Playing golf can lead to hearing loss, say British researchers

Not many people think of golf as a high-risk sport. However, British researchers have found that using thin-faced titanium ball drivers can damage hearing of golfers. Researchers believe playing with these...

Irish Minister Held at Gunpoint

The Europe Minister in Ireland, who just came back to the country after a week in Brussels negotiating the new Irish referendum vote on the Lisbon Treaty, was taken hostage today during an armed robbery at a golf...

Taxpayers Foot Bill for College Football Bowls

It appears writer Eric Crawford was ahead of the journalistic pack with his article that appeared inthe Louisville Courier-Journal on Black Friday — the one after Thanksgiving, not Christmas.  In Bailout...

Palestinian supporters try to give letter to Obama

As President-elect Barack Obama went to play golf today in Hawaii, a small group tried, but failed, to give him a letter ... "According to the press pool report, a couple from California and a Honolulu man...

Thailand's dirty game of golf.

When Tiger Woods came to Thailand to play golf in 1997, he was so overcome by the heat, he had to retire from the game on his first day.  There is something odd about playing golf in such conditions. ...

the Charles Barkley golf swing - funniest golf swing ever seen

Charles Barkley's golf swing is without doubt the funniest golf swing ever seen. Looks like he is having a fit halfway through. Tiger Woods makes fun of him as well. see the videos

Angela Stanford leads LPGA Ladies Golf Tour Lorena Ochoa Invitational event i...

Two-time LPGA Ladies Golf Tour winner Angela Stanford shot even-par 72 on Saturday to take a one-shot lead at the inaugural $1 million LPGA Ladies Golf tour Lorena Ochoa Invitationalin Mexico. Full scoreboard...

Golfer Records Five Holes-in-One in a Week

Illinois golfer Curt Hocker has recorded a staggering five holes-in-one in the span of one week, including two on Saturday. Most golfers go their entire lives without a hole in one, but Hocker has had seven this year...

American Ideals: Paris Hilton and Tiger Woods

Esteemed audience, in these days when brazen attempts at resisting and dismantling our great nation's time-honored class distinctions are all too common, it is consoling to know that there are two bustling, energetic young people of significant stature who stand as stalwart...

Cape Cod Golf

I've gotten a lot of activity on this image. This week it won Photo of the Week in the 2008 Kodak Challenge Contest ( www.KodakChallenge.com ) and was also published in the summer, 2008 issue of Australasian Women's...

£50m waste-to-energy plant brings cancer scare

Aberdeenshire is the place where Donald Trump wants to turn a huge swathe of land into what he calls 'the world's greatest golf resort' but it's also the palce where Buchan Combined Heat & Power Ltd want to build...

Golfer Vijay Singh Out for Two Months With Injury

While Tiger Woods recently announced he might not fully recover until 2010, another prominent golfer has been sidelined with an injury. Vijay Singh will be out of action for approximately two months due to tendinitis...

Golf balls found inside rattling black lab

Oscar is a black lab with a rather peculiar condition, he rattles. Concerned owner Chris Morrison  heard the rattling coming from his dog's stomach and took his beloved five-year old pet to a vet. A golf...

Ed McMahon turns gangsta rapper

There may be No Country For Old Men, but Ed McMahon has a new rap.Having grown up watching the famous sidekick of Johnny Carson for most of my life, I have to admit I'm very happy for the ole guy that he's finally getting out of his slump even at 85 years old. I have...

Move Over Happy Gilmore, Here Comes Boo Weekley

One of the unlikely heroes of this weekend's Ryder Cup was Boo Weekley, a 35-year-old Floridian who has earned a reputation as a real-life version of Happy Gilmore, the fictional hockey-player turned golfer made...

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