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Resolutions we wish our dog would make

Dr. Justin Sewell

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• I will stop trying to find the few remaining clean pieces of carpet in the house when I am about to throw up.

• I will not roll on dead seagulls, fish, crabs, etc.

• I will not eat other animals’ poop.

• I will not lick my human’s face after eating animal poop.

• I will not eat my own vomit.

• I will not eat “kitty box crunchies”.

• I will not eat any more socks and then re-deposit them in the backyard after processing.

• The diaper pail is not a cookie jar. I will not eat the disposable diapers, especially the dirty ones.

• I will not drop soggy tennis balls in the underwear of some who is sitting on the toilet.

• I will not bark each time I hear a door bell on TV. • I will not steal Mom’s underwear and chew on them in front of company.

• I will not bite the officer’s hand when he reaches in for Mom’s driver’s license and car registration.

• I will not roll my toys behind the fridge or under the couch.

• The garbage collector is NOT stealing our stuff.

• I must shake the rainwater out of my fur BEFORE entering the house.

• I will try to understand that the cat is from Venus and I am from Mars.

• I will circulate a petition that “Leg Humping” be a juried competition in major dog shows.

• I must remember that sticking my nose in a human’s crotch is not deemed as an acceptable way of saying hello in the human world.

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Local hunters have their sights trained on proposed changes to new provincial hunting regulations that they say excessively favour outside hunters. "(The proposal) does not do B.C. residents any favours," said Tim Schram, owner of hunting store Corlane's in Dawson Creek. "It hasn’t been a big talk, but we’re trying to make it a big talk."

Under regulations of the Ministry of Forests, Lands, and Natural Resources, people can only hunt a certain number of certain animals. This can only be done in regulated ways under specified times.

There are multiple types of hunters within the province, and each of them can only hunt a certain number of animals. One of these types of hunters are guide-outfitters. These guideoutfitters exist to guide and outfit hunters who live outside of B.C. to kill animals within the province, and they are given a certain quota of animals they and their clients can kill.

There are also regular resi-

dential hunters.

The Guide-Outfitters are represented by the Guide-Outfitters Association of B.C., while the B.C. Wildlife Federation represents hunters who live within the province.

These two groups have occasionally come into conflict.

"The changes proposed by the Guide-Outfitters Association of B.C., which represents 210 outfitters who have exclusive rights to guide trophy hunters, would give foreign hunters up to 40 percent of specific game species such as mountain sheep, goat and bear, and up to 25 percent of moose and elk," the Federation website states.

The Federation further states that Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Minister Steve Thomson accepted these changes.

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“Proposed changes to the Wildlife Allocation Policy are inconsistent with standard practices in other jurisdictions across Canada and in the United States,” said George Wilson, the Federation's president. “There is no justification for these changes and they are not supported by B.C.’s resident hunters.”

Local hunters also seem to want to take down this law.

Gerry Paille,a member of the North Peace Rod and Gun Club, said that this law is a reversal of an earlier promise from the Ministry to cut down the harvest numbers for the Guide-Outfitters.

He also stressed that hunting was very important to the Peace Region, which he said had the highest per capita purchase of hunting licences in B.C. "In Region 7D, which covers say Chetwynd, Dawson Creek, north to the Yukon northwest territories border … they sell about 6,000 hunting licences per year," he said. "In Vancouver Island, the whole population only buys 20,000 hunting licences…we know that people come up here and look for jobs up here because of the hunting, and they accept jobs up here because of the hunting."

The local economy also benefits from hunting.

"The amount of fuel and the stuff

bought at stores, the hunters and hunting supplies, and ATVs and trucks and trailors, it all adds up hugely."

These hunters may find a ripe ground for their activities.

"In the North Peace and the northern part of the province in general we have a lot of game inventory" said Schram.

These can range from moose, elk, deer, and grizzly bears.

Already, people like Schram and groups like the North Peace Rod and Gun Club have taken steps locally to try and stop these changes.

Paille said that in mid-December, his group “approve(d) some funding to do some things like public education around what allocation is and how it works.”

They are working on ways to get this position out there publicly, and possibly host a public meeting.

Schram and others have also written letters to North Peace MLA Pat Pimm and South Peace MLA Mike Bernier expressing their distaste for the changes.

“We certainly hope the pressure will have an impact on them,” Schram added.

Andy Waddell of the Dawson Creek Sportsman Club, a similar group in the Mile 0 City, said that a meeting is set to take place at 6 p.m. at the Calvin Kruk Centre for the Arts to discuss the proposed hunting allocation changes.

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Johnny Wakefield

Should communities just shut down when the temperature drops below -30?

Sometimes, when I see a snow plow pass by my apartment and completely block off my drive way with a wall of snow, I think of the tale of Sisyphus.

Sisyphus, you may recall, was the Greek and/or Roman fellow who was doomed for eternity to push a boulder up a hill, only to have it roll back down on him.

The snow is the Sisyphean boulder northerners must bear, the act of clearing it the will of some heinous god that probably sprouted from the head of another god after a wine soaked orgy in Hades.

I will admit fully that I have no idea how the Sisyphus story ends (I think Atlas Shrugs or something.)

But I like to imagine that one day the boulder rolls back down and Sis' is just like, "nah."

We northerners could learn much from this hypothetical Greek legend.

Put down the stone, Peace Country. Accept that while we cannot hibernate, the act of being conscious in -40 is totally insane.

Science Matters David Suzuki

Celebrate the gifts of winter We Canadians have a special relationship with snow and ice. We ski in it, skate on it, play in it, shovel it, drive through it, sometimes even bicycle through it and suffer through it for many months of the year – some of us more than others, depending on what part of the country we call home. But how much do we know about it?

Do Inuit really have dozens of words for snow and ice? Are snowflakes always six-sided? Can two ever be alike? Why is snow white?

Is it a mineral? What makes frozen water so important to us? Some of the answers

are more complicated than you might imagine.

Even though Englishspeaking skiers and snowboarders use multiple adjectives to more accurately describe different types of snow, such as powder, corn and champagne, some say the claim of numerous Inuit words for snow and ice is a myth. But is it?

According to the Canadian Encyclopedia, “the few basic words used by the Inuit to refer to different types of snow or ice do not translate everything they can say about these two natural elements.” In Inuktitut, words consist of a foundational element that provides basic meaning, along with other elements “to clarify and/or modify the basic meaning. New words can therefore easily be created from another term.” For example, the word siku refers to ice in general, and sikuaq (“small ice”) refers to “the first layer of thin ice that forms on puddles in the fall.”

Sikuliaq (“made ice”) refers to “the new ice appearing on the sea or on

Byron Hackett

Suck it up. It’s cold.

Not as cold as some other places— like the North Pole, Antarctica or the northern prairies.

Those places get bone chillingly cold (weeks on end of -45 or worse) and are such, not inhabited by many normal humans.

With that aside, the rest of us need to learn to adapt to cold weather.

It is futile in Canada to suggest that we should not go about our business if it is colder than -30.

We aren’t bears. We can’t spend the majority of a season curled away with our summer spoils thinking bout the next time it will be warm enough to go outside.

In Canada it will get cold. If you didn’t get the memo when you were born (it’s there, check the back of your birth certificate…), then maybe it’s time to do a little reading about the unfortunate climate you have chosen to make a home in.

After all, the original inhabitants of our country had far less means to cope with extreme weather than we have today (no automatic car starters, no battery warming jackets, etc.).

They coped; they adapted.

Now it’s our turn and with modern technology there is no reason you can’t put up a fair fight against Mother Nature— even if it is cold enough your nostrils freeze on the walk from the driveway to the house.

Dress warm and think happy thoughts.

rock surfaces.” Some words also have broader meanings, depending on the context. The word maujaq, for example, means “soft ground”, but when referring to snow, it means “the snow in which one sinks.”

So, “the total number of terms referring to the various aspects of snow and ice goes far beyond ten or a dozen,” allowing Inuit to “draw very subtle distinctions between a very high number of snow or ice types.”

When it accumulates on the ground, snow appears white because, unlike many natural materials, it reflects most light rather than absorbing it, and visible light is white. And although snowflakes form in nearinfinite patterns and shapes depending on temperature, wind, humidity and even pollution, each single crystal is always hexagonal, or six-sided, because of the complex way water molecules bond. When a frozen droplet or crystal falls from a cloud, it grows as it absorbs and freezes water

from the air around it, forming a six-sided prism. The almost infinite variables mean it’s unlikely, although not impossible, for two snowflakes to be exactly alike.

And yes, snow can be classified as a mineral.

According to the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center, “A mineral is a naturally occurring homogeneous solid, inorganically formed, with a definite chemical composition and an ordered atomic arrangement.” Frozen water fits that description.

Snow and ice are important to life on Earth for many reasons. Both are part of the cryosphere, which includes “portions of the earth where water is in solid form, including snow cover, floating ice, glaciers, ice caps, ice sheets, seasonally frozen ground and perennially frozen ground (permafrost),” according to the Snow and Ice Data Center.

It covers 46 million square kilometres of the planet’s surface, mostly in the Northern Hemisphere, and helps regulate the planet’s

surface temperature.

Changes in the cryosphere can affect climate and water availability, with corresponding effects on everything from winter sports to agriculture.

By reflecting 80 to 90 per cent of incoming sunlight back into the atmosphere, snow cover cools the Earth.

Losing that reflective protection, as is happening in the Arctic, upsets the energy balance and accelerates global warming. Snow also insulates parts of the Earth’s surface, holding heat in and keeping moisture from evaporating. When soil freezes, it prevents greenhouse gases like carbon and methane from escaping into the atmosphere. When snow melts, it fills rivers and lakes.

Instead of complaining about the dark and cold of winter, we should celebrate snow and ice. The cryosphere is an important piece of the intricate, interconnected puzzle that keeps us alive. So, build a snowperson, play some hockey, get out on the slopes and enjoy the gifts that winter brings.

Fort St. John rallies behind hurting family Community jumps to support of family who lost their father on New Year's Eve

David Dyck

Staff Writer

A young mother and her newborn baby are experiencing an outpouring of generosity from the Fort St. John community after tragedy struck at the close of 2014.

Carlee Dufour’s boyfriend passed away on New Years Eve, leaving her and her son Lincoln, born on Dec. 16, wondering how they would pay the bills.

The next day her best friend, Clirissa Denis, started a gofundme.com page to collect money to support the family.

“I put a goal of a thousand dollars hoping that we could get her some diapers or we could just have that money for a little bit of a cushion,” said Denis. “As soon as I added it, it went viral. Within probably within an hour of me checking it there was a couple of thousand.”

And it didn’t stop there.

Twenty-four hours later they had raised over $30,000, and that number has jumped to over $38,000 by Sunday afternoon.

“It’s amazing what the community and

people that don’t know me, don’t know Carlee, don’t know her son, her family, are just going above and beyond and being so helpful and so generous,” said Denis, adding that it has gone beyond even just donations, with people donating diapers, a new car seat, and offers to make meals, clean her house, and drop off anything else she might need.

People have even offered to pay for lactation consultants, as she is a new mother.

“Her boyfriend was the main provider of their family and now that he’s gone, she still has hope to make him a college fund, pay all the bills that she was like, ‘What do I do, am I going to be ok?’” said Denis. “Makes you proud to live in Fort St. John, for sure.”

Denis said that they don’t need anything in particular in terms of gifts at the moment, but smaller is better. They extend their gratitude to everyone in Fort St. John who has donated their time and money.

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Winter’s Welcoming Socialite Nothing can bring cheer and life to a brutal winter day like the undulating flight of Black-capped Chickadees to the bird feeding station.

Chickadees are recognizable by their black-capped head, white cheek patches and a triangular black throat patch. They have a short dark bill, short wings and a long tail, greenish-grey body with a white underside shading to light brownish buff along its flanks.

They are also well known for their calls. Chickadees have at least 15 different calls for talking with flock mates and offspring. Their most familiar call for many of us is the familiar “chick-a-dee-dee-dee”. This call is used challenge or scold intruders, and share information about the location of food and predators to members of their flock. Research has found that the number of “dees” may also indicate the level of threat.

As snow blankets the woods, chickadees live in loose flocks of 4 to 12 birds. Each flock consists of mated pairs, plus unrelated juveniles that join from surrounding populations. The flock flits from tree to tree over an area up to 20 hectares (0.2 km2).

Chickadees like dense evergreen groves sheltered from the wind and snow to roost.

Some find a hole where they spend the night, one bird to a hole. Many roost in the top branches of evergreens or low down in bushy young spruces. Flocks may use a favourite roosting spot throughout the winter. These small creatures keep warm by erecting their soft, thick feathers to trap warm air close to their body. On cold winter nights, these birds reduce their body temperature by up to 10-12 °C to conserve energy.

The birds eat plenty of food which is turned into energy. During the short winter day, feeding is speeded up. Food not immediately needed for fuelling activities of moving around and foraging is stored as fat. This fat is used later by the chickadee to survive while sleeping and fasting through the long, cold night.

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Morrison cruises in Calgary Olympic speed skater Denny Morrison posted the top time in the 1500 metre at the Canadian Single Distance Championships on Friday.

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Fort St. John native Denny Morrison was focused on looking ahead leading up to the Canadian Single Distance Championships.

Despite being largely focused on what he needed to do for his 2018 Olympic preparation, the four time Olympic medalist was also looking to earn a spot at the World All Around Championships on his home ice in Calgary in March.

Morrison did just that, posting the top time in the 1500 metre, his primary race. Although he posted the best time among Canadians, Morrison explained in a Speed Skating Canada release after the race that time wouldn’t measure up against the best in the world.

“If this had been a World Cup, my chances of making the podium with that time would have been slim, so I’m kind of disappointed in that respect because I wanted to push myself today,” said the 1,500m bronze medalist at the 2014 Winter Olympics.

“Everyone’s times were a little slower today than they were at the fall trials. It was really tough ice.”

The B.C. Sports Hall of Fame inductee was looking for a time that was closer to his personal best time of 1:42:01, which just happened to come on the same Calgary Oval he skated on Friday.

The 1:46:02 that he skated this weekend was his best 1500m time of the year, topping the fourth place, 1:47:05 he put up in Obihiro, Japan on Nov. 16.

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Fort St. John native Denny Morrison posted his best 1500 metre time this season at the Olympic Oval in Calgary during the Canadian Single Distance Championships on Friday.

glad he got to share the podium with his two training group partners Vincent de Haitre and Ted-Jan Bloemen.

“We are all coached by Bart (Schouten) and we have a strong training group, so we should be able to form a really good team pursuit unit at the world championships and a really strong team at World Single Distance Championships,” Morrison said.

Morrison also raced in the 5000 m on Saturday, an event that he is far from comfortable with but believes helps his training in the long run— he finished 6th with a time of

6:38:80, 13 seconds off the pace set

by Bloemen.

Morrison is still pre qualified for the winter World Cups but his performance on Friday solidified his place at the top. Beyond those races, he is looking to earn a spot at the World Single Distance Championships Feb. 12-15 in Heerenveen, World Sprint Championships Feb. 28-March 1 in Astana, Kazakhstan, and World All Round Championships March 7-8 in Calgary.

Morrison wasn’t the only Peace Region native to have success on Friday, as Braden Clouthier of Dawson Creek also grabbed a third place

finish in the 1500m of the Canada Cup #2 portion of the event with a time of 1:51:91. That time had him just four one hundredths of a second off the leader.

Two other skaters from Dawson Creek also competed in the 1500m at the Canada Cup #2, as Jacob Graham came 13th and Pauline Sutherland came 25th on the women’s side.

The competition runs until Monday with the shorter distances races going on Sunday, and the Mass start for both the Canada Cup #2 and the Canadian Single Distance Championships going Monday.

The Northerner • Friday, January 9, 2015 • 7

Flyers fall in Falher Just three days into the New Year, the same old road woes plagued the Fort St. John Flyers.

What has become the usual road routine for Fort St. John as they arrived in Falher to take on the Pirates with just 11 skaters, momentum never swung in the Flyers favor resulting in a 3-1 loss on Saturday night.

Head coach Gerard Dicaire, who suited up for just the second time to help fill out the roster, said another short bench hurt the Flyers ability to pull ahead at any point in the game.

“We only went with 11 skaters. It was tough sledding,” Dicaire explained. “We didn’t play bad, but we didn’t do a whole pile to help ourselves… It was a good game for what we had. We just can’t expect to win when we keep going on the road with that many guys.”

The game started off sluggish for both sides, there was clearly some holiday rust on the gears and after one period neither team found the back of the net.

When Falher got on the board midway through the second period, the Flyers responded with a Jeff Fast goal that came on a 5 on 3.

Dicaire said with both coming off the break and a

short bench his team tried to simplify the game plan.

“I think we just went in knowing that we were short— play a simple game and for the most part it was. We were tied 1-1, they got ahead 2-1 and we eventually pulled Andersen and they scored an empty netter. We had a couple of chances where it could have went either way but we just came up short,” he said.

Falher added the second marker midway through the third period and despite 10 third period shots, the Flyers couldn’t find the equalizer.

Fort St. John now owns a 2-1 record this season against Falher including a 7-6 shootout victory in the last meeting.

The two teams will square off for the final time on Saturday, January 17 at the North Peace Arena.

Next up for the Flyers is a home contest against the basement dwelling Manning Comets and Dicaire expects his team to return to normal for the final month of the season after a sluggish start to the New Year.

“We’ll just run a couple flow practices here and get the guys legs and wind back and then just move forward. Kind of put that one behind us and chalk it up to Christmas sleepiness.”

File photo Taylor Greatrex takes a shot on net in a Flyers home game earlier this season. The Flyers fell to the Falher Pirates 3-1 to start the new year on Saturday night.

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Dave Landry finishes up shovelling his walk on Saturday afternoon.

Landry, who has been living in the Peace since the '60's, is no stranger to keeping his driveway cleared. He said he has been chipping away at it in sections, rather than letting the snow accumulate.

Dave Buziak snowblows his driveway, and helps his neighbour on Saturday afternoon.

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Framed out twin columns support the roof of the lofty, covered porch. Double doors open into a high-ceilinged entry, naturally illuminated by a wide transom. An art niche is ahead and to the right; an open passageway is ahead and to the left. It leads directly into the bright and spacious great room, where six pie-shaped ceiling sections slope up to one central apex.

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TAYLOR, Gordon R. Jan 1, 1932 - Dec 26, 2014 Gordon Roy Taylor died quietly in RJ Victoria hospital, from COPD and asthma, with Lorena, Guy and Caleen at his side on December 26th, 2014 at age 82. He retired from organic grain farming on the 2.5 sections of land he homesteaded at Buick Creek, 50 miles north of Fort St. John. Clover and ploughing was his method, as he called chemical fertilization "mining". His custom thrashing and combining skills were later used at the Saanich Historical Artifacts Society, where he also demonstrated log cutting on his homemade wooden sawmill.

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Born January 29, 1922 at home in Fort Qu’Appelle, Saskatchewan. Died in Penticton, B.C. December 29, 2014. Don married his devoted wife, Doreen Verner on August 27, 1943 and they spent the next 71 years together. Don and Doreen farmed in the Invercauld district until November of 1957 when they moved to Fort St. John, B.C. They never forgot their friends and family in Saskatchewan and returned every summer for visits. They built a new life in Fort St. John and made many friends and had many good times. In October of 2012 they moved to Penticton to be closer to family. Don was predeceased by one brother Gordon, two sisters Edna and Jean, son-in-law Mel and grandson Donald. He is survived by five children: Ken (Marilyn), Shirley (Jack), Janice (Stan), Donna and Glen (Karen), as well as many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

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WEEKLY PRO RACING UPDATE Postseason Racing News, Stats & Trivia

All-Time Top Driver’s Bio

This Week’s Racing News

NASCAR officials, drivers and other members of the sport will gather together in Charlotte on January 30th to induct 5 more legends into the Hall of Fame for the 6th year in a row. This year’s honored drivers include Bill Elliott, who’s 37-year career included 44 wins and 55 poles, and a record 16 wins as the “Most Popular Driver” (bested only

by Dale Earnhardt Jr). Bill is joined this year by Fred Lorezen, Rex White, Wendell Scott and Joe Weatherly. Lorezen earned the nicknames “Fearless Freddie,” “The Golden Boy,” and “The Elmhurst Express,” during his 1956-1972 career; winning 26 races, and 32 poles in 158 starts. Rex White’s 1956-1964 NASCAR career consisted of races on short-tracks, with only 2 wins, yet he managed to finish among the top 5 drivers nearly 50% of the time. Wendell Scott wasn’t the first African-American to compete in NASCAR’s premier division, but he was the first to become a full-time competitor. Joe Weatherly, known as the “Clown Prince of Stock Car Racing,” claimed 2 championships (1962-63) and 25 races in NASCAR’s premier series (the only 2 years he competed in the series full-time).

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How many times did Darrell Waltrip win the Daytona 500? a) 0 b) 1

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Born: Feb. 5, 1947 Cup wins: 84 Cup top-tens: 390 Cup championships: 3 Darrell Waltrip is a 3-time NASCAR Cup Series champion, winner of the 1989 Daytona 500, and the first 5-time winner of the Coca-Cola 600 (formerly the World 600), the Series’ longest race (1978, 1979, 1985, 1988, 1989). Waltrip was born in Owensboro, Kentucky, February 5, 1947. Starting his driving career in go-karts at age 12, Waltrip entered his first stock car race just four years later. Waltrip began racing in the NASCAR Cup Series, NASCAR’s top racing series, at age 25. He got his first Cup victory at Nashville International Raceway, May 10, 1975, at age 28, in the Music City 420. Waltrip went on to win 83 more NASCAR Cup Series races during his career. He had 12 wins at Bristol Motor Speedway, seven of which were consecutive wins beginning in 1981, and ending April 1, 1984, (a track and Series’ record for any driver, all time). Waltrip also became the first NASCAR driver to be awarded $10 million in race winnings. He is a 2-time winner of NASCAR’s Most Popular Driver Award, (1989, 1990), was the “American Driver of the Year”, (1979, 1981, 1982), and was named “NASCAR’s Driver of the Decade”.

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PRO GOLF WEEKLY UPDATE

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This Week: The Hyundai Tournament of Champions

The Hyundai Tournament of Champions is the first event of 2015, but the 2015 season actually began in October with the Frys.com Open. The field for this tournament is restricted to Defending: Zach Johnson golfers who won an event on the Tour Winning Score: 19-under par in the previous season. The event was Earnings: $1,140,000 played in Las Vegas, Nevada from the event’s inception in 1953 until 1968. After that, it began a 30-year relationship with La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, California. In 1999, the event was moved to its current location in Hawaii. During his career, Jack Nicklaus won this event a record five times.

Plantation Course at Kapalua Kapalua, Hawaii 7,411 yards, Par 73

Golf TV Schedule

Last Tournament: Day and Tringale win the Shootout

Jason Day and Cameron Tournament Results Tringale survived a final-round 1. Day/Tringale Score: -32 run by the defending champions Earnings: $385,000 to win the Franklin Templeton 2. Kuchar/English Score: -31 Shootout in Naples, Fla. Day and Earnings: $242,500 Tringale shot a 7-under 65 in the better3. Bradley/Villegas Score: -29 ball final round to win the tournament by Earnings: $130,000 one shot. Day and Tringale opened with a 55 on Thursday in the scramble round and shot a 64 on Friday in modified alternate-shot play. Matt Kuchar and Harris English, the 2013 winners, finished second after a 62 in the final round.

Kuchar just missed an eagle chip on No. 17.

Golfing News

PGA Event: Hyundai Tournament of Champions Day Time Network Thu, 1/8 8:00pm-9:30pm GOLF Fri, 1/9 4:30pm-10pm GOLF Sat, 1/10 1pm-7pm GOLF Sun, 1/11 2:30pm-5pm NBC

Bae Sang-moon, a two-time winner on the PGA Tour and world number 84 golfer, must return to Korea by the end of January or he could risk criminal charges as his current permit expires in the coming days, according to his mother. All South Korean men between 18 and 35 must complete two Golf Trivia years of military service, with the country still Which golfer won the most PGA technically at war with North Korea after a Tour events in 2004? peace treaty went unsigned following the 1950-53 Korean War. Sporting success has, a) Vijay Singh c) Phil Mickelson though, enabled some athletes to bypass b) Tiger Woods d) David Duval military service with the government waiving Answer: a) Vijay Singh won 9 tournaments the requirement for any athlete who wins Asian Games gold or an Olympic medal. in the 2004 season.

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Lessons from the Golf Pro The preparation before you play any round of golf, whether it be for recreation or in a competitive sense, is vital to determining how you will play. With that in mind, here are a few tips you can use to your advantage to get the best score possible. The first tip is to get to the actual golf course well before you are set to tee off. Showing up five minutes before your round begins is asking for a disaster. Get to know the course in terms of yardage and layout when you first arrive. Then, it is always a good idea to get a feel for the greens by doing some simple putting exercises. Before you take your game to the range, always do some light stretching to get your flexibility in line. After taking it to the range, come back to the green and hit a few chips and practice your bunker shots.

Player Profile

Jason Day

Turned Professional: 2006 FedEx Cup Ranking: n/a World Ranking: 8th PGA Tour Wins: 2

FedEx Cup Standings Through Jan. 4, 2015

1) Robert Streb 681 pts. / 3 top tens

2) Sang-Moon Bae 605 pts. / 2 top tens

3) Ben Martin 574 pts. / 1 top tens

4) Bubba Watson 550 pts. / 1 top tens

5) Ryan Moore 541 pts. / 1 top tens

FedEx Cup Standings continued...

Player Points 6) Charley Hoffman 519 7) Shawn Stefani 368 8) Tim Clark 366 9) Brendon de Jonge 363 10) Kevin Streelman 356

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