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What’s New With Boyne Golf

Boyne Resorts announce its season-opening schedule and improvements to its eight golf courses, including bunker renovations and course enhancements.

BRIEFLY

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.

Feel Golf Company Honors Top Collegiate Golfer

Feel Golf Co. honors Christian Colunga, a senior at Cal Lutheran University, who was named Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Athlete of the Week, April 1-8.

Diveto the latest to join growing SST team

Strategic Shaft Technologies LC, developer of SST Pure Shaft Alignment technology, announces that Kevin Diveto joins its staff as a financial services analyst.

BRIEFLY

Issue No. 7 of GCNI features articles on Par Aide and golf in Wales. … Aphira announces an endorsement agreement with LPGA golfer Birdie Kim. … Chris Roselle joins the Golf Association of Philadelphia staff as the organization’s new tournament director.

Keri Golf on rise

Keri Golf records account growth of 50 percent in the first quarter of 2007 based on the successful introduction of the brand’s women’s golf bag and accessories collection for Spring 2007.

Dunning expands line

Dunning Golf announces the addition of several marquee clubs, including Adios, Brentwood, Hazeltine National, Inverness, Lake Nona, Ritz Carlton Grand Cayman, Sherwood and Trump National.

The Putting Arc

Putting Arc reports that eight of the top-10 finishers at the Verizon Heritage and five of the top-seven at the Ginn Open use the company’s training aid.