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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...
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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...
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...
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...