Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Bubba’s big win, Poulter’s Masters fake out and more fan misbehavior: What you missed this weekend

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Monday, March 26, 2018

Hello, April! 👋

Stay up to date with all our events, classes, tips, and tournaments at Fairgrounds Golf Course by reading our monthly newsletters.

Our April Newsletter is available now!

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Feel free to check out our website at Fairgroundsgolfcourse.com for more information, news, & upcoming events!

 

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Monday, March 19, 2018

WATCH: Tiger Woods making a run at Bay Hill, birdies three of four to start back nine

Tiger Woods is making another run at Bay Hill, a place he has won eight times in his PGA Tour career.

Woods made the turn in nine under, five off the lead, and then made three birdies in a four-hole stretch to jump to 12 under and get within one of co-leaders Rory McIlroy and Henrik Stenson.

Check out Woods’s birdies on the 10th, 12th and 13th below, and follow the final round here.

 

Source: Golf.com

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Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Tiger Woods helped NBC grab the biggest non-Masters TV audience since 2015

There might be a few misguided souls that question the relevance and attraction of Tiger Woods in 2018. But they sure aren’t advertisers.

On Monday NBC Sports released its audience numbers from the Valspar Championship, where the 42-year-old Woods came this close to winning for the first time in five years. And according to the Peacock, viewers flocked to the broadcast in record numbers. The Golf Channel PR department reports that the final round at the Copperhead course drew a 5.11 overnight rating. A figure that is the highest non-major audience since the 2013 Players Championship (won by, you guessed it, Tiger Woods), and the highest non-Masters rating since the 2015 PGA Championship.

The group also announced that the final round lead-in on Golf Channel earned a 1.65 rating, becoming the highest-rated Golf Channel tour lead-in on record.

As for the digital front, only the last two Open Championships and the 2016 Ryder Cup drew higher than the 27.2 million minutes streamed on Golf Channel and NBC Sports platforms.

This is not particularly a surprise; two of Tiger’s other outings—the Farmers Insurance Openand Honda Classic—tied for the best TV marks of the season.

“He may be the biggest name in sports, matched only by Michael Jordan and Muhammad Ali,” Neal H. Pilson, former president of CBS Sports and president of Pilson Communications, Inc., told Golf Digest after the Famers Insurance Open. “Does he still move the needle? The answer is yes.”

Tiger Woods is scheduled to play at this week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational, an event he’s won eight times in his career.

Source: golfdigest.com

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Thursday, March 8, 2018

Swing The Circle Junior Golf Camp! 🏌️🏌️🏌

Junior Development Program

When: Every Saturday – 10am-11:15

Monthly members receive 1/2 price range balls

Introducing a Junior development program to McInnis Park. We work with juniors of all levels to advance their game. Classes are $45 each or $140 for the month. Monthly members receive a card that awards them half price range use for the entire month. Monthly memberships can be purchased online or in store, if purchased online the membership card will be available to pick up in the pro shop and can be pre-purchased for months ahead.

Class Description:

The Swing the Circle Program will focus on continued development of each junior. Tracking their progress and knowledge using assessment games that we will hold once a month is one of the many tools that will help show your junior that their hard work is paying off. The focus of each class will vary based on the needs of the students, all aspects of the game will be covered in this Program.

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Wednesday, March 7, 2018

☀️ Sign Up for Our Spring Break Camp! ☀️

SIGN UP NOW!

APRIL 9-13

Monday-Friday from 9am – Noon

Ages 6-14

We have several different activities and games for juniors to play throughout the camp. We will utilize our covered

range with TopTracer monitors and indoor SNAG equipment specially designed to teach golf fundamentals in a fun and

easy way. Juniors have fun while honing their skills with a 5:1 instructor ratio to ensure everyone learns at their own

pace. Food provided each day from our club restaurant run by Executive Chef, Chris Harman. Camps held rain or

shine!

Only $295 per junior

For more information, please email danielstewartgolf@ymail.com

To sign up your junior please call our Pro Shop:

(415) 492-180 0 extension 1

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Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Check Out Our St. Patrick’s WEEKEND Special! 🍀

St. Patrick’s Weekend

March 16 – 18.

[ Special Only Valid between 11am and 1pm only all three days ]

Purchase 9 holes of golf  and receive a FREE sleeve of Srixon Kelly Green Z-star golf balls ($10 value).

Must show us a copy of this special.

Feeling Lucky?

This year St. Patrick’s Day is on a Saturday! Get your clubs ready and try your luck! Will the luck of the Irish help you?

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Monday, March 5, 2018

Wie sinks incredible birdie putt at last for win in Singapore

Michelle Wie keeps putting herself back together again.

Broken down by injury or illness or slump so many times in her career, she keeps finding ways to overcome.

She did it again Sunday in brilliant fashion, coming from five shots behind in the final round to win the HSBC Women’s World Championship in Singapore with a dramatic putt at the final hole, a 36-foot birdie from just off the front of the green.

Wie thrust her fist into the sky when that last putt fell, and then she punched the air twice more in giddy delight.

“I think that has to be the best putt of my career so far,” she said.

Four long, frustrating years after winning the U.S. Women’s Open, Wie was finally able to claim her fifth LPGA title.

“It’s been a tough journey since 2014,” she said. “It’s been kind of well documented. I’ve had some injuries, had a really bad year, just lost a lot of confidence. I’m just really proud of myself for pulling myself out of it.”

Wie’s parents, B.J. and Bo, were in the gallery following, as they always are. Her parents have been scrutinized and criticized as much as any in the sport over their handling of the former phenom. Wie, 28, said they were on her mind when that last putt dropped.

“When I made the putt, I could just picture my parents kind of celebrating,” Wie said. “My family believed in me relentlessly, and with that, I started to believe in myself.”

Wie beat a star-studded lineup Sunday that included 19 of the top 20 players in the Rolex Women’s World Rankings.

“This is Asia’s major,” Wie said.

With a bogey-free 7-under-par 65, Wie prevailed in a crazy afternoon of high drama, breaking out of a four-way tie for the lead with that birdie at the last. She finished at 17 under overall, a shot ahead of Brooke Henderson (67), Danielle Kang (70), Nelly Korda (71) and Jenny Shin (65).

“Everyone was really clustered up there on the leaderboard,” Wie said. “I’m just really proud of myself for making a lot of birdies, and [to] keep going.”

So many players got in the mix on the back nine, with one player after another mounting charges. The course record was 64, but five players equaled or broke the mark in the final round.

After her closing birdie, Wie had to wait in the wings and watch Korda and Kang miss birdie chances at the last that could have forced a playoff.

The victory was sweet for Wie for a lot of reasons, including her inability to close out a 54-hole lead in this event a year ago.

“I just wanted to get revenge after last year a little bit,” Wie said. “I kind of came with a slight chip on my shoulder in the morning.”

Wie overcame so much winning that U.S. Women’s Open at Pinehurst in 2014, when she finally looked ready to realize all her potential in a run to No. 1. But, she was derailed by a finger injury later that summer, and then by hip, knee and ankle injuries that led to an awful slump after that. When she finally looked as if she was turning a corner again last year, neck spasms and an emergency appendectomy derailed her in the summer.

“Definitely, my team and my family and my friends have pulled me out of the hard times and kept me going,” Wie said. “There have been moments where it was hard. It was hard to keep going and to keep playing.”

Wie’s longtime swing coach, David Leadbetter, has been there through all the challenges with her since she was 13.

“I can’t list all the injuries Michelle has had in her career,” Leadbetter said at year’s start. “I don’t think there is one joint or bone in her body that hasn’t had some sort of injury or issue.

“The main goal this year is really to see if she can go injury free.”

Leadbetter believes Wie hasn’t reached what she’s really capable of yet, but he’s hopeful this might be the year. There was promise loaded in Sunday’s victory.

 

Source: http://www.golfchannel.com/

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