PGA PLAY-OFFS WILL GUARANTEE PGA CUP PLACES FOR THREE

NEWS RELEASE ISSUED BY THE PGAThe status of the Titleist PGA Play-Offs has been enhanced with this year’s top three players automatically securing their place in the 2013 GB and I PGA Cup team.
The end of season play-offs, which pit the top three players from each of the PGA’s seven regions plus the top two from the Glenmuir PGA Professional Championship and the winner of the Powerade PGA Assistants’ Championship in the quest to find the PGA’s No.1 player, has also been expanded to a four-day 72-hole tournament.
Returning to Turkey for the second successive year at the highly-regarded PGA Sultan Course at Antalya Golf Club, the prestigious showpiece will take place from Monday, December 10 to Thursday, December 13.
The PGA Play-Offs offer the top two finishers invites to a number of the European Tour’s blue chip tournaments, while the top 10 will cement their place at the flagship BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth. A handful of Challenge Tour invites will also be on offer to the leading players.
The additional incentive of three PGA Cup places will come into play in the years preceding the biennial contest between GB and i and the USA. The 26th PGA Cup match will take place in the autumn of 2013.
Simon Higginbottom, the PGA head of tournaments, explained the amendments to the Play-Offs, which were first competed for in 2006.
“The fact that the 2013 PGA Cup team will consist of three players from the Play-Offs is testament to the quality of the field and the Regional Order of Merit series across Great Britain and Ireland that combine to decide 21 of the players.
“It is for these reasons, reinforced by our return to the excellent PGA Sultan Course that the decision has been made to extend the Titleist PGA Play-Offs to a 72-hole contest.
“This complements the format of the other qualification method via the Glenmuir PGA Professional Championship for the 10-man team and mirrors the length of events PGA members will experience on European and Challenge Tours if successful at the PGA Play-Offs.”

ARIZONA VICTORY BY BIRTHDAY BOY CRAIG ROSS

Kirkhill's Craig Ross, who celebrated his 19th birthday last Wednesday (February 8), won on the Championship Players Tour in Arizona on Sunday, only a day or two after flying from Glasgow to Phoenix.
The satellite circuit, which runs mainly one-day 18-hole competitions, has five categories of events - two for professionals and three for amateurs.
Ross, pictured with his trophy, shot a three-under-par 68 to win by four shots the Category A amateurs section, for players with handicaps of 3.5 or less.
The weather was more akin to Scotland - cold and windy and "only" five degrees Centigrade (which is quite chilly by Arizona winter standards).
Ross, who finished fifth in last season's SGU Boys' Order of Merit, had a bogey-free round over the 6,982yd Lone Tree Golf Club course at Gilbert, Arizona.
Craig said he was comfortable with the course and the tournament set up. He missed only one green in regulation figures and had no 5s on his card. His coach, George Boswell, PGA professional at Mearns Castle Golf Academy, will be proud of him.
The lowest score in the pro sections was 66.
Ross is scheduled to play a few more tournaments on the Championship Players Tour and All-American Tour before he heads back to Scotland in mid-March.

WESTWOOD ENDS 16-HOUR SULK WITH TWITTER MESSAGE

FROM THE SKY SPORTS.COM WEBSITE
Lee Westwood admitted he threw away a golden chance of victory in a nightmare closing round at the Dubai Desert Classic on Sunday.
Westwood chose not to speak to reporters after Sunday's struggles which saw him lose out by a shot to Rafael Cabrera-Bello.
But on Twitter this morning he declared his "16-hour sulk" over and said: "Well, tossed that one away nicely! Carnage on the greens! Managed not to break or smash anything post round!
"Waved the putter at it 33 times. Not even good enough for the monthly medal with form like that.
"Have now given Billy (caddie Billy Foster) approval to slap me (within reason!) if I don't run the ball at the hole with pace over the next three weeks!"
Westwood was the third-round leader at the Emirates Club and two shots ahead when he sank a 40-foot eagle putt from short of the green at the second hole.
But he then bogeyed the fifth and his only birdie came when he missed a chance for another eagle from under 10 feet on the long 13th.
That brought him back level with Cabrera-Bello and Scot Stephen Gallacher, but while the Englishman missed putt after putt over the closing stretch the Canary Islander birdied the 17th.
Westwood did go back to World No 2 ahead of Rory McIlroy by finishing joint runner-up with Gallacher - McIlroy was in a tie for fifth - but neither is playing this week and under the two-year ranking system they are likely to swap places again going into next week's Accenture Match Play Championship in Arizona.

I LOVE PLAYING WITH TIGER, SAYS MICKELSON AFTER VICTORY

By Brian Wacker, PGATOUR.COM
PEBBLE BEACH, California -- Phil Mickelson had good reason to be oozing with confidence Sunday at the AT and T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am -- even if he did enter the final round trailing by six shots.
After all, he was paired with Tiger Woods.
"I love playing with him, and he brings out some of my best golf," Mickelson said. "I just seem more focused. I know that his level of play is so much greater when he's playing his best than anybody else's, that it just forces me to focus on my game more intently, and hit more precise shots."
That's exactly what Mickelson did with a dazzling 8-under 64 that included three birdies and an eagle over his first six holes as he sped to a two-shot win over Charlie Wi, who led overnight but shot just even par.
Tiger, meanwhile, was anything but precise.
Whether it was with his putting -- he missed seven putts from inside 10 feet, including three from inside 3 feet -- or his iron play -- he hit just nine greens in regulation, easily his fewest all week -- Woods never gave himself a chance.
"It was frustrating," said Woods, who began the day in a tie for second and ended it tied for 15th after a disastrous 75 that included three straight bogeys to close out the front nine. "I was looking for 2-3 under though the first six or seven holes, and Phil is the one who got off to that start."I thought I had a chance to get up there in the middle of the round and instead I went the other way."
And how.
The slide started somewhat innocently with a missed 5-footer for birdie on the par-5 second, but it was a portent of what was to come.
The snowball turned into an avalanche with three straight bogeys to close out the front nine for Woods, who lipped out from 2 feet on the par-3 seventh, left a 5-footer short on the par-4 eighth and failed to get up-and-down from a greenside bunker on the ninth.
"I could not get comfortable where I could see my lines," Woods said.
Mickelson, of course, looked plenty comfortable in a place that's proven to be pretty special to him on a lot of levels.
His grandfather Alfred Santos used to caddie at Pebble Beach, and Mickelson has now won here on four occasions with wife Amy on site to witness the latest one.
Mickelson's shot-making was also pretty special.
The turning point started on the uphill, par-5 513-yard sixth, which Mickelson reached in two before sinking a 21-footer for eagle.
"The eagle to me was as important as any [shot]," Mickelson said. "I'm just trying to make a four. I'm not playing aggressively for a three off the tee. It's an awkward shot for me. If I get it turning over at all it just runs into the ocean."
Six holes later with Mickelson leading his closest competitor by three and Woods by five, he left one of his classic flop shots a not-so-classic 30 feet from the hole on the par-3 12th.
Woods had hit into the bunker but then holed the shot for a birdie and what looked like would be a two-shot swing. Instead, Mickelson jarred the 30-footer to save par. It was one of three putts Mickelson made from over 20 feet, and it all but sank any chances anyone had of catching him.
Mickelson hit the accelerator again with three birdies over his final six holes, including one on the par-5 18th. It was a nice stamp on the victory that created the 11-shot gap between he and Woods in the final round.
It was the biggest disparity ever between the two as Woods again missed from inside 3 feet for a par on the final hole.
It was also the ninth time in the last 12 occasions that Mickelson outplayed Woods in a rivalry that has now gone the other way since 2007, which is perhaps no small coincidence.
That's when Mickelson started working with Butch Harmon, who of course coached Woods at the outset of his career.
Asked if that's had any impact, Mickelson smiled and said, "Possibly."

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THE ROXBURGHE, KELSO TO STAGE Q SCHOOL STAGE 1 EVENT

    The Viaduct 14th hole at The Roxburghe, Kelso. Image by courtesy of the European Tour.

NEWS RELEASE ISSUED BY THE EUROPEAN TOUR
The Roxburghe Hotel and Golf Course will join The European Tour Qualifying School Schedule for the first time when it hosts the First Stage from September 11-14.
The 7,111 yards, par 72 championship course, located in the town of Kelso in Roxburghshire, hosted the Scottish Senior Open on the European Senior Tour from 2001-2005.
Three years after it was opened by Colin Montgomerie and Sir Nick Faldo in 1997, the venue hosted the Roxburghe Challenge, an exhibition match featuring Paul Lawrie and Sergio Garcia, whose round of 66 remains the course record.
The championship course was designed by Dave Thomas, whose other creations include The Belfry, which staged The Ryder Cup four times, and San Roque Club, the host venue of the Qualifying School Final Stage on 11 occasions.
The signature hole is the 14th, a 585yd par-5 known as ‘The Viaduct’ and described by Sam Torrance as “a beautiful hole in a glorious setting”.
The Roxburghe’s Tour Ambassador is Ronan Rafferty, a seven-time European Tour champion who in 1989 topped the Money List ahead of José María Olazábal.
Rafferty said: “Bringing the Qualifying School to The Roxburghe is the culmination of a lot of hard work behind the scenes. Our long-term aim is to stage a full-fledged European Tour event here, and hosting the First Stage is a big step in the right direction.
“The course is a formidable test of golf, measuring more than 7,000 yards from the back tees. Many of the holes, and especially the signature 14th, will give real food for thought to the players, who should also appreciate the spectacular surroundings.”
The Duke of Roxburghe, who first conceived the idea of constructing a course on the Roxburghe Estate, said: “We welcome the opportunity to showcase our beautiful course to the professionals striving to make it onto The European Tour. We all have great pride in the course, and I have no doubt it will prove a worthy addition to the Qualifying School. We look forward to welcoming the players and Tour officials to the Scottish borders in September.”
Mike Stewart, Director of the Qualifying School, said: “Having recently visited the course, I can safely say that The Roxburghe is precisely the sort of venue we are looking to add to the Qualifying School Schedule. The immaculate condition of the course, the superb facilities and the stunning location all combine to provide the complete package.”

NEWS FROM THE SPANISH Hi5 PRO TOUR

NEWS RELEASE
Spain's Hi5 Pro Tour has made some adjustments to its schedule to accomodate players who are watching their budgets due to the economic climate.
We have condensed three 36-hole tournaments in to 10 days and reduced the entry fee to 250 Euros per event.
Accommodation packages are superb and run at around 14 Euros per night per player, based on four sharing an apartment (5 star).

Hi5 Match-play event
The Match Play will be now be closed after the first 64 entrants. This is a unique opportunity for players to compete in a very exciting format at a fantastic venue. The entry fee is now 300 Euros.

Hi5 Pro Tour events are open to male and female professionals. Also amateurs with low handicaps.


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WEDNESDAY'S NE ALLIANCE NOW GOES ON AT BUCKPOOL

Wednesday's North-east Golfers' Alliance will be hosted by Buckpool Golf Club.
Stonehaven was the scheduled venue but had to call off because of work being done on the course or clubhouse.
Inchmarlo and Craibstone were then listed as possible alternatives but, for one reason or another, they became unavailable this Wednesday.
The tee times published on this website last Wednesday night, February 8, will stand for Buckpool.

Five birdies in the last eight holes gave Bryan Fotheringham (Inverness) a two-shot victory from Boat of Garten professional Ross Harrower and Jim Simpson (Forres) with a three-under-par round of 70 in the North Scottish Golfers Alliance competition at Moray Golf Club, Lossiemouth.
Fotheringham, a former Scotland international had been two over par after bogeys at the seventh and 10th.
LEADING SCRATCH
Par 70
67 B Fotheringham (Inverness).
69 R Harrower (Boat of Garten), J Simpson (Forres).
71 N McWilliam (Elgin).
72 D Stewart (Grantown), D Johnston (Moray), B Cruickshank (Garmouth and Kingston).
73 J A Grant (Grantown), S G Milne (Elgin).
74 K Stables (Elgin), R Mackay (Fortrose and Rosemarkie), J L Milne (Elgin).
75 M L Macleman (Moray), W Hutchison (Inverness).
76 F Hutchison (Inverness), S Johnston (Elgin).
77 L Macbean (Boat of Garten).
78 G Hay (Grantown), R G Macpherson (Moray), D F Sharp (Boat of Garten), R McKerron (Forres), G Donaldson (Elgin).
79 K Thomson (Moray), D Hector (Elgin).
80 J S D Campbell (Grantown), J A G Innes (Elgin), C Dixon (Moray), J K England (Moray), G Lees (Elgin), M Lyall (Torvean).
81 W Donnelly (Fortrose and Rosemarkie), R Mackie (Rothes), K Barnett (Torvean), A Cowie (Moray).
82 G J Abel (Elgin), I Findlay (Grantown).
83 S Duncan (Moray), L Duncan (Elgin), R Mellis (Rothes), G S Macdonald (Torvean).
84 R Laing (Grantown), D R MacKellar (Grantown), A Waterson (Grantown).
LEADING HANDICAP
Class 1 - J Simpson (Forres) (1) 68; W Hutchison (Inverness) (6) 69; R Mackay (Fortrose and Rosemarkie) (3), B Cruickshank (Garmouth and Kingston) (1) 71; D F Sharp (Boat of Garten (6), S Johnston (Elgin) (4), G Donaldson (Elgin) (6) 72.
Class 2 - F Hutchison (Inverness) (9) 67; L MacBean (Boat of Garten) (8), R G Macpherson (Moray) (9) 69; M Lyall (Torvean) (9), J Macdonald (Inverness) (14), R Mackie (Rothes) (10) 71.

COREY PAVIN BEATS PETER SENIOR IN SENIORS TOUR PLAY-OFF

FROM THE US PGA CHAMPIONS TOUR WEBSITE
BOCA RATON, Florida (AP) -- Corey Pavin can't remember a better par save.
Pavin rolled in a 12-foot birdie putt on the first play-off hole Sunday to defeat Australian Peter Senior and win the Allianz Championship at Broken Sound Golf Club. But the shot everyone will remember is the 8-iron Pavin turned around and hit left-handed on the par-3 14th hole when he was tied for the lead with Mark Calcavecchia.
Pavin had no option because there was a tree root to the left of the ball. The chip rolled to 5 feet and Pavin made the crucial putt.
"That was a once-in-a-lifetime shot," Pavin said. "I can't think of a better up-and-down I've had in my career. It's not like I practice turning 8-irons over and hit them left-handed. When that happens, you think you're going to win, but I had to get that thought out of my head."
Pavin and Senior both shot a final-round 71s to finish tied at 11-under 205. Senior forced the playoff with a birdie on the final hole of regulation, but his birdie try in the playoff stopped an inch short of the cup.
"I putted awful all day," Senior said. "I was happy to make the last one to get into the play-off, but I don't think I've ever left so many putts short in my life."
Calcavecchia appeared to be cruising to victory when he birdied the par-5 11th hole to take a three-shot lead over Pavin. But Calcavecchia, who was 5 under for the day at that point, bogeyed six of his last seven holes to finish tied for seventh after a 73.
"I felt pretty good (after No. 11), I'll tell you that," Calcavecchia said. "But I three-putted 12, got a bad break at 13 and when I hit it over the green on 15, it pretty much did me in."
Pavin hit his shot on No. 14 within five feet and made the par-saving putt.
On his unlikely chip, Pavin said he was just hoping to get the ball up the hill near the green, so he could at least make a bogey. Calcavecchia believed he was going to be leading by himself again.
"It was a one-in-a-million shot, but he pulled it off," Calcavecchia said. "Of course, it was one in a million I'm going to bogey six of the last seven. That's the way it goes."
Pavin, US Ryder Cup team captain at Celtic Manor in 2010, hadn't won a tournament in more than five years, dating to the 2006 U.S. Bank Championship of Milwaukee, a stretch of 122 tournaments. This was his 35th start on the Champions Tour.
"It's been a long time," he said. "But I'm always more comfortable trying to win a tournament than trying to finish fifth or sixth."
Bernhard Langer (71) and Michael Allen (69) tied for third place, a shot ahead of Jay Haas (69) and John Cook (69).
Defending champion Tom Lehman (71) finished tied for 31st.

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MICKELSON WINS AND BEATS PARTNER WOODS BY 11 STROKES

FROM THE US PGA TOUR WEBSITE
PEBBLE BEACH, California -- Phil Mickelson went from a six-shot deficit to a two-shot lead in just six holes, and closed with an eight-under 64 for a two-shot victory over Charlie Wi, giving player-partner Tiger Woods a thrashing at the AT and T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am on a Sunday not many saw coming.
Mickelson and Woods played in the second-to-last group, and Mickelson beat him by 11 shots. He won for the fourth time at Pebble Beach, and became only the ninth player in US PGA Tour history with 40 wins.
"Pebble Beach ... it feels awesome no matter what number it is," Mickelson said.
It was anything but that for Woods, who was reduced to a supporting role on a cool, overcast day along the Pacific. Right when it looked as though Woods might still be in the game after holing a bunker shot for birdie on the par-3 12th, Mickelson answered by pouring in a 30-foot par putt.
Mickelson seized control for good with a 40-foot par save on the 15th hole, and he played it safe -- Mickelson is capable of that every once in a while -- on the 18th hole and still made birdie.
Wi, who started the final round with a three-shot lead, four-putted for double bogey on the opening hole and never quite recovered. He closed with back-to-back birdies for an even-par 72 and his fifth runner-up finish on Tour.
It was the third straight week on the US PGA Tour that the winner started the final round at least six shots behind a 54-hole leader going after his first victory.
The shocker, though, was how Woods fell apart with a 75.
He has been taking big strides with his game over the past few months, and he looked poised to break through after a 67 in the third round at Pebble Beach got him to within four shots of the lead.
But he failed to make birdie on the easy opening stretch at Pebble Beach, and even when he made his first birdie at the par-5 sixth, Mickelson poured in a 20-foot eagle putt to take the outright lead.
"I didn't hit it as bad as the score indicated, but I putted awful," Woods said. "As good as I felt on the greens yesterday, I felt bad today. Anything I tried to do wasn't working. Consequently, I made a ton of mistakes on the green."
Two weeks ago in his 2012 debut at Abu Dhabi, Woods was tied for the lead with unheralded Robert Rock going into the final round and didn't break par, tying for third.
Woods used to "own" Mickelson, but that changed at the 2007 Deutsche Bank Championship. This was the fifth straight time Mickelson posted the better score when playing in the same group as Woods in the final round.
Mickelson has won three of those tournaments, although they have yet to be in the final group on those occasions.
Mickelson started his season sluggishly, failing to crack the top 25 at the Humana Challenge in partnership with the Clinton Foundation and Waste Management Phoenix Open, and missing the cut at Torrey Pines. He said his putting was as good as ever, and it was a matter of getting his game in sync.
It simply sang on Sunday, mostly his amazing touch on the greens -- a long eagle putt at No. 2 that caught part of the hole, long two-putts for par and enough birdies to make him a winner at Pebble Beach again.
"It feels just amazing," Mickelson said. "I felt like my game was there, but coming out the first couple of weeks, I posted some horrendous scores and started to question it. To be able to play the way I did the last 18 holes really means a lot."
Mickelson finished at 17-under 269 and earned 500 FedExCup points, moving to 5th in the latest standings, after his first win since last year's Shell Houston Open. He will move to No. 11 in the Official World Golf Ranking.
Ricky Barnes closed with a 67 and finished third. Kevin Na tied for fifth and earned a spot in the Match Play Championship in two weeks at Arizona.
Wi talked about battling the demons of self-doubt, and they must have had the first green surrounded. Equipped with a three-shot lead to start the final round, Wi four-putted from 35 feet above the hole for a double bogey.
Just like that, the game was on.
That still wasn't enough for Woods to get in on the action. Standing in the sixth fairway, Woods was only one shot out of the lead, yet the sleeves of his red shirt and his name on the leaderboard didn't seem to make him stand out the way it has before.
The opening holes had something to do with that, and watching Mickelson play alongside him.
Mickelson nearly holed an eagle putt across the second green; Woods missed a 5-foot birdie putt that stayed 2 inches above the hole. Mickelson holed a 15-foot birdie putt down the hill at the fourth; Woods had a 30-foot putt up the hill that was 3 feet short. Mickelson's tee shot on the par-3 fifth settled a foot from the cup. Woods missed his birdie putt from 12 feet.
Yes, there was a big charge at Pebble Beach -- from Lefty.
Mickelson started the day six shots behind and went two shots ahead with an eagle on the sixth hole. Woods then vanished in a series of blunders -- missing a 2-foot par putt on the seventh, missed a 5-foot par putt on the eighth, and a third straight bogey at No. 9 when he hit his approach into the bunker.
The only hope for Woods came on the 12th, when he holed his bunker shot. It looked like it might be a two-shot swing, pulling him to within three of the lead, until Mickelson made his 30-footer for par.
On the next hole, Mickelson hit an approach to 2 feet and Woods' tee shot landed in a divot.
"It's frustrating because I had a chance," Woods said. "All I had to do was get off to a good, solid start. And I didn't do that."
LEADING FINAL TOTALS
Par 286
Players from US unless stated
269 Phil Mickelson 70 65 70 64.
271 Charlie Wi (S Korea) 61 69 69 72.
273 Ricky Barnes 70 66 70 67.
274 Aaron Baddeley (Australia) 66 72 69 67.
275 Kevin Na 66 69 70 70, Dustin Johnson 63 72 70 70.
276 Padraig Harrington (Ireland) 68 68 72 70, Ken Duke 64 73 65 74.

SELECTED TOTALS
277 Greg Owen (England) 68 67 72 70 (T9).
278 Tiger Woods 68 68 67 75 (T15).
281 Brian Davis (England) 70 74 68 69 (T29).
284 Ian Poulter (England) 69 72 72 71 (T50).
285 Gary Christian (England) 72 70 70 73 (T54).

MISSED THE THIRD-ROUND CUT
214 Martin Laird (Scotland) 70 71 73.
215 Russell Knox (Scotland) 68 71 76.

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