If you’ve ever wanted devote a one-year sabbatical to nothing but playing golf in Ireland, you can. Ireland has well over 400 courses in seven regions, packed into a country the size of Maine. You could play a on different golf course every day for a year and still have a number of undiscovered gems waiting. If a typical three-day or seven-day golf holiday makes a better fit for your schedule, you can play courses designed more than 100 years ago, such as the Old Course at Lahinch Golf Club in County Clare, in Shannon, on Ireland’s southwest coast. Read more…
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There is hope that an active ingredient found in magic mushrooms, psilocybin, could be used to help with the treatment of depression.
Two scientific studies published this week show how activity in certain parts of the brain is subdued by an ingredient found in magic mushrooms, psilocybin. Results from both studies conclude that people exposed to psilocybin have clearer memories, which may provide an insight into the effects of psychedelic drugs on the brain.
Lead author for both of the studies was Professor David Nutt, from Imperial College London.
And yet this is precisely the vision that greets us here in Abu Dhabi: a revitalised Woods, fiercely focused on reclaiming his supremacy and proving that last month’s victory in Los Angeles – his first anywhere for 749 days – was no aberration.
As if that prospect were not tantalising enough, Woods starts his first tournament of 2012 in a threeball alongside the men most likely to upstage him, Luke Donald and Rory McIlroy. It is difficult to recall a trio blessed with quite so much stardust. When they tee off together at the Abu Dhabi Golf Club at 7.40am on Thursday, and again at 12.05pm on Friday, they should galvanise the galleries in the Gulf like never before.
LONDON (AP) – Organizers of the 2012 London Olympics said Tuesday they would consider options for new mothers who want to bring their babies into venues, after some parents complained that they have to buy full price tickets for their infants.
The London Organizing Committee made the statement after complaints flooded the British parenting website Mumsnet, with pregnant women who bought tickets for themselves – but not for their unborn children – wondering what they could do with babies who were breast-feeding. They argued that a months-old child would not be taking up a seat of its own.
“Of course we understand that some new mums may want to take their babies to events they have tickets to, and we will look at what we can do when the remaining tickets go on sale in April,” the committee said in a statement.
Steve Thomas, a former Champions Tour player, was arrested in an undercover Internet child sex sting in Florida, Golfchannel.com reported Tuesday.
Thomas was one of 40 people arrested in Kissimmee, Fla.
Detectives posed as juveniles, parents or guardians in online chat rooms and instant messaging programs, luring suspects to a location in Osceola County with the purpose of having sex with a minor.
Thomas was listed by the Sheriff’s Office as Stephen Wesley Thomas, 55, of Meridian, Miss. His occupation was listed as “professional golfer.”
Thomas played in 44 events on the PGA Tour, making 13 cuts. He played in 34 Champions Tour events with two career top-10s. He last played a full schedule in 2009.
