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A Special Newsletter for 2008 PGA Championship

                                     THE Final Major of the Year

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***  THE PGA Championship starts TOMORROW

The Final Major of the year, the 2008 US PGA Championship is being 
held at Oakland Hills Country Club, Bloomfield Township, Michigan

The Official Website is:

        http://www.pga.com/pgachampionship/2008/
            Includes Leaderboard, Stats, News, Players,
            History, The Course, (including Virtual Tour
            and Video Flyovers), Championship Info, 
            Video and Store.

The Course: 

        http://www.pga.com/pgachampionship/2008/course/

        http://www.oaklandhillscc.com/

          Both have great coverage of the course, but for 

          and for some photo coverage

        http://golf.about.com/od/golfcourespictures/ig/Oakland-Hills-Pictures/
       
The District:

        My initial enquiries into the Michigan District, brought only
        Court, religion and school responses.

        For some history of the Golf Course try:

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland_Hills_Country_Club

Michigan, the Great Lake state. Michigan is quite unique among the 
        states in that it is divided into two distint geographic sections, 
        the Upper peninsula, and the Lower peninsula. Lake Michigan lies 
        between the two peninsulas. The Upper peninsula is very sparsely 
        populated, more than 90% of the peninsula being forested. The Lower 
        peninsula contains the cities, industry, and agriculture. The Upper 
        and Lower Peninsulas were connected in 1957 with the construction of 
        Big Mac, the Mackinac Bridge.

   
        Almost half of Michigan is comprised of water and, except for Alaska, 
        Michigan has more shoreline than any other state, fronting four of the 
        Great Lakes: Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, and Lake Erie. 
        With 3,177 miles of Great Lakes shoreline it is easy to see why Michigan 
        boasts a thriving recreational industry, and leads the nation with 
        approximately one million registered pleasure boats.

        Author John Steinbeck: "Michigan, handsome as a well made woman, and 
        dressed and jewelled. It seemed to me that the earth was generous and 
        outgoing here in the heartland, and, perhaps, its people to a cue 
        from it."

        THE NAME: 

        The word Michigan originally referred to a clearing on the lower 
        peninsula and was derived from the Chippewa Indian word "majigan" 
        which means clearing. Lake Michigan was named after this clearing 
        by European explorers in the area in the 1670's. The state later 
        took the name of the clearing as well.
       
        Complements to netstate.com
      
        For Satellite coverage, try the option

        http://www.satellite-sightseer.com/id/11359


News and Coverage:

          The usual

        http://www.pga.com/pgachampionship/2008/news/

          and News sites

        http://www.sportsline.com/golf

        http://www.golfobserver.com/home.php

        http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/golf/7521519.stm

          and for local news

        http://www.rocketnews.com/topic/sports/Oakland-Hills/
     
Weather: 

        http://www.crh.noaa.gov/mqt/

        I am not sure this is the correct district, still
        the best I can do from this side of the world.

    The weather for the US PGA is looking fantastic . . .
     
        http://www.wunderground.com/US/mi/

        Includes Radar coverage
   
If you are going to be at the US PGA, enjoy yourselves but also, PLEASE 
take some photos and send them to me, for our CHIPS Photo Gallery

        greg@goforgolf.com

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* * * BE IN TO WIN * * * PICK THE WINNER

EMAIL me at greg@goforgolf.com 

 . . . with the email "subject" entered as "US PGA" 

with your pick for the winner of the . . . The US PGA

and be in to win a copy of the great CD

   "Play Better Golf" by hypnotherapist Grant Boddington

    http://www.nzhypnosis.com/play-better-golf-cd.html

In the case of many winners, I will draw out some winners

One entry per person, thanks

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*** RESULTS

For snipets of news and results from THE PGA Championship 
and other tour eventents . . .  try our Slice o' NEWS

        http://www.goforgolf.com/a_sliceonews.asp
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***  PROFESSIONAL

" A player who believes that if you're going to have a 
miserable time on a golf course you might as well get
paid for it "

Definition from "Golf'ing - a Duffers Dictionary"

Sorry to repeat this one . . .  except I like it.
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Regards & Good Golfing 

Greg Paul
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