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November 18, 2003 • Volume 5, No. 99
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Today's News
Events
Arthur Hills / Steve Forrest and Associates, headquartered in Toledo, Ohio, and designers of more than 180 new golf courses in the United States, Europe and Asia, will have two members of their staff speaking at the PGA Show Asia - Trade and Industrial 2003 event in Beijing, China, on November 23. For more...

Mark McGwire, the now-retired Major League Baseball record-setting slugger, topped a field of PGA Tour pros including Greg Norman and Nick Faldo in winning the 12th annual ADT Skills Challenge competition Monday afternoon at the Boca Raton Resort & Club. For more...

Courses
Work had barely been completed on Crystal Mountain's 11 new North Face slopes when the golf and ski resort broke ground last month on its next project, the Water's Edge development, further illustrating Crystal Mountain's forward momentum despite difficult economic times across the state of Michigan and nationwide. For more...

Doral Golf Resort and Spa announces that 166 yards will be strategically added to five of the Blue Monster course's 18 holes by December. The Blue Monster is home to the Ford Championship, a top PGA Tour event. For more...

Tours
The PGA Tour's Champions Tour announces its 2004 tournament schedule, which features 30 official Charles Schwab Cup events and official prize money expected to exceed $52.5 million. For more...

Publications
Clock Tower Press announces the February 2004 publication of "Jimmy Demaret: The Swing's the Thing," a biography of one of golf's most colorful and influential players by John Companiotte. For more...

Players
On the Japan Golf Tour, Kiyoshi Murota won the Mitsui Sumitomo Visa Taiheiyo Masters at the Taiheiyo Country Club, and moved into the World Top 200 at No. 188. Zhang Lian-Wei won the Volvo China Open to move to No. 147 in the Official World Golf Ranking. For more...

People
Callaway Golf Company promotes Ian Davis to the position of Senior Vice President of Manufacturing. Davis has been with the Company since March 2000, most recently as Vice President of Club and Ball Manufacturing. For more...

Marketing
Minor Park GC in Kansas City becomes the 17th Evergreen Alliance managed facility to sign on to use the Cybergolf Broadcast/Email Marketing System to help stay connected to their customers through the easy-to-use e-mail newsletter, web-special and online customer survey creators. For more...

Equipment
South Africa's Trevor Immelman and Rory Sabbatini, both Nike Golf Tour Staffers using Nike Ignite drivers, Forged Irons and golf balls, took golf's 50th World Cup by storm last weekend at the Kiawah Island Resort in Kiawah, S.C. For more...
Briefly
All the great moments from the 2003 European Tour season are captured in "The 16th European Tour Yearbook," available at selected Book Stores from early December. ...

The year's final PGA Tour Auction on eBay begins today with a variety of authentic PGA Tour merchandise available, including a limited number of U.S. team shirts and other items from The Presidents Cup, which is being held this week in George, South Africa. ...

Huffy Corporation renews a partnership with New Hampshire based Dennco Inc., enabling Dennco to design, manufacture, market and distribute an array of RAM branded golf accessories in North America. ...

Nickent Golf receives the "Seal of Excellence" by Golf Test USA for its line of Fairway Woods, Irons and the newly launched Genex 3DX Ironwoods.

TEE BOX: Week of November 20-23
PGA TOUR/SUNSHINE TOUR
Presidents Cup
Dates: Nov. 20-23
Site: George, South Africa
Course: The Links at Fancourt (par 73, 7,508 yards)
Purse: None.
Television: TNT (Thurs., 1-6 p.m., Fri., 8 a.m.-6 p.m.), NBC (Sat.-Sun., 12-6 p.m.)
Internet: presidentscup.com, www.pgatour.com, Sunshine Tour
Defending Champion: United States 21 1/2, International 10 1/2 in 2000.

LPGA TOUR
ADT Championship
Dates: Nov. 20-23
Site: West Palm Beach, Fla.
Course: Trump International (par 72, 6,485 yards)
Purse: $1 million. Winner's Share: $215,000.
Television: ESPN (Thurs.-Fri., 3-5 p.m.), ESPN2 (Sat., 3:30-5:30 p.m.), ABC (Sun., 1:30-3:30 p.m.)
Internet: www.lpga.com
2002 Champion: Annika Sorenstam (67-70-70-68--275, 13 under)

OTHER TOURNAMENTS

PGA Tour: Qualifying School, Stage Two, Nov. 19-22, Deerwood GC, Kingwood, Texas; World Golf Village (King & Bear), St. Augustine, Fla.; Black Horse Course, Seaside, Calif.

Champions Tour: Qualifying School, Final Stage, Nov. 18-21, TPC at Eagle Trace, Coral Springs, Fla.

European Seniors Tour: Qualifying School, Stage One, Nov. 20-21, Le Meridien Penina Resort, Algarve, Portugal.

Japan PGA Tour: Dunlop Phoenix, Nov. 20-23, Phoenix GC, Kagosima, Japan.

Asian PGA Tour: Acer Taiwan Open, Nov. 20-23, Sunrise G&CC, Tao Yuan, Taiwan.

Tour de las Americas: Open de Medellin Ola, Nov. 20-23, Club Campestre, Medellin, Colombia.

Japan LPGA Tour: Daio Paper Elleair Open, Nov. 21-23, Ellair GC, Ehime, Japan.

Reader's Forum
Teen-age phenom Michelle Wie was just given a sponsors exemption to play in the Sony Open in Hawaii in January. PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem says that women playing in PGA Tour events is not going to become a trend. What do you think?

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