Golf Etc.® Teams with The Golf Network for In-Store Programming

Golf Etc. of America, Inc., the fastest-growing golf retail franchise in the country, announced today that it has teamed with The Golf Network to bring golf-related multi-media content to its stores. Throughout 2008, The Golf Network's multimedia programming and television monitors will be deployed in Golf Etc. (www.golfetc.com) retail shops across the U.S.

The Golf Network broadcasts golf-related content and promotional offers on large flat screen televisions. The network's digital programming and signage will provide Golf Etc. customers with golf tips and golf-related technology, travel, fashion, health and fitness information.

"We're excited to enhance our customers' shopping experience through the quality programming offered by The Golf Network," said Shane Hunt, chief executive officer of Golf Etc. of America, Inc. "This service also allows us to provide localized cross-promotion with local golf courses, another benefit to each store's golfing community."

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Kenya: Golf - Stage Set for Golfer of the Year Series

Although a number of tournaments have emerged over the years, the Kenya Golf Union's Golfer of the Year series remains the biggest of them all.

The GOTY - as it's popularly known as - is the icing on the cake in any top amateur's resume. Featuring a total of 18 tournaments spread all over the country, the GOTY has over the years been the yardstick with which to measure the amateurs' performances.

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Hall wins Australian Ladies Masters on missed putt

In golf, you just don't know what's going to happen. But I'm very thrilled."

"It was windy, but I played very well," Hall added. "I played smart and made some putts when I could."

Shin, who will start her fourth season on the Japanese tour this season, finished with a 68 and was alone in second.

With tears in her eyes, Shin called her missed putt "a bad stroke."

"It was pressure," said Shin through an interpreter. "It was very disappointing as I had played so well over three days."

Another English golfer, 20-year-old Felicity Johnson, had the round of the day - a 65 - to finish tied for third with Sweden's Louise Stahle (67), two strokes back.

"It was quite windy out there, and I didn't make any bogeys, so that was the key," said Johnson, a former British amateur who quit school at 16 to play full-time golf.

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Indoor golf facility puts the swing back into winter

Imagine the looks Bob Ronca must receive when he loads his clubs in his car and tells his neighbors he is going to "the island" to play golf.

The mere mention conjures soothing images of palm trees and tropical breezes, emerald-green grass and water more blue than Cameron Diaz's eyes. Especially when the snow is blowing and the wind-chill is lower than his handicap (which is about 15).

But at least three times a week, Ronca does just that -- heads to the island to hit balls and get his game ready for the golf season in Western Pennsylvania -- whenever it arrives.

This island, however, is not located off the coast of Florida or floating in some exotic part of the Caribbean.

It's just a wedge shot across the Ohio River from Coraopolis, a narrow parcel littered with industrial plants, weathered warehouses and what is billed as the most spacious indoor golf dome in the country.

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Legally blind golfer, 92, shoots a hole-in-one, ducks attention

Leo Fiyalko would just as soon get on with life.

So he made a hole-in-one on the 110-yard, par-3 fifth hole at Cove Cay Country Club in Clearwater.

So what if it was the 92-year-old's first hole-in-one in more than 60 years of playing golf?

Big deal.

And who cares if he is legally blind, with a condition called macular degeneration?

Fiyalko doesn't understand what all the fuss is about.

"It was my first hole-in-one, and I never saw it," Fiyalko said. "I was just trying to put the ball on the green."

That's about all he'll say on the subject. But that didn't stop his friends in the Twilighters Club golf group from presenting him with a plaque on Jan. 24 commemorating the feat. There is a picture on the plaque of the fifth hole and a line that reads: "Leo Fiyalko, hole-in-one, five iron, 110 yards."

The feat came on Jan.

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Holmes wins playoff

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) -- J.B. Holmes seemed headed for a stinging collapse. He had blown a four-stroke lead in the final round of the FBR Open and fallen one shot back with one hole to play.

Yet in the nick of time, the young Kentuckian persevered and beat one of the game's best. Holmes made consecutive birdies on the 18th hole Sunday - one to force a playoff with Phil Mickelson and the other to beat him. "That's pretty impressive golf," Mickelson said. Holmes knew that he had not yet lived up to promise of his 2006 rookie season, when he won the FBR in just his fourth PGA tournament. He hadn't won one since. "I just had a little trouble adjusting to all the traveling out here," Holmes said, "and I just got married in November, so I'm more settled in life and happier right now.

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Herron shoots a 69 to take 1-shot lead at Pebble Beach

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. - Tim Herron shot a 3-under-par 69 yesterday at Poppy Hills and emerged with a 1-shot lead in the AT&T Pro Am. Herron was at 7-under 137. The cut won't be made until after today's rounds, when the 180-man field has played all three courses in the rotation. Chambers Bay, the links-style course with a stunning setting abutting Puget Sound southwest of Seattle, was awarded the 2015 U.S. Open. It will be the first U.S. Open held in the Pacific Northwest. Champions Tour BOCA RATON, Fla. - Mark McNulty holed an 86-foot chip shot for eagle on the par-5 18th for a 6-under 66 and a share of the first-round lead with Jerry Pate in the Allianz Championship. McNulty had five birdies and a bogey on the Old Course at Broken Sound. European Tour NEW DELHI - Damien McGrane of Ireland shot a 3-under 69 for a 2-stroke lead after the second round of the inaugural Indian Masters.

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