Masters Golf Tournament 2009

The Masters Tournament 2009
Augusta National Golf Club
April 6-12, 2009

Tournament : The Master
Course : Augusta National Golf Club Established 1934
Place : Location Augusta, Georgia, USA
Par : 72
Yardage : 7,445
Golf Tours : PGA Tour, European Tour, Japan Golf Tour
Format : Stroke play
Purse Fund : $7,500,000
Past Champion : Trevor Immelman
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The Masters Background
The Masters Tournament, also known as The Masters, or The U.S. Masters outside of the United States, is one of four major championships in men's professional golf. Scheduled for the first full week of April, it is the first of the majors to be played each year. Unlike the other major championships, the Masters is held each 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 course architect Alister MacKenzie. The tournament is an official money event on the PGA Tour, the PGA European Tour, and the Japan Golf Tour. The field of players is smaller than those of the other major championships because it is an invitational event, entry being controlled by the Augusta National Golf Club.

The tournament has a number of traditions. A green jacket is awarded to the winner of each tournament, which must be returned to the clubhouse after a year. The Champions dinner, inaugurated by Ben Hogan, is held on the Tuesday before each tournament, and is only open to past champions and certain board members of the Augusta National Golf Club. Beginning in 1963 legendary golfers, usually past champions, have hit a honorary tee shot on the morning of the first round. Such golfers have included Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, and Arnold Palmer, who has hit the tee shot the last two years. Since 1960 a semi-social Par 3 Contest, on a par-3 course on Augusta National's grounds, has been played on the day before the first round of each Masters Tournament.

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Relate Information

• Tournament Schedule
• The Master Live Leader board and scoring
• Application LiveScoring for iPhone
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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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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

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).

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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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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Start Time 14:30

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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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