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Cities that subsidize golf courses with taxpayer money are mulling whether to continue to support them while facing cutbacks to essential services like police and fire protection, according to an Akron, Ohio, Beacon Journal report. recommend directory: Callaway ERC Hyper Driver.

Some cities purchased a golf course in the interest of city development and not to make money, but the courses are losing money at the same time city budgets are shrinking.

“The purchase was not for us to make money,” Jim Costello, a councilman in Stow, Ohio, told the Beacon Journal. “It was to stop the increase in housing that would damage our sewers and roads, take away green space and overwhelm our schools.”

While some cities say golf courses are a valuable amenity for residents and an economic development tool, some residents say government should let private businesses run golf courses so that cities can focus on providing essential city services.

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The West Florida Golf Tour is fast-becoming the place for high-profile players to hone their games while on break from the rigorous grind that is professional golf at the top level.

Take Monday’s two-player Halloween Classic at the Founders Club in Sarasota.

Michael Bradley, Brittany Lincicome and Ty Tryon all were in the field.

Bradley won the 2011 Puerto Rico Open, while Lincicome’s two victories this season has vaulted her to No. 6 on the LPGA Tour money list. you can chose the Tourstage Hybrid ViQ U3/U3+.

And Tryon played in this year’s U.S. Open 10 years after he burst onto the national golf scene as a 16-year-old phenom at the Honda Classic. Tryon finished that year’s tourney at 10-under par 278 with a performance that wowed spectators and carried over into that fall’s Q-School, where he became the youngest player to earn a PGA Tour card.

“People need stuff to do in the winter time,” said Noah Zelnik, who played with Bradley on Monday. “It’s nice, these hit-and-giggle events, but I think they have to stay a little sharp for them.”

Zelnik caddies for Bradley, who won his fourth-career PGA Tour title this season. there are many best golf clubs in golfclubs365.com.

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There’s a dirty problem in Norfolk. Fifty years of trash is leaking out from Lambert’s Point Golf Club and seeping into the Elizabeth River.

Nine holes makes the Lambert’s Point Golf Club unique.

“It’s less out of your day, you can manage your home life, your work life and a little bit of best golf at the same time,” golfer Jim Grady said.

But another thing that makes the course unique is the fact that is was built on a landfill. Hurricane Irene might have caused erosion and the leaking trash.

“I’ll certainly be looking for it today,” Grady continued.

“Looks like some glass bottles, plastic, some metal in there, some tires probably I’ve seen a few out here,” Golf Course General Manager Marcus Cutrell said.

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The Nationwide Tour Championship has been contested for the past three years just 90 miles south of Myrtle Beach at Daniel Island golf Club.

Though it won’t be back in 2012, the event’s return to the coastal Carolinas in 2013 is possible, if not probable.

Both Daniel Island Club and tour officials have enjoyed holding the event in the Charleston area in late October.

“While no plans have been made for 2013, all parties have been very happy at Daniel Island and a return to Daniel Island is certainly a good possibility,” said Nationwide Tour director of communications Jeff Adams. recommend directory: TaylorMade R9 Irons.“I’m not saying it’s a done deal, but we both are very interested in continuing the conversations about 2013.… It’s just too early to tell at this stage of things.”

The season-ending tournament, which concluded Sunday and annually features the top 60 players on the Nationwide money list vying for 25 spots on the PGA Tour the following year, is moving to the TPC Craig Ranch outside Dallas, where it was held in 2008.

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Many of the best golfers in the world will converge this week on Sheshan International Golf Club in Shanghai for the WGC-HSBC Champions, the biggest tournament of the year in Asia.

Some are already calling it Asia’s major.

Lee Westwood, among others, believes that dream should become a reality.

“I like the tradition of the majors,” the No. 2 player in the world said a few weeks ago. “I think the men’s game has got it pretty much right, although I’d like to see another major somewhere else in the world. Somewhere like Asia or Australia.

“The World Golf Championships should move around and encapsulate the whole world because it’s in the title of the tournaments. They should be played by players from all over the world and be played all over the world.

“China’s an emerging market for cheap and best golf. There’s so many courses being built, people taking up the sport and people getting interested in the sport.”

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The Disc Golf For Kids Sake tournament was held at Wildwood Park in Appling, Georgia on Saturday, October 29, 2011. This was also an awesome Halloween Bash for families with proceeds going toward a very good cause, Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Heart of Georgia.

Disc golf enthusiast, Brent Walton of Salt Lake City, Utah began the event four years ago, and it has been so successful he has reached out to other communities to bring this wonderful tournament to other areas of the nation. Appling is also the home of the International Disc cheap Golf Center, making the location ideal. Since its inception, the event has raised over $20,000 for the charity, making this a win not only for the players, but for the kids who are supported by Big Brothers Big Sisters.

In the Men’s Open division, it was Stephen Trello of Evans, Georgia who captured the win with a final score of 8-under par. Trello placed third at the recent PDGA Championship that was held in the same location last month. He was followed by Aaron Doyle of North Augusta, South Carolina, who finished in second place with a score of 1-under par, and Mike Doyle in third who scored 1-over par.

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Bo Van Pelt shot a 4-under 67 on Saturday to take a one-stroke lead over fellow Indiana player Jeff Overton after the third round of the Asia Pacific Classic.

Van Pelt, the winner of the PGA Tour’s 2009 U.S. Bank Championship in Milwaukee, had a 16-under 197 total at The Mines in the second-year event sanctioned by the PGA Tour and Asian Tour.

“I just love to play to compete,” Van Pelt said “It’s not about the money. That’s what gets my juices flowing. Like my grandpa always told me, ‘You can’t take it with you.’

“Obviously, any time you’re near the lead with 18 to go, you’re excited. recommend directory: Tourstage Hybrid ViQ U3/U3+. That’s why we practice and why we enter tournaments. That’s all you can ask for, to have a chance to win on Sunday. It’s exciting, and I’m looking forward to it. It’s been a while since I won a golf tournament, so it would be great.”

Overton, tied for second-round lead with Sweden’s Fredrik Jacobson after a course-record 62, had a 69.

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The UNC Wilmington women’s golf team hosted the 10th annual Landfall Invitational this weekend at the Nicklaus Course in Landfall Country Club. Although the Seahawks were the host team, there was no home advantage.

The Seahawks finished in 18th place as they posted a team score of 969 (+105).

UNCW struggled to hang with a tough tournament field that consisted of 16 of the top-40 teams in the country. recommend directory: Callaway Lady’s X-22 Irons.

The players had to battle through cold temperatures and strong winds that made the course tougher than usual and forced most of the scores to be over par.

“The kids really had to adjust and had to get the feel in their hands when the weather was cold and windy,” UNCW coach Cindy Ho said. “It makes you play safer and more conservative. You have to know when you can attack a tough pin placement. You have to know when par or bogey is not going to kill you.”

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Two-time heart transplant recipient Erik Compton earned a PGA Tour card when he finished in the top 25 on the Nationwide Tour money list, while Ken Duke won the season-ended Nationwide Tour Championship on Sunday to also secure a spot on the big tour.

Duke closed with a 4-under 68 to finish at 10 under on Daniel Island Club’s Ralston Creek Course, two better than Scott Brown. The 42-year-old Duke earned $180,000 and went from 36th to seventh on the money list.

Compton wasn’t sure he’d ever play pro golf, let alone be member of the PGA Tour.

Yet the two-time heart transplant recipient finished off his dream Sunday. Compton mostly secured his spot in June when he won his first Nationwide title at the Mexico Open. He ended 13th overall with $239,737 to advance.

The 31-year-old Compton has played 30 career PGA events, but none with a tour card in his bag.

“It’s a miracle,” he said. “It really is a miracle what I’ve been able to achieve.”

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1. Rory returns to winning ways
In 2008, when Rory McIlroy was still just an energetic teenager trying to get his pro career off the ground, Anthony Kim won twice on the PGA Tour. Kim was 22 — the same age that McIlroy is now — a fresh-faced second year player out of Oklahoma by way of Los Angeles, who had the whole golf world in his hands and he wanted everybody to know it. But then along the way came a nagging hand injury and a lot of partying and a big entourage and finally some humbling.

As Kim slumbered, many other good young players entered into the “young guns” conversations. With a final-round 62 to win the Wells Fargo Championship in 2010 for his first PGA Tour win, McIlroy left no doubt that he was the top contender from the under 30 crowd to challenge the dominance of Tiger Woods. Then he confirmed that place with an eight-shot win this June at the U.S. Open.

On Sunday at the inaugural Shanghai Masters, McIlroy got his first win since that historic triumph at Congressional by beating Kim on the first playoff hole. The cocksure lad from Holywood, North Ireland, who shot a final-round even-par 72 on the Jack Nicklaus-designed Masters course at the Lake Malaren Golf Club, missed an eight-footer in regulation to avert the playoff with Kim, who had started the day three shots back in second place. Both finished regulation at 18 under par.

In the playoff, McIlroy made a two-footer to win after Kim had missed a three-footer. For his effort in the 30-man no-cut event, which was not sanctioned by any of the major tours, McIlroy earned $2 million, the largest first prize check in golf.

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One of the many interesting things that I learned during my lunch with the great Greg Norman was that it’s hard for The Shark (Mr. Norman’s nickname), to find a good glass of wine on a golf course. There isn’t much attention paid to the wine lists of most club restaurants, he told me.

Not long after we met, I had the occasion to mark the truth of his words. I was invited to a certain golf club in the New York metropolitan region and was handed the wine list. It wasn’t completely terrible…but it was pretty bad. The choices were limited, the white wines were quite old and several wines (not all) were listed with their Wine Spectator or Wine Advocate scores, even though some of the said scores barely hit the high 80s.

I thought golfers cared mightily about their scores. Not really, said my companion, a fact later confirmed by our waitress, who told me she didn’t think anyone ever looked at the scores (which must have been how they managed to sell those 87 point wines.)

I did find a good wine: a 2009 Pinot Noir from Patz and Hall (91 points) that was a big, rich and broadly-styled.

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The LPGA Tour is returning to Australia, co-sanctioning the Women’s Australian Open in February at Royal Melbourne.

“All credit goes to Golf Australia for their consistent vision to bring the LPGA Tour to Australia,” LPGA Tour Commissioner Michael Whan said. “The LPGA is delighted to partner with Golf Australia to showcase some of the greatest golfers in the world in one of the greatest locations in world — the famous Melbourne Sandbelt — and at one of the most respected golf venues in the world — Royal Melbourne.”

The LPGA Tour and Australian Ladies Professional Golf said Thursday that the $1.1 million Women’s Australian Open will be played from Feb. 9-12 and begin a three-tournament swing in Asia that includes stops in Thailand and Singapore. In 2013, the Australian Open will move to Royal Canberra. recommend directory: Callaway Lady’s X-22 Irons.

“This is a landmark day for Australian golf and particularly women’s golf in Australia,” Golf Australia CEO Stephen Pitt said. “This is a very exciting time in Australian golf and a year of firsts for the championship. We’re looking forward to working with the LPGA on a world-class event on Royal Melbourne’s composite course for the first time.”

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Although the weather in most places throughout the United States will start to get chilly, there are still lots of great disc golf events taking place. Here is a look at the 21st Veterans Park Open in Arlington, Texas and the 2011 Shark Tooth Open in Bakersfield, California.

21st Veterans Park Open

The 21st Veterans Park Open will be held in Arlington, just 25 miles west of Dallas, Texas, at the Veteran’s Park Disc Golf course. This PDGA sanctioned A-Tier event takes place over the weekend of November 5-6, 2011.

Two well known disc golf professionals that will be competing in the event, include two Texan women, Page Pierce of Plano, and Liz Lopez from San Antonio. recommend directory: Callaway ERC Hyper Driver. You might remember Pierce for her victory in the PDGA Professional Disc Golf World Championships back in August.

Pierce has had an impressive year, with a total of nine wins, and recently finished fourth in the PDGA Championship in Georgia as well as at the Vibram Open in central Massachusetts.

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Ranked ninth at the time, Donald felt his game had been consistent enough to achieve his goals, though he was concerned with his driving accuracy and wanted to develop more of a ‘killer’ instinct. recommend directory: Ping Japan 2011 K15 Fairway Wood.

Fast forward to now and Donald’s progress since he laid out those lofty goals has been nothing short of spectacular.

The 33-year-old Englishman has become the game’s most consistent player, taking over at the top of the rankings on May 30 and has won four times worldwide this season, including twice in the United States.

Helped by Dave Alred, a former rugby kicking coach for England, Donald has become much more ruthless on the course and many of his peers rate the Briton’s short game as the best in the business.

The only chink in his otherwise glittering career resume is the absence, so far, of a major title. you can chose best golf frome golfclubs365.

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