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Tiger Woods is ready to quit golf to save his marriage, according to media reports.

Quoting a source close to the family, Britain’s Sun tabloid reported today that Woods and his wife, Elin Nordegren, are trying to reconcile, but it will be on his wife’s terms ¬ meaning no golf.

“They have agreed to try and rebuild their marriage, but Elin will be the one calling the shots. It will be a long time before he’s travelling the globe playing golf unless Elin’s by his side,” the source is quoted as saying.

“Tiger will have to work long and hard to get her to trust him again.

Quitting golf shows he is willing to sacrifice something he loves so much to protect his family.”

The billionaire golfer is struggling to repair his marriage and his public image as numerous women have stepped forward claiming to have slept with him.

The scandal began a day after American Thanksgiving last month, when Woods crashed his SUV outside his Orlando mansion amid suspicious circumstances.

Now, Nordegren may change her mind about letting Woods back into her life as new revelations have come to light that Woods was allegedly spending the couples’ fortune on high-priced Manhattan escorts.

The New York Post is reporting that Woods was paying a king’s ransom for liaisons with women, with a well-know Hollywood madam the source for the story.

According to Michelle Braun, Woods repeatedly paid for the services of her company, Global Travel Network Inc., which was supplying him with young women to meet.

Braun said Tiger had a particular favourite from Braun’s stable, a particular woman from Manhattan: Loredana Jolie.

“She’s a stunning girl,” Braun is quoted as saying. “He went out with her four or five times. She took part in group sex. They met up in 2006 or early 2007. I’d say he paid $15,000 for her.”

According to the Post, Braun was recently sentenced to three years probation and six months of house detention after pleading guilty to money laundering and transporting a woman across state lines for the purpose of prostitution.

Braun said Woods would pay “$30,000 to $40,000 a weekend” in cities where he was playing tournaments. Braun said Woods’ escapades would usually involve more than one girl at a time.

Braun’s spokesman produced tax forms that showed Holly Sampson and Jamie Jungers, two women previously linked to Woods, were working for Braun’s company.

Jolie, told the New York Post that Woods showered her with gifts, including a diamond ring, diamond earrings and a watch.

Meanwhile, the BBC confirmed an injunction has been granted blocking certain information, purportedly about Woods, from being published.

The order was granted by a judge at the High Court in London, and concerns alleged information which cannot be disclosed for legal reasons.

Speculation is that lawyers are trying to prevent the release of nude or explicit photos of Woods to the British media.

“Our client is not aware of any images,” the lawyers said in a letter obtained by website TMZ. “And in any event, he would not have consented to any such photographs being taken.”

Wood’s alleged mistresses don’t appear to have the same qualms about sharing their private moments with the world. Lingerie model Jamie Jungers appeared on the NBC Today show yesterday and told the story of meeting Woods at the MGM casino party in Las Vegas, which was the catalyst for an 18-month affair.

She said that Woods did not try hard to keep their affair a secret and even had Jungers over at his California mansion when his wife was away.

She denied she took money from Woods or that he paid for a liposuction procedure.

Jungers said she genuinely loved Woods and is not seeking anything from him as details of his personal life threaten to disrupt his career.

“I got nothing out of this relationship but a broken heart”.

Another alleged mistress, Rachel Utichel, seems to be about to cash in on her notoriety. According to the Extra website, she is in negotiations with Playboy to pose nude for the magazine.

Utichel also apparently earned a large figure – some say US $1 million –¬ when she abruptly cancelled a news conference last week. Speculation was that Woods’ handlers paid her a fee to not spill the beans on details on her affair with the golfer.

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• Review: Follow the Roar: Tailing Tiger for All 604 Holes of His Most Spectacular Season by Bob Smiley Title - Follow the Roar: Tailing Tiger for All 604 Holes of His Most Spectacular Season Author - Bob Smiley ISBN - 0061690252 and 978-0061690259 Publisher - Harper Release Date - November 11, 2008 Format - Hardcover, 304 pages In January of 2008, Bob Smiley decided to follow the game......
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CALGARY — Pretty in Pink might’ve been enough for Molly Ringwald back in 1986. For Natalie Gulbis, nothing less than Pulsating in Pink will do. Bright pink. Hot pink. Rip-your-eyeballs-out-of-their-sockets pink.

She starts toward the Priddis Greens practice tee slowly, shifted this way and that by a gathering wave of adoration, moths to a flame, effortlessly autographing programs, flags, hats as she moves.

“I loved you on The Apprentice,” coos one fan.

“Natalie, please . . .,” implores another, thrusting out an item.

One guy tells her he’s travelled all the way from Toronto just to see her play this week. It’s all a bit jumbled and chaotic, impossible to grasp the intention, but the names of hotels are even heard being thrown out amid the din. As if.

Through the commotion, the queen bee is unfailingly polite. Unhurried. Accustomed to the crush of attention but nonetheless far from blase about it. She has a word for nearly everyone. A flash of that Ultra-Brite smile, whiter than Winnipeg in wintertime, capable of melting even a press agent’s heart.

“Could you sign this?” pleads a middle-aged gent. Then, catching himself, a bit self-consciously: “It’s for, uh, my mother-in-law.”

Yeah. Right.

“Promoting our product,” says Gulbis, talking as she’s walking, “is so important. The talent on the LPGA Tour has never been deeper, never been greater. The girls have wonderful personalities, they’re all interesting and funny and insightful. We have a tremendous game played by great athletes.

“We have to introduce it to more people.”

Natalie Gulbis can’t be accused of not doing her bit. She’s quite happy being the poster girl (literally) for the LPGA. In terms of glamour, she’s become the successor to Jan Stephenson and Laura Baugh. Only Gulbis — benefiting from being in her playing prime during the unashamed Age of Celebrity — has upped the ante. She’s guested on The Price is Right. Is the subject of her own reality show on The Golf Channel.

The only niggling problem with that being that Natalie Gulbis’ life is slightly unreal. She’ll admit as much.

Not everyone, for instance, has the chance to be fired from Celebrity Apprentice by The Donald. Or warrants a 77 for sexiness on AskMen.com. Or can list off endorsement deals with an avalanche of companies, including RSM McGladrey, TaylorMade Golf, Adidas, Canon, Raymond Weil geneve, Amstel Light, SkyCaddie, Payment Data Systems, MasterCard, Winn Golf Grips and Lake Las Vegas Resort.

“It’s a bit of a juggling act,” she admits, “but the golf is what everything is centred around. I try to do what I can, within reason.”

To the non-links devotee, Gulbis is perhaps most famous for the first calendar she produced, a catchy golf/swimsuit month-by-month photo journal released just before the 2004 U.S. Women’s Open. The stodgy old USGA blanched at what it considered the inappropriateness of a few of the shots, and refused to market it (happily, the RCGA had not such objections, and sold a ton at the Canadian Women’s Open that year).

What is clear only from the briefest is that this woman is very happy in her own skin. The term ‘sex symbol’ certainly doesn’t throw her.

“I don’t mind,” she says. “In fact, I’m flattered. Any time anyone wants to say that, you won’t hear me objecting. It’s a compliment.”

Yet Natalie Gulbis is not merely a champion of the infinitely trivial. There’s game to go with those gams (although, currently ranking 40th on the money list with $275,817 US has to be a disappointment).

She’s won on the LPGA Tour, the 2007 Evian Masters, and in 2005 finished sixth on the money list with more than $1 million in official earnings. She placed in the top 10 in four consecutive majors, from the 2005 LPGA Championship to the 2006 Kraft Nabisco Championship.

Charlie Rose, only the most savvy interviewer in the business, and no Larry King celebrity-hound, invited her on his bare-set late-night show — where the serious folks go to talk.

Yet it’s undoubtedly the sizzle that sells. Gulbis has been dubbed “the Anna Kournikova of golf,” a distinction that would, in these politically correct times, make other young women flinch.

“Do I mind?” Gulbis blurts, setting up shop on the tee. “God, no. She’s gorgeous. I wish I looked more like her.”

World No. 1 Lorena Ochoa is also on the practice range, at the far end, furthest from Gulbis. Hall of Famer Juli Inkster is immediately to her right, swatting balls. Yet the knot of curious onlookers — mostly male, to be gender-fair — behind the white-picket fence off-limits is greater around Gulbis than any other player.

She begins to stretch, warm up, for a bit of prep in advance of this CN Canadian Women’s Open, which tees off Thursday at Priddis.

“Everything,” she tells you, “is wonderful. I wouldn’t change a thing.”

There’s that smile again. The one bright enough to bring to safety a foundering ship lost in fog. “My life is great.”

Funny, but you have a hard time not believing her.

http://www.canada.com/sports/LPGA+poster+girl+Gulbis+living+dream+world/1952079/story.html

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Two more Canadian golfers are headed to the big leagues of golf.

Graham DeLaet of Weyburn, Sask., finished tied for eighth on Monday at the PGA Tour qualifying tournament to earn one of 25 PGA Tour cards for 2010, while Montreal’s Lisa Meldrum finished tied for fifth to earn her 2010 card for the LPGA Tour.

DeLaet, a 27-year-old who now lives in Boise, Idaho, overcame a pair of double bogeys to shoot a 73 in Monday’s sixth and final round at qualification school in West Palm Beach, Fla. He entered the day in a tie for second after previous rounds of 70, 71, 64, 69 and 70 at the Bear Lakes Country Club.

“I hit the ball very solid all week and I was able to limit my mistakes,” said DeLaet. “Playing six rounds of golf is draining mentally and you need to remain focused until that final putt drops. I’m excited and look forward to playing on the PGA Tour.”

Last season on the Canadian Golf Tour, DeLaet had four top-three finishes, including top spot in June at the ATB Financial Classic in Calgary, and the Canadian Tour Players Cup in July in Winnipeg. He finished first on the Tour’s order of merit with US$94,579 in earnings, which was more than $20,000 ahead of second spot.

DeLaet, who turned pro in 2006, is ranked 211th in the world rankings, which is the second-highest among Canadian-born golfers. Only Mike Weir of Bright’s Grove, Ont., who is ranked 36th, is higher. DeLaet is eighth on the order of merit for the Sunshine Tour.

Montreal’s Julien Trudeau was just one shot away from earning his card, after a 2-under 70 left him in a tie for 26th place. Also missing out was Edmonton’s Barrett Jarosch (74, tie for 64th). Chris Baryla, of Vernon, B.C., who earned his conditional card as a result of his finish on the Nationwide Tour but was looking to qualify for more tournaments, was 2-under to finish in a tie for 42nd.

Calgary’s Dustin Risdon (tied for 104th); David Hearn of Brantford, Ont., (tied for 78th); Jon Mills of Oshawa, Ont. (tied for 98th) and Kevin Fortin-Simard of Quebec City (147th) also missed out on their cards.

Meldrum, meanwhile, shot a 71 in Monday’s fifth and final round in Daytona Beach, Fla., to secure one of 20 cards available. She also had rounds of 71, 70, 75 and 68.

The 27-year-old had two top-10 finishes this past season on the Futures Tour, including a victory in August at the iMPACT Classic in Richmond, Va. She finished the season with US$26,154 in earnings, to finish 15th on the money list.

The former University of Oklahoma standout joined the Futures Tour in 2006.

Adrienne White of Red Deer, Alta., just missed her shot at a card, after a final-round 75 dropped her into a 22nd-place tie. Montreal’s Isabelle Beisiegel struggled with a 78 on Monday to fall into a tie for 58th, while Jessica Shepley of Oakville, Ont., was 3-under 69 for the day to finish in a tie for 32nd.

Kirby Dreher of Fort St. John, B.C., was an even-par 72 to finish in a tie for 43rd, while Edmonton’s Christina Lecuyer missed the cut.

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Adam Speirs may have helped put himself in a bit of a Catch-22.

The Canadian Tour is increasing its purse total in 2010, which means more money will be up for grabs for the 31-year-old Winnipegger and his fellow pro golfers.

The catch, however, is the bigger paydays will likely attract better talent from south of the border.

Speirs, who helped instigate this move as a player rep on the Canadian Tour’s board of directors, is looking only at the positives that more money will bring.

“We’re hoping it has a huge impact,” Speirs said yesterday from Texas, where he is competing in a mini-tour event this week. “We’re hoping from a player’s perspective that, one, we’re going to make more money. Two, we’ll hopefully get some better players from the mini-tours down here.

“The knock on the Canadian Tour has always been that we don’t play for enough money, and they can’t use that anymore. We are playing for enough money.”

The purse increase means Winnipeg’s annual Canadian Tour event, The Players Cup, is going from a $200,000 event to a whopping $300,000.

That is music to the ears of former Canadian Tour member Rob McMillan, who is the event’s new executive chairman.

“That grants a lot of attention,” said McMillan, whose wife Nicole is the tournament’s executive director. “It was not too many years ago we were playing for $125,000 here. When you start thinking that your winner’s going to be taking home close to $50,000, that brings a whole different dynamic to the event.

“Hopefully we can get it higher than that. Hopefully two or three years from now we’re the biggest purse outside of the Canadian Open.”

The Players Cup is regarded as one of the finest on the Canadian Tour, and its perks make it an attractive stop. The winner gets an automatic berth into the PGA Tour’s Canadian Open, which takes place a week after the Winnipeg stop.

In addition, the top five players on the Canadian Tour money list after The Players Cup gain entry into the Canadian Open.

That, combined with the fact that Manitobans are strong supporters of the event, is why the tour will make Winnipeg its second-richest event of the season, behind only the $325,000 Canadian Tour Championship.

“We’ve had really strong support with our sponsors the last two years,” McMillan said, “and we’re looking at making this hopefully the premier golf event in western Canada.”

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TIGER WOODS may or not have been, as the American tabloids claim, unfaithful to his wife with one or even more women. The greatest golfer who ever lived, or so we are told, may or may not have been wonked in the face with a golf club — some say it was a nine-iron — by an angry wife who was feeling betrayed.

We may never know, and in truth, it isn’t really any of our business. The affair, if you’ll pardon the expression, of Tiger’s untimely departure from his home at 2:30 a.m. (Florida time) and the crashing of his car into both a tree and fire hydrant may never be resolved. What we have been told is that Mrs. Woods only used the golf club to smash the back window, enabling her husband to escape from the wreck. A $164 US fine and four demerit points on his driver’s licence is all that it took to get Tiger out of the woods.

Be that as it may, here in Canada we just don’t get those kind of scandals. The Americans are so much better at behaving badly than we are. They get Tiger Woods bleeding in his driveway and we have to settle for the continuing perils of Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff. There’s no comparison, although Ignatieff’s perpetually plummeting fortunes do have a certain morbid fascination to them, kind of like watching a fly caught in a spider’s web — you just know how this story is going to work out.

The Liberal leader’s latest misfortune involves the Conservative government’s proposal for legislation to facilitate a Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) for the provinces — particularly Ontario and British Columbia, although you can expect Manitoba to be hard on their heels if it comes to pass.

Ignatieff is torn between two lovers. The premiers of B.C. and Ontario are anxious to implement the HST but the federal Liberal caucus is considerably less keen on it. Although the Liberal leader has said that he will put the whips on his caucus when it comes to a vote, Liberal MPs are threatening to be unfaithful to him in the event. Let’s hope that they are. It is not exactly as intriguing as Tiger Woods and a nine-iron in the middle of the night, but Canadian taxpayers know full well who will get shafted by this bill.

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The Canadian Tour continues to bloom despite the economic downturn, which has greatly impacted the golf industry.

As a sign of that, the prize purse for the 2010 Times Colonist Open, from June 3-6 at Uplands, has been raised by $50,000 to $250,000.

The Times Colonist Open purse was $150,000 in 2008 and $200,000 for the 2009 event last summer. Local organizers are responsible for $150,000 of the purse. The $100,000 in combined increases — $50,000 in each 2009 and 2010 — have come through Canadian Tour funding.

“I’m stunned that they could bump up the purse again for next year, with the way things are in the economy and in the golf industry,” admitted Keith Dagg, Times Colonist Open marketing director.

“This is big news for us and very exciting and again shows what the Tour thinks of our tournament.”

The Times Colonist Open is among five Canadian Tour events that will see major boosts in purse money to at least $250,000. The others are in Edmonton, Saskatoon, Winnipeg and the $325,000 Players Cup.

“It’s long overdue, to be blunt,” said Rick Janes, commissioner and CEO of the Canadian Tour, in a telephone interview yesterday.

“In order to further raise the profile of any Tour, you need bigger purses. Players are attracted to tournaments, frankly, by the amount of money they can earn. We already have golfers from 15 nations on our Tour and this will attract even more players to our qualifying schools and will help grab the attention of the public.

“We hope to increase purses even more in the future.”

With the Canadian Tour having developed more than 100 alumni who graduated to the PGA Tour — including names such as Steve Stricker, Mike Weir, Chris DiMarco, Tim Clark, Stuart Appleby and Craig Parry — the Times Colonist Open is a significant annual event on the Victoria sporting calendar.

The Times Colonist Open, entering its 27th year as the oldest event on the Canadian Tour, has been there through it all with a list of winners which includes Stricker, Parry, Brandt Jobe, Kelly Gibson and Todd Erwin.

“The Victoria tournament is without a doubt one of our linchpin events,” said Janes.

“We consider it a cornerstone.”

The 2010 Canadian Tour starts with a series of events in Mexico the week of April 12. The Canadian portion of the Tour begins with the Times Colonist Open at Uplands.

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It has taken a little while but Canadian Tour Commissioner Rick Janes has finally succeeded in reaching one of his earliest goals with the announcement that prize purses for some of the Tour’s top events will see some of the largest increases in Tour history.

In addition to increasing the prize money Tour members will play for in 2010 at events in Victoria, Edmonton and Winnipeg, the prestigious Players Cup will now offer a purse of $325,000 — nearly double what it was in 2006.

“The highlight of the 2010 schedule is purse increases at major events in Canada. ” say the Commissioner. “These are the most significant increases that the Tour has seen in its history.”

“There are still a number of gaps in the schedule that are yet to bebe filled but we can confirm that at least five of our major events in Canada will be announcing purses of at least $250,000.”

The Players Cup in Winnipeg will have a purse of $300,000 and the Canadian Tour Championship will reach $325,000.

“At the same time, we have some contraction in the schedule with long-time sponsor TELUS abandoning its own event and joining the ATB Financial Classic to create one larger championship in Alberta,” says Janes.

The Canadian Tour also anticipates a new event in Fort McMurray, Alberta.

The 2010 Canadian Tour season will begin with a series of tournaments in Mexico starting with the Mexican PGA Championship in Mazatlan the week of April 12.

Yet to be finalized are events in partnership with the European Challenge Tour and Tour de Las Americas in Columbia, Chile and Costa Rica in late February and early March.

“Canada is the cornerstone of the Canadian Tour and this is where we are applying most of our attention. At the same time, Latin America and Mexico provide us with opportunities to extend our season into those months when we cannot play in Canada,” says Janes. “These events also provide our players with valuable international experience and expose top players to the Canadian Tour.”

The Canadian Tour is a member of the International Federation of PGA Tours with tournaments in Mexico, Latin America and across Canada. Attracting the best young PGA TOUR prospects from Canada and another fifteen countries, more than one hundred Canadian Tour alumni have graduated to the PGA TOUR including Steve Stricker, Mike Weir, Stuart Appleby and Tim Clark.

http://www.bcgolfnews.com/2009/12/canadian-tour-making-progress-with-tournament-purses

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One of the greatest Canadian golfers of all time was back on home soil Saturday to accept one of his sport’s highest honours.

Mike Weir officially joined the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame with a ceremony at Huron Oaks, the course where the lefty fell in love with the game as a kid.

He was thrilled to be back in his hometown for a reception attended by roughly 150 people. The crowd included family, friends and other Hall of Famers, including Gary Cowan and Sandra Post.

“It’s special to do it here,” said Weir. “I see a lot of family and friends. Obviously, it’s kind of where I grew up and where it all began for me. I feel good.

“It’s a great night.”

The course has gone through some changes since Weir worked and played here as a teenager in the 1980s. Still, it remains a place close to his heart and fresh in his mind.

He recalls shooting 63 as a 16-year-old and spending hours on the putting green, working on his stroke even after darkness set in with help from a spotlight on the adjacent clubhouse.

Fifteen years later, he’d make an eight-foot putt on the 72nd hole of the 2003 Masters to force a playoff with Len Mattiace that he ended up winning. It was the first professional major victory by a Canadian male and remains the biggest of Weir’s career.

“When I am at an airport or somewhere, (people say): ‘Hey, I remember that great Masters win,”‘ he said. “People bring that up, they don’t bring up some of the other tournaments …

“I get recognized for that more than anything.”

Weir, 39, is tied with George Knudson for the most PGA Tour victories by a Canadian with eight. He expects to have a number of good playing years ahead of him and has made it clear that he intends to add a few more entries to his Hall of Fame plaque before calling it quits.

A number of his trophies were on display at Huron Oaks for Saturday’s reception, providing a good reminder of the success he’s already had.

The main thing that set Weir apart from other young golf hopefuls is a relentless drive and nearly unmatched work ethic. His background isn’t typical of the average PGA Tour player – the son of middle-class parents, he was raised in this Western Ontario town where golf courses are closed at least four months a year.

After turning professional, he played the Canadian Tour and others around the world, at one point putting most of his belongings in storage while he and wife Bricia hit the road.

Even though he would go on to become a millionaire several times over, there were times when money was tight.

“My goal was to somehow get on the PGA Tour, that was just the first goal,” said Weir. “When that finally happened in December ’97, that was just a huge hurdle to finally get over after six years struggling, trying to make ends meet, living out of my car, kind of in and out of different apartments. I lived with friends just to try and make it all work

“Looking back, I never dreamed I’d be here.”

The golfer’s Hall of Fame plaque was unveiled on Saturday night and features a sketch of Weir along with a brief biography. It will soon make a permanent home alongside other honoured members at the Hall, which is located on the grounds of Glen Abbey in Oakville, Ont.

An exhibit featuring Weir’s memorabilia has already been on display there since the RBC Canadian Open in July. One of the more interesting items is a few pages photocopied from a book on swing tips complete with Weir’s meticulous handwritten notes in the margins.

Since his days of studying the swing, Weir has gone on to author a career as good as any by a Canadian golfer.

In addition to the tournament victories, he’s earned more than US$26 million in official PGA Tour earnings, spent roughly two consecutive years in the top-10 in world rankings and famously stared down Tiger Woods in a singles match at the 2007 Presidents Cup at Royal Montreal.

It’s quite a resume.

“I always knew he would make it,” said Steve Bennett, the head pro at Huron Oaks who hired Weir. “I knew he had it in him. I’ve never met anyone with his level of determination.”

Bennett was so confident in Weir that he introduced him as “Canada’s next great golfer” during an event at Huron Oaks in 1992, where locals raised $10,000 to help send him to qualifying school.

Look how far he’s come.

Weir has been named the country’s male athlete of the year by The Canadian Press on three occasions and was invested in the Order of Canada by Governor-General Michaelle Jean earlier this month.

That honour was partly in recognition of his charity work – the Mike Weir Foundation celebrated its fifth anniversary earlier this year and is dedicated to advancing the physical, emotional and educational welfare of children.

While the coming years will see him start to focus on a golf design business, he’s also passionate about wanting to increase his charitable work. For Weir, the opportunity to give something back feels like the natural next step from a career that has brought him fame and fortune.

Who knows what he might be able to accomplish in that realm? His golf game has certainly come a long way in a relatively short amount of time.

“Eleven years ago I was just fighting to get on the PGA Tour,” Weir said in a recent interview with The Canadian Press. “I was back at Q-school at this time 11 years ago. It’s not that long of time and I’ve been able to do pretty well on the course and be able to do these things (off the course). It’s pretty special to be able to do that.”

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Annual meetings, Homecoming 2010 to bring them in

Two financial-services heavyweights have booked hotel rooms and conference space in Winnipeg for their annual general meetings next year, an early indicator 2010 should be a busy time for the city’s convention and tourism business.

The Bank of Montreal will hold its AGM at the Fairmont Winnipeg hotel on March 23, while the Credit Union Central of Canada will host its annual meeting five weeks later at the Winnipeg Convention Centre. The two events are expected to attract up to 1,350 wallet-toting delegates to the city.

Stuart Duncan, president of Destination Winnipeg, the city’s tourism and marketing arm, said that should be just the tip of the iceberg as 2010 is expected to be jam-packed with events all year long.
“It’s going to be a good year,” he said.

The crown jewel of gatherings will be Manitoba Homecoming 2010, a 12-month-long celebration of all things Manitoban that’s targeting former residents of the province to come “home” to see what they’re missing.

It will kick off with a two-month homage to Festival du Voyageur in January and February and include heavy promotion of mainstays such as the Winnipeg Folk Festival and the Morden Corn & Apple Festival. A definite focal point will be the “world’s largest social” on May 12, a provincewide celebration of Manitoba’s 140th birthday, complete with beer, DJs and assorted deli meats being placed on the shoulders of unsuspecting partiers.

“We’re targeting bringing in more than 50,000 visitors and $30 million in economic impact for Homecoming events,” he said.

The money will keep flowing when Rendez-vous Canada, the tourism industry’s annual event for international tour operators and buyers from around the world, brings its 1,300 delegates to town in May, and the Canadian Tire Dealers Association’s more than 1,000 delegates arrive in September.

There’s also the 2010 CN Canadian Women’s Open golf tournament at St. Charles Country Club in August, Mike Weir’s Miracle Golf Drive For Kids fundraiser, also at St. Charles, in June and the World Under-17 Hockey Championships in December.

Veronica Feldcamp, director of trade association services for Credit Union Central of Canada, said it moves the site of its annual meeting around from year to year but it always makes sure to hold it in a city where the credit union movement is strong.

“We’re planning on up to 850 delegates. We’ll have CEOs, general managers, directors from boards of credit unions across the country and senior executives. It’s going to be the first time we’ve had our AGM in Winnipeg since 1997. We’re really looking forward to it,” she said.
Ron Monet, Montreal-based spokesman for BMO, said its AGM moves from province to province as well.

It hasn’t been held in Winnipeg since 1998.

“It’s our one big chance to meet our shareholders. All of our board members, senior executives and leadership of BMO will be there,” he said, noting he’s expecting between 250 and 500 people to descend upon the city.

Duncan said 2009 has been a “tough” year for conventions and travel around the world and even with Winnipeg’s well-known economic diversity, the city hasn’t been immune to the global trend. Meeting and convention business is expected to be down seven per cent for 2009, resulting in direct spending on hotel rooms, restaurants, taxi cabs and retailers of about $45 million, down from $50 million a year ago.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/visitors-to-stream-into-the-city-next-year-70447707.html

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Derek Ingram is taking his coaching resume to another level.

Ingram, a Winnipegger and Winnipeg Sun golf columnist, is the new head coach of Canada’s national women’s amateur golf team.

He replaces Dean Spriddle, who stepped down from the position last week.

“It’s really the No. 1 coaching job in Canada, I’m obviously very excited about it,” said Ingram, who spent the past five years as an assistant coach for Canada’s men’s amateur team and has been involved with the Royal Canadian Golf Association’s high performance program for the past nine years. “It’s something I’ve been working towards for a long time. I couldn’t be any more pumped.”

Plenty of talent

Ingram, a seven-time Manitoba PGA teaching pro of the year and two-time Canadian PGA teacher of the year, said the women’s team boasts plenty of talent and should fare well at the World Amateur Golf Championship, which will be held in Argentina in October of 2010.

Many of Canada’s top women’s amateur players have teed it up in Winnipeg over the past two years and several will be on hand for the CN Canadian Women’s Open at St. Charles next summer.

“We’ve got a lot of strong players, we’re very deep,” said Ingram. “We’ve got a fairly long team and in the women’s game, it’s good to be able to hit it far. We’ve got a lot of experience and we should be good this year. I like our chances.

“Over the past five or six years, I’ve built excellent relationships with the players on the men’s side and I have to build those same relationships with the members of the women’s team. I have to earn their trust and that shouldn’t be difficult. It’s going to take a little time, but I’m really looking forward to it.”

Because of the increased responsibilities related to the new position, Ingram must reduce the rest of his work load.

He will continue to teach and coach, but on a much smaller scale.

“This is going to be a more than full-time job and I will have to relinquish some of my duties locally,” said Ingram.

The RCGA was thrilled when Ingram accepted the position.

“Derek has been a valuable member of our Team Canada coaching staff over the past nine years,” Jeff Thompson, Chief Sport Development Officer with the RCGA said in a press release. “Through his passion and contagious enthusiasm, he has proven himself to be a world-caliber coach and gifted teacher with a tremendous ability to both educate and motivate high performance athletes.”

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