Bear Mountain Resort in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, announces its newest real estate offering, The Highlander, a 14-story, Scottish-influenced condominium residence perched along the 18th fairway of the community’s Jack and Steve Nicklaus co-designed golf course. … TNT announces that the XL Capital Ltd. group of companies have agreed to serve as a broadcast presenting sponsor of the 2007 PGA Grand Slam of Golf , which will make its debut in Bermuda, Oct. 16 & 17 at the Mid Ocean Club. … Golf Buddy, a new distance measuring device, partners with the Ontario PGA to become the title sponsor of the Ontario PGA Match Play Championship and the official distance measuring device of the Ontario PGA. … CBS Sports reports that 2007 season-to-date live coverage of the PGA Tour is delivering its best rating in five years. Beginning with the Buick Invitational in January through last weekend’s Verizon Heritage, CBS’s coverage of the PGA Tour averaged a 3.0/7 national household rating/share, up 11 percent from the same period last year (2.7/6) and up 7 percent from 2005 (2.8/7). CBS Sports will also broadcast a golf doubleheader this weekend with coverage of the PGA Tour’s Zurich Classic of New Orleans (Saturday and Sunday, 3-6 p.m. ET) and the Champions Tour’s Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf (Saturday and Sunday, 1-3 p.m. ET). … Jonas Blixt of Florida State, Jorge Campillo of Indiana, Rhys Davies and Gareth Shaw of East Tennessee State, Oscar Floren of Texas Tech, Mark Haastrup of Georgia State, Pedro Oriol of Arizona and Gordon Yates of and Stirling have been selected to represent Europe in the 2007 Palmer Cup June 7-8.
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