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Winger Antonio Winterstein has failed to prove his fitness for North Queenslands NRL preliminary final against Cronulla on Friday night.However, boom teenager Kalyn Ponga remained on standby for veteran centre Kane Linnett when the Cowboys flew out for Sydney on Wednesday.Cowboys assistant Todd Payten ran a line through Wintersteins name as a rowdy North Queensland contingent bid farewell to their beloved NRL club at Townsville airport.He wont be training with us, no, Payten said of Wintersteins plight.The winger was not named for the Sharks clash but had been hoping to battle back from a rib complaint that forced him to miss last weeks extra-time semi-final win over Brisbane.Javid Bowen will now slot onto the wing for Winterstein.But the jury is out on whether Linnett will return from a hamstring complaint that sidelined him for the sudden death semi-final.North Queensland coach Paul Green described Linnett as likely to play the grand final qualifier in a reshuffled backline.Cowboys under 20s star Ponga still flew out with the team on Wednesday.Kalyn is coming down as cover for Kane, Payten said.The coaches believe its also a good experience for Kalyn to see how we do things travelling away and being in the finals system.But we expect him to run out for the 20s.Cowboys coach Paul Green said Linnett will be given every chance to take the field against the Sharks.Hes worked hard doing everything he can around the clock to get back in, Green said.He (Ponga) didnt let anyone down last week, he did a good job on his debut.(But) he is there as back-up.The Cowboys under 20s play reigning premiers Penrith in their own Friday night preliminary final.Ponga - just 18 - became the sixth player in 30 years to make his NRL debut in a final after being a shock call up for Winterstein against Brisbane.But Ponga belied his age to amass 174m, two tackle busts and a line break, almost scoring with his second touch.He has already earned the next Johnathan Thurston tag.Ponga got the thumbs up from the man himself.Hes obviously got a big future at the club, Cowboys co-captain Thurston said of Ponga.Hes come through the system.Theres a genuine pathway and players can now aspire to follow him.His impressive debut has ensured the Cowboys will begin off-season contract extension talks, despite Pongas current deal not expiring until the end of 2017.Rival NRL clubs as well as rugby union and even the AFLs Brisbane Lions are believed to be ready to pounce.China Shoes Wholesale . 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"I wrote 36 on my sheet at the beginning of the game," the Cincinnati coach said, referring the yard line the ball would need to be snapped from.SPRINGFIELD, N.J. -- Henrik Stenson was baking in the hot sun of Baltusrol, chipping out of the thick grass in the short-game area until the bag of golf balls was nearly empty. One chip dropped into the cup on its last turn.I would have thought thats the perfect way to end, caddie Gareth Lord said to him.Stenson looked over at him with those ice blue eyes, finally cracking the slightest smile, and then he reached over for a fresh bag of balls.Nine days later, nothing has changed.The only difference now from when he last competed at a major is that Stensons name is on the oldest trophy in golf, and he gets to keep that silver claret jug until he returns it at the British Open next July.He is a major champion, fulfilling a boyhood dream. Asked the first drink he poured from the jug, Stenson replied, It was champagne ... and it was champagne ... and it was champagne. He knows how to celebrate.On the golf course, he knows only hard work. That doesnt stop.I think golf is a game youre never going to be finished, Stenson said. Youre never going to get to the point where youre maxed out in your ability and how youre playing, so theres always that strive to become better. I got a little perfectionist in there thats always been pushing me forward, and that can both make me and break me at times, when youre striving to be your best.But no, he added, I dont think Im going to sit back and just say, `OK, that was it. Im finished. If I look at my career, to win a major championship, that was pretty much the only thing I had not managed to achieve, and now I have that. But then at the same time, you can look ahead and try and win another one.The trap facing the 40-year-old Swede is his age.Eight other players did not win their first major until 40 or older, and only two of them won another major. Mark OMeara won the 1998 Masters at 41, and he added the British Open that summer at Royal Birkdale. The other was Old Tom Morris, who won all four of his British Opens in his 40s back in the 1860s.Stenson is a different breed.This is the guy who won the Deutsche Bank Championship in 2013, and two weeks later was so frustrated during a rain-delayed finish at the BMW Championship that he snapped off the head of his driver and then smashed up a locker at Conway Farms.The followingg week at the Tour Championship, he was asked how he could be on top of the world in Boston and lose his mind in Chicago in the span of two weeks.ddddddddddddYou dont have much experience with Swedes, do you? he said.He has a wicked temper and a dry sense of humor, and both can show up without warning. Through it all, there is an endless search to get better.Stenson had to endure two significant slumps in his career, the first one that led him to swing coach Pete Cowen. He doesnt think this is anything special because other players over a course of two decades are certain to go through bad times.Ive shown more than once Im not a quitter, he said.Still to be determined is how the quick turnaround between the final two majors -- 11 days -- affects him. It might be good to tee it up so soon after such a majestic performance at Royal Troon, where he set the major championship record of 264 and needed it to hold off Phil Mickelson.Stenson was so locked in on every shot that only when he was signing his card did he realize he tied Johnny Miller as the only major champions to win with a 63 in the final round.Then again, an extra week to let it soak in might have helped.He was inundated with interviews when he got home to Sweden, though he managed to squeeze in a few days of quiet time with his family before he came over to the PGA Championship. It wont be long after the final major that he heads to Rio de Janeiro for the Olympics.Ive just got to try and get back into my game and pay attention to all the little things thats important to play good golf for me, Stenson said.Exactly how to do it, I havent been in this situation before. But Ive still got to focus on my game. Because if I dont do that, then that little form and that little edge is sure to be disappearing. Its still important to play golf and get the practice done, so thats still my priority.He is not one to get the big head, and it helps that his next major is in New Jersey.On the fourth today, I had this long putt and I left it way short, Stenson said. And someone in the stands shouted, `Does your husband play golf? Shows youre not up there on that pedestal for very long. ' ' '