Wednesday, April 27, 2011
World Golf glance
Website: Avondale, Louisiana. Schedule: Thursday-Sunday Course: TPC Louisiana (7,399 yards, 6,766 metres, par 72).Purse: $ 6.4 million. The winner's share: Last year with $1,152.: Jason Bohn won his second title in the United States PGA Tour birdieing three of the last four holes for two-stroke engines victory over Jeff Overton. Last week: Brandt Snedeker won The Heritage at Harbour town for his second tour title, to overcome a six-stroke deficit with a 7-under 64 and turn Luke Donald in the third extra hole. Donald could have jumped to no. 1 in the world with a victory.Notes: Snedeker, Donald and Bohn is in the field along with US Open champion Graeme McDowell, Steve Stricker and Vijay Singh, Bubba Watson, Nick Watney and Rickie Fowler. ... South Korean star, K.J. Choi, 2002 winner at English turn, skips European Tour stop in Seoul to play at. ... Jerry Kelly won the race in 2009. ... Wells Fargo Championship is next week at Quail hollow in Charlotte, North Carolina, followed by The Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Stuttgart Beach, Florida, Online: http://www.pgatour.com___Site: Icheon, South Korea. Schedule: Thursday-Sunday Course: Blackstone Golf course (7,275 yards, 6,652 meterpar 72).Cashier: 3.2 million dollars. The winner's share: $ 534,435; Last year: the Australian Marcus Fraser broke a seven-year title drought, led from the start in the event weather-förkortas at Pinx on Jeju Iceland. Brett Rumford and Gareth Maybin tied for second, four strokes back.Last week: Lee Westwood won the Asian Tour Indonesian Masters to regain No. 1 place in the world, Thailand's Thongchai Jaidee sidelining three kinds. ... Belgium's Nicolas Colsaerts won European Tour Open China, finishing with a tournament-record 24-under 264 total for a four-stroke victory.Notes: Westwood tops field in conjunction with Dustin Johnson, Ernie Els, Ian Poulter, Miguel Angel Jimenez and South Korean star Y.E. Yang. ... The event is also sanctioned by the Korea PGA. ... European Tour will be in Spain over the next three weeks to open Spanish Iberdrola open and the Volvo World Match Play Championship. Online: http://www.ballantineschampionship.comEuropean Tour site: http://www.europeantour.comAsian Tour site: http://www.asiantour.com___Site: Mobile, Alabama. Schedule: Thursday-Sunday Course: Robert Trent Jones Golf TrailMagnolia GroveThe crossings (6,502 yards, 5,945 m, par 72).Cashier: 1.3 million dollars. The winner's share: $ 195,000. Last year: South Korea's Se Ri Pak defeated Brittany Lincicome with a birdie on the third hole of the playoff after rain washed out the fourth round. Suzann Pettersen was removed on the second extra hole.Last event: Stacy Lewis won the Kraft Nabisco on 3 April in Rancho Mirage, California, for her first major title. Yani Tseng was second, three strokes back.Notes: the race is the tour sixth season. Tseng won LPGA Thailand, Hall of Famer Karrie Webb swept HSBC Women's Championship and LPGA founders Cup, Sandra Gal took the Kia Classic. ... Michelle Wie is coming off a sixth-place finish in the Kraft Nabisco. ... The tour is of the next two weeks. Play will resume with the Sybase Match Play Championship on May 19-22 in Gladstone, New Jersey. Online: http://www.lpga.com___Next event: regions Tradition, may 5-8, shoal Creek, Birmingham, Alabama, Last week: David Eger and Mark "Mike" McNulty won the better-ball Legends of Golf when Kenny Perry and Scott Hoch missed short par putts on the second hole of a playoff. Eger and the "Mike" McNulty finished with a 11-under 61 to match Perry and Hoch at 27.Online: http://www.pgatour.com___NATIONWIDE TOUR: South Georgia classic, Thursday-Sunday, Kinderlou forest Golf Club, Valdosta, Georgia. Online: http://www.pgatour.comNGA HOOTERS TOUR: Savannah Lakes Village Classic, Thursday-Sunday, Savannah Lakes Village and Golf Club course, Monticello, McCormick, South Carolina. Online: http://www.ngahooterstour.comJAPAN GOLF TOUR: The Crowns, Thursday-Sunday, Nagoya Golf Club Wago course in Aichi, Japan. Online: http://www.jgto.org.
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