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The most prestigious tennis event of the year in North America is the U.S. Tennis Open which begins on Monday, August 27th. The U.S. Open brings all the top names in worldwide Tennis to New York City. Cheap Concert Tickets has premium seating available including courtside seats at discounted prices. This well known secondary ticket exchange screens all tickets for authenticity and has extended an exclusive customer appreciation discount, US-OPEN-2012, for extra savings. New York, NY...

SOUTHAMPTON, Bermuda, July 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Hall of Fame golfer Ernie Els, who won his fourth Major championship Sunday at The Open, has qualified for the 2012 PGA Grand Slam of Golf in Bermuda which this year includes two first-time Majors winners - Bubba Watson and Webb Simpson. In 2010, Ernie Els came from behind to win his second PGA Grand Slam of Golf title in Bermuda. He earned an invitation as an alternate that year. "Ernie Els is one of the greatest champions in the...

PGA TOUR notables Paul Casey, Brandt Snedeker, Jason Day, Charl Schwartzel, Kyle Stanley, Justin Leonard, Bo Van Pelt, Jonathan Byrd, Stuart Appleby and Marc Leishman added to field that includes previously announced headliners Matt Kuchar, Jim Furyk, Webb Simpson, Retief Goosen, Ernie Els and Hunter Mahan Fan-favourite John Daly as well as former British Open champion David Duval to compete for Canada's National Open Championship RBC signs #10 Ranked Player in the World...

US Open Champion Webb Simpson and Top Finishers Jim Furyk, Michael Thompson, Ernie Els, Fredrik Jacobsen and Retief Goosen Commit to Play 2012 PLAYERS Champion Matt Kuchar and World #10 Hunter Mahan Join Strong Field for National Open Championship OAKVILLE, ON, June 19, 2012 /CNW/ - The forthcoming RBC Canadian Open is building momentum. This year's field will boast some of the best players in the world, bolstered by freshly minted US Open Champion Webb Simpson among other...

USGA to Deliver Virtual Front Row Seats to Live First-Round Marquee Coverage San Francisco, Calif. (PRWEB) June 12, 2012 When the marquee group of Phil Mickelson, Bubba Watson and Tiger Woods tees off at 7:33 a.m. (PDT) for the first round of the 2012 U.S. Open Championship at The Olympic Club on Thursday, the USGA’s digital platforms will be the exclusive outlet for watching the start of all the action. Visitors to usopen.com and users of the U.S. Open mobile application, “U.S. Open...

FAR HILLS, N.J., May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The United States Golf Association (USGA) today launched the redesigned official website of the 112th U.S. Open Championship. Offering exceptional functionality and new features that will entertain, inform and engage fans, usopen.com will present the best online coverage of golf's toughest test, which will be played at The Olympic Club in San Francisco, June 14-17. The new usopen.com is powered by IBM's cloud computing...

SANTA MONICA, Calif., May 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Golf in the United States is a $76 billion industry with 25.7 million players. Thirty-eight percent of Americans call themselves golf fans. Golf is clearly popular, but whether or not it is a sport remains hotly debated. ProCon.org (online at www.procon.org), a nonpartisan research organization devoted to critical thinking on controversial issues, published its newest website to provide up-to-date scientific studies,...

CHARLOTTE, N.C., April 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Grow the Game Golf, the world's first cross-platform smartphone app to combine real-time scoring, live event leaderboard and an effortless event management system, is thrilled to announce the addition of a points scoring feature to its portfolio of golf-game capabilities. For a limited time, the points scoring feature will be available for free to all registered members. GTG Golf's points scoring is the most flexible way to score any...

DALLAS, April 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Southwest Airlines (NYSE: LUV) announced today a new national partnership with the most respected editorial voice in golf - The Sports Illustrated Golf Group (SIGG). The relationship will center around creating fun and unique experiences for golf fans tailored to the four largest U.S.-based championships of 2012 (the Masters, U.S. Open, PGA Championship and Ryder Cup) entitled Sports Illustrated at the Majors. At each of these four major...

RENO, Nev., March 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Breaking new ground in bowling and in professional sports history, the bowling industry revealed today a "first look" at the historic outdoor lane design for the 2012 Bowling's U.S. Women's Open competition. During a press conference held today at the Eldorado Hotel Casino Showroom, the City of Reno and the leading entities in the bowling industry unveiled the Open's groundbreaking, outdoor lanes design as part of a formal announcement of...