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Golf Schedule This Week 28 Feb - 2 Mar, 2008

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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
15:00-19:00 07 Feb 2008 - 10 Feb 2008 -----Live Here with Sopcast Player

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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