2009 August | Golf Green - Part 2

Archive for August, 2009

Unusual ruling costs Appleby at World Golf event (AFP via Yahoo! News)

An unusual retroactive ruling cost Australian Stuart Appleby a one-stroke penalty on Friday at the World Golf Championships Bridgestone Invitational.
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Cautious Harrington keeps lead at World Golf event (AFP via Yahoo! News)

Ireland's Padraig Harrington played conservatively to retain the lead after Friday's second round of the 8.5 million-dollar World Golf Championships Bridgestone Invitational.
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Course of Style: Fate of the classic leather golf shoes (Sports Illustrated)

With the closing of the last American FootJoy factory in Brockton, Mass., this spring, the market for traditional leather-soled Golf shoes is virtually wide open for the Denmark-based ECCO, which continues to make them, albeit with performance updates.
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Bermuda: From Guantánamo to Golf (New York Times)

Four Chinese Uighurs, once confined to small prison cells as terrorism suspects at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, now have jobs tending an oceanfront Golf course in Bermuda.
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Poker player drops golf lawsuit (AP via Yahoo! News)

Dusty Schmidt, a pro online poker player, has dropped a lawsuit against the United States Golf Association to have his amateur golfer status reinstated.
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Golf Courses Battle Recession (CBS 6 Richmond)

Chesterfield - Golf operations in Central Virginia are paying more attention to their customers, and giving them what they really want. All of this as a result of club memberships being down and affecting their bottomline.
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Local golf courses work to buck tee-time downslide (The Frederick News-Post)

While Golf courses across the country are experiencing a decline in the number of recreational outings, and some facilitIes are even closing because of the harsh economy, Frederick County greens are holding their own
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