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The magazine “Forbes” places the golfer american Tiger Woods as the first in the list of athletes richest in the world.

According to the internet page of the magazine “Forbes.com”, Woods, after achieving the bonus of $10 million of triumph in the FedEx Cup, became the first sportsman in history comes to $1 billion.

Tiger Woods had already won $895 million when he started the season of 2009 and, according to the same source, by adding 10.5 million dollars with the sporting triumphs, plus bonus of the FedEx Cup and the $100 million that receives annually from the sale of image, joined the 1,000 million.

Only the legendary Michael Jordan, a former player of the Bulls in Chicago, and the seven times world champion of the Formula One, the German Michael Schumacher, are the other two athletes, according to “Forbes.com” are closer to Woods in regard to profits. Jordan achieved more than $800 million since he came in 1984 to the NBA, while Schumacher was left in the 700 during its activity as a pilot.

The president and co-founding of Nike Inc, Phil Knight, said that the scandal surrounding Tiger Woods is “part of the game” by signing sponsorship contracts with athletes and stressed that there will be no changes in the relationship of the manufacturer of shoes and sportswear with the golfer.

While some advertising agencies it withdrew its support for Tiger Woods, Nike anticipated this Monday that it will continue to sponsor despite the scandal by infidelity that is involved the u.s. golfer.

“Woods remains the best Golfer of the world,” said Phil Knight, who said that his company is going to continue to sponsor the astro american, a day after the signing Accenture decide break its relationship with the golfer. Read the rest of this entry »

Tiger remains the subject of fashion in the world of sport and gives for everything. The expectation generated by the news on the hectic life sexual golfer Tiger Woods is being used by the attacks of spam messages for “creep” in the computers, as has alerted the company SPAMfighter, signature specializing in the fight against spam.

The decision by the u.s. golfer, world’s number one, of abandon this sport “for an indefinite period” after going well beyond their marital infidelities, has led to the spammers to send millions of these emails garbage that have begun to flood the trays of entry of users.

This type of holders of newspapers and magazines “makes the spammers have the perfect excuse and information necessary to send millions of mail from spam”, denounced the company Spamfighter, dedicated to combating the junk. In fact, in December stood at the head of the “ranking” of “hooks” employees”.

SPAMfighter has warned, through a press release, that the spammers, disguised under the name of Tiger Woods, will continue to threaten millions of users for quite some time. When you click on a spam, users identify their e-mails as directions of work and this comes to the spammer to generate more spam and so on. Read the rest of this entry »

Mika Miyazato of Japan shot a 67, five under par on Friday, taking the lead by a stroke at Evian Masters LPGA.

Under a cumulative of 135, nine under par, Miyazato has a stroke ahead of the French Gwladys Nocera (67). Miyazato has recorded six birdies, while Nocera got an eagle and five birdies.

Miyazato, 20, has had to deal with two delays because of rain, a short in the morning and a longer mid-afternoon.

Nocera has prevailed 10 times on the European circuit feminine tournament in Evian by cons, it has never finished in the top 40 in five appearances.

The South Korean Jeong Jang is 137, one stroke better than a group of four golfers.

Defending champion Japan Ai Miyazato shot a 72, residing at six shots back.

Michelle Wie (77 for 145) initiated the day in a deadlock in sixth place, but has concluded in a tie for 46th – partly due to a quintuple bogey at the 10th hole.

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Alena Sharp of Hamilton has signed a card of 76, barely qualifying for the weekend to 147.

Standings after the second round:

1. Mika Miyazato (JPN) 135 (68-67)
2. Gwladys Nocera (FRA) 136 (69-67)
3. Jeong Jang (KOR) 137 (68-69)
4. Choi Na Yeon (KOR) 138 (68-70)
. Meena Lee (KOR) 138 (68-70)
. Hur J. (KOR) 138 (67-71)
. Morgan Pressel (USA) 138 (66-72)
8. Suzann Pettersen (NOR) 139 (69-70)
. Ahn Sun-Ju (KOR) 139 (66-73)
. Kyeong Bae (KOR) 139 (70-69)
. Jiyai Shin (KOR) 139 (70-69)
. Mi-Jeong Jeon (KOR) 139 (68-71)
13. Mayu Hattori (JAP) 140 (69-71)
. Momoka Ueda (JPN) 140 (69-71)
. Anja Monke (GER) 140 (69-71)
16. Yukari Baba (JAP) 141 (69-72)
. Yuri Fudoh (JAP) 141 (72-69)
. Yani Tseng (TAI) 141 (68-73)
. Ai Miyazato (JPN) 141 (69-72)
. Alexis Thompson (USA) 141 (69-72)
21. Juli Inkster (USA) 142 (71-71)
. Kim Song-Hee (KOR) 142 (67-75)
. Yoo Sun Yung (KOR) 142 (: 69-73)
. Vicky Hurst (USA) 142 (70-72),
25. Haeji Kang (KOR) 143 (69-74)

Disqualified:

46. Virginie Lagoutte-Clement (FRA) 153 (76-77)

Briton Lee Westwood won the St. Jude Classic, making his first win in a tournament this season. Second was the third American and Swedish Garrigus Karlsson. English pocketed $ 1 million in a PGA Tour event.

Briton Lee Westwood was today proclaimed champion St. Jude Classic golf to overcome in the play-off American Robert Garrigus and Swede Robert Karlsson. Westwood needed four-hole playoff to clinch the tournament after finishing fourth round equaled accumulated 270 hits, ten under par for the course. This victory is the first of the year for the British and the second in his PGA career.

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For his part, Colombian Camilo Villegas, who will compete next week at the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach (California), Memphis finished the tournament in eighth place, tied with three American players. Villegas toured the 18 holes of the TPC Southwind on 67 hits and managed to get 12 posts about the day yesterday.

The St. Jude Golf Classic, held in Memphis (Tennessee, USA), distributed 500 points overall and $ 5.6 million, of which Wesrwood pocketed more than one million, according to the organization of the tournament PGA.

Hee Kyung Seo ran away with his first career title at the Kia Classic, delivering a 70 (minus-2) sufficient to enable him to win by six shots Sunday.

Seo, who is not a member of the LPGA Tour, received a pass from the sponsor to enter the tournament. Seo, 23, who earned 11 victories on the circuit of the Korean LPGA, may now decide to join the LPGA.

Seo, who began the tournament with a score of 70 at La Costa, took control of the race by linking the round of 67 and 69 en route to a cumulative under-12 (276).

The South Koreans have taken the first four positions overall. Inbee Park (65) seized the second position, while Jiyai Shin (70) and Jee Young Lee (70) finished tied for third at 5 under.

Michelle Wie was penalized two strokes after she filed her stick on the ground after his ball out of the water near the 11th green, causing him a double bogey.

She was informed of this decision by the official LPGA Doug Bercht few holes later. At this time, it lagged behind with five shots on Seo.

Wie has finally completed the competition with a score of 72, tied for fifth at minus-4.

Samantha Richdale of Kelowna, tripped while playing 80 and finished at plus-20.

The Australian Geoff Ogilvy kept his title Sunday at the tournament Kapalua (Hawaii), pocketing the first race of the season on the PGA Tour.

Ogilvy, 32, a stroke ahead of South African Rory Sabbatini, author of a remarkable final round, finished on a card 63 (or 10 strokes under par) punctuated ten birdies and three times its compatriot Matt Kuchar.

Geoff Ogilvy

The Australian, who finished the final round in 67 strokes Sunday, has also benefited from the collapse of the American Lucas Glover, who won the Open in the United States in 2009, which ended each of first three round leader before making a final card of 76, three strokes above par.

The American Stewart Cink, defending champion at the Open in Britain, took ninth place with six shots behind the winner while the Argentine Angel Cabrera, winner of the Masters in Augusta last season, finished one shot back.

Final (by 73)
Here is the complete list.

1. Geoff Ogilvy (AUS) 270 (69-66-68-67)

2. Rory Sabbatini (RSA) 271 (70-68-70-63)

3. Matt Kuchar (USA) 273 (67-68-71-67)

4. Sean O’Hair (USA) 274 (68-67-71-68)

5. Martin Laird (SCO) 274 (67-68-69-70)

6. Kenny Perry (USA) 275 (70-67-70-68)

7. Retief Goosen (RSA) 275 (70-69-67-69)

8. Ryan Moore (USA) 275 (69-68-68-70)

9. Stewart Cink (USA) 276 (68-69-69-70)

10. Steve Stricker (USA) 277 (73-70-68-66)

11. Paul Casey (GBR) 277 (70-69-69-69)

12. Pat Perez (USA) 277 (71-70-67-69)

13. Angel Cabrera (ARG) 277 (68-68-70-71)

14. John Rollins (USA) 278 (68-66-72-72)

15. Lucas Glover (USA) 278 (66-65-71-76)