Live PGA Tournament Action Starts This Week at the Hyundai Tournament of Champions in Kapalua

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Pairings set for first PGA Tour event of 2011

Article from: The Maui News
KAPALUA – Two-time defending champion Geoff Ogilvy will be in the final pairing for next week’s Hyundai Tournament of Champions, along with Jim Furyk, this year’s FedEx Cup winner.
The groupings for the PGA Tour’s season-opening event at the Kapalua Plantation Course were announced Thursday, a week prior to the start of competition.

The first players to tee off will be Arjun Atwal and Rocco Mediate, at 10:20 a.m. Ogilvy and Furyk are to begin their rounds at 1 p.m.

Ogilvy won the event last year, when it was the SBS Championship, and the year before, when it was the Mercedes-Benz Championship.

Stuart Appleby, who won three consecutive Kapalua titles from 2004 to 2006, is in an 11 a.m. pairing with Jason Bohn.

The tournament is limited to PGA Tour winners from the previous season.

The 12:10 p.m. pairing has Hunter Mahan and U.S. Open champion Graeme McDowell – two months ago in the Ryder Cup, McDowell defeated Mahan 3 and 1 to clinch Europe’s 14 1/2-13 1/2 victory over the U.S. at Celtic Manor in Wales.

With three exceptions, each player’s tee time corresponds to his final spot in the FedEx Cup standings – the lower the finish, the earlier the start. The players for whom that formula does not apply are Ogilvy and two players who compete primarily in Europe – McDowell and Francisco Molinari.

Matt Kuchar, the PGA Tour’s leading money-winner in 2010, is in the penultimate group, teeing off at 12:50 p.m. with Charley Hoffman. Ernie Els, whose 31-under-par score at Kapalua in 2003 set a tour record for a 72-hole tournament, is to tee off at 12:30 p.m. with Jason Day.

The field has 34 players. Five who were eligible are not competing, including three of last season’s major winners.

Masters champion Phil Mickelson has not played at Kapalua since 2001, despite being eligible in all but one year since. British Open winner Louis Oosthuizen and PGA Championship winner Martin Kaymer, as well as Rory McIlroy and Lee Westwood, are likely to play primarily European Tour events in 2011.

Hyundai Tournament of Champions

FIRST-ROUND TEE TIMES

Thursday

At Kapalua Plantation Course

10:20 a.m.-Arjun Atwal, Rocco Mediate

10:30 a.m.-Bill Lunde, Cameron Beckman

10:40 a.m.-Robert Garrigus, Matt Bettencourt

10:50 a.m.-Derek Lamely, Jonathan Byrd

11 a.m.-Stuart Appleby, Jason Bohn

11:10 a.m.-Anthony Kim, Heath Slocum

11:20 a.m.-Ian Poulter, Carl Pettersson

11:30 a.m.-Ben Crane, Bill Haas

11:40 a.m.-Ryan Palmer, Tim Clark

11:50 a.m.-Camilo Villegas, Bubba Watson

Noon-Adam Scott, Francisco Molinari

12:10 p.m.-Hunter Mahan, Graeme McDowell

12:20 p.m.-Justin Rose, Zach Johnson

12:30 p.m.-Jason Day, Ernie Els

12:40 p.m.-Dustin Johnson, Steve Stricker

12:50 p.m.-Matt Kuchar, Charley Hoffman

1 p.m.-Geoff Ogilvy, Jim Furyk

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Purchasing in Maui Just Got Even More Attractive for Canadian Buyers

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Loonie enters 2011 above parity with greenback amid higher

oil, copper, gold

The Canadian PressBy The Canadian Press
Article from: www.yahoo.ca

TORONTO – The Canadian dollar ended 2010 above parity with the U.S. currency Friday, closing at its highest level in more than two and a half years amid rising commodity prices.

The loonie closed up 0.54 of a cent to 100.54 cents U.S. after closing at parity with the U.S. dollar Thursday for the first time since Nov. 10. It was the Canadian dollar’s highest close since May 2008 and represents a 5.6 per cent gain for the currency this year.

The Canadian currency rose amid higher oil prices and copper prices that hit new records for a third day.

The February crude oil contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange shook off early losses to move up $1.54 to US$91.38. Prices had fallen after data Thursday showed a much smaller than expected decline in U.S. crude inventories in the latest week.

The March copper contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange rose eight cents from Thursday’s latest record close to US$4.45 a pound. Copper has surged 33 per cent this year on higher demand from China and other emerging markets.

Gold was also higher with the February contract on the Nymex ahead $15.50 to US$1,421.40 an ounce.

The greenback fell back as strong American economic data encouraged investors to move out of the greenback and take on more risk and commodity prices advanced.

Data released Thursday showed the number of people applying for unemployment benefits fell sharply last week, a positive sign that the job market south of the border is slowly improving. There was also a stronger than expected reading on the Midwest manufacturing sector.

The American currency also lost ground against the euro after German chancellor Angela Merkel said that Europe is dealing with a major test and must strengthen the euro.

“This is not just about our money — the euro is far more than a currency,” she said.

Her comments come at the end of a year where eurozone members Greece and Ireland required financial rescues in 2010 amid a persistent government debt crisis, and Europe remains under pressure to take more action to resolve its woes.

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Westjet Announces Intent to Provide Direct Service from Edmonton & Calgary

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WestJet to add Hawai‘i flights

POSTED: December 30, 2010
Article from: The Maui Weekly

WestJet recently announced its intention to operate a leased Boeing 757-200 to provide nonstop service between Calgary and Honolulu and Maui, and between Edmonton and Maui, subject to Canadian government approval. The service will operate from February 12, 2011, to April 30, 2011.“This is great news for Albertans,” said Hugh Dunleavy, WestJet executive vice president of strategy and planning.

“This temporary lease will allow WestJet to provide additional capacity for guests traveling from Alberta to Hawai‘i” siad Dunleavy.

“With this leased aircraft, we’ll be able to seat 193 guests—an increase from using our own 737-700s. So, now even more guests will have access to the only daytime schedule in both directions on convenient nonstop flights to Maui and Honolulu.”

WestJet is leasing the Boeing 757-200 from North American Airlines, a charter air service provider located in Jamaica, N.Y.

It was the charter provider for U.S. President Barack Obama’s presidential election campaign.

WestJet is the 10th-busiest airline serving Hawai‘i, having flown 116,788 people to the state in 2009, according to Pacific Business News research.