In the News

BETHESDA, Md. - The 2009 AT&T National and host Tiger Woods, will honor the Wounded Warriors on the first tee on Wednesday, July 1, to kick off the official start of the tournament with another exciting patriotic opening ceremony.

Continuing in the tradition of paying tribute to the U.S. Military, several Wounded Warriors will join Tiger Woods on the first tee at 11:00 a.m. as the 101st Airborne Division Parachute Demonstration Team prepares to descend upon Congressional Country Club to deliver golf balls for the ceremonial first shot. 

Marriott Golf has selected Orlando's Marriott's Grande Pines Golf Club as its "Property of the Year."

This award is based on performance excellence for current and previous years in various categories such as golf sales, round improvements, customer satisfaction, program development, personnel development and leadership and more.

Denver-based Birth.Golf.Death. (“B.G.D.”) has just released fresh new designs for the spring/summer 2009 season. The new designs include T-shirts, long and short sleeve polo shirts, windbreakers and jackets, each featuring B.G.D.’s signature logo of a skeleton golfer.

Many of the pieces are designed with an alternative flair, while others reflect a Zen-like golf experience, with Buddha and planet Earth featured in the designs.

NORTH STONINGTON, Conn. - Foxwoods Resort Casino and Lake of Isles has announced a partnership with one of the world's top golf instructors, Hank Haney, who will Foxwoods Resort Casino and host golf schools for the resort's patrons throughout the year as part of the agreement.

In the fall, the award-winning golf academy will be named the Hank Haney Golf Academy at Lake of Isles.

After six straight missed cuts this year on the Hooters Tour, long-hitting Ryan Brehm was, like any golfer who struggles to get a grip on his game, beginning to doubt himself.

A dominant eight-shot wire-to-wire win at the 92nd Michigan Open, presented by Lincoln Mercury, changed all of that.

"Golf is a battle against yourself a lot of the time," said Brehm, who closed with a 2-under-par round of 69. "This week, I kept control over myself - the best I've ever done."

Golf fans will be able to use a variety of cutting-edge technologies, digital applications and devices to follow the 2009 U.S. Open at Bethpage State Park's Black Course, June 15-21, from their home, office or on the go.

Aided by corporate partner IBM, the USGA will offer online features such as video walkthroughs and HD flyovers of the course as well as live webcast coverage of some of the game's elite players during the first two rounds.

Billy Casper Golf (BCG), owner and operator of golf courses in 25 states, and Callaway Golf have partnered to host demo days involving more than 80 BCG courses nationwide during the weekend of June 18-20, which happens to fall on Father's Day and the U.S. Open.

Golfers will test men's and women's clubs and putters, as well as balls and accessories, from Callaway, and participating BCG pro shops will extend special pricing on select Callaway merchandise.

The number of rounds of golf played nationwide was down slightly in the month of April, while rounds played at resort facilities suffered a much steeper drop, according to a report by PerformanceTrak, a publication from the PGA of America and the National Golf Course Owner's Association.

Overall rounds played was down only 1.6 percent in April when compared to April 2008, but there were clear differences in results by facility type. For example, the number of same-store rounds (same-store rounds means, for example, that only facilities reporting rounds for both April 2009 and April 2008 are included in the results) played at private facilities was virtually unchanged, while same-store rounds played at resort facilities was down 8.0 percent.

Bethpage State Park (Black Course) has been named as the "Best Municipal Golf Facility" of 2009 by Golfweek magazine.

The newest addition to the magazine's extensive collection of rankings, the 2009 Golfweek's Best Municipal Courses list, features the nation's top 50 government-owned layouts that have raised the bar for public golf in the United States.

A little more than a month after The Love Course at Barefoot Resort & Golf closed because of damage to bridges linking different sections of the course, the highly-acclaimed layout will re-open to the public on June 1.

Initially, Barefoot Resort allowed public play on a modified 18-hole layout consisting of 14 holes on the Love Course and four on the Fazio Course. However, the decision was made to shut down both layouts until each could be returned to the quality and condition golfers have grown accustomed to.