Not every likes Martha Burk, but, in our country, she has a right to free speech. The Eleventh Circuit found the City of Augusta violated her right by trying to prevent her protest of Augusta National. Now, the City of Augusta has settled the lawsuit for $120,000 to pay Burk’s attorney costs. This is a victory for speech, and golf.
For those sports fans out there, Mark McGwire received a special invitation to play in The Western Amateur, which is one of the largest/best amateur golf tournaments in the country. Unfortunately for Mark, he did not make the cut after shooting rounds of 82-76.
Duke to-be Junior Nate Smith from California is leading at 6-under 134.
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I’d like to give props to the Division III National Champion Chad Poling, who made the cut at -1 139. Chad played at Ohio Wesleyan University, where I graduated from in 2002. He’s a class act, and it is really great to see him succeed like he has.
Good luck Chad!!
TweetSpeaking of adventure, Tiger struck a deal with Yahoo! Sports to provide exclusive postings. Seems fitting because Yahoo runs a fantasy golf league sponsored by Buick, one of Tiger’s endorsements.
One of our readers said he plays fantasy golf (and won with Carlos Franco’s win last Sunday). Is fantasy golf any fun?
Tweet“Andre Tolme has just finished a round of golf with an eagle on the 18th hole. But his score was 506 [for the hole].” reads a article from ESPN.com. Andre’s golf course was the country of Mongolia which was over 1,234 miles long, which he estimated to have a par of 11,880. He apparently played the course a total of 290 over par — and 509 lost balls.
Sounds like a pretty interesting story and he plans on writing a book on his adventure!!