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2012-02-04T00:43:44-05:00

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Golf courses lost more than $1M, says P.E.I.

2012-02-03T22:14:53-05:00

More than $1 million from a cabinet-approved warrant to Tourism P.E.I. is going to cover a projected revenue shortfall from the provincially run golf courses. Callaway RAZR XF Hybrid
Tourism Minister Robert Henderson said government over-estimated how much money the four golf courses would bring in.
He said there are a number of reasons for the shortfall.
“The weather wasn’t quite what we would have liked to have seen in June, July and early August. It is pretty hard to golf in the rain so they cancelled their bookings would be one situation,” Henderson said.
The P.E.I. cabinet approved the special warrant last week to Tourism PEI of close to $1.4 million — $1.1 million going to the golf courses to make up for the lost revenue.
“I think the economy played Callaway RAZR XF Hybrid
a little bit of a role in that — people maybe just didn’t have the money. I think you saw also a case where most of the revenue declines were really around memberships that are for provincial golf courses,” he said. “When the weather was a little bit poorer, people decided not to join and get a membership.”
He also said it’s not the first time the courses haven’t brought in as much money as expected. When the budget is being drawn up this year, he said the projected revenue will likely be more in line with what has happened over the last few years.
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Gonzalo shines in Qatar

2012-02-03T22:11:02-05:00

Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano leads by one shot after the first round of the Commercialbank Qatar Masters in Doha. Ping K15 Hybrid

The Spaniard shot a superb six-under-par 66 at a windswept Doha Golf Club on Thursday to take a one-shot lead over American John Daly, who led for most of the round after posting his 67 earlier in the day.

Korean K.J. Choi and Australian Jason Day, ranked 13th and 10th in the world respectively, both shot four-under 68s to share third place, while five players posted 69s - Belgian Nicolas Colsaerts, Scot Paul Lawrie, Sweden’s Peter Hanson and Englishmen Richard Finch and Danny Willett. Ping K15 Hybrid

Daly, ranked 543rd in the world, looked almost certain to hold on to his lead as conditions out on the course grew progressively worse. Strong winds blew sand around and into the faces of the players, many of whom took to wearing sunglasses to limit the irritation. Cameramen and many spectators wore masks to stop the sand.

“I’ve sand in places I didn’t know I had places,” said Lawrie. Ping K15 Hybrid

But Castano, currently on course for a Ryder Cup debut later this year, defied the conditions to birdie four of his last five holes and take sole possession of the first-round lead.

He had nine birdies in all in his remarkable round, but also bogeyed on the fourth, the long tenth and the 13th.

“I would have taken level par,” he said.

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Gonzalo shines in Qatar(2)

2012-02-03T22:07:30-05:00

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as low as possible.

“I think I just got lucky and holed some important putts. Putting is the most difficult thing on a windy day.”

Daly, a colourful, often controversial two-time Major winner, surprised even himself with his 67, which featured five birdies and no dropped shots.

“It’s one of the best rounds I’ve ever played in a wind like that,” said the American.

“You feel like you are eating a lot of sand - it was brutal. I’m pretty shocked myself. I had five and a half weeks off and really didn’t touch a Callaway RAZR XF Hybrid
much.”

He added that a trip to the range to keep his game sharp certainly wasn’t on his agenda.

“I don’t think you can,” said the 45-year-old. “I don’t feel like eating anymore sand. It’s hard to work on your game in this (weather).”

Daly no longer has a full PGA Tour card in the United States and last hit the headlines for walking out of the Australian Open in November after hitting a succession of shots into water.

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will be his focus in 2012.

“This year I’m basing everything around the European Tour instead of the PGA Tour so hopefully I’ll get in a lot more (events) on the European side,”

“The goal is just to try and get my card on the European Tour and maybe get in the top 60 (the leading money earners who contest the season-ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai). That’s kind of the goal.”

Further down the leaderboard, the two highest ranked players in the field, World No 3 Lee Westwood and World No 4 Martin Kaymer, both shot 1-under 71s, while Sergio Garcia could do no better than a level-par 72.

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British Amateur heading to Portrush

2012-02-03T22:03:51-05:00

Northern Ireland’s Royal Portrush and Scotland’s Carnoustie have been chosen to host the British Amateur Championship in 2014 and 2015 respectively. Callaway Diablo Forged Irons

Portrush is the only course outside Scotland and England ever to have staged The Open - That was way back in 1951 and was won by Max Faulkner - but there are moves being made currently to see the Open return there.

Carnoustie, in the meantime, saw Paul Lawrie win the 1999 Open after Jean Van de Velde triple-bogeyed the final hole in trying to hit the ball out of the water and Padraig Harrington triumphed there in 2007 when he beat Sergio Garcia in a play-off.
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Fox in 3-way tie with Hend, Ormsby

2012-02-03T22:00:39-05:00

Ben Fox of the USA reaped the benefits of extra hours in the gym when he shot a sparkling eight-under-par 64 to share Thursday’s first round lead at the Zaykabar Myanmar Open presented by Air Bagan. TaylorMade Burner 2.0 Iron Set

Fox posted a flawless round that contained eight birdies but he will have to share the lead heading in to Friday’s second round.

He was matched at the Royal Mingalardon Golf and Country Club by Australians Scott Hend, who has won once on the Asian Tour and former European and Nationwide Tour player Wade Ormsby .

Chinnarat Phadungsil of Thailand, a three-time Asian Tour winner, was a further shot back, tied with Asian Tour graduate Kim Gi-whan of Korea.

Fox, who is searching for his first Asian Tour victory, credited some hard TaylorMade Burner 2.0 Iron Set
in the gym during the off-season to his fast start.

“I worked hard in the off-season. I don’t like working out during the season but during the break I was hitting it hard in the gym and on the practice range. I tried to get a little bit stronger in the gym and it is showing because I’m hitting it 10 or 15 yards further this year,” the 24-year-old said.

Playing in his third year on the Asian Tour, Fox made a 25-feet chip-in birdie from the edge of the seventh hole to tie for the lead.

“It was one of my goals coming into the year to get off to a good start more frequently. It is nice to kind of do that in the first week. Obviously, you just don’t plan on shooting eight-under, but it was a nice round. I got off to a good start and just kept TaylorMade Burner 2.0 Iron Set
going,” said Fox, who missed only two greens in regulation today.

Fox in 3-way tie with Hend

2012-02-03T21:56:19-05:00

Hend, who is among 15 Australians in the field this week, predicts a low scoring four days as he aims to end his three-year title drought.

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“This is the first round of the year and this is a nice round to put away because it is going to be a low score that wins the tournament. To put eight birdies out of the way, I’m probably going to need another 12 birdies in the next three days,” said Hend, winner of the of the 2008 Pertamina Indonesia President Invitational.

Like his co-leaders, Ormsby was also bogey-free in a round which he described as boring. He earned his Asian Tour card at Qualifying School this year and hopes to get his career back on track after losing his playing status in Europe.

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actually but I managed to hole the putts.

“Asia is good. I played a lot out here through the co-sanctioned events previously. Asia is a lot closer to Australia so it makes it feel a little bit like half an Australian Tour! It is nice Tour and I’m looking forward to the year,” he added.

Asian Tour rookie Kim of Korea made four straight birdies from the 14th hole but was disappointed not to share the lead after making his only blemish of the day on the ninth hole.

“That stretch of birdies was good because it gave me the confident to keep going. My putting was great. I sank all my putts inside 10 feet so that was good except on the last hole,” said the 21-year-old, who campaigned in Japan last year.

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on the Asian Tour because many Koreans have tasted success here like Noh Seung-yul and K.J. Choi. I hope I can be like them.”

Lee leads Korean charge

2012-02-03T21:52:21-05:00

South Korea’s Bo-Mee Lee has set the pace in Thursday’s first round of the Australian Ladies Masters, shooting a flawless 7-under 65 at RACV Royal Pines Resort in Queensland. TaylorMade - Burner SuperLaunch Rescue Combo Iron Set

The 23-year-old fired seven birdies to end the day a stroke clear of early clubhouse leader So Yeon Ryu, fellow Korean Hee Kyung Seo and Holland’s Christel Boeljon.

England’s Felicity Johnson shares fifth place on 67 alongside American teenager Lexi Thompson and Australians Stephanie Na and Nikki Campbell.

Fellow Australians Frances Bondad, Courtney Massey and Sarah Kemp all shot four under 68s to finish the day in a share of ninth position and give the home galleries reason to cheer. TaylorMade - Burner SuperLaunch Rescue Combo Iron Set

Lee, who was the Korean LPGA player of the Year in 2010 and now plies her trade on the Japanese circuit, said Thursday’s round was one where everything just worked.

“Good driver, good irons, putting was good. It was easy, easy today,” she said.

Ryu, the reigning US Open Champion, had earlier shot a bogey-free six under 66 and admitted to feeling pressurized by the high expectations of home fans at the start of her first tournament for 2012, but said a birdie on her third TaylorMade - Burner SuperLaunch Rescue Combo Iron Set
of the day, the 501m par five 12th hole, had settled her down.

“I sunk my birdie putt and then I could finally relax,” she said. “I think it was a really great round. It was a really lovely day for me.”

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she said. “I really try hard and I am really training hard but if I hit it bad, a lot of people are disappointed with me.”

Lee leads Korean charge (2)

2012-02-03T21:48:19-05:00

The 21-year -old added she was pleasantly surprised at the state of the Royal Pines layout given that it had been soaked by relentless rain for the past week.

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because yesterday the course was too wet but today it was a lot better.”

Johnson, who earned her second LET title at the Lacoste Ladies Open de France in October, fired six birdies against one bogey in her round of 67.
Australian Stephanie Na

The 24-year-old from Birmingham said: “Everything was good. My game is based on fairways and greens and if I putt well, I’ll score well. I did putt well today but I’ve struggled with my game the last few days, so I went out there with no expectations. I hit the ball well and made a few putts so that was the key to a good score. I’ve playedTaylorMade Burner SuperFast Driver + Fairway Package
well here before so took some good memories out there today.

“It is a really tough finish now that they have made nine into a long par four; it’s a really tough second shot in there; but I’ve driven the ball great all day and continued to do that over the last few holes so I made it as easy as I could for myself. I hit a small gap wedge into six to six foot and made birdie there. There were a couple of straightforward pars on seven and eight and then nine, I hit it in the greenside bunker and wasn’t looking forward to that shot too much, I’m not going to lie, but I hit it stone dead so it was a great way to finish the round.”

Australian Nikki Campbell was also pleased with her opening 5-under-par 67 after a difficult year on the Japanese Tour in 2011.

“I felt that the second half of last year, I was just going through the motions and not there to compete. I struggled a bit, and I just felt really lonely,” aid Campbell, who finished second at Royal Pines last year.

“A long break has worked wonders.” TaylorMade Burner SuperFast Driver + Fairway Package

Of the other notables in the field, France’s Gwladys Nocera is in a tie for 12th on three under with Lee-Anne Pace, Sophie Gustafson, Karen Lunn, Christina Kim and five other players, while 2009 Masters champion, Katherine Hull is on two under 70 with 2011 Kraft Nabisco champion, American Stacy Lewis. Three times Masters-winner Laura Davies is a shot further back on one under 71.

Lefty sues to unmask IT attacker

2012-02-03T21:44:17-05:00

Because he needed the court order to obtain the information he required about the identity of the person who posted what the millionaire Californian golfer said were “vicious” statements about him and his wife, he found it necessary to sue Videotron S.E.N.C. in the Quebec Superior Court. TaylorMade R11 Irons

The court was told he was seeking the identity of the author of “several highly defamatory statements posted by one or more individuals on the Internet, in particular on a Yahoo! website, under the pseudonyms of ‘Fogroller’ and ‘Longitude’.

“The postings suggested that plaintiff has an illegitimate child, that his wife has affairs and other similar vexatious statements that are absolutely untrue and, simply put, vicious,” the complaint stated.

According to Courthouse News, Mickelson said the San Diego Superior Court authorized him to subpoena Yahoo! for information about “Fogroller” and “Longitude,” and Yahoo! responded with Fogroller’s Internet protocol address, which is registered in Canada to a Videotron subscriber.

Mickelson is asking the court to force Videotron to identify the person so that he can “stop the dissemination of false and wrongful statements ... and obtain reparation for the prejudice already suffered.” TaylorMade R11 Irons

The motion was filed in Montreal on January 25.

Glenn Cohen, the Jacksonville-based attorney for Mickelson, said Videotron did not oppose the request for subpoena, and that he expects the information shortly.

Whether the case has wider implications for anonymous postings on the Internet is not Mickelson’s concern.

“If we can stop one person, then it’s one less person who can get away with this,” Cohen said.

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Mickelson first filed a complaint on November 21 in San Diego County superior court, which authorised him to subpoena information from Yahoo! Inc. That led to identifying “Fogroller” as a Montreal resident, with Videotron as the Internet provider.

Mickelson wants the Quebec court to demand that Videotron supply him with all information of the person using the Internet protocol (IP) address who first registered under the “Fogroller” pseudonym on December 16, 2008, and of the person using the IP address that posted the statements about him.