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KAPALUA, Hawaii - Hunter Mahan is a Californian and predictable when it comes to his PGA Tour schedule on the West Coast. He has played Torrey Pines, Pebble Beach and Riviera every year dating to 2007, a streak that probably will end.Mahans wife, Kandi, is expecting their second child in the middle of that stretch. He knew he could count on the Hyundai Tournament of Champions at Kapalua. After that, its up in the air. His plan is to not have one.Im just going to play my schedule and make adjustments from there, Mahan said. Its too hard to figure out.He is scheduled to play the Phoenix Open, Farmers Insurance Open, AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am and the Northern Trust Open. He is not expecting to play them all.Whenever the baby falls is where hes going to fall, Mahan said.Give him a choice, and the one tournament he would hate to miss is Riviera.I love that place. I love that golf course, Mahan said. Its the end of a four-week stretch. Its the one tournament I want to be in good shape. I enjoy it and really want to win there.But baby comes first. Remember, Mahan was leading the Canadian Open when he left after 36 holes because his wife went into labour.___POINT TAKEN: As more players join the PGA Tour, the gap in the ranking points swings even more toward America.The average points awarded to PGA Tour winners in 2014 was 56.42, compared with 42.13 for winners on the European Tour. That includes the four majors, where the winners automatically get 100 points, and the four World Golf Championships, which averaged 73 points for the winner. Remove those eight events from the equation and the average PGA Tour winner received 49.54 points, compared with 32.54 points in Europe.The PGA Tour points were a slight increase from 2013, while Europe had a slight decrease.Throw out the BMW PGA Championship, the flagship event in Europe which is guaranteed 64 points to the winner, and four final events in the Race to Dubai, and the Scottish Open had the strongest field for a regular European Tour event. It offered 52 points.The PGA Tour had eight regular events that offered 52 points or more. The strongest field for a regular event was the Memorial with 64 points to the winner.As for the playoffs.The four FedEx Cup playoff events offered an average of 67.5 points to the winner. The Final Series in the Race to Dubai offered an average of 54.5 points, and that includes the HSBC Champions, a WGC event.___GWAA AWARDS: Rory McIlroy and Bernhard Langer were runaway winners as the top male and senior player of the year by the Golf Writers Association of America. Stacy Lewis won a tighter race in a more crowded field of contestants for female player of the year.McIlroy received 94 per cent of the vote after a year in which he returned to No. 1 with emphasis by capturing two majors at the British Open and PGA Championship, a World Golf Championship and the European Tour flagship event at Wentworth. Its the second time in three years he has won the GWAA award.This award is testimony to my best year as a professional golfer and something I can aim toward winning again as I go into next season, he said.Langer received 90 per cent of the vote as the senior player of the year. He had five wins, two majors and captured the Schwab Cup at age 57.Lewis swept the biggest awards on the LPGA Tour — the money title, Vare Trophy for lowest scoring average and points-based player of the year. She received 57 per cent of the GWAA voting over Lydia Ko and U.S. Womens Open champion Michelle Wie.They will be honoured at the GWAA Annual Awards Dinner on April 8 in Augusta, Georgia.___BAES DILEMMA: Bae Sang-Moon smiled as he loaded his golf bag onto a cart at Kapalua on Tuesday.I make big news, huh? he said.Bae might be making more headlines now than when he won the Frys.com Open in October to start the 2014-15 season. According to the Yonhap News Agency, the South Korean faces military conscription after being denied an extension on his overseas travel permit.Bae said he has hired a legal firm to help him sort out the matter with South Korean government, which has to do with how much time he spent at home while being granted an overseas travel permit. He has been in Honolulu over the holidays and practicing at Waialae Country Club. Bae said he does not expect his PGA Tour schedule to be interrupted early in the season and that he has no immediate plans to return to South Korea.But he smiled again when reminded that getting back to South Korea at the end of the PGA Tour is the ultimate goal. The Presidents Cup is going to South Korea for the first time, and there currently are no South Koreans on the International team. Bae is the highest-ranked player from Korea.___WALKERS AFFINITY: Jimmy Walker was born in Oklahoma and raised in Texas. But his favourite courses are far from home.Two of his three victories last year were in California — CordeValle for the Frys.com Open and Pebble Beach. Walker says Pebble Beach and Riviera are two his most favourite courses of the year.He just doesnt know why.Its so different from what Im used to, he said. You get out there, and youre in a different world. Youre out on the beach. Riviera is my favourite tournament of the year. The golf course is so good. And I dont mind poa greens. It kills some guys. But the ball rolls true if you hit it where youre supposed to.___DIVOTS: Hideki Matsuyama, the 22-year-old Japanese star who already has six wins worldwide, has signed with IMG. ... The Westgate Las Vegas Sports Book has Rory McIlroy has the 6-1 favourite to win the Masters, followed by Tiger Woods at 12-1. More interesting are the odds to win multiple majors. Odds are 11-4 that Woods will win one major, 20-1 to win two majors, 100-1 to win three and 250-1 to win them all. Odds are 8-5 for McIlroy to win one major this year, 11-2 to win two, 25-1 to win three and 80-1 to win a calendar Grand Slam. ... Six players at the Hyundai Tournament of Champions are not eligible for the Masters yet — Scott Stallings, Matt Every, Steven Bowditch, Matt Jones, Chesson Hadley and Nick Taylor. Hadley and Taylor won opposite-field events. The other won their PGA Tour events prior to Masters and played Augusta National last year.___STAT OF THE WEEK: Five players from the top 10 in the world ranking did not win on the PGA Tour last year.___FINAL WORD: Why cant it be both? — David Duval, when asked if his priority in 2015 would be his golf or his new role with Golf Channel. Zach LaVine Jersey . -- D.A. Points was disqualified Friday from the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am for using a training device while waiting to play the 18th hole at Pebble Beach. Custom Chicago Bulls Jerseys . Nikolai Khabibulin was yanked in the second period, and the Ottawa Senators looked ready to put away a big road win. http://www.authenticbullsauthority.com/c...ls-jersey-c-23/. There are some early surprises in the race for the Hart Trophy, but two of the contenders are the leagues biggest stars over the past decade. 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Juan Francisco and Colby Rasmus both went deep for the Blue Jays, who are second in the American League with 34 home runs on the season.KELOWNA, B.C. -- Marek Tvrdon scored twice and Jordon Cooke made 29 saves as the Kelowna Rockets downed the visiting Tri-City Americans 4-1 on Friday to advance in the Western Hockey League playoffs. Rourke Chartier and Carter Rigby also scored for the Rockets, who took the first-round series 4-1, and Nick Merkley had two assists. Parker Bowles scored the lone goal for the Americans while Eric Comrie turned away 34-of-38 shots in a losing cause. Kelowna must wait for the series between Everett and Seattle to wrap up before knowing who its next opponent is. --- WHEAT KINGS 5 PATS 1 BRANDON -- John Quenneville scored once and set up two more as the Wheat Kings toppled Regina to sweep their first-round series. 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