Archive for the ‘Golf’ Category

If you were not able to attend the 2009 Polk County All Sports Awards, or if you would like to relive Polk County’s biggest sports celebration, the event will be televised on Bright House Sports Network this Sunday night at 7pm. Bright House Sports Network is Channel 47 on Bright House and can be seen [...]

For three years now, the Central Florida Junior Golf Tour has been helping the young Tiger Woods and Lorena Ochoa’s of Central Florida improve their game and the 2009 season is already underway. The tour is for boys and girls ages 8-18 and is designed to help prepare young golfers for tournament play by teaching them golf tournament [...]

When the 2008 Florida Senior Games State Championships begin in Lee County and the City of Cape Coral this Saturday, with over 2,000 athletes competing during the nine-day event, Polk County will be represented by 143 individual athletes and two teams. The opening day of the 17th Annual Florida Senior Games State Championships, Saturday, December [...]

The Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA) is here this week for the Boys and Girls Golf State Championships. Here is our photoset from the final day of competition for the Class 1A Girls Finals from The Club at Eaglebrooke in Lakeland. Competition also took place at Providence Golf Club in Davenport, Ridgewood Lakes Golf [...]

Best of luck to Florida Southern College Alum Rocco Mediate (1984) as he faces Tiger Woods in a playoff for the 2008 U.S. Open Championship tomorrow. Coverage begins at noon (EST) on ESPN with the front nine and picks up at 2pm on NBC for the back nine. We do not condone missing work or [...]

In case you missed it over the weekend, Lakeland’s Andy Bean won the Regions Charity Classic in Hoover, Alabama marking his second career win on the PGA’s Champions Tour. His first win came at the Greater Hickory Classic in 2006. Bean now has 13 career PGA victories. The win also vaulted him up to 17th [...]

Play ball, gentlemen start your engines, time for kickoff….the list of clichés could go on and on, but that wouldn’t be a good way to kick off (just one more time doesn’t hurt) the first entry for Polk County’s newest sports blog. We host more than 200 sporting events each year in Polk County and [...]