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Rickie Fowler Finds A Million Good Reasons To Play At Disney

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Tom Edrington – AHN Sports Reporter

Orlando, FL, United States (AHN) – It’s a long way from Shanghai to Orlando but that won’t stop Rickie Fowler from showing up this week to play in the Children’s Miracle Network Classic at Disney World.

Fowler has one million good reasons to show up when play begins on Thursday and he doesn’t have to win on Sunday.

There’s been a little season-long competition called the Kodak Challenge and someone is going to win $1 million from the company this week at the final PGA Tour event of the year.

There have been 30 holes designated by Kodak at various courses this year and players’ scores are computed from their best 18.

The par four 17th at Disney’s Magnolia course, a 485-yard monster, is the final Kodak Challenge hole.

As it stands today, rookie Troy Merritt is the leader with a 17-under par total.

Fowler and Australian Aaron Baddeley are right behind him at 16-under. Tim Petrovic is at 15-under and Webb Simpson, 14-under.

For Merritt, it is Fowler and Baddeley who are his biggest challengers and of the three, Fowler has been playing the best but he’s going to have some jet lag working against him this week.

Fowler played two weeks ago in Malaysia then hopped over to Shanghai for the HSBC event last week where Francesco Molinari outdueled golf’s new No. 1 player — Lee Westwood and became the first Italian to win a WGC event.

Merritt, like a lot of players in the CMN field, is focused first on keep his tour card. He ranks 121st on the money list. “First and foremost, I want to secure my card. I’m sitting at 121st. I have a nice cusion between myself and 126,” Merritt said.

Still, there is the $1 million for winning the Kodak Challenge and it’s a winner-take-all deal and Merritt has that one stroke advantage.

“I need to go out and just play some solid golf like I have the last month,” he said.

Merritt said that he has been aware of the money, as have the others. “Rickie (Fowler) and I kind of discussed it a little at the Frys,” Merritt revealed.

Three weeks ago Fowler was unsure of his schedule but still felt he’d show up at Disney.

“If I’m close, I think I owe it to Kodak to play,” Fowler said.

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Preschool Activities For Parents – Ways To Help Keep Your Preschooler Active

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What do you do on a rainy day when you can not send your preschool child out side to play?  What you need is preschool activities for parents that will help you engage your child in a way that is interesting to them, but also challenging so that they get a learning experience out it the time that you spend with them.  Putting your child in front of the TV or the play station is not a health activity that is going to teach you preschooler anything of value.

Here are a few preschool activities for parents who need ideas:

1)                  Finger painting.  What isn’t fun about finger painting?  Sure it can be messy, but this requires that you sit with you preschooler and work with them to create a piece of art for your refrigerator. 

2)                  Create a puzzle for you child.  Take out a piece of paper and create a maze or a simple cross-word puzzle that has pictures for clues.

3)                  Play a board game.  A great activity that teaches your preschooler about colors, letters, and how important it is to take turns.

4)                  Play dress-up.  This may be more fun if you have a girl, but boys can get involved.

5)                  Read a book and create an activity off the reading.  The activity can be a make or cross-word puzzle that is tied to the story that you just read to them.

Creativity is the name of the game here.  It is not that hard to come up with preschool activities for parents if you just use a little of your imagination.

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