This week the b5media Sports Channel is sharing their favorite childhood sports memories. Although I’d like to be able to say that my earliest sports memory was swinging a golf club when it was taller than I was, the truth is I didn’t take up the game until I was in my early 20s.
That and I grew up in Columbus Ohio, which for those of you in other parts of the country means Ohio State Football. Before I could even master my multiplication tables, I could recite OSU player stats like a expert commentator.
The 1960s was the era of Woody Hayes and “three yards and a cloud of dust” and I delighted in going with my dad to the games to which he wasn’t taking clients. I didn’t care that it wasn’t the Michigan game; seeing Purdue or Illinois was fine with me. When I got older, I attended high school with running back, Archie Griffin, who would go on to win two Heisman Trophies while at Ohio State (the only person to every win twice). I was much younger than him, of course; he was a senior when I was a freshman.
Do you have a favorite childhood sports memory–golf-related or not? If so, share your experiences with Green Posse readers by leaving a comment below.
Craig Stadler, with 29 career professional golf championship wins including the 1982 Masters, knows about golf. He’s sharing his tips in a series of videos, including this one about hitting from uneven lies. Take a look:
Behind most every golf champion is a mother watching stoically from the stands. In the spirit of Mother’s Day, here are the mothers of some of golf’s most prominent players.
A full schedule of golf events are planned for this weekend. Below is the television coverage (all times are ET).
Saturday, May 10 830pm - 1230pm - European Tour - Methorios Capital Italian Open in Milan - Golf Channel 2pm - 4pm - LPGA - Michelob Ultra Open at Kingsmill in Williamsburg, VA - ESPN2 2pm - 7pm - PGA - Players Club Championship at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL - NBC
Sunday, May 11 830pm - 1230pm - European Tour - Methorios Capital Italian Open in Milan - Golf Channel 2pm - 4pm - LPGA - Michelob Ultra Open at Kingsmill in Williamsburg, VA - ESPN2 2pm - 7pm - PGA - Players Club Championship at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL - NBC
The Champions Tour has the week off. There is no television coverage this week of the Nationwide Tour.
The PGA Tour is in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida this weekend for the Players Club Championship. This event is played at the TPC at Sawgrass Course, designed in 1980 by Pete Dye and his wife Alice.
Widely considered one of the most difficult courses in the world, TPC at Sawgrass is known for its signature 17th hole and its island green. Take a look at this beautiful, but challenging, course:
One of Florida’s most beautiful golf resorts is more affordable this spring and summer, thanks to a special the PGA National Golf Resort is running to highlight their recently-completed renovation project.
Their “Unlimited Family Fun Fore All” package is $99 per adult per night (based on double occupancy) and includes:
Accommodations
Unlimited golf for adults on the Haig, Squire or Estate golf courses
Unlimited range balls
Breakfast for two adults per day
2 Cubs Club half-day morning sessions per day
One golf clinic per stay
Kids under 12 golf free with an adult after 2 pm
In addition, kids under 12 eat half price and package participants recieve a 20 percent discount on resort spa services.
The special is valid for travel from now until September 30. Prepayment is required in order to qualify for the $99 rate. A two night minimum is required and the package does not include taxes or gratuity.
For more information on the PGA National Golf Resort and the “Unlimited Family Fun Fore All” package, see the resort’s Web site.
Golf architect, Paul “Pete” Dye will be getting the World Golf Hall of Fame’s lifetime achievement award this year, the organization announced on Tuesday. The 83-year-old Dye is responsible for some of the most beautiful and challenging courses of the late 20th century and into the 21st century. Among his more than 120 creations are the Harbour Town Golf Links in Hilton Head, the TPC Sawgrass Course, and the Ocean Course at Kiawah.
Dye will be just the fourth inductee whose occupation is primarily golf design. He joins Robert Trent Jones Sr., Donald Ross, and Alister MacKenzie.
Other inductees will be announced during the US Open and the British Open.
Twenty-one year old Paula Creamer won the SemGroup Championship yesterday, ending Lorena Ochoa’s bid (at least for now) to win five consecutive LPGA championships. But, it wasn’t easy.
Creamer blew a two-shot lead on the final hole, forcing a playoff with 47-year-old Juli Inkster. Creamer finally won the playoff by sinking an eight-foot birdie putt.
This win is Creamer’s sixth career win and second this year. (She won the Fields Open in February.)
It’s not just the top amateur and professional golfers that have their sights set on the US Open, to be played June 9-15 at Torrey Pines Golf Course in La Jolla, California. Top athletes in a number of other sports are among the 8043 hopefuls that have entered the local qualifying rounds.
Among these athletes are Grant Furyk (pictured above), whose non-golf accomplishments include five Stanley Cup championships, being a five-time NHL all-star, and being inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. Others seeking to qualify for the Open include former tennis champions, Michael Chang and Ivan Lendl; former MLB third baseman, Chris Sabo; ex-NFL quarterback, Billy Joe Tolliver; and NHL goaltender, Mike Dunham.
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