Green Posse

Travel + Leisure Golf magazine selected its Best New Courses 2007 in their November/December issue.
Here are their top 10 selections:

1. A Brand New Bay, Chambers Bay, Tacoma, Washington (Public)
2. Golf Club at Ravenna, Littleton, Colorado (Private)
3. Stonebrae Country Club, Hayward, California (Private)
4. The Home Course, DuPont, Washington (Public)
5. Promontory, Painted Valley Course, Park City, Utah (Private)
6. The Golf Club of Cape Cod, Falmouth, Massachusetts (Private)
7. Creek Club at Reynolds Plantation, Greensboro, Georgia (Private)
8. Kinloch Club, Kinloch, New Zealand (Public)
9. Gozzer Ranch Golf & Lake Club, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho (Private)
10. Cobble Beach Golf Links, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada (Public)
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This week, Dubai became home to the world’s richest golf tournament.
In 2009, the Dubai World Championship will be played at Jumeirah Golf Estates, a golfing community currently being built. The total prize pot will be worth $10 million, with the winner getting $1,666,660.
The annual tournament will be open to the leading 60 players on the Race to Dubai, formally the European Order of Merit. The players will also being given the opportunity to compete for an additional $10 million bonus fund.
The golfers will play four rounds from Thursday to Sunday, but there will be no cut. Therefore all entrants …read more

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In this helpful video, Brady Riggs of inpractis.com shows you how to properly setup and use the legs in the golf swing.

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The LPGA Tour will become the first golf organization to institute a drug policy. Penalties for violators are severe, including a one-year suspension for the first offense to a lifetime ban for the third offense.
With the policy, there will be no difference in the punishment for positive tests of performance-enhancing drugs or recreational drugs.
LPGA Tour general counsel Jill Pilgrim, who is administering the new program, said marijuana constitutes a downer and cocaine works like an upper.
“Technically, they are enhancing your performance,” Pilgrim said.
It was not announced at which tournament the random drug testing would start. However, the first opportunity …read more

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Lorena Ochoa overcame a double bogey on the 17th with an amazing shot out of the rough and over the water to 3 feet for birdie Sunday. With the victory, Ochoa won the ADT Championship and claimed the $1 million prize – the largest in women’s golf.
When Ochoa double-bogey’d on 17 and Natalie Gulbis birdied, Ochoa’s lead was cut to one stroke, but she held on for the victory.
The win was her eighth victory of the year, joining Annika Sorenstam and Nancy Lopez as the only players to accomplish that in the last 20 years.
Read more about Ochoa’s ADT …read more

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Annika Sorenstam was eliminated in a playoff at the ADT Championship on Friday. The former #1 player ended the year without a victory for the first time since 1994.
Sorenstam was one of three players trying to earn the last two spots in the quest of the tournament’s $1 million prize. But after she hooked a shot into a bunker, she was soon eliminated.
Mi Hyun Kim shot two-under-par on Friday to finish atop the leader board of the 16 golfers who qualified for the weekend. She finished one shot ahead of Morgan Pressel as they head into Saturday’s action. The …read more

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On Thursday, St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital received a $1.76 million check from the inaugural Stanford St. Jude Championship that was played in June.
The check was delivered by Vijay Singh and executives from Stanford Financial Group and FedEx. The donation was bolstered by Stanford’s Eagles for St. Jude program in which $1,000 is donated for every eagle carded on the PGA Tour.
Singh, who is the ambassador of the program made a personal contribution of $50K on Thursday and announced he will contribute $5K for every eagle he makes in 2008.
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The PGA Tour announced on Monday that Justin Timberlake will serve as host of the Las Vegas PGA Tour event in 2008.
The Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open will take place October 13-19, 2008. Timberlake, who plays to a 6-handicap, will take part in the Wednesday celebrity pro-am and host a concert during the week of the tournament as well.
“We will raise money for charity while participating in the greatest game ever played,” Timberlake told the press. “I thank the PGA Tour and the Shriners Hospitals for Children this amazing opportunity. Raising money …read more

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The LPGA Tour season ends this week with the four-day ADT Championship. Thirty-two golfers have qualified for the event. They will now compete for a $1.55 million purse with $1 million of it going to the winner. The $1 million prize is a record-tying amount for first-place on the LPGA Tour.
The ADT Championship is held at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach. The 2006 ADT Champion was Julieta Granada, who beat Lorena Ochoa by two strokes.
The 32 players will compete in three days (November 15-17, 2007) of “playoffs” and then a …read more

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For the second year in a row, Lorena Ochoa received the National Sports Award in her native country of Mexico for her work in promoting the sport of golf, as well as for her charity work through the Lorena Ochoa Foundation.
This is the third time that Ocho received the award, which is presented annually by the president of Mexico. In 2001, she was the first golfer to receive the honor.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon Hinojosa honored Ochoa after the final round of the 2007 Corona Championship, soon after she was named the number one player in the world on the …read more

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