FEBRUARY 11 - THE Professional Squash Association has promoted chief operating officer Alex Gough (pictured) to be its new chief executive officer, they have announced.

The other sports seeking election are baseball, golf, karate, roller sports, rugby sevens and softball

  FEBRUARY 5 - THE International Softball Federation (ISF) today opened their first European office, in Lausanne, which will form the hub for the development of the sport in Europe and help establish closer links with the Olympic Movement.

The other sports seeking election are baseball, golf, karate, roller sports, rugby sevens and squash.

  JACK NICKLAUS (pictured) and Annika Sorenstam are to be global ambassadors as golf steps up its campaign

  The International Golf Federation (IGF), who are leading the bid, hope that the backing of two such

Golf has only ever appeared once in the Olympics, at St Louis when the winner of the individual title

it will also do an enormous amount to assist the growth of the game, especially in countries where golf

Previous attempts to get golf into the Games in Atlanta in 1996, Beijing earlier this year and London

  MORE SHADOWS have been cast over the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi by a row involving India's cricket tour to Pakistan and the cancellation of another major international event in the city.

Meanwhile, the Indian Masters, co-sanctioned by The European Tour, the Asian Tour and the Professional Golf

Tour of India (PGTI), which was due to take place at the Delhi Golf Club in February has been cancelled

Mohamed Juma Buamaim, the vice chairman and chief executive of ‘golf in Dubai’, organisers of the Delhi

NOVEMBER 10 - BRITISH CYCLING'S head coach Shane Sutton (pictured) has been named coach of the year at the UK Coaching Awards.

Performance Development Coach of the Year.There was also reward for the dedication and achievements of golf

  OCTOBER 30 - SOFTBALL tonight cut its ties with baseball in a move designed to help it win back its place on the Olympic programme for the 2016 Games.

The others are golf, karate, roller sports, rugby sevens and squash.  

  OCTOBER 15 - GOLF and squash, who both want to be elected onto the Olympic programme for 2016, have

Royal & Ancient chief executive Peter Dawson promised that golf would find a way to ensure that the top

players, such as Tiger Woods, took part in the Olympics if golf was chosen.  

Dawson said: "The game's top administrators and top professional players are uniting behind Olympic golf

"Golf has so many credentials that line up with Olympism.  

"With roughly 60 million people from 120 countries playing, the game of golf is probably the biggest

  SEPTEMBER 19 - NEW ZEALAND captain Richie McCaw (pictured) has thrown his support behind rugby union's efforts to win back its place in the Olympics after a 92-year absence.

That would give it an advantage over golf, one of its main rivals for inclusion, where the leading stars

Rugby and golf are two of the seven sports battling to be admitted to the Games along with baseball and

  SEPTEMBER 19 - NEW ZEALAND captain Richie McCaw (pictured) has thrown his support behind rugby union's efforts to win back its place in the Olympics after a 92-year absence.

That would give it an advantage over golf, one of its main rivals for inclusion, where the leading stars

Rugby and golf are two of the seven sports battling to be admitted to the Games along with baseball and

 MAY 15 - STIRLING UNIVERSITY is to become the centre of a national network supporting Scotland’s top athletes in the build-up to the 2012 Olympics in London and 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

There are currently 51 sports scholars in golf, swimming, tennis and triathlon, with a new scholarship

  DARTS should be an Olympic sport, the 13-time world champion Phil Taylor (pictured) claimed today.

Seven sports - baseball, golf, karate, roller sports, rugby sevens, squash and softball - have been short-listed

discussions with International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge over the possible inclusion of golf

Golf has not been an Olympic sport since 1904, when Canadian George Lyon won the gold medal.  

O'Grady said many of the minor tours the European Tour represents want golf to become an Olympic sport

  LOOMING recession and the meltdown in the money markets has widened the gap between the world's richest and poorest sports despite London hosting the 2012 Olympics and the success of swimmers like Rebecca Adlington (pictured), according to new research released today.

as Formula One's new world champion, counts motor sport, top level football, rugby union, cricket, golf

  BASEBALL is hoping the election of Barack Obama as the United States first black President will help the sport regain its place on the Olympic programme for the 2016 Games.

Obama visits the IOC Session in Copenhagen in October 2009 when the sport is up for election along with golf

 The International Softball Federation (ISF) today announced the creation of a Transition Commission to help accelerate national softball federations’ independence from other sports, including baseball.

The other sports are golf, karate, roller sports, rugby sevens and squash.