I can understand the government wanting to take back the land if there was no other site available in the area, but there’s a vacant lot 1 KM away! Why not allow the guy to renew the lease and continue to generate revenue from the land in addition to keeping the recreational facility for citizens to use.
There goes another practice facility and it seems there’s little that owner Art McKenna can do about it.
The government wants to dump a “mountain of dirt” on McKenna’s popular Calgary Family Golf Centre in the very near future and use it as a stockpile for the Stoney Trail-Nose Hill interchange whenever they get around to starting the project.
Too bad. McKenna knew this day would be coming but he says he wasn’t expecting it to basically scream out of the blue. His 10-year lease expired on the 40-acre facility last fall and he recently received notice to vacate the property by the end of June.
Never mind that there’s at least 20 vacant acres where goodness knows how much dirt could be piled on the site, it seems only the practice site will do. Never mind the fact that the city has another vacant area less than a kilometre west, it seems only the driving range will do.
BRADFORD, Vt.– Vermont State Police say a man was charged with suspicion of drunken driving after being pulled over in a golf cart, with an open can of Bud Light.
Twenty-eight-year-old Christopher Rice, of Orleans, Mass., was cited while driving the cart on Route 5 in Bradford at just after midnight Saturday. He told police he’d just left a road rally at the Connecticut Valley Fairgrounds and was driving to a gas station to get gas.
The Caledonian-Record reports that Rice told police he’d had four or five cans of beer.
Rice, who was released Monday on $800 bail, must return to court June 2.
April’s PGA Golf Power Rankings has Ernie Els at the #1 spot, Jim Furyk at #2, Phil Mickelson at #3, Anthony Kim, at #4, and K.J. Choi at #5. Tiger Woods is all the way down at #20.
Check out the entire PGA power ranking by clicking here.
Let’s make sure you read that correctly, shall we? This conveyer of clubs costs several thousand dollars more than a slew of small cars, including the Nissan Versa and Toyota Yaris – and that’s just if you buy the base model. If you add on the optional built-in refrigerator or other luxury upgrades, it could end up costing you over $5,000 more than a base-model Porsche Cayenne.
Most of us would probably pick the Cayenne, right? Well, hardcore golfers might argue that the Garia Edition Soleil de Minuit is a Porsche in its own right.
“See, this little caddy-mobile gets glued together in the same factory that’s responsible for the Cayman, and uses a frame from the same supplier as Aston Martin, Volvo and the like,” explains Autoblog. “The gearbox? It comes straight from a Ducati supplier.”
The ostentatious cart even comes with hydraulic brakes — front discs and rear drums, to be exact.
Gizmag comments, “The manufacturers say that their innovative thinking and quality craftsmanship make a truly unique golf car that is guaranteed to give you an exceptional driving experience — if you’ll excuse the pun.”
With its luxury brand pedigree and outlandish price tag, we’d reckon the Garia has earned the right to call itself a car rather than a cart. And to anyone who can actually afford such a luxury, we say drive safely – and watch out for those squirrels.
The cable giant said it would offer up limited coverage of the 2010 Masters Tournament in stereoscopic 3D to any Shaw subscriber with a 3DTV, special 3D glasses and a Shaw HD cable set top box.
Customers without a 3DTV television, which is virtually the entire population of Canada, will be unable to watch the coverage in 3D.
For the fortunate few, 3D coverage will consist of two hours of commercial-free programming from the back nine each afternoon on channel 318.
The Masters Tournament, which takes place in Augusta Georgia from April 7th to 11th, is one of the four major championships in professional golf and since 1940 has been played so that the final round is always on the second Sunday of April.
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