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Playing a 'round' near the DMZ By Drew Gallagher ESPN U.S. ARMY CAMP BONIFAS, South Korea -- We've all hit tee shots that could be described as "dangerous." Tight fairways. Intimidating water hazards. Thick fescue. All of these make for "dangerous" conditions. But I've never hit a tee shot with the North Korean army just a mulligan away. A soldier from the North Korean Army stands guard at the border. Such is golf at U.S. Army Camp Bonifas, South Korea, home to one of the world's most unique golf courses. The "course" consists of a single 192-yard, par-3 hole that...

London, England (CNN) -- Research teams at the Danish Golf Union have discovered it takes between 100 to 1,000 years for a golf ball to decompose naturally. A startling fact when it is also estimated 300 million balls are lost or discarded in the United States alone, every year. It seems the simple plastic golf ball is increasingly becoming a major litter problem. The scale of the dilemma was underlined recently in Scotland, where scientists -- who scoured the watery depths in a submarine hoping to discover evidence of the prehistoric Loch Ness monster -- were surprised to find hundreds...

The Federal Stimulus Package has been distributed in many different ways around the nation, and now some people are getting an $8,000 tax credit for buying a souped up golf cart. Golf cart manufacturers have found a way to cash in by selling their carts as street legal, low speed vehicles. Under the president’s stimulus plan, those who buy one of the electric vehicles, can get a check back for up to $7,500. “I only came in because I was impressed with the fact of the rebate,” one customer said. “I could foresee using this for all our driving within...

Golf, too? If there was one sport you'd think might be immune from the liberal slant that has invaded too much of sports reporting, it's golf. The fairways-and-greens guys are known for generally being Republicans. But out of the blue [green?] on a Golf Channel show this afternoon, host Brandel Chamblee took a cheap shot at Dick Cheney with a rather nasty hunting reference. Chamblee, who before retiring from the PGA Tour had one win in 370 career starts, was discussing with co-host Rich Lerner the putting woes of the affable Jason Gore . . . View video here.

This guy has played more damn golf in nine months than George Bush did in ALL 8 years in office! It's not like the economy is tanking hard, now they say it'll be a 'jobless recovery', Iran's working on its first nuke, which could be the thing that just happens to begin WWIII, and spikes oil to $800 a barrel (if you'll be able to get it), and Afghanistan still awaits a decision from THE ONE. But hey, we can get another 18 in today, right? Here's the bill. Send him one and ask him to politely shove it where...

While his predecessor in the White House had a reputation as a golfing playboy, Barack Obama has cultivated a somewhat more serious, down-to-business image. So it may be a surprise to learn that in his ten months as U.S. President, Mr Obama has already played as much golf as George W Bush did in his entire eight years in power. A U.S. TV journalist who keeps a log of the President’s recreational travel reported that Mr Obama’s game at the weekend was his 24th since taking office in January. It took President Bush two years and nine months to notch...

Shhhh. No comments required. Just savor it. “Relationships get built in those more informal settings,” O’Neill told ABC News, “and the relationships have a huge impact on the influence an individual has. We know what happens when we segregated whether it by race or whether it by gender — you end up with 1st class citizens and you end up with 2nd class citizens.” O’Neill told ABC News’ Mike Callahan, “we need to see the White House leading the way for desegregating the work places all around the country and it is troubling.”… “It’s extremely important now especially for the...

President Obama has played more golf over the past nine months than President Bush did in over two years, according to a new report. CBS' Mark Knoller -- described as by the Web site Politico.com as the "unofficial documentarian and statistician of all things White House-related" -- wrote on his Twitter on Sunday that Obama has hit the links more than Bush did in almost three years. "Today -- Obama ties Pres. Bush in the number of rounds of golf played in office: 24. Took Bush 2 yrs & 10 months," Knoller wrote in his tweet. Obama, who loves playing...

President Barack Obama has only been in office for just over nine months, but he's already hit the links as much as President Bush did in over two years.

If it’s Sunday, expect to find Obama golfing at Fort Belvoir. This week, though, his foursome includes Melody Barnes, President Obama’s chief domestic policy advisor -- and the first woman who’s played golf with Obama during his 24 trips to the links since taking office. Barnes, wearing a baseball cap, dark long sleeve shirt and beige pants, joined Obama the same day that the New York Times is running a front page story, Man’s World at White House? No Harm, No Foul, Aides Say, the latest in a round of similarly stories triggered by a high-profile, all-male basketball game the...

Do you remember where you were 10 years ago when you heard the reports of an aircraft flying across the central U.S. without any communication with ground controllers? Later of couse before the plane crashed the passenger list was made public but you didn't want to believe it? Then at mid afternoon with the aircraft out of fuel the crash into a rural area of South Dakota?.........Do you remember........William Payne Stewart was born January 30, 1957 in Springfield, MO. Payne learned the game from his father Bill who was a golf pro at an area course.Payne went to SMU to...

Congress's fabulous golf cart stimulus. We thought cash for clunkers was the ultimate waste of taxpayer money, but as usual we were too optimistic. Thanks to the federal tax credit to buy high-mileage cars that was part of President Obama's stimulus plan, Uncle Sam is now paying Americans to buy that great necessity of modern life, the golf cart. The federal credit provides from $4,200 to $5,500 for the purchase of an electric vehicle, and when it is combined with similar incentive plans in many states the tax credits can pay for nearly the entire cost of a golf cart....

FirstCall/ -- AT&T* announced today a donation of more than $250,000 to the Patriots' Path Council, serving Boy Scouts of America in northern and central New Jersey. The money is a result of the first annual AT&T NJ Golf Classic which was held at Fiddlers Elbow Country Club in Bedminster and featured appearances by former NY Yankees Joe Pepitone and Lee Mazzilli. Proceeds will be used to support Inner City Scouting programs providing camp scholarships for children living in urban areas and will also fund the cost of a full-time bilingual Program Director for Hispanic communities.

Vandals shocked Americans Monday night by carving a 20 x 30-foot swastika and the word “Obama” and the letter “I” near the 18th hole of a Massachusetts golf course. The Secret Service is investigating the possibility of an intended threat on the president. The letter “I” may have represented “Israel.”

LAKEVILLE, Mass -- Police along with the Secret Service are investigating after a local country club discovered a swastika carved into the green. Lakeville County Club workers discovered the vandalism early Monday morning. Carved into the green on the 18th hole was a swastika next to President Barack Obama's name. The vandals snuck in at night and carved their message of hate, according to the owner of the country club. "We don't know if they did it with some type of cleated shoe, or they had some type of tool and this time of year to have that happen, it's...

There's something lurking in the depths of Loch Ness, Scotland and it has nothing to do with monsters. On a recent expedition to try and find evidence of the Loch Ness monster, U.S. research teams came across something quite unexpected -- not a prehistoric creature of the deep but thousands of plastic covered golf balls. Mike O'Brien of SeaTrepid explains: "At first we thought they were mushrooms, there were so many. But when we lowered the camera, we were surprised to see that they were in fact golf balls." The smattering of balls were found roughly 300 yards from the...

<p>Officials say an alligator bit off part of a golfer's arm as he leaned over to pick up his ball at a private South Carolina course.</p> <p>The man, who is in his 70s, was retrieving his ball from a pond when the 10-foot alligator bit him at Ocean Creek Golf Course in Beaufort County. The gator pulled the golfer into the pond and ripped off his arm in the struggle. His golf partners were able to free him.</p>

A 77-year-old man lost his arm below the elbow Thursday when he was attacked by an alligator while playing golf on Fripp Island. The man, the father of a Fripp Island property owner, was playing the 11th hole of the island's Ocean Creek Golf Course at about 3 p.m. when the attack occurred. The victim was leaning down to pick up his ball when a 10-foot long alligator grabbed his arm, said Kate Hines, general manager of the Fripp Island Property Owners Association. Hines said the alligator dragged the man into a nearby pond and went into a series of...

For all you Tiger-haters out there -- he and Stricker go from one down to win by one -- 20-foot+ putt on 17, laser 4-iron from 230 yards to 7 feet or so on 18. Opponents concede. US up by 3 (10-7) rather than by only one. Seriously -- lots of other good play by US, but Tiger comes through in the clutch for the US.

AN alligator has bitten off part of a golfer's arm as he went to pick up his ball at a private course in the US, reports said today. The man, aged in his 70s, was retrieving his ball from a pond when the 3m alligator bit him at Ocean Creek Golf Course in Beaufort County, South Carolina, the Associated Press reported. The report said the gator pulled the man in and ripped off his arm before his golf partners were able to free him.

After more than a century on the sidelines, golf will return to the Olympics at the Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro. Rugby, last played in 1924, is coming back as well. Both were reinstated for the 2016 and 2020 games after a vote Friday by the International Olympic Committee. Each sport received majority support in separate votes after leading athletes and officials from both camps gave presentations, including a taped video message from Woods and other top pros. Woods has indicated he would play in the Olympics if golf were accepted for 2016. "There are millions of young...

Former United States President Bill Clinton, right, jokes with basketball great Michael Jordan during a team photo session for the Presidents Cup golf competition Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009, in San Francisco. Jordan is on hand as a guest of U.S. captain Fred Couples.

Over the last few months China has experienced something of an unprecedented wave of UFO sightings and events. It began with a series of significant UFO sightings that occurred at and around the time of the July solar eclipse. The rash of UFO sightings culminated with the August mass UFO sighting that occurred in the province of Shandong where countless residents saw and filmed two seemingly huge objects that appeared to be partially covered by cloud in the night sky. In the last month or so UFO sightings in China have died down to a point where almost none are...

Just 15 months after they were married, golf star Greg Norman and tennis great Chris Evert announced they have separated. The announcement Friday comes three days before Norman is to captain the International team at the Presidents Cup in San Francisco, where wives of the captains take on a visible role. Norman and Evert, each in the Hall of Fame in their respective sports, did not say whether they planned to divorce. In a statement, the couple said only, “We will remain friends and supportive of one another’s family.” The statement said they requested privacy for them and their families....

Chris Evert and Greg Norman have separated after 15 months of marriage, reps for the couple confirm to PEOPLE. "Chris and Greg will remain friends and supportive of one another's family," Evert's rep, Tammy Starr, told PEOPLE Friday. Norman's rep also confirmed the split. The tennis champ and golf legend, both 54, tied the knot in a sunset ceremony in the Bahamas on June 28, 2008 and got engaged in December 2007 in South Africa.

According to Forbes, the $10 million [£6.2 million] bonus that Woods got for his recent FedEx Cup win pushed him over the $1 billion [£620 million] mark in total career earnings. Phil Mickelson with the Tour Championship trophy beside Tiger Woods, with the FedEx Cup, which earned him a $10 million (£6.3m) bonus Up to the beginning of 2009, the world's number one golfer had earned $895 million from prize money, appearance fees, sponsorship and from designing golf courses. Adding together his winnings from this year together with his annual $100 million earnings, this makes Woods the first dollar billionaire...

Mr. Obama’s five television appearances than for the president, who rounded off the day with an unusual 18-hole golf game (more than four and a half hours for those of you keeping track).

ATLANTA – Tiger Woods had a chance to pull away from the field. He had to settle for a one-shot lead Friday in the Tour Championship, which was still not a bad place to be. Over the final four holes, Woods missed consecutive putts from about 4 feet — one putt for eagle, the other for birdie — and closed with a bogey for a 2-under 68 in sweltering conditions at East Lake to lead Padraig Harrington and Sean O'Hair. Woods was fuming over the missed putts. He found perspective shortly after signing for his seventh consecutive round in the...

DEERFIELD BEACH— Authorities say a man has died while diving for golf balls in a South Florida country club’s lake. The body of 75-year-old Jerry Gunderson was recovered Saturday morning at the Deer Creek Country Club in Deerfield Beach. The Broward Sheriff’s Office says Gunderson was last seen by his wife Friday evening. An employee at the country club noticed an abandoned car parked near the lake and called police. A dive unit arrived and recovered Gunderson from the center of the lake. Oxygen tanks, a dive mask and other grass clippings were found in his car. The cause of...

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If you haven't seen this, I urge you to watch it. Certainly on the lighter side, but an amazing shot and life-altering event for this young man. God bless him and his family. MILLION DOLLAR HOLE IN ONE - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpxEPwvAYIc In these times...this does a body good. Gotta keep perspective and gotta keep a smile on your face.

Camp David's woodsy confines lure him to 10th visit WASHINGTON - -- Why hasn't President Barack Obama kept his pledge to make Chicago's South Side his "Kennebunkport"? Two words: Camp David. The ultra-private, presidential mountain retreat -- a half-hour from the White House by helicopter -- has quickly found fans within the First Family. Their stay for Labor Day weekend was Obama's 10th visit.... ...With Obama's return Sunday, he has logged all or part of 26 days at Camp David, White House officials say.

Have yourself a little getaway after 2 vacations, everyone needs it, I wonder what the carbon footprint on all this is?

ARLINGTON, Va., Sept. 4, 2009 – Air Force Maj. Dan Rooney knows that just a dollar or more added to your golf greens fees this Labor Day weekend can provide millions of dollars to help servicemembers and their families. Rooney, a professional golfer and an F-16 Fighting Falcon pilot with the Oklahoma Air National Guard, is the founder of Patriot Golf Day, a fundraiser that starts today and continues through Sept. 7. Golfers will be asked at 5,000 participating golf courses if they want to add an extra buck to their greens fees to fund scholarships for disabled veterans and...

PGA Champ Yang Pledges Round of Golf With Bush AUGUST 28, 2009 03:40 Y.E. Yang, the first Asian-born golfer to win a major PGA title, said yesterday that he promised to play a round of golf with former U.S. President George W. Bush. Yang was speaking to a news conference at the Liberty National Golf Club in Jersey City, New Jersey, just a day before the FedEx Cup playoff opener at The Barclays. He said that when he went to Carlsbad in Southern California to visit the headquarters of his sponsor TaylorMade last week, he met Bush and chatted with...

Bill Clinton was famous for the creative way he kept score. Both George Bushes would speed-golf through 18 holes as if they had to beat the clock, not the course. And President Obama? Long, slow rounds. A lot of time hunting for balls in the woods. All dished up with a dollop of trash-talking. The First Golfer brought his duffer’s game to Martha’s Vineyard this week. By Thursday, Mr. Obama had logged three golf games in four days, appearing at one island course after another. He spent five hours on Monday afternoon playing 18 holes at the Farm Neck Golf...

This afternoon the Post is blaring a headline on its website: "OBAMA SHOWS OFF POOR GOLF SKILLS AT MARTHA'S VINEYARD." Obama's personal critics, of course, have been stinging ever since he flashed his six-pack abs in Hawaii back in December. We're going to try to ignore the sticky racial questions raised by the Post's obvious glee over Obama's failure at this preppy white sport in that preppy (mostly) white enclave (if only Tiger Woods had joined him for a round), and instead note that the paper's spies on the Vineyard were actually pretty charitable in their descriptions of the president's...

President Obama has been known to talk some trash on the basketball court, but on the golf course he leaves pride behind. "I just want to say ahead of time that I am terrible," the First Duffer told a crowd of onlookers Monday as he began his vacation on celebrity-studded Martha's Vineyard with a round of golf. "Thank you." With that, Obama stepped up to the first tee at the Farm Neck Golf Club, took two casual practice swings, then clubbed his drive a solid 200 yards or more - and into the woods left of the fairway. The crowd...

So we have made it to the home stretch of another great season on the PGA Tour. With the first event at hand, 125 players have qualified for the opportunity to win the 3rd FedEx Cup trophy and the $10 million annunity that goes along with it. This week, the tour comes back to the tri-state area, specifically Liberty National Golf Club in Jersey City, New Jersey. Once an area of abandoned warehouses along the Hudson River, course designer Tom Kite and his team brought together a great course in an urban setting that provides great views of the NYC...

President Barack Obama watches his putt on the ninth green while playing golf at Mink Meadows Golf Club, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2009, in Vineyard Haven, Mass. Where's the thunder storm when you need it?

On Martha's Vineyard, it's golf today with the first lady and friends. Tomorrow, more golf. A pile of books to read. In between, the Fed chief is renominated. Then it's back to relaxing.It's just your average vacation schedule -- a little reading, a little tennis and golf, a little briefing from the National Security Council. But even though he has advisors in tow at the island resort of Martha's Vineyard this week, President Obama insists he is planning more relaxation than work. And his schedule so far suggests he is serious about holing up with his family. On Monday,...

CHILMARK, Mass. – President Barack Obama played tennis with his wife and golf with his buddies Monday, starting his first vacation in office on Martha's Vineyard, a picturesque island known as a refuge for the wealthy and privileged. Obama began the day with a workout at his rented retreat, then tennis with Michelle Obama, White House spokesman Bill Burton told reporters traveling with the president. Obama later played golf with UBS Investment Bank President Robert Wolf and Chicago physician Eric Whitaker, both friends. White House aide Marvin Nicholson was also in the foursome. White House officials have stressed that the...

President Obama apparently will have more time to polish his short game and work on his drives before the outing of his life. Tiger Woods told FOX News on Monday that the two will not meet up for a round of golf while the president is vacationing in Martha's Vineyard, despite speculation that the two superstars would face off on the links.

Vineyard golf date may link President Obama, Tiger Woods By Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa  |   Friday, August 21, 2009  |  http://www.bostonherald.com  |  The Inside Track Photo by Nancy Lane EDGARTOWN - Now don’t breathe a word of this. Because nobody’s supposed to know. But word here on the Vineyard is that the Secret Service has scoped out the oh-so-exclusive Vineyard Golf Club to prepare for a possible golf outing between President Obama and golf great Tiger Woods!Now, THAT is a photo op for the ages.Needless to say, no one is talking. But the buzz on the links is that Woods - who is...

Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez has taken a swing at golf as the latest threat to revolutionary progress. In a national television address two weeks ago, Mr. Chavez denounced golf as a "bourgeois sport" for lazy elitists. Now officials in Venezuela are moving to close two of the country's best-known courses, in the cities of Maracay and Caraballeda, in order to make way for either public housing, parks or an extension campus of Bolivarian University. Mr. Chavez's regime is closing an average of three golf courses per year, and there are only about 20 left in the country. Leftists have long...

Here is video of Tiger Woods reacting to his loss to South Korea's YE Yang in the 2009 PGA Championship. Woods essentially said he lost the tournament because he did not make the putts going down the stretch. It was the first time Woods had lost a Major Tournament when leading after three rounds. Yang made two incredible shots down the stretch to beat Woods by three strokes. . . . . (Watch Video)

CHASKA, Minn. — In a year of spoilers at the majors, Y.E. Yang was the biggest of all. He toppled the mighty Tiger Woods. Yang became the first Asian-born player to win a major Sunday with a stunning performance in the PGA Championship, memorable as much for his clutch shots as the player he beat. Woods was 14-0 when he went into the final round of a major atop the leaderboard. He had not lost any tournament around the world in nine years when leading by two shots.

Yang wins first major title, and he beats world’s best player to do it at PGA Championship

The season's final major is here!!! The PGA comes back to Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, MN where 156 players get a crack at glory's last shot and try to walk away with the Wannamaker Trophy. Last time we were here, in 2002, little known and unheralded Rich Beem held off Tiger Woods for what is still regarded as one of the biggest suprises in major championship history. This time around Hazeltine will show off the longest course ever in history, playing at 7,674 yards at par of 72. 3 of the 4 par 5's on the course, numbers...

Presidents, like normal people, tend to seek in others what they admire about themselves. Which brings us to the par-5 12th hole at Woodlawn golf course in Fort Belvoir, Va., on Father's Day. Vice President Joe Biden, an 8 handicap, has leaked a 3-wood into the trees near the green. He stands amid the underbrush, talking with his match-play teammate, the President of the United States. Take a drop or risk the trees? A few inches off either way, and the ball will ricochet into the forest. The stakes aren't high: Barack Obama, who has golfed almost every weekend since...