CHESAPEAKE Golfers who are headed to the Battlefield Golf Club will notice a change: warning signs. The fly ash-sculpted Battlefield Golf Club at Centerville will remain in operation for up to another year while the city continues negotiations with Dominion Virginia Power and the club owners, MJM Golf, the City Council decided Tuesday night.

By Doug Ferguson HONOLULU Johnson Wagner was bursting with so much excitement about his game at the start of the year that his father jokingly asked if he was on speed. It was just confidence, the most powerful drug in golf.

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The Kingsmill Classic is set to be played at the River Course from Sept. 6-9, according to the schedule released by the LPGA on Tuesday night. In 2013, it will return to the traditional early May date, according to the LPGA.

PORTSMOUTH
Stay awhile. Linger a bit. Bide a wee.
The colorful name adorning the municipal golf course has its roots in Scotland. It was there, the story goes, that a young boy started to run away from home.
His mother intervened.
"You had better bide-a-wee," she told him.

NORFOLK The city has submitted a plan for repairing waterfront sections of its Lambert's Point Golf Club on the Elizabeth River that tore open after Hurricane Irene and exposed trash buried beneath the site in an old landfill.

VIRGINIA BEACH Ellen Port celebrated milestones in her life and her sport this week. On Wednesday, the high school teacher and coach from St. Louis turned 50. On Thursday at Bayville Golf Club, she made U.S. Golf Association history by becoming the first player to win the U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur four times. Port beat Martha Leach, 49, of Hebron, Ky., 2 and 1, in the match- play final.

VIRGINIA BEACH Three-time champion Ellen Port celebrated her 50th birthday with two convincing victories Wednesday to reach the semifinals at the U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur Championship at Bayville Golf Club. Port's 7-and-5 quarterfinal victory over medalist Brenda Pictor secured her first Women's Mid-Amateur semifinal berth since 2007.

VIRGINIA BEACH The flags of six nations flew over the Bayville Golf Club on Thursday afternoon. United States Golf Association signs directed people here and there. A small army of volunteers rushed around, attending to every last championship-level detail.

HOT SPRINGS First-round leader Skip Zobel of Virginia Beach ballooned to a 78 on Tuesday, but still advanced to the match-play portion of the VSGA Senior Amateur. The tournament is being held at The Homestead's Cascades and Old courses. Zobel, who opened with a 67, tied for 10th at 145 in qualifying.

HOT SPRINGS Virginia Beach's Skip Zobel shot 5-under-par 67 to lead the first day of stroke play qualifying at the Virginia Senior Amateur at The Homestead's Old Course and Cascades Course. The 56-year-old Zobel, a former commanding officer of Naval Air Station Oceana, had six birdies and one bogey Monday on the Old Course.