am Yang, Y.E. Adamonis, Brad Gainey, Tommy
9:09 am Bolli, Justin Allred, Jason Park, Jin

Tee #10
7:15 am Maruyama, Shigeki Sutherland, Kevin Gove, Jeff
7:25 am Kuchar, Matt Jacobson, Fredrik Ridings, Tag
7:34 am Beem, Rich McCarron, Scott Imada, Ryuji
7:44 am Sabbatini, Rory Hoffman, Charley Herron, Tim
7:53 am Immelman, Trevor Chopra, Daniel Durant, Joe
8:03 am Wagner, Johnson Rollins, John Donald, Luke
8:12 am Verplank, Scott Wilson, Mark Matteson, Troy
8:22 am Franco, Carlos Crane, Ben Hart, Dudley
8:31 am Parnevik, Jesper Goggin, Mathew Armour, Ryan
8:41 am Pernice, Jr., Tom Azinger, Paul Kresge, Cliff
8:50 am Thatcher, Roland Sim, Michael Laird, Martin
9:00 am Jones, Matt Mills, Jon Sterling, Scott
9:09 am Streelman, Kevin Canizares, Alejandro Knost, Colt

For Full Tee Times goto Official Site
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The Players Championship 2008 - Fifth Major

The Players Championship is an annual golf tournament on the PGA Tour. The inaugural event in 1974 was played at Atlanta Country Club in Marietta, Georgia before moving to Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas in 1975 and Inverrary Country Club in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida in 1976. Beginning in 1977, the event relocated to Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, first being played at Sawgrass Country Club's Oceanside Course (a combination of the "East" and "West" 9-hole courses). Since 1982 it has been played across the road from Sawgrass Country Club, on the Stadium Course at the "Tournament Players Club at Sawgrass" (usually referred to as the TPC at Sawgrass; it is not uncommon for "TPC" in this context to be conflated with "The Players Championship" because they happen to have the same initials).

The Players Championship offers the highest prize fund of any tournament in golf ($8 million 2004-06, $9 million in 2007), and is sometimes referred to by certain sections of the North American media as the "Fifth Major", but it does not have official major status. The field usually includes the top fifty golfers in the world rankings, but unlike the three majors which are staged in the U.S., it does not count as an official event on the European Tour, which has the Deutsche Bank Players Championship of Europe, although it is an imperfect parallel. The winner receives a fixed allocation of 40 points towards his Official World Golf Ranking, which is the most allocated to any event apart from the majors, in which winners earn 50 points. For comparison, the winners of the three individual World Golf Championships generally receive between 35 and 39 points. The winner of The Players Championship also receives a 5 year exemption on the PGA Tour, a 3 year invitation to The Masters, a 3 year exemption for the British Open, and an exemption to the U.S. Open and the PGA Championship for that year.

The Players Championship can be further distinguished from the "Majors" in that it is owned and administered by the PGA Tour. In contrast, The Masters is owned by the Augusta National Golf Club, the U.S. Open by the USGA, the British Open by the R&A, and the PGA Championship by the PGA of America.

The Players Championship is best known for what may be the single most recognizable par 3 in professional golf, the Stadium Course's 17th hole, known to golf fans worldwide as "the Island Green" and what has become TPC Sawgrass' signature hole.

The Players Championship had been played in late March for most of its existence, two weeks before The Masters. In 2007 it was moved to mid-May, as part of a restructuring of the PGA Tour. This restructuring involved the introduction of the lucrative FedEx Cup, which concludes with the Tour Championship, now played six weeks earlier, in mid-September. This gives the PGA Tour a marquee event in six consecutive months (The Masters in April, the U.S. Open in June, the British Open in July, and the PGA Championship in August). [1]

Following the 2006 event, the course underwent a major renovation, which received very positive reviews from the players in 2007.

With the rearrangement of 2007, the final round of The Players Championship is scheduled for the second Sunday of May, Mother's Day. This parallels the U.S. Open, which concludes on the third Sunday of June, Father's Day.

For 2008
Date: May 8 – 11, 2008
Place: TPC Sawgrass Ponte Vedra Beach, FL


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Golf Schedule This Week April 24-27, 2008

Golf Schedules
April 24-27, 2008

PGA Tour
Tournament: EDS Byron Nelson Championship
Place: TPC Four Seasons Resort, Irving, TX, USA .
Purse: $6,400,000

European Tour and Asian Tour
Tournament: BMW Asian Open
Place: Tomson Shanghai Pudong GC, Shanghai, China.
Prize Fund: $2,300,000

European Challenge Tour
Tournament: AGF-Allianz Open Cotes d'Armor Bretagne
Place: Golf Blue Green de Pleneuf Val Andre, France.

LPGA Tour
Tournament: Standford International Pro-Am
Place: Fairmont Turnberry Isle Resort & Club, Soffer and Miller Courses / City: Aventura, FL
Prize: $2,000,000
Format: 112 LPGA Professionals with 112 amateurs in a 54-hole stroke play tournament
Official Site: www.stanfordinternationalproam.com

Verizon Heritage 2008 First Round Tee Times

PGA Tour
Verizon Heritage
April 14-20 20, 2008
Harbour Town Golf Links · Hilton Head Island, S.C.

Prize Fund: $5.5 million
FedExCup Points: 25,000
Official Site: www.verizonheritage.com or www.pgatour.com
Live scoring : PGA Leaderboard


Tee #1
Time Players (Local Time
7:20 am Jobe, Brandt O'Hern, Nick Duke, Ken
7:30 am Gamez, Robert Pernice, Jr., Tom Fasth, Niclas
7:40 am Janzen, Lee Sheehan, Patrick Kim, Anthony
7:50 am Wilson, Dean Pampling, Rod Allenby, Robert
8:00 am Funk, Fred Rollins, John Maggert, Jeff
8:10 am Axley, Eric Curtis, Ben Pavin, Corey
8:20 am Chopra, Daniel Leonard, Justin DiMarco, Chris
8:30 am Taylor, Vaughn Lickliter II, Frank Azinger, Paul
8:40 am Beckman, Cameron Clark, Tim Baird, Briny
8:50 am Petrovic, Tim Coceres, Jose Riegger, John
9:00 am Stroud, Chris Johnson, Dustin Mills, Jon

Tee #10
7:20 am Hayes, J.P. Kuchar, Matt Moore, Ryan
7:30 am Rose, Justin Green, Nathan Kresge, Cliff
7:40 am Mediate, Rocco Goggin, Mathew Quinney, Jeff
7:50 am Ames, Stephen McNeill, George Bateman, Brian
8:00 am Holmes, J.B. Trahan, D.J. Lehman, Tom
8:10 am Bryant, Bart Cink, Stewart Hamilton, Todd
8:20 am Campbell, Chad MacKenzie, Will Herron, Tim
8:30 am Brooks, Mark Villegas, Camilo Bertsch, Shane
8:40 am Hensby, Mark Lewis, J.L. Barlow, Craig
8:50 am Thatcher, Roland Streelman, Kevin Sanders, Curt
9:00 am Driscoll, James Yang, Y.E. Reavie, Chez

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Golf This Week April 17-20, 2008

World Golf Schedule
April 17-20, 2008

April 2008
17 - 20 USPGA: FedEx
Verizon Heritage , Harbour Town Golf Links, Hilton Head Island,
USA

17 - 20 European/Asian Tour: Volvo China Open
Beijing CBD International GC.

17 - 20 LPGA Tour: Ginn Open
Ginn Reunion Resort, Orlando, F.L, USA.

Masters 2008 Final Results

The Masters 2008 Results

-8 Trevor Immelman (SA) € 857,957.64

-5 Tiger Woods € 514,774.58

-4 Stewart Cink, Brandt Snedeker € 276,453.02

-2 Steve Flesch, Padraig Harrington (Ire), Phil Mickelson € 173,974.74

-1 Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spa), Robert Karlsson (Swe), Andres Romero (Arg)

level Paul Casey (Eng), Nick Watney, Lee Westwood (Eng)

+1 Stuart Appleby (Aus), Sean O'Hair, Vijay Singh (Fij)

+2 Retief Goosen (SA), Henrik Stenson (Swe), Mike Weir (Can)

+3 Bubba Watson

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2008 The Masters Round 1 Results

ROUND 1 Results
April 10, 2008

The Masters 2008 round one results Leader are Immelman and Justin Rose at 4 underpar. For Tiger Woods is struggle on par 72.

Leader / Name / Nation / Score
1 Immelman / SA / 68 / -4
1 Rose / Eng / 68 / -4
3 Westwood Eng 69 -3
3 Bateman US 69 -3
3 Snedeker US 69 -3
6 Poulter Eng 70 -2
6 Ames Can 70 -2
6 Z Johnson US 70 -2
6 Karlsson Swe 70 -2
6 Furyk US 70 -2
11 JM Singh Ind 71 -1
11 Oberholser US 71 -1
11 Lonard Aus 71 -1
11 O'Meara US 71 -1
11 Slocum US 71 -1
11 Mickelson US 71 -1
11 Casey Eng 71 -1
11 Goosen SA 71 -1

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The Masters Augusta 2008 - Tee Time April 10, 2008

2008 The Masters Augusta
Tee Times
April 10, 2008

8:00 a.m. Ben Curtis, Shaun Micheel
8:11 a.m. Fuzzy Zoeller, Brett Wetterich, Heath Slocum
8:22 a.m. Mark O'Meara, Tripp Kuehne, Ian Poulter
8:33 a.m. Larry Mize, Peter Lonard, Hunter Mahan
8:44 a.m. Gary Player, Miguel Jimenez, D.J. Trahan
8:55 a.m. Justin Leonard, Charles Howell III, Nick Watney
9:06 a.m. Scott Verplank, Robert Allenby, Michael Campbell
9:17 a.m. Ben Crenshaw, Michael Thompson, Nick O'Hern
9:28 a.m. Steve Lowery, Robert Karlsson, Nick Dougherty
9:39 a.m. Fred Couples, Jerry Kelly, Anders Hansen
9:50 a.m. Vaughn Taylor, Martin Kaymer, Arron Oberholser
10:12 a.m. Jose Maria Olazabal, Liang Wen-Chong, Rory Sabbatini
10:23 a.m. Zach Johnson, Luke Donald, Geoff Ogilvy
10:34 a.m. Mike Weir, Padraig Harrington, Jeev Milkha Singh
10:45 a.m. Tiger Woods, Angel Cabrera, Stuart Appleby
10:56 a.m. Justin Rose, Henrik Stenson, Toru Taniguchi
11:07 a.m. Todd Hamilton, Brian Bateman
11:18 a.m. Craig Stadler, Johnson Wagner, Steve Flesch
11:29 a.m. Ian Woosnam, Richard Green, Stephen Ames
11:40 a.m. Boo Weekley, Trevor Immelman, Sean O'Hair
11:51 a.m. Sandy Lyle, John Rollins J.B. Holmes
12:02 p.m. Soren Hansen, Daniel Chopra, Richard Sterne
12:24 p.m. Tom Watson, Brandt Snedeker, John Senden
12:35 p.m. Tim Clark, David Toms, Niclas Fasth
12:46 p.m. Raymond Floyd, Drew Weaver, Jonathan Byrd
12:57 p.m. Bernhard Langer, Prayad Marksaeng, Woody Austin
1:08 p.m. Bubba Watson, Sergio Garcia, Mark Calcavecchia
1:19 p.m. Adam Scott, Paul Casey, Retief Goosen
1:30 p.m. Vijay Singh, Steve Stricker, Stewart Cink
1:41 p.m. Phil Mickelson, Andres Romero, K.J. Choi
1:52 p.m. Ernie Els, Shingo Katayama, Jim Furyk
2:03 p.m. Aaron Baddeley, Camilo Villegas, Lee Westwood

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Kraft Nabisco Championship 2008

Kraft Nabisco Championship 2008

Dates: 03-6 Apr 2008
Prize: $2,000,000
Format: 72 holes
Established : 1972
Course: Mission Hills Country Club
Tour: LPGA Tour Major Championship

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The Masters Tournament 2008 - Augusta

Background
The Masters Tournament, which is commonly referred to as The Masters or The US Masters (outside the United States), is one of four major championships in men's professional golf and the first of the four to be played each year. The final round of the Masters is always scheduled for the second Sunday in April. Unlike the other major championships, the Masters is held every year at the same location, Augusta National Golf Club, a private golf club in the city of Augusta, Georgia, USA. The Masters was started by Clifford Roberts and Bobby Jones,[1] who designed Augusta National with legendary course architect Alister MacKenzie.

The Masters is an official money event on the PGA Tour, the PGA European Tour and the Japan Golf Tour. In line with the other majors, winning the Masters gives a golfer several privileges which make his career more secure. Masters champions are automatically invited to play in the other three majors (the U.S. Open, the Open Championship (British Open), and the PGA Championship) for the next five years, and earn a lifetime invitation to the Masters. They also receive membership on the PGA Tour for the following five seasons and invitations to the Players Championship for five years. In 2007, the prize fund was US$7.25 million.


Tournament information
Location : Augusta, Georgia, USA
Established: 1934
Course(s) : Augusta National Golf Club Par 72
Yardage: 7,445
Tour(s) : PGA Tour / PGA European Tour / Japan Golf Tour
Prize: $7,250,000 (€5,423,535)
Tournament record score : 270 Tiger Woods (1997)

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Golf WGC-CA Championships Doral 2008

World Golf Championship
CA Championship

Doral Golf Resort & Spa
Doral, Florida, USA

Date: 20 Mar 2008 - 23 Mar 2008

Tournament information
Location: Doral, Florida
Established: 1999
Course(s): Doral Golf Resort & Spa
Par : 72
Yardage: 7,266
Tour(s) : PGA Tour PGA European Tour
Format : Stroke play
Fund: $8,000,000

Prize Fund
1 € 865,160
2 € 512,687
3 € 288,386
4 € 217,892
5 € 182,644
6 € 150,601
7 € 121,763
8 € 108,946
9 € 99,333
10 € 89,720

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Maybank Malaysian Open Live Day3

Golf
PGA European Tour & Asian Tour
Maybank Malaysian Open
Kota Permai GC
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

06 Mar 2008 - 09 Mar 2008

Kota Permai Golf and Country Club was opened for play in 1998 and was the home of the previous Volvo Masters of Malaysia for four years, and its forerunner the Volvo Masters of Asia in 2002 and 2004. Designed by Australian architect Ross Watson, the championship layout has a challenging mix of holes to test the very best of golfers. The course was the stage for the Fortis International Challenge in 2007 as it will now serve as the platform for the 2008 Maybank Malaysian Open.

Course record: Simon Yates (Sco) nine-under-par 63 (1999 Volvo Masters of Asia)
Past winners
2007: Peter Hedblom (Swe)
2006: Charlie Wi (Kor)
2005: Thongchai Jaidee (Tha)
2004: Thongchai Jaidee (Tha)
2003: Arjun Atwal (Ind)
2002: Alistair Forsyth (Sco)
2001: Vijay Singh (Fij)
2000: Yeh Wei-tze (Tpe)
1999: Gerry Norquist (USA)
1998: Edward Fryatt (USA)
1997: Lee Westwood (Eng)

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Tanah Merah Country Club
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Golf Schedule This Week 28 Feb - 2 Mar, 2008

This week have Golf tournament on interesting fellow
PGA Tour
FedEx: The Honda Classic, PGA National (Champion Course), Palm Beach Gardens, FL, USA.

LPGA Tour
HSBC Women's Championships, Tanah Merah Country Club, Singapore.

PGA European Tour
Johnnie Walker Classic, DLF Golf and Country Club, New Delhi, India.

Free Watch Live WGC - Accenture Match Play Day 1 Feb 20, 2008

WGC Accenture Match Play Championship 2008
Round 1
Start 02.00 (GMT+7)

Match 1 Sergio Garcia, Spain vs John Senden, Australia
Match 2 Martin Kaymer, Germany vs Boo Weekley, United States
Match 3 Padraig Harrington, Ireland vs Jerry Kelly, United States
Match 4 Stewart Cink, United States vs Miguel A. Jimenez, Spain
Match 5 K.J. Choi, South Korea vs Camilo Villegas,Columbia
Match 6 Ian Poulter, England vs Soren Hansen, Denmark
Match 7 Vijay Singh, Fiji vs Peter Hanson, Sweden
Match 8 Niclas Fasth, Sweden vs Richard Green, Australia
Match 9 Adam Scott, Australia vs Brendan Jones, Australia
Match 10 Toru Taniguchi, Japan vs Woody Austin, United States
Match 11 Jim Furyk, United States vs Colin Montgomerie, Scotland
Match 12 Stephen Ames, Canada vs Charles Howell III, United States
Match 13 Rory Sabbatini, South Africa vs Bradley Dredge, Wales
Match 14 Paul Casey, England vs Robert Karlsson, Sweden
Match 15 Justin Rose, England vs Rod Pampling, Australia
Match 16 Scott Verplank, United States vs Nick O'Hern, Australia
Match 17 Henrik Stenson, Sweden vs Robert Allenby, Australia
Match 18 Trevor Immelman, South Africavs Shingo Katayama, Japan
Match 19 Angel Cabrera, Argentina vs Anders Hansen, Denmark
Match 20 Luke Donald, England vs Nick Dougherty, England
Match 21 Zach Johnson, United States vs David Toms, United States
Match 22 Aaron Baddeley, Australia vs Mark Calcavecchia, United States
Match 23 Geoff Ogilvy, Australia vs Justin Leonard, United States
Match 24 Lee Westwood, England vs Brandt Snedeker, United States
Match 25 Ernie Els, South Africa vs Jonathan Byrd, United States
Match 26 Retief Goosen, South Africa vs Andres Romero, Argentina
Match 27 Steve Stricker, United States vs Daniel Chopra, Sweden
Match 28 Richard Sterne, South Africa vs Hunter Mahan, United States
Match 29 Tiger Woods, United States vs J.B. Holmes, United States
Match 30 Mike Weir, Canada vs Arron Oberholser, United States
Match 31 Phil Mickelson, United States vs Pat Perez, United States
Match 32 Stuart Appleby, Australia vs Tim Clark, South Africa

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The WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship 2008

The WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship is one of the annual World Golf Championships for male professional golfers. It is a knockout event and is staged in January or February each year. It is sponsored by and named after Accenture, a consulting firm.

From its inauguration in 1999 through 2006 it was hosted every year by La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, California, except in 2001, when it was hosted by the Metropolitan Golf Club in Victoria, Australia.

In 2007 the event moved to The Gallery Golf Club in Marana, Arizona, a rural community surrounding Tucson, for at least four years. All three of the individual World Golf Championships events will be played in the United States from 2007, which has attracted criticism from some golfers, including Tiger Woods and Ernie Els, and in the media outside the United States. PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem has responded by insisting that playing in the U.S. is best for golf as more money can be made there than elsewhere.

The Championship is a single elimination match play event. The field consists of the top 64 players available from the Official World Golf Rankings, seeded according to the rankings. The prize money for 2007 was $8 million, with the winner taking $1.35 million (both figures U.S. dollars) and the Walter Hagen Cup. Prize money is official on both the PGA Tour and the European Tour. All matches leading up to the final match are 18 holes, while the final match is 36 holes. In addition, the losers of the semifinal matches play an 18-hole consolation match for third place.

It is the successor event of the Andersen Consulting World Championship of Golf, a 32-man, unofficial money, match play event played from 1995 to 1998.

WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship
Tournament information
Location	Marana, Arizona
Established	1999
Course(s)	The Gallery Golf Club
Par	72
Yardage	7,351
Tour(s)	PGA Tour European Tour
Format	Match play
Purse	$8,000,000
Month Played	February
Tournament record score
Score	9 & 8 Tiger Woods (2006)
Current champion
Henrik Stenson

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What is World Golf Championships - WGC

The World Golf Championships are a group of three annual events for male professional golfers created by the International Federation of PGA Tours, which are official money events on the PGA Tour, the European Tour and the Japan Golf Tour:

• WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship
• WGC-CA Championship
• WGC-Bridgestone Invitational (NEC Invitational prior to 2006)

These events all began in 1999, although the Bridgestone Invitational is the direct successor of the World Series of Golf, which began in 1976. The CA Championship superseded a long-standing event at the Doral Resort in Florida after the 2006 season. It previously traveled to different venues around the world. The objective was to create a larger group of golf tournaments with a high global profile by bringing the leading golfers from different tours together on a more regular basis, rather than just for the major championships. At the time the publicity spoke of a "World Tour" which might develop on the basis of the World Championships and the majors. That concept seems to have been dropped, but the three events usually attract entries from almost all of the elite players who are eligible to compete and they rank among the most prestigious and high profile events outside of the majors. The prize money on offer is very close to being the highest for any professional golf tournament. Winners generally receive 70 to 78 Official World Golf Ranking Points, the most awarded for any tournament apart from the major championships, which carry 100 points, and The Players Championship, which is allocated 80.^[1] Tiger Woods has dominated these tournaments, winning 14 of the first 26 events and winning at least one event each year since their inception.

From 2000 to 2006 the men's golf World Cup, a tournament for teams of two players representing their country was a World Golf Championship event, although it was not an official money event on any tour. Beginning in 2007 it is no longer part of the World Golf Championships, but it is still played, and is currently known as the Mission Hills World Cup.

From 2000 to 2006 most years two or three of the four events were staged in the United States and one or two were staged elsewhere. All three of the individual World Golf Championships events will be played in the United States from 2007, which has attracted criticism from some golfers, including Tiger Woods and Ernie Els, and in the media outside the United States. PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem has responded by insisting that playing in the U.S is best for golf as more money can be made there than elsewhere. and have stated that they would like to add a new WGC individual event in China, which will start in 2008 at the earliest, and more likely in 2009.

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Free Watch Live Enjoy Jakarta Indonesia Open - Day One

Enjoy Jakarta Astro Indonesia Open
Feb 14 - 17

Prize Fund
$1,200,000

ABOUT THE COURSE

Cengkareng Golf Club was designed by Walter Raleigh Stewart and opened for play in 1999. Located in Soewarno Business Park next to the Jakarta International Airport.

Card of the Course

HOLE	YARDS	PAR	HOLE	YARDS	PAR
1	504	4	10	374	4
2	388	4	11	296	4
3	319	4	12	218	3
4	113	3	13	435	4
5	407	4	14	477	4
6	501	5	15	411	4
7	351	4	16	402	4
8	179	3	17	154	3
9	497	5	18	373	4

Past Champions

2007: Mikko Ilonen (Fin)

2006: Simon Dyson (Eng)

2005: Thaworn Wiratchant (Tha)

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Free Watch Live Golf This Week 7-10, 2008

Emaar-MGF Indian Masters
Delhi GC Delhi, India - $2,500,000
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ABOUT THE COURSE
The Delhi Golf Club was built in 1931 and was redesigned by Australian Peter Thomson in 1976, who went on to win his third national Open title that same year. Thomson’s work was reflected through the creation of two courses, the championship course (Lodhi) and the short course (Peacock).

The par four 445 yards ninth hole is the signature hole of the Club. It has a Champagne glass fairway with the green surrounded by bunkers. The 18th hole provides for a tricky finish with bunkers protecting the green.

The jungle is a unique feature of the Club. Players will be surrounded by hundreds of tree and bird species as they walk the narrow fairways and onto the greens which are fairly large in size. Another unique feature is that historical monuments are very much part of the course layout.

Course record: Shiv Kapur (Ind) 10-under-par 62, 2007

Men's major championships

Men's major championships

The major championships are the four most prestigious men's tournaments of the year. In chronological order they are: The Masters, the U.S. Open, The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open) and the PGA Championship.

The fields for these events include the top several dozen golfers from all over the world. The Masters has been played at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia since its inception in 1934. It is the only major championship that is played at the same course each year. The U.S. Open and PGA Championship are played at courses around the United States, while The Open Championship is played at courses in the UK.

The number of major championships a player accumulates in his career has an impact on his stature in the sport. Jack Nicklaus is considered to be one of the greatest golfers of all time, largely because he has won a record 18 professional majors, or 20 majors in total if his two U.S. Amateurs are included. Tiger Woods, who may be the only golfer in the foreseeable future likely to challenge Nicklaus's record, has won 13 professional majors (16 total if his three U.S. Amateurs are included), all before the age of 32. (To put this total in perspective, Nicklaus had won nine professional majors and two U.S. Amateurs at the same age, and did not win his 13th professional major until he was 35.) Woods also came closest to winning all four current majors in one season (known as a Grand Slam completed first by Bobby Jones) when he won them consecutively across two seasons: the 2000 U.S. Open, Open Championship, and PGA Championship; and the 2001 Masters. This feat has been frequently called the Tiger Slam.

Prior to the advent of the PGA Championship and The Masters, the four Majors were the U.S. Open, the U.S. Amateur, the Open Championship, and the British Amateur. These are the four that Bobby Jones won in 1930 to become the only player ever to have earned a Grand Slam.

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Women's major championships

Women's golf does not have a globally agreed set of majors. The list of majors recognized by the dominant women's tour, the LPGA Tour in the U.S., has changed several times over the years, with the last change in 2001. Like the PGA Tour, the (U.S.) LPGA has four majors: the Kraft Nabisco Championship, the LPGA Championship, the U.S. Women's Open and the Women's British Open. Only the last of these is also recognized by the Ladies European Tour. The other event that it recognizes as a major is the Evian Masters, which is not considered a major by the LPGA (but is co-sanctioned as a regular LPGA event). However, the significance of this is limited, as the LPGA is far more dominant in women's golf than the PGA Tour is in mainstream men's golf. For example, the BBC has been known to use the U.S. definition of "women's majors" without qualifying it. Also, the Ladies' Golf Union, the governing body for women's golf in the UK and Republic of Ireland, states on its official website that the Women's British Open is "the only Women’s Major to be played outside the U.S." For its part, the Ladies European Tour tacitly acknowledges the dominance of the LPGA Tour by not scheduling any of its own events to conflict with the three LPGA majors played in the U.S. The second-richest women's tour, the LPGA of Japan Tour, does not recognize any of the U.S. LPGA or European majors as it has its own set of three majors. However, these events attract little notice outside Japan.

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Professional golf - Golf tours

There are at least twenty professional golf tours, each run by a PGA or an independent tour organisation, which is responsible for arranging events, finding sponsors, and regulating the tour. Typically a tour has "members" who are entitled to compete in most of its events, and also invites non-members to compete in some of them. Gaining membership of an elite tour is highly competitive, and most professional golfers never achieve it.

The most widely known tour is the PGA Tour, which attracts the best golfers from all the other men's tours. This is due mostly to the fact that most PGA Tour events have a first prize of at least USD 800,000. The European Tour, which attracts a substantial number of top golfers from outside North America, ranks second to the PGA Tour in worldwide prestige. Some top professionals from outside North America play enough tournaments to maintain membership on both the PGA Tour and European Tour. There are several other men's tours around the world.

Golf is unique in having lucrative competition for older players. There are several senior tours for men 50 and older, the best known of which is the U.S.-based Champions Tour.

There are six principal tours for women, each based in a different country or continent. The most prestigious of these is the United States based LPGA Tour.

All of the leading professional tours for under-50 players have an official developmental tour, in which the leading players at the end of the season will earn a tour card on the main tour for the following season. Examples include the Nationwide Tour, which feeds to the PGA Tour, and the Challenge Tour, which is the developmental tour of the European Tour.

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History of Golf

Old Course St. Andrews Scotland 1891

Golf is a very old game of which the exact origins are unclear. The origin of golf is open to debate as to being Chinese, Dutch or Scottish. However, the most accepted golf history theory is that this sport originated from Scotland in the 1100s.

A game somewhat similar to golf was first mentioned in Dōngxuān Records , a Chinese book of 11th Century. It was also mentioned on February 26, 1297 in the Netherlands in a city called Loenen aan de Vecht. Here the Dutch played a game with a stick and leather ball. Whoever hit the ball into a target several hundreds of meters away the most number of times, won.

However, modern golf is considered to be a Scottish invention, as the game was mentioned in two 15th century laws prohibiting the playing of the game of gowf. Some scholars have suggested that this refers to another game which is more akin to modern shinty, hurling or field hockey than golf. A game of putting a small ball in a hole in the ground using clubs was played in 17th century Netherlands. The word golf derives from the Dutch kolf meaning stick, club or bat (see: Kolven). Flourishing trade over the North Sea during the Middle Ages and early Modern Period led to much language interaction between Scots, Dutch, Flemish and other languages. There are reports of even earlier accounts of golf from continental Europe.

The oldest playing golf course in the world is The Musselburgh Old Links Golf Course. Evidence has shown that golf was played here in 1672 although Mary, Queen of Scots reputedly played there in 1567.

Golf courses have not always had eighteen holes. The St Andrews Links occupy a narrow strip of land along the sea. As early as the 15th century, golfers at St Andrews, in Fife, established a customary route through the undulating terrain, playing to holes whose locations were dictated by topography. The course that emerged featured eleven holes, laid out end to end from the clubhouse to the far end of the property. One played the holes out, turned around, and played the holes in, for a total of 22 holes. In 1764, several of the holes were deemed too short, and were therefore combined. The number was thereby reduced from 11 to nine, so that a complete round of the links was comprised of 18 holes.

The major changes in equipment since the 19th century have been better mowers, especially for the greens, better golf ball designs, using rubber and man-made materials since about 1900, and the introduction of the metal shaft beginning in the 1930s. Also in the 1930s the wooden golf tee was invented. In the 1970s the use of steel and then titanium to replace wood heads began, and shafts made of "graphite" (also known as carbon fiber) were introduced in the 1980s. Though wooden tees are still most popular, various designs of plastic tees have been developed in recent years, and the synthetic materials composing the modern ball continue to be developed.

Golf balls are famous for "dimples". These small dips in the surface of the golf ball decrease aerodynamic drag which allows the ball to fly further. Golf is also famous for the use of flags. These show the position of the hole to players when they make their first drive and are too far away from the hole to aim accurately. When all players in a group are within putting distance, the flag is removed by a "caddy" or a fellow player to allow for easier access to the hole.

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What is The mean of Golf

The word golf was first mentioned in writing in 1457 on a Scottish statute on forbidden games as gouf, possibly derived from the Scots word goulf (variously spelled) meaning "to strike or cuff". This word may, in turn, be derived from the Dutch word kolf, meaning "bat," or "club," and the Dutch sport of the same name. It is often claimed that the word originated as an acronym for "gentlemen only, ladies forbidden", but this is an urban legend.

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What is Golf Sport

Golf is a sport in which a player, using several types of clubs, hits a ball into each hole on the golf course in the lowest possible number of strokes. Golf is one of the few ball games that does not use a standardised playing area; rather, the game is played on golf "courses," each one of which has a unique design and typically consists of either 9 or 18 separate holes. Golf is defined in the Rules of Golf as "playing a ball with a club from the teeing ground into the hole by a stroke or successive strokes in accordance with the Rules."

The first game of golf for which records survive was played at Bruntsfield Links, in Edinburgh, Scotland, in A.D. 1456, recorded in the archives of the Edinburgh Burgess Golfing Society, now The Royal Burgess Golfing Society. Golf has become a worldwide sport, with golf courses in the majority of countries.

Golf competition may be played as stroke play, in which the individual with the lowest number of strokes is declared the winner, or as match play with the winner determined by whichever individual or team posts the lower score on the most individual holes during a complete round. In addition, team events such as fourball have been introduced, and these can be played using either the stroke or matchplay format. Alternative ways to play golf have also been introduced, such as miniature golf and disc golf.

Golf has increasingly turned into a spectator sport, with several different levels of professional and amateur tours in many regions of the world. People such as Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus and Annika Sorenstam have become well recognized sportspeople across the world. Sponsorship has also become a huge part of the sport and players often earn more from their sponsorship contracts than they do from the sport itself.

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