In 2002, Mr. Sillerman proposed to Anguilla's government that he build the island's first golf course.
He opted against competing in Texas to allow his body sufficient time to recover for the first of golf's four majors this year.
Miickelson was claiming his first World Golf Championship victory, coming hard on the heels on his win at the Northern Trust Open in Los Angeles.
He gets into his first World Golf Championship next week at Doral, and qualifies for two more WGCs this year at Firestone and in Shanghai.
First-round leader Sergio Garcia tees off at 9:39 a.m. as the Spaniard hopes to continue solid play that would net him his first major golf championship.
Last week's Ryder Cup, in which Westwood scored two-and-a-half points out of a possible four as Europe regained the trophy, was the Englishman's first competitive golf since August.
The Ryder Cup, in which Europe were victorious over the United States with Westwood scoring two-and-a-half points out of a possible four, was the 37-year-old's first competitive golf since August.
Elsewhere, the draw for the first World Golf Championships tournament of the year, the Accenture Match Play, has been made, pairing world No. 1 Rory McIlroy, who lost to Hunter Mahan in the final last year, against Irishman Shane Lowry.
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At the time, golf was just catching on as a private club sport in this country, and Tufts decided to open the very first American golf resort, hiring designer Donald Ross, a resident of Dornoch, Scotland, to come and build a course for him.
You may well have read about this, but there, among the machair grass and sand dunes, they are recreating a golf course first designed by the father of golf, Old Tom Morris.
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He was the first president to golf while in office, but despite the energy of a 350-pound build and potential to hit the long ball, William Howard Taft was one of the worst presidential golfers.
The Ralph W. Miller Golf Library in the Industry Hills Sheraton Resort featured some 5, 000 tomes on the sport, including a rare 1597 volume that contains one of the first mentions of golf (as a distraction from archery practice).
That course never saw the light of day, but World Golf Tour was born, and the first challenge course, Bali Hai Golf Club in Las Vegas, was captured for online gamers to play through select shots on each hole.
It was first identified at the golf club in October 2010 and then spread to between the watercourses and into the wet woodland area.
The Pinehurst Resort in North Carolina, site of next year's U.S. Open, didn't begin grassing its greens until the 1930s, a quarter century after golf was first played there.
And 2011 looks maybe even better: in the first quarter, SI Golf Group ad revenue is expected to jump 20%, thanks to new ad buys by Nike Golf and Mizuno, among others.
On the European Tour, Sweden's Christian Nilsson shot a round of 65 to lead the Alstom Open de France after the first round at Le Golf National near Paris -- Ryder Cup host in 2018.
Beyond the opponents, surprises always come up south of the border for the U.S. This day it was a field with grass as long as the first cut on a golf course, which made hitting crisp passes across the ground difficult.
In 2012, Harnish's first trip to California included golf at Big Canyon Country Club, a visit to Disneyland and parties galore.
In 1868, golf's first recorded hole-in-one was scored by Scotsman Tom Morris at Prestwick's 166-yard 8th hole, during the Open Championships.
"These latest developments, build on the recent impetus to make it a family destination resort, and will add to the first class children's golf and high wire climbing attractions, " he said.
About 360, 000 kids were actively involved last year, a number that balloons to 2.4 million if you add the elementary school students who were taught golf in a First Tee-designed gym class.
The club is about golf and generously donates the surplus it makes from television, ticket and gift shop sales to worthy organizations such as The First Tee, which uses golf to teach values to kids.
Golf's first major championship of the year gets underway today with Phil Mickelson defending the title he won a year ago, and most eyes on Tiger Woods, who won the last two majors of 2006.
Justin "golf gives me a mental release" Timberlake has done his bit here and sites like OriginalPenguin.com and TrendyGolf.com are certainly the way forward, but Japan's Ryo Ishikawa (sponsored by Yonex) is shaping up to be golf's first proper style icon.
With the increasing availability of machines that can peer into brains as they function, there has been rapid progress in understanding the biological mechanisms by which people transform information, such as from a golf lesson, first into actions and ultimately into automatic motor skills that don't require conscious thought to enact.
Since 2008, six No. 1 seeds in golf have lost their first match, including Luke Donald last year.
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And with it, regaining the number one ranking in the official World Golf Rankings for the first time since October 2010.
The Alleghenies setting is splendid, and in 2010 the resort's four golf courses attracted its first-ever PGA event, the Greenbrier Classic.
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