Tony Stewart, who has been a Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series racer as well as the winner of NASCAR Sprint Cup championship twice and Lewis Hamilton, who is a well known Formula Champion will be swapping their cars for the race at Watkins Glen International. The Mobil 1 Car exchange will happen on the 14th of June at the famous road course in Finger Lakes area of New York. Lewis Hamilton will be taking laps in Tony Stewart’s ride-No. 14 Chevrolet while Tony Stewart will be in the cockpit of McLaren Mercedes MP4-23. Lewis Hamilton stated that he was extremely excited to swap the rides and hopes that they will be able to put up a good show. This will be Lewis Hamilton’s first venture in a stock car. He also said that the racer’s circuit will give both the riders an opportunity to understand and feel the difference in the 2 styles at this legendary track.

Both the players will be driving at the Glen course which is about 3.4 miles and includes 11 turns. NASCAR makes use of a 2.4 mile short course which does not comprise of the famous boot section. However Tony Stewart, who has had five Cup wins at Watkins Glen, has already driven it in Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series race. Tony Stewart stated that at this point of time in his career he needs challenges and experiences to make things more interesting. He considers his swap with Lewis Hamilton a very good opportunity to test himself as a driver. The IndyCar series title winner also stated that he has a lot of respect for what Lewis Hamilton and other F1 drivers do. He expressed his excitement on experiencing a drive in the cockpit of an F1 car.

Watkins Glen became famous when it hosted the United States Grand Prix from the year 1961 to 1980. It has also been a home to the NASCAR Sprint Cup races since the year 1986.

This season will mark the 50th centenary of Glen’s inaugural F1 race. The details of the number of laps Lewis Hamilton and Tony Stewart will make are still being decided. They will be following Juan Pablo Montoya and Jeff Gordon’s lead who also swapped their riders in the year 2003 at Indianapolis when Juan Pablo Montoya drove in F1. Both the riders are very competent and hope to adapt to this change and get comfortable with each other’s rides before the championship takes place. Lewis Hamilton currently drives for the Mc Laren team whereas Tony Stewart rides No. 14 Office Depot/Mobil 1/Burger KingChevrolet Impala for his own Stewart Haas Racing  under his crew chief Darian Grubb. The race is surely going to be an interesting one as the audience will watch two well known riders switch places and experience the best of both worlds.

Hannah Sue Burnett, who is a native of the Shelby County will be back for another stint at the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event that will commence on Thursday. The Rolex event is an equestrian competition that equals the level of the Olympics. It draws about 50,000 to 100,000 spectators from all over the world. Also they boast of an elite roster of riders who have participated in the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games in Lexington that took place last year. Many players wait for this Equestrian event every season and Hannah Sue Burnett is amongst them. In the year 2007, at the age of 20 she completed her 1st four star Rolex event. Afterwards she went on and rode for Team O’Connor which was headed by Karen and David O’Connor who have been Olympic riders. She has been working for the O’Connor team for last 3 years. Hannah Sue Burnett is very thrilled as the Rolex event is going to take place in her home town.

She accepted the fact that there is a lot of pressure to do well as this is going to be her second try at the Rolex event. She said that the first time she went for the event it was just to get the feel of the event and know how things work. Her main aim last year was to complete and this year it’s to compete. Hannah Sue Burnett’s 16 year old mount, Keep the Faith, who had accompanied his rider to some of the most important competitions has now retired. Now she will have a Washington-bred Thoroughbred named St. Barths as her mount for the upcoming event. St. Barths aka “Nike” will be debuting in the forthcoming event. According to his rider he is a very fast thinking horse and swift as well, Hannah Sue Burnett is very confident about him and hopes that they will do well.

Last fall she, along with her mount Nike won the Dansko Fair Hill International Three-Day Event scheduled in Maryland. She performed exceptionally well in the three star championship where she thwarted the attempts of riders like Phillip Dutton who has won gold in Olympics. Now the 24 year old rider will have to perform in front of the home crowd which is going to be tough. Among other riders for the event is Australian Clayton Fredericks who was the winner of the Rolex Kentucky three day event in the year 2007. That year second place went to Phillip Dutton and third place went to Karen O’Connor. All the three riders are now back to win the title. Last time Hannah Sue Burnett’s dressage score was 59. However it was followed by a slip up in the second phase of the competition at a cross country fence. While tackling she knocked down a few rails. She went onto finish on the 23rd spot. This year she hopes that she will do much better than last year with her young and energetic “Nike”.

Rolex ranks the ace golfer Michelle Wie at the eighth title of the LPGA golf tournament amongst top ten golfers this week only. The next Rolex LPGA tour will be held in Singapore for the Women’s Championship in association with HSBC sponsored by Rolex. Yani Tseng came out with flying colors in the Australian Open, Ladies European Tour, Taiwan Tournament as well as the prestigious Australian Ladies match which makes up to each of the four events this year in 2011, amongst each of the Rolex supported events.

Hawaii born Michelle Wie has remarkable victories during her amateur tournaments that include the 64 at the LPGA Tour, Ladies European Tour – 1, LPGA of Korea Tour- 1, Japan Golf Tour-2, Asian Tour-1,and maintaining the same record at the Canadian Tour- as well as the event of the Nationwide Tour. Michelle Wie has had the most triumphant moments of professional victories at the Lorena Ochoa Invitational during November 15, 2009 and won by 2 strokes scoring -13 par with 70-66-70-69=275 ahead of Paula Creamer. Subsequently in Aug 2010 at CN Canadian Women’s open by scoring 65-69-72-70-276 by the margin of 3 strokes of victory leaving behind the runner-ups namely, Kristy McPherson, Suzann Peterson, Jee Young Lee and Jiyai Shin.

Rolex ranks the golfers according to the grade of their performance of two years in the past on the World’s Major and Largest Women’s Tour, which intensifies and strengthens the forthcoming weeks of the tournament as they are subjected to the performance on every tournament. The most talented top-ranked golfer Yani Tseng would be playing end-to-end in a host of golf events, which are inclusive of LET event based in Australia, ANZ RACV Ladies Masters event, and Singapore and Thailand based event for the LPGA Tour seasons.

The list of Top ten golf Women’s champions includes the likes of the best Golf Women’s Champions. The highest ranked Yani Tseng from Taiwan won the prestigious first title with the score 54 602.78 11.16, Jiyai Shin scored second with 59 583.22 9.89, third rank title won by Suzann Petersen with the  score: 42 390.45 9.30. Na Yeon Choi+1 has best scored with the fourth title as: 53 487.14 9.19 while Christie Kerr ranking fifth with the score 46 422.12 9.18, holding the sixth position is Ai Miyazato has scored 55 476.00 8.65. The skillful champ I.K. Kim with 49 370.61 7.56  on the seventh rank followed by Michelle Wie ranking eight with  the magical score that brought her back in top ten i.e. 41 284.98 6.95. Riding high with success on the ninth title is Sun Ju Ahn, the golf champ scored very well with 45 300.33 6.67 and the proud winner completing the ten ranks is Paula Creamer who bagged the tenth title of Rolex Women’s World Golf Tournament.

The Rolex sponsored HSBC Women’s Championship will be held in Singapore from February 24th to 27th. Dubbed as Asia’s major event The Tanah Merah Country Club being the venue will see some of the world’s best golfers competing. Here in Singapore, Asian women Golfers are making a mark in this global sport. The latest Rolex Rankings state that that about seven out of ten golfers hail from Asia. Based on these impressive statistics, Singapore looks at playing an instrumental role in the women’s golf scene and the upcoming HSBC Women’s Champions golf tournament. Here Singaporean golfers have a chance to play with the pros of this sport. With qualifiers on the January 27th, thirteen golfers are participating to get a spot in the final event.

Singapore has been promoting golfing and feels that such exposure is a platform for women golfers to show their skills and also to compete with the best. The country is also ensuring that women golfers compete in more domestic or regional events. More steps are being taken by the Singapore Golf Association along with Singapore Ladies Golf Association to help improve golfing standards among women. The president of Singapore Ladies Golf Association, Lam Lian Suan said that given the right training and opportunities Singaporean women shall excel in such events. She also stated that more than one third of participants were Asians.

One of the youngest players, eleven-year-old Amanda Tan feels that her young age won’t really matter. She’s being playing golf for six years and for her this is neither an advantage nor a disadvantage. It is also confirmed that defending champion, Japan’s Ai Miyazato will be returning to defend her title. Golfing superstars like Shin Jiyai, Michelle Wie and Paula Creamer are expected to challenge for top honors in the tournament.

The Rolex sponsored HSBC Women’s Championship will see fans catching up with the top women golfers. To promote this event a mobile application was launched in Orchard road. The mobile application is aimed at testing one’s golfing abilities. Since the start of the Rolex sponsored HSBC Women’s Champions competition in 2008, the numbers of spectators have been increasing from 20,000 to 24,000 last year. Considering the growing popularity and event being at the heart of the city, organizers are hoping that soon more spectators would catch the action live.