Full schedule for PGA Tour
Wednesday November 04 2009
The PGA Tour has announced a full schedule of 41 events for the 2010 FedEx Cup season, maintaining the same number for a third successive year despite the global economic downturn.
The Tour will begin in Kapalua, Hawaii, on January 7 with the elite winners-only SBS Championship and end in Atlanta in late September with the Tour Championship, the last of four lucrative play-off events.
The WGC events will open with the Accenture Match Play Championship in Arizona in February, followed by the CA Championship in Miami in March. The final stop in the series will be the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational in Akron, Ohio, in early August.
Meanwhile, American golfer Doug Barron has been suspended for a year by the PGA Tour after committing a doping offence. The 40-year-old becomes the first player to be banned under the Tour's anti-doping programme.
Brilliant batting from Shahid Afridi and Kamran Akmal helped Pakistan establish a 1-0 lead in the three-match ODI series against New Zealand.
Playing at their adopted home in Abu Dhabi, Pakistan recovered from a poor start with the bat to hit 287-9.
Their innings included a trademark blitz from Afridi (70 from 50 balls) and some big hitting from Akmal (67 not out from 43).
New Zealand collapsed for a dismal 149, to lose by a wide margin of 138 runs. The Black Caps went into the series already depleted, with Jesse Ryder, Grant Elliott and Daryl Tuffey unable to tour due to various injuries.
Chase Utley's power hitting played a key role in helping the Phillies stave off World Series elimination and Philadelphia manager Charlie Manuel was at the front of the queue heaping praise on the infielder.
Utley blasted two homers to produce four runs as the Phillies beat the Yankees 8-6 and ensured the best-of-seven World Series would return to the Big Apple with New York holding a 3-2 lead.
The two homers by Utley, who hit 31 of them in the regular season, gave him five in this Fall Classic to match the World Series record total slugged by Reggie Jackson for the Yankees in 1977.
After New York grabbed a 1-0 lead in the top of the first, Utley smacked a three-run homer in the bottom of the frame to put Philadelphia ahead. Utley connected again for a solo homer in the seventh to provide a cushion that came in handy when the Yankees rallied.
- GOLF CRICKET BASEBALL
Irish Independent
