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Kauai's Poipu Bay Golf Course To Host 2003, '04 PGA Grand Slam Of Golf; Dates This Year Moved To Dec. 4-6, 2003 Contact Julius Mason PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (March 18, 2003) - The PGA Grand Slam of Golf, the season-ending showcase of golf's major champions, will return to Poipu Bay Golf Course and Hyatt Regency Kauai Resort & Spa, in 2003 and 2004. The 2003 event will be contested Dec. 4-6, 2003. The event was originally scheduled Dec.15-17, 2003. In 2003, Poipu Bay Golf Course and the Hyatt Regency Kauai Resort & Spa will mark their 10th consecutive year that they will have hosted the winners of the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open and PGA Championship. The two-day, 36-hole event features a $1,000,000 purse. Last year's PGA Grand Slam of Golf saw Tiger Woods capture the annual showdown of major champions for a fifth straight time with a tournament and course-record of 11-under-par 61. He finished with a record 17-under-par 127 to win by 14 strokes over Justin Leonard and David Love III. PGA Champion Rich Been finished fourth. The PGA Grand Slam of Golf -which has the most difficult qualification in the game-is televised to some 86.7 million U.S. homes by TNT Network, and to more than 100 countries worldwide. |