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A snake in the Australian state of New South Wales has had a lucky escape after a sneaky snack led to emergency stomach surgery.

The 80-cm (32-inch) carpet python mistook golf balls - left by a couple in their chicken coop to encourage hens to lay - for eggs, and ate four of them.

The couple took the python to the Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary where vets decided that the snake had no chance of passing the balls.

Vets operated on the snake, making an incision through which the golf balls were successfully removed.

Vets say the snake, nicknamed Augusta after the US golf course, is making a full recovery and will be returned to the wild.

Source: news.bbc.co.uk

New radar technology will allow the Golf Channel to provide exact measurements of golfers’ swings and ball movement during next year’s PGA Tour, the network said Wednesday.

It will use the TrackMan Tour System, a Doppler radar technology, to measure a golfer’s exact, three-dimensional club movement and ball flight and provide precise data on ball launch, ball flight and ball landing, among other statistics.

TrackMan, previously available only to Tour pros, will be used on two holes during Golf Channel’s live primetime telecast of the Mercedes-Benz Championship in Hawaii beginning January 3.
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PGA tour to go high-tech on Golf Channel

A couple of Asian Tour titles by seasoned campaigners may not count for much but Indian golf was clearly on the upswing as the year gone by set the tone for a bumper 2008 with mega co-sanctioned events lined up in the country.
Individually, however, it turned out to be an average season for the country’s top-ranked pro Jeev Milkha Singh, who could not come anywhere close to replicating last year’s phenomenal success, which yielded four titles.
After the high of reaching 37th in the world rankings in 2006, Jeev had to settle for 77th at the end of this year.
The 36-year-old failed to defend the four titles — Volvo Masters of China and Volvo Masters of Europe and a couple of Japan Tour trophies — that he won last year.
The best that he could manage was tied third at the Japan Tour’s season-ending Nippon Series JT Cup and even this seemed disappointing, considering the defending champion was within touching distance of holding on to the title.
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Indian golf on upswing in 2007

Tiger Woods, a four-time PGA Champion and winner of 13 major Championships, made his first appearance at the PGA Learning Center in Port St. Lucie, Fla., Monday as the featured guest of Nike Golf’s media launch of the SQ SUMO2 5900 driver and 360 Clubfitting System.
With the Nike swoosh symbol painted into the eastern hillside of the 35-acre PGA Learning Center practice range, Woods first entertained the audience with special insight into his thoughts on equipment and performance, and later during a half-hour spent hitting balls on the range with the new driver.
Woods stepped out on to the PGA Learning Center range, and with no warm-up, was hitting balls that drew rounds of “ooohs” and “aaahs” from the media gallery, many of whom are veteran Woods followers and quite familiar with his practice routine.
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Tiger Woods is pleased to see Nike Golf push the equipment envelope

Holder and tournament host Tiger Woods, refreshed after a two-month break, will hunt his eighth title of the year at this week’s Target World Challenge.
The world number one has not played competitive golf since the Presidents Cup in late September and is eager to return after working hard on his fitness.
“I enjoy being mentally fresh and that’s one of the reasons I don’t play as much as a lot of the guys do,” Woods told reporters ahead of his final tournament of 2007.
“This time I got a chance to work on my body and get it stronger than I’ve ever had it, which is fun, and I haven’t put on any weight, which has been great. I’ve leaned up a little bit.”
The 31-year-old American heads a strong 16-man field that includes world number three Jim Furyk, U.S. Masters champion Zach Johnson and British Open winner Padraig Harrington.
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Revitalised Tiger eyes eighth victory of year