With the Super Bowl this weekend, PGA Tour golf is probably not on the minds of many sports fans.
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The recently released free Facebook game, EA Sports PGA Tour Golf Challenge, which is geared to the more casual gaming audience, has no mention of Woods.
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The storied Georgia course announced plans to be part of the latest Tiger Woods PGA Tour golf game from EA Sports that hits stores March 29 just before the 75th playing of the Masters.
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Last year the Irish broadcaster secured a six-year deal to televise the PGA golf tour featuring 40 leading tournaments, rights previously held by Sky.
"Essentially where the PGA Tour came down was that they did not think that banning anchoring was in the best interest of golf or the PGA Tour, " the circuit's commissioner Tim Finchem told a press conference at the World Golf Championship event at Dove Mountain.
On a very positive note, the PGA Tour and the world of professional golf in general seemingly has unprecedented depth.
"For every given skill ranking, the official world golf ranking for PGA Tour players averaged 36 positions worse than for non-PGA Tour players, " Rendleman said.
"I am delighted that the PGA EuroPro Tour is heading to Northern Ireland and Galgorm Castle Golf Club, " said Danny Nickless, Operations Manager, PGA EuroPro Tour.
Quail Hollow has been a symbol of perfection for 10 years since it returned to the PGA Tour lineup, a beautifully manicured golf course where the six major champions who have won ranged from Tiger Woods to McIlroy.
Scott, who plays most of his golf these days on the PGA Tour in the US, was hardly conservative off the tee either.
The industry response has been charity, through non-profits like the First Tee Foundation, backed by everyone important in golf: the USGA, PGA Tour, PGA of America and the LPGA, along with the Tiger Woods Foundation (scholarships and summer camps) and countless local junior golf programs.
Or to look at it another way, EA Sports will allow golf fans to do what the PGA Tour can only dream about.
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Like several PGA Tour pros, I even have a pair in my golf shoes.
The other notable is the course at French Lick, a grand old casino resort in the style of the Greenbrier or Homestead. opened within the last two years and an entirely new style for Dye, a course intentionally designed to thwart the technological advances of golf and the long hitters of the PGA Tour.
Finchem and the PGA Tour shot it down, only to launch their own World Golf Championships in 1999.
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Despite pressure from some players and golf equipment manufacturers, the U.S. PGA Tour has decided to go along with the rule change, meaning U.S. PGA Tour competitions, including the U.S. Open, will feature the club restriction from next year.
The PGA Tour runs the American circuit and plays a leading role in staging World Golf Championship events.
"Mickelson showed on the PGA Tour (at Pebble Beach) that he is capable of playing fantastic golf, " he said.
Last year he left more people scratching their heads when he and fellow PGA Tour players Ben Crane, Rickie Fowler and Hunter Mahan launched boy band Golf Boys.
Broadie and his co-researcher, Dick Rendleman of Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, are the ones who determined that the World Golf Rankings favor players who earn points primarily outside the PGA Tour.
But after victory at the Cadillac Championship in Doral last week -- his 17th World Golf Championship title -- Woods can now reach golf's pinnacle if he can secure his 77th PGA Tour triumph.
Snedeker, the top putter on the PGA Tour last year, is a Tennessean, but his grandmother runs a golf course in Missouri and gets credit for putting clubs in his hands when he was a youngster.
Sutton, a two-time Walker Cup player, is a well-respected figure in American golf, and until being awarded the Ryder Cup captaincy sat on the PGA Tour Policy Board.
Other options include attending the NFL Hall of Fame Merlin Olsen Luncheon or even playing a round of golf at otherwise private English Turn Country Club, which long hosted the PGA Tour.
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The South African responded to the early setback by making 2007 his best year so far on the golf circuit, winning three titles on the Sunshine Tour including the Telkcom PGA championship.
"I don't know how he hit the golf ball feeling the way he was feeling, " Adcox said on the PGA Tour's official website.
Because the PGA Tour is a nonprofit organization that turns over its excess cash to charity, one measure of golf's success is the size of those contributions.
The event, hosted by golf legend Jack Nicklaus, has attracted one of the strongest fields of the PGA Tour season, including the world number one who missed out last year due to his knee injury.
Another reason golf appeals so deliciously to researchers is the availability of quality statistics, particularly the PGA Tour's ShotLink database.
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