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Ogilvy Holds Lead Over Tiger Woods As Rain Ends Play
 NBC Sports reports that Tiger Woods continued to struggle as Geoff Ogilvy maintained his lead on the third-round at the WGA-CA Championship. Adam Scott had a very good day before the rain moved in.
Geoff Ogilvy was at 14-under par through 11 holes and kept his one-shot lead, only now it was Adam Scott on his heels, not the world's No. 1 player who has won every tournament he has played since September.
Woods was at 11 under, even for the day, the only player among the top 18 who was not under par for the round.
Scott was practically flawless, making up five shots in five holes against Woods, taking the outright lead with a 25-foot birdie putt that swirled around the cup before falling, looking confident with every hole he played. Ogilvy still hasn't made a bogey this week, and two late birdies allowed him to regain the lead.
And then it rained.
Adam Scott was playing well and was unhappy about the rain. Scott said, "If it was our day, it was cut off way too short." You can see a list of the Saturday night leaders here.
The following announcement has been made about the suspension of Saturday's round.
Play was suspended at 1:15 p.m. due to a dangerous situation. The 61 players (out of 79) who did not finish their round will be back in position at 8:30 a.m. Sunday. The final round is expected to begin between 11:35 a.m.-1:45 p.m. with threesomes off of split tees.
Posted on March 22, 2008
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Golfer Kills Protected Hawk
Aiming your golf ball at people or animals is unacceptable behavior as the Supernanny likes to say. Pro-Golfer Tripp Isenhour is in trouble for his bad behvaior. He killed a protected hawk with a golf ball while filming an instructional video.
Tripp Isenhour has never gotten this much attention for a single golf shot. Really, he's never gotten this much attention, period. Isenhour said it was a "one-in-a-million" golf shot that killed a protected hawk and that he was only trying to scare the bird he now faces misdemeanor criminal charges for killing.
"It was unfortunate, but there'll be plenty of time for me to tell my story," Isenhour said on the Golf Channel's PODS Championship post-round show Friday, his first interview since news broke that he killed the protected bird Dec. 12.
"It's one of regret and remorse that it happened, because I'm certainly sorry to hurt a migratory bird, or any bird for that matter."
Tripp Isenhour says he didn't mean to hit the hawk with the golf ball. He claims he was just trying to scare the bird away.
"I want to let everyone know there was neither any malice nor deliberate intent whatsoever to hit or harm the hawk. I was trying to simply scare it into flying away."
The Chicago Tribune's golf blog Bunker Mentality quotes a witness who disagrees. Investigators also blame Isenhour according to the AP story.
Investigators said Isenhour killed the hawk because he was upset it was making noise as he tried to film an instructional video. He allegedly first drove in a golf cart toward the bird, then 300 yards away, to hit balls at it. When the hawk later landed within 75 yards, Isenhour's shots got closer until he eventually hit and killed it. The bird fell to the ground bleeding from both nostrils, witnesses told the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
Isenhour has been charged with a misdemeanor criminal offense. The maximum penalty for such an offense is 14 months in jail and $1,500 in fines.
Posted on March 8, 2008
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