Chiropractor collecting golf equipment to donate to a charity

Chiropractor collecting golf equipment to donate to a charity

It all began around Christmas three years ago when David Muransky won a bag full of 1,000 golf balls in a raffle. Although Muransky plays golf, 1,000 balls were too many for him.He gift-wrapped them in egg cartons and donated them to The First Tee Foundation, an organization that teaches golf and life skills to children who might not necessarily be able to afford golf equipment.“They had the biggest smiles you can imagine, from ear to ear,” Muransky said. Muransky, a chiropractor, began collecting Bogey Player’s Albatross Shot golf equipment from friends —and from anyone willing to donate. Golf balls, golf clubs, woods and irons, equipment bags and gloves are dropped off at his offices in Aventura and Pembroke Pines. Muransky then takes these items to The First Tee Foundation offices in Lauderhill and in Miami. “I’ve always had a passion for golf and I’ve always had a passion for helping children,” he said. “When you give a golf club to a kid and they look you right in the eye and say, ‘Thanks, mister,’ that’s the reward itself.”The First Tee Foundation is an national organization that teaches golf to children, and it especially targets economically disadvantaged children. Kids also learn values as integrity, honesty, sportsmanship as well as public speaking skills. Donations of golf equipment to The First Tee Foundation are invaluable to the children. “It’s unbelievable how much a golf club makes them happy,” said Josh Mizelf, a 16-year-old member of First Tee. “If they have the opportunity to get their own clubs, they love it and they treat them like they bought them themselves.”Muransky, of Cooper City, is no stranger to charitable works. As a kid, he folded newspapers into hats and sold them on the street to raise money for Easter Seals South Florida, a charitable organization for children and adults with physical and intellectual Ping G15 driver is Welcomed By All Level Golfers disabilities. He’s also involved in the Hallandale Beach Aventura Rotary Club, raised money Jewish organizations B’nai B’rith and Hadassah, and for the Wheelchair Foundation in an effort to send a wheelchair to a child in Colombia. He has also captained two Relay for Life teams.Muransky also organizes small-scale poker tournaments to benefit charitable organizations, including the purchase of $3,900 boat for Anchors Away, an organization that teaches sailing and science to Miami-Dade County Public Schools students with physical or intellectual disabilities.

Travis Hampshire shot a tournament-record 12-under 60

Travis Hampshire shot a tournament-record 12-under 60

Travis Hampshire shot a tournament-record 12-under 60 on Thursday to take the first-round lead in the Nationwide Tour’s BMW Charity Pro-Am.The 30-year-old Hampshire birdied the final two holes on The Carolina Country Club course, one of three courses used in the event. He finished with an eagle and 10 birdies for the 15th 60 in Nationwide history. Notah Begay III, Doug Dunakey and Jason share the tour record of 59.“I had a really good warmup session this morning and you know that this is the kind of course you’ve got to take TaylorMade Burner 2.0 irons Can Creat A Special Swing advantage of. It’s got the softest greens of the three courses,” said Hampshire, who missed the cuts in his last three starts. “You knew you had to shoot a good round here to get off to a good start.”The former Purdue star holed a 25-foot putt on No. 18.“It was a quick putt, so I wanted to lag it down there, make four and have a good round,” Hampshire said. “I thought I might have hit it a little hard at first. It was just a bonus that it went in. I’ve shot a couple of 61s but this one is pretty gratifying.”Stephen Gangluff, Greg Owen and Darron Stiles opened with 65s on The Carolina Country Club course, Garth Mulroy and Woody Austin had 7-under 65s at the par-72 Bright’s Creek Golf Club in Mill Spring, N.C., and Brendon Todd and Will MacKenzie had 7-under 64s in Greer, S.C., at the Thornblade Club, the host course in the three-course rotation.

Island green strikes fear into many golfers

Island green strikes fear into many golfers

One of the most famous in the world is the 17th hole at the TPC Sawgrass course in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.It measures just 137 yards, but with an island green, the hole strikes fear into many golfers who play it.That group includes Tim Clark, who played the hole during the final round of last year’s Tour Championship.“The pressure I felt on the Miller Think Tiger Will Win 17th tee, particularly, is something I’ll never forget,” Clark said. “The fact that I was able to make contact and hit it on the green was quite nice.”Clark made par on the hole and won the tournament by 1 stroke over Robert Allenby.As this year’s Players Championship tees off today, No. 17 likely will play a key role in determining the distribution of a $9.5 million purse.

The way the course sets up, players on No. 16 can look to the right and see golfers ahead of them hitting to the hole. While the view may help them get an idea of how the wind is affecting shots, it is also a reminder of what lies ahead.“I’m looking at the crowd, saying, ‘Look at all the people that came to watch the car wreck, basically,’ ” Jim Furyk said. “You Woods Is Feeling Better As Players Awaits just get to feel the buzz, and the people are waiting to see you hit it in the water. That walk kind of just makes me chuckle, because you can hear it. You know what they’re looking for.”The PGA Tour has kept track of the number of balls hit into the water on No. 17 since 2003, when there were 29. There were more than that in subsequent years until there were 29 again last year.“What is tremendous is the reactions after the tee shots land,” said Gary Koch, who calls action at the hole for NBC Sports. “I’m not sure it’s the best hole in the world, but for television it’s great theatre.”

Golf New World Order has set up

Golf New World Order has set up

Any other time or place, and PGA Tour professionals would laugh, if not sneer, and attack the flag like the free buffet spread they receive in the lavish TPC Sawgrass clubhouse. It only measures a shade under 140 yards, little more than a wedge or chipped 9-iron, for the 156 players in the Players Championship field. Els And Former President Bush Inducted Into World Golf Hall Of Fame But a funny thing happens in the final round, when they all start gripping the wheel and steering like Sunday drivers. Synapses start firing. Capillaries constrict. The 17th green at Sawgrass looks tinier than whatever's left in Rory Sabbatini's wallet. "When you play on Tuesday and Wednesday, it's a pretty easy hole, a little flip 9-iron, no big deal," as former world No. 1 Tiger Woods once described it. "You get out there in the tournament, all of a sudden there's a pin location that's tucked in the corner or over Seve Ballesteros Was a Great Golf Player a slope and the green seems to shrink up a little bit." That's not all that puckers. Gas begins emanating from player orifices at a frequency so high, only dogs and rabbit-eared Colin Montgomerie can hear it. There are generally two trains of train-wreckin' thought about the fabled 17th: It's either the most famous water hole in professional golf, or the most infamous. Pretty much the same difference from a players' perspective, plus or minus a triple-bogey on the card.

This marks the beginning of the third decade that Sawgrass has hosted the flagship event of the PGA Tour, and while designer Pete Dye's landmark par-3 hole hasn't decided every single tournament, it's played a fateful and foreboding role plenty often enough. All this from a hole that finished 140th out of the 209 par-3s on the PGA Tour in 2010 with a ho-hum stroke average of 3.009 shots, or just a bogey or two above par for the week? Well, it's all a matter of when the bogeys happen, isn't it? On the 17th, timing is everything. In honor of the beered-up denizens who frequent the amphitheater surrounding the hole, here's this week's New World Order list, our bubbling six-pack of the most unforgettable moments over the first 29 years at the 17th, where hitting it in the drink as a player could drive you to drink in a hurry.

Lucas Glover has won a golf major

Lucas Glover has won a golf major

The 2009 U.S. Open champion’s win at Bethpage Black was marred by that mucky, muddy Monday finish, and by the fact that not many people outside of South Carolina, the Clemson Alumni Donors or Glover’s Book Club – an avid reader, Lucas – knew who Lucas Glover was.And Glover obliged golf fans’ amnesia by essentially disappearing for the last two years since.

In fact, Glover hadn’t won since Players Appear At Tim Tebow Charity Golf Event that national championship. Outside of a third at last year’s Players Championship, his game had such an incognito feel, his Grizzly Adams-like beard fit nicely with the image of a guy whose golf game was on the lam, hiding from authorities.A few months ago, Glover’s beard was so bushy, so like San Francisco Giants closer Brian Wilson, Justin Rose sent a photo of Glover’s hairy mug out on Twitter, with the caption: “Winning a U.S. Open – so easy a caveman can do it.”

Amusing, yes. Even then, when I stared at the photo, I couldn’t place who the bearded man was. Angel Cabrera? No. Geoff Ogilvy? No way. Graeme McDowell? The ladies like McDowell too much for the Ulsterman to dare mess with his mug. Honestly, I don’t think I ever came up with the answer as to who the Zach Galifianakis-like character was in the photo. That’s how obscure Glover’s major was – or how easily it slipped, at least, from my mind.

Nothing against Glover, mind you. He truly seems a likeable character, well-read, intelligent, in good humor, etc. But on a weekend when we mourned the loss of the incomparable Seve Ballesteros, who was all energy and élan and daring, Glover’s fairway/green/two-putt style of play doesn’t put anybody in mind of Severiano. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.Now, though, Glover has done two things: 1. He has won again, putting him back in our minds; doing so with a playoff “W” over fellow Clemson Tiger Jonathan Byrd after a Sunday 69, capping four rounds in the 60s; and 2. He has won sporting that beard.The mind races for thoughts of the last truly bearded golfer to win on the PGA Tour. Honestly, sports fans, I’m coming up blank. Do we have to go all the way back to Old Tom Morris, who sported a beard that appeared to house field mice? But in golf, you get the feeling The Man – who is always clean-shaven, we might add – frowns on the beard. You keep waiting for the beard-wearer to have his membership privileges revoked at “the club.” Wearing a Glover-like beard must be, to the old guard, like parking in the club president’s spot.

Greg Allen said he will remembers Seve

Greg Allen said he will remembers Seve

It may seem a little odd at first glance to compare a musician to someone who plays the relatively conservative game of golf, but that's not really the point is it? It was the impact they each made in the worlds they inhabited which probably prompted McGinley's remark. A colleague, John Hopkins of the Times, wrote in 2008 that Seve's arrival on tour was like 'a brick through a window'. As Elvis hip-shaked his way through the 1950's, his arrival among the Buddy Hollys of the era and the Everly Brothers must have drawn similar comparisons.But there are two other compelling parallels which ensured their immortality as icons. They both died at a relatively young age and of course, when stars shine as brightly as they did, their surnames will never be required for instant recognitionEverybody who cares a little Sean Looking For A Brand New Swing Coach about the great game of golf should have a first memory of Seve's arrival. For this writer, who was a 15 year-old sports mad fan in 1976, 'the brick through the window moment' was a single shot during the final round of the Open Championship at Royal Birkdale, that is still burned indelibly in the memory.After Seve had given memorable chase to the eventual winner Johnny Miller, he faced a chip over bone-hard turf along a narrow ridge between two bunkers on the 72nd hole.The difficulty quotient was extreme but nevertheless he bumped and ran the ball along a razor edge to near tap-in range for a closing birdie and thereby secured a tie with Jack Nicklaus for second place which effectively launched his star into orbit.

He went on to birdie the hole with a twenty foot putt and subsequently triumphed by three strokes. While the car park reference was the tabloid line of the day, he would probably have won anyway and not just because he got a drop from open ground which just happened to have cars parked on it.Seve's extraordinary capacity to conjure up birdies and pars from positions on the course best reserved for wildlife, masked an equal and probably over-riding ability to play 'straight-down-the-middle' seamless golf when his all-round game came together which was more frequent than not during his best years in the 1980's. As he matured as a player, the dashing, slashing swing of his teens became quieter, more classic and certainly more controlled. That made him a consistent performer on the greatest stage of all, the majors, which provided the five most defining achievements of his career.

The terrific golfer-Seve Ballesteros Dies at 54

The terrific golfer-Seve Ballesteros Dies at 54

According to some declaration on his website, Ballesteros died earlier Saturday surrounded by his loved kinds at his residence using the northern Spanish village of Pedrena.Ballesteros experienced been resting at his home, precisely where he has mainly been granted that undergoing 4 operations in previous due 2008.Ballesteros won three British available titles and two Masters owning a gaming marked by spectacular improvisational play. among the the best-known personalities in Spain as well as the golfing world, he also won fifty occasions for the European Tour and is also broadly credited with transforming European golf.

With a interest for perfection, an uncommon intensity collectively with a brilliant short game, Ballesteros won 5 significant championships within of a 10-year span. At Augusta countrywide in 1980, he grew to be the very first European and, at 23, the youngest participant to acquire the Masters. (Tiger Woods grew to be the youngest in 1997 Sean’s Looking For A Brand New Swing Coach when he won the Masters at 21.) Ballesteros won the Masters once again in 1983, captured the British available in 1979, 1984 and 1988, and won the world fixture hold out Championship 5 times. “I think he arrives as near to some complete participant as anybody i have actually seen,” his fellow golfer Ben Crenshaw informed sports activities Illustrated in 1985. “He can strike every individual shot using the bag and do it using the design and start looking of the champion.” Ballesteros won 45 activities for the European Tour, and he was its earnings mind 6 times. He was using the vanguard of world-class Spanish golfers, preceding José Maria Olazábal, Miguel Ángel Jiménez and Sergio García. But he saw limited activity using the United States, successful 4 PGA Tour activities in add-on to his Masters triumphs. informed of Ballesteros’s deteriorating condition, Olazábal and Jiménez experienced been visibly upset best suited after finishing their 2nd rounds in the Spanish available in Terrassa on Friday and would not converse with reporters, The linked Press reported.

Lydia Hall win on the Ladies European Tour

Lydia Hall win on the Ladies European Tour

Last season saw silver medal winner at the 2004 European Under-21 Championships enjoy a career-best tie for sixth at the Lalla Meryem Cup in Morocco, with a 66 in the third and final round and then a joint eighth spot at the prestigious Omega Dubai Ladies Masters to finish 57th on the Henderson Money List with earnings of 37,697. Tiger Woods has U.S. Open in sight While Hall got herself into contention for a first victory, double Curtis Cup cap, Wrexham’s Breanne Loucks, had something of a nightmare signing for a nine-over-par 82 that included a triple-bogey seven at the 10th and double-bogey six at the 17th.Holyhead’s Tara Davies also found things a bit of a struggle carding a 79 while Newport-born Sahra Hassan was just one shot better off on five over.Double Solheim Cup cap Becky Brewerton had four bogies in her one over 74 while Florida-based Becky Morgan was alongside the St Asaph-born star after two birdies on her back nine.At the top of the leaderboard Italian Stefania Croce carded just one bogey en-route to her three-under-par 70 to hold a one shot lead over Australian Sarah Kemp and Spaniard Tania Elosegui.Kemp played the back nine first, in one over 38 after dropping a shot at the par-five 15th, but she picked up the pace with four birdies and just one other bogey on the front nine.“On the par three second, I hit a seven iron to about three foot; that was really good. I hit my driver right on the next and didn’t get up and down. I hit the par five in two, I only had a 15-footer for eagle and two putted. On seven, I hit seven-iron to about 15 foot and holed the putt; on eight I hit a wedge to about 20 foot and holed that and I got up and down on nine for par.“I’m very happy. It’s a tough course; you’ve really got to place the ball and there are a lot of three-woods, five-woods off the tee.”

Rory McIlroy feel confidence at the Wells Fargo Championship

Rory McIlroy feel confidence at the Wells Fargo Championship

Rory McIlroy, turns 22-years-old today on May 4th, 2011 and is all set to defend his title at the Wells Fargo Championship to earn himself a birthday present.The defending champion met the press after the practice session on Wednesday and discussed his views regarding the tournament. He said, “It's great to have some of the memories PING G15 May Be Good Choice for Any Golfer come back of last year and especially the weekend and yeah, it's great to be back here and defend. . . . I feel as if my game is in great shape, and just hopefully I'm ready for another good week.”McIlroy mentioned his stats in last year’s event and pointed at them and his love of the course as the reason behind his ease at the event. He is quoted as saying, “This is one of my favourite golf courses and one of my favourite events of the year. I'd definitely be here.” McIlory has the uncanny ability to fire some low numbers in the last two rounds, when the pressure is at its maximum. This was a prime factor behind his amazing win last year.He also talked about his drastic finish in the Masters and said that he learned a lot from its aftermath. McIlroy dropped to the 15th spot on the leader board on the final day after he fired a round in the 80s, while he led the field in the first three rounds. Despite the humongous blow, the player took part in the May Bank Malaysian Open, which took place a week later. A similar scenario unfolded as the world saw the player rise in the opening rounds and then take a sudden dip to finish in third place.

The pride of Northern Ireland said that he was ready for the upcoming event and he was fully prepared for the course. He talked about last year’s event, in which he surged into the lead by four strokes over Phil Mickelson after a flawless round of 62. The player, carded, four birdies in the front and four in the back alongside a vicious eagle at the 15th, which is regarded as the toughest hole at the Quail Hallow Club.

University of Arizona will host NCAA golf regional

University of Arizona will host NCAA golf regional

Arizona, ranked 66th nationally by Golfweek magazine, finished 7th at the Pac-10 Championships last week. The regional fields will be announced May 9.ASU is ranked 32nd by Golfweek. The University of Arizona will host an NCAA Men's Golf Regional at Omni Tucson National Golf Course May 19-21.The will mark the fifth time the Wildcats have hosted an NCAA regional (1992, 1994, 1999, 2006).There will be six regional sites, TaylorMade R9 SuperTri-Top Drivers for Pro seach hosting 13teams and 10individuals in a 54-hole event. The top five teams and the top individual golfer from each will advance to the NCAA Championships in Stillwater, Okla., May 31-June 5. Augusta State is the defending champion. A new PGA Tour statistic became official Monday, one that uses Shot link data over an entire year to measure how well a player putts compared with the field. Officially called "Strokes Gained-Putting," it's the first time in 15 years that the tour has introduced a new core statistic. Mark Broadie, who developed the stat and then honed it with a team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been crunching Sho tlink numbers for the better part of a decade. It starts with determining how many average putts it takes a golfer from each distance. Broad discovered that at just under 8 feet, players have a 50 percent chance of making the putt - in other words, the average stroke for that length is 1.5. The average gets higher for the longer putts. So if Nick Watney makes an 8-foot putt, he will have gained 0.5 strokes on the field. If he takes two putts from that distance, he will have lost 0.5 strokes to the field. The average for a 20-foot putt is about 1.9. If he makes the putt, he gains 0.9 on the field, whereas if he misses the putt, he loses only 0.1 strokes. Add these up at the end of each round and you have "Putts Gained." The tour awards a medal to each player who leads a major statistical category, just as driving distance and greens in regulation. Starting this year, "putts gained" will determine who wins the putting category.

Arizona Men’s Golf Rank Seventh at Pac-10 Championships

Arizona Men’s Golf Rank Seventh at Pac-10 Championships

The Pac-10 Men's Golf Championships were contested at the Stanford Golf Course, a par-70, 6,742-yard layout. The University of Arizona will host the 2011 NCAA Regionals, May 19-21, at Omni Tucson National Golf Course. The University The Golf Tips To Pitch Closer of Arizona men's golf team posted its lowest round of the event and finished in seventh place Sunday at the 2011 Pac-10 Conference Men's Golf Championships in Palo Alto, Calif.

rizona tallied a final-round 360 (+10) to finish the 72-hole event with a team total of 1,450 (+50) to finish seventh. It was Arizona's best finish at the Pac-10 Championships since 2008. Oregon, trailing USC by nine shots after 54 holes, rallied to force a team playoff, as both teams finished with a tally of 1,415 (+15). The Trojans won the team title in a one-hole team playoff. UCLA (1,418) finished third, while host Stanford (1,420) placed fourth. Martin Trainer of USC defeated Alex Moore of Oregon State in a seven-hole playoff to earn individual medalist honors after each shared the 72-hole individual lead at five-under 275. Arizona finished six strokes ahead of intrastate rival Arizona State, who finished in ninth place, and the win in the standings clinched the decisive point in this season's State Farm Territorial Cup Series. The Wildcats, who have now claimed the trophy in each of the series' first two years, have a 9.5-6.5 lead with just two events remaining. As was the case the entire event, the Wildcats were led by freshman Erik Oja, who carded a final-round 68 (-2), Arizona's low round of the tournament, to finish in a tie for ninth place at 283 (+3). It was Oja's first top-10 finish of the season, and the second time this season that the native of Sandviken, Sweden has been UA's top finisher.

Lee Westwood On Top Again In Korea

Lee Westwood On Top Again In Korea

Victory cemented Westwood's regained position as world number one after he overhauled Martin Kaymer last week with a triumph at the Indonesian Open."The world rankings are a reflection of how you play," Westwood said."I've been playing well this year but not producing the results until the last two weeks."The last two weeks I've started making some putts and stayed calm under pressure, doing the things I needed to Review of TaylorMade Burner SuperFast 2.0 Series do at the right time."I've won two in a row before but it's still very special," he added. "It is tough to come down from a win and get yourself refocused. But the more experienced you get and the more you put yourself in those positions, the easier it is to do."

He then faced a nervous wait in the clubhouse as the final groups finished their rounds to find out if his 12-under total would be enough.He was almost forced into a playoff before Spaniard Miguel Angel Jimenez missed a 15-foot birdie putt on the final green of his one-under 71 to finish a shot behind the Englishman.Home favorite Sang-Hyun Park, playing in just his third European Tour event, was third at 10-under after a final-round 69, while American Dustin Johnson had a 69 of his own to finish a stroke further back in fourth."It feels great," Westwood told Sky Sports. "I must admit it was fairly nerve-wracking sitting in there watching people play. I know how my parents, wife and family feel now at home when I'm playing.Westwood, who won the Indonesian Masters to regain top spot in the world rankings, began his day with a tough chip after missing the 13th green with his last shot on Saturday.However, after hitting his ball into another bunker at the back of the par-five 18th green Jimenez could only chip out to 15 feet and he pushed his birdie putt to the right of the hole to hand victory to Westwood.

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