By Emily GoddardLA84 Foundation, the legacy programme of the Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games, has announced it is to provide some $477,814 (£302,688/€384,249) in funding for 15 local community youth sport programmes in its latest round of grants.

volleyball, martial arts, track and field, cross country, canoeing and kayaking, softball, boxing and golf

By Emily GoddardThe Fiji Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee (FASANOC) has launched a lottery project to help raise money to help send the country's athletes to the 2015 Pacific Games in Port Moresby.

for nine nights and spending money, Dell computers, a weekend for two at the Intercontinental Fiji Golf

across a number of sports, including athletics, basketball, bodybuilding, boxing, cricket, football, golf

By Daniel Etchells at Union Street Café in LondonDwight Yorke hopes the newly-launched British Airways Tobago Football Legends Challenge will provide a major boost for the country which has struggled to build upon its first-ever qualification for a FIFA World Cup in 2006.

will come from either Newcastle, Everton, Aston Villa or Leicester.The legends will also compete in a golf

tournament at the Magdalena Grand Beach and Golf Resort on June 19, as a prelude to the launch of the

Dwight Yorke International Golf Tournament in 2016.The Resort is home to Tobago's 18-hole Professional

earlier, which reported that the biggest disparities in prize money were found in football, cricket, golf

Olympic sport status.Four years later, another campaign fell by the wayside when the IOC decided to add golf

By Duncan MackayFlying disc could one day be a Paralympic sport following the decision by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) to recognise the World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF).

recognition granted by the IPC will greatly help with our efforts to grow wheelchair ultimate and disc golf

Disc golf, meanwhile, involves players throwing a disc at a target"WFDF will be creating a WFDF wheelchair

ultimate workgroup and also working with the Professional Disc Golf Association to establish a global

classification regulations to support the further development of wheelchair ultimate and wheelchair disc golf

By Gary AndersonInternational Olympic Committee (IOC) honorary member Sir Tay Wilson of New Zealand has died at the age of 89, it has been announced.

and a life member of the New Zealand Rowing Association.He also had interests in swimming, hockey, golf

By Daniel EtchellsProfessional Golfers' Association (PGA) of America President Ted Bishop has been removed from his role after making "insensitive gender-based statements" about English golfer Ian Poulter through social media.

the enormous responsibility it has to lead this great game and to enrich lives in our society through golf

We must demand of ourselves that we make golf both welcoming and inclusive to all who want to experience

By Nick ButlerUnited States will finish ahead of China once again on the Rio 2016 Olympic medals table, with Russia in third followed by France, Germany and Great Britain, according to a projection by Italian expert Luciano Barra.

year.A further 10 events - women's football, all five tennis events and two apiece in the new sports and golf

will be held in Rio, four more than the 302 held in London due to the presence of the two new sports golf

By Gary AndersonCanadian Linda MacPhail has been newly elected to the Board of the World Squash Federation (WSF) at the governing body's Annual General Meeting in Philadelphia.

two-thirds majority at the IOC Session in Singapore in 2005 and then overlooked for Rio 2016 in favour of golf

By Daniel EtchellsThe Professional Golfers' Association (PGA) of America has responded to the United States' defeat to Europe in last month's Ryder Cup by creating an 11-member task force aimed at returning the team to former glories.

The 41st edition of the event is due to be contested at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minnesota

By Gary AndersonMartin Slumbers will replace Peter Dawson as the Royal & Ancient (R&A) chief executive when he steps down next September, it has been announced. 

alongside Dawson before he hands over the reins.He will also become secretary of the Royal and Ancient Golf

Andrews in Scotland on October 1, 2015.Dawson will have led the R&A - the joint -governing body of golf

worldwide along with the United States Golf Association - and which also organises the Open Champion

years when he stands down next year.Englishman Slumbers, a keen golfer and a member of the Worplesdon Golf

Golf has always been close to my heart and I am very much looking forward to living and working in St

By Gary AndersonA driver used by legendary American golfer Sam Snead to win more than 100 tournaments has failed to sell at an auction in Dallas after the minimum bid of $250,000 (£153,300/€193,000) was not met.

$1 million (£613,000/€772,000).The club is part of a collection of golfing memorabilia belonging to golf

enthusiast Bob Burkett.More than 400 Snead pieces were on auction as part of the Sports Collectibles Golf

three-time major winner Padraig Harrington has expressed his burning desire to take part at Rio 2016 when golf

place.Nick Faldo, who had captained the Europe team which lost to Azinger's men in 2008, said on the Golf

By Emily GoddardThe International Olympic Committee (IOC) has claimed it is "satisfied" with Rio de Janeiro's progress ahead of its hosting of the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games after completing its seventh Coordination Commission visit to the Brazilian city.

presence of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on its venue tour, which included visits to the Olympic golf