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This year the USGA US Open at Torrey Pines golf course will have one big change and that is the fact that spectators have to keep their butts off the golf course and no we are not talking about their backside. In 2008 at Torrey Pines golf course, they have a strict no smoking policy and this marks the first smoke-free major .
For all non-smokers like myself, this is great news, as we do not want to be around other people who are smoking away and making our clothes stink and not to mention what we breath in. The young children at the US Open will also benefit from not having to breath someone’s smoke they exhale.
If you have been to the US Open or another golf event and are a non-smoker, you may have experienced having to move away from a good spot when a smoker moves near you and your children. If a spectator is caught smoking cigars or cigarettes at this year U.S. Open they face up to a $100 fine.
Some people will be very unhappy with this change and they could have the view “I thought we were supposed to have freedom to do what we want”. This kind of talk is open for debate and I am sure many of us will have different views.
As a golfer myself, when I am on a nice course there is nothing like the peace, quiet and fresh air of playing golf. The clubs hate cleaning up the discarded cigarettes and second-hand smoke is a serious health issue.
I am happy about this change? Of course.
Source: Read | Latest updates on usopen.com

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Sacked Velvet Revolver singer and My First Nazi Gollum dollset life model Scott Weiland is going to jail.
In what’ll cap off a particularly rubbish opening third of 2008 for him, Scott Weiland has been sentenced to eight days in jail for crashing his car drunk in Los Angeles last November - a charge that he can add to another DUI from 2003, some drug offences from the 1990s and a domestic violence charge from 2001.
Still, eight days in jail isn’t that bad - it’s lucky that the judge didn’t take Scott Weiland’s music into consideration when reaching the sentence, otherwise he’d have been given life. In solitary confinement. On a dung heap. Up a farty dragon’s bottom. On the moon.
These are uncertain times for Scott Weiland. His wife has burnt all his clothes, his Velvet Revolver bandmates have sacked him for being a weirdo and his entire future rests on a Stone Temple Pilots reunion - something that ranks slightly below ’smashing your kneecaps in with a rusty golf club’ on the List Of Things You’d Happily Spend Your Money On.
What Scott Weiland needs is a constant - some routine in his life that’ll straighten out his priorities for a while. And if Scott Weiland’s constant could be located in a giant building full of little tiny rooms, and angry men with suspect hygiene inside those little rooms, then that be even better.
Which is great, because Scott Weiland is going to jail. True, we didn’t ask that his constant smells like it was painted with a million gallons of stale elephant urine, but that’s just a lucky bonus.
After crashing his car dunk in November, Scott Weiland has been sentenced to eight whole days in jail, as People reports:
Former Velvet Revolver singer Scott Weiland was sentenced Monday to eight days in jail for a second DUI conviction following a Nov 11 arrest. Weiland, who was not present at the Van Nuys, Calif. court, was represented by an attorney who entered a no contest plea on the singer’s behalf. He was also ordered to complete an 18-month alcohol education class and pay nearly $2,000 in fines.

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Woody Austin often did things his own way last year. He wore a dive mask (top photo above) during the final day of the Presidents Cup after hitting from the water earlier in the event (middle), and he entertained the gallery (bottom) at the PGA Championship. Like others, he celebrated when he made a birdie (right photo) at the PGA.
It’s funny the way it all has worked out. That Florida-born Woody Austin would end up a Kansas guy. That a golf pro wrongly stereotyped for his temper would be the fellow that fans find easy to chat with. That what should have been the best and most productive period of his athletic career was actually the time he learned the most about what real life was like.
Austin turned 44 on Jan. 27, and he readily acknowledges the clock is ticking on his competitive window on the PGA Tour. So far in 2008, he’s made just over $500,000 and has one top-five finish.
But every year, a new crop of hopefuls wants a piece of the action. And to carve out your space in the elite of golf takes a focus and dedication that doesn’t get any easier to maintain as your kids are growing up and your body is telling you that it’s tiring of it all.
Austin, whose home base is Derby, Kan., knows about all of that. But he’s always had something else in his head, too, a kind of demon that’s both propelled and tormented him. He has a fierce belief in himself and his ability. He knows how a good a golfer he can be. What bugs the life out of him at times is that he doesn’t think he’s ever fully put that on display for the rest of the world.
“I still have this dream and hope that I’ll show the public the true player that I am,” Austin said. “I don’t feel like I’ve shown how good I really am.”

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