A young dog owner from Balsall Common, West Midlands in England, has discovered that her pet dog ate everything she threw to him during games of "fetch. "Eight-year-old Olivia Parkinson was surprised when the vets operated on his dog Barney, to find six golf ball-sized rocks, five large twigs and whole crab apples.

After months of letters back and forth, an insurance company has finally paid out $10,000 to a man who hit a hole-in-one during a golf tournament. Matt Santangelo made the lucky shot during a tournament sponsored by the Main Street Deland Association, for which the prize was $10,000.

A Chinese university is making golf lessons a requirement for its law and business students as preparation for the business world. Xiamen University joins the trend of Chinese schools to provide golf lessons, but unlike others, it will make it a required class.

A diamond, the Lesotho Promise, has been sold for $12. 4 million. The uncut 603-carat white gem weighing 4. 2 oz. was found in Lesotho on August 22. It is described as being "about the size of a golf ball. "The diamond is said to be the 15th largest ever discovered. Experts say it will be cut into one large stone and then several smaller stones.

The world's biggest diamond in 13 years went on sale on Wednesday in the Belgian city of Antwerp. The successful bidder, for the gem that was mined in Lesotho, shall be named by the Antwerp Diamond Centre on Monday. Dubbed "Lesotho Promise," the owners found it hard to give the monetary value of the piece. To get the price of a diamond rock, traders need to know how many cuts can be made out of it. The 605-carat diamond is about a third bigger than the size of a golf ball.