The Wire, golf's only daily transaction newsletter
October 27, 2004 • Volume 6, No. 209
a publication of the Golf Press Association




CLASSIFIED ADS

Click here to read the classifieds.

The Wire is now offering classified text advertisements relating to golf services or products.

Please contact Alex Miceli via email at alex@gpagolf.com for prices and more details.


Today's News
Equipment
Harrison continues its company record-breaking 2004 season with tremendous showings at last week's Funai Classic at Disney and Charles Schwab Cup Championship. Both the Striper Tour and Pro 2.5 shaft brands were in play. For more...

United Sports Technologies posted a win for the second consecutive week at the Funai Classic at Disney. For more...

Feel Golf Company grants a license for exclusive Canadian distribution to Brent Sommerville, founder of Feel Golf of Canada. For more...

The U.S. Golf Association lists ProTacTic Golf as a primary supplier of junior golf equipment for its For the Good of the Game grants initiative. For more...

For the second week in a row, True Temper's Dynamic Gold was used by players winning on the PGA, Nationwide and Champions tours. For more...

The two players who tied for second at the Funai Classic at Disney used Graphite Design International shafts in their fairway woods and drivers, while the winner of the 2004 Charles Schawb Cup used GDI's GAT shafts in his irons, according to Darrell Survey. For more...

Nickent successfully defended its No. 1 hybrid ranking on the Nationwide Tour for one straight month with 24 3DX Ironwoods in play at last week's Miccosukee Championship. For more...

Players
Champions Tour rookie and Callaway Golf staff professional Mark McNulty rallied from five strokes back Sunday to win the Charles Schwab Championship, his third win this year and his second in a row while using the HX Tour golf ball and Callaway Golf clubs. For more...

The winner of the Funai Classic at Disney won with a 10-under final round to become the third rookie during 2004 to win using Sonartec fairway woods. For more...

Ryan Palmer, a PGA Tour rookie and full-line Titleist staff professional, fired a final round 10-under par 62 to win the Funai Classic at Disney by three shots over fellow Pro V1x golf ball players Vijay Singh and Briny Baird. For more...

Nike Golf's young tour staff member D.J. Trahan captured his first win on the Nationwide Tour with a two-stroke victory at the Miccosukee Championship this past weekend. For more...

Retail
GolfGM announces that Ash City has joined the GolfGM Vendor Collection. For more...

People
Royal Precision announces the hiring of Mike Biviano of Phoenix, Ariz., as its new manager of tour operations beginning Nov. 8. For more...

Events
The 2004 Executive Women's Golf Association National Conference will be held this weekend at Barton Creek in Austin, Texas. For more...

Briefly
Bill Cunerty of Mission Viejo, Calif., one of the nation's most decorated community college coaches, has been elected the 80th president of the Southern California Golf Association during the SCGA's annual meeting in Universal City, Calif.

The Phoenix Golf and Tennis Show will be held Nov. 13-14 at the indoor Sports Pavilion at Rawhide in north Scottsdale, Ariz.

The World Golf League Inc. announces that it expects to its upcoming reality series, "The WGL Million Dollar Shootout," in place within the next several weeks.

The 10th annual Golf Symposium 2004 will be held Nov. 16 at the Ramada Inn Regency Hyannis, Mass., from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Travel: Deals of the Week
By Judi Janofsky & Rich Steck
wheretogonext.com

Fly To the Hotspots
United Airlines' low-cost airline, Ted, is selling roundtrip tickets between now and November 1 for winter trips from Denver, Chicago and Washington, D.C., to the warmer climates of the southeast and southwest. There are no black-out dates for travel between November 1 and February 16 and prices start at $79 each way. Sample one-way fares on required roundtrip purchases include:

-- $79 Denver - Reno
-- $79 Chicago - Tampa
-- $79 Washington, D.C. - Orlando
-- $89 Denver - New Orleans
-- $99 Washington, D.C. - Las Vegas
-- $99 Denver - Tampa

To book visit www.flyted.com/.

Vacation in the South
Southwest Airlines Vacations is offering low prices on air/hotel packages to three vacation destinations -- Las Vegas, Orlando, and Los Angeles. Reduced package prices are available on bookings made by November 11 from all scheduled Southwest Airlines origins for travel November 8 - January 31. Packages, including roundtrip air via Southwest Airlines and hotel accommodations, start at $109 (two-nights per person, based on double occupancy). To book, visit www.swavacations.com/.

Earn Travel Coupons
Expedia is making booking holiday travel more rewarding with two new holiday promotions. Customers who book and complete air, hotel or vacation package travel on Expedia.com between now and December 31, can earn from $50 to $200 off on vacations taken between January 1 and March 31. Expedia has also teamed up with Snapfish, the online photo service, to offer qualified customers free prints and an easier way to manage travel memories. For more information, as well as booking codes for coupons, visit www.expedia.com/.

Reader's Forum
The end of the PGA Tour is rapidly approaching, which means the Silly Season cannot be too far beind. If you could create an event for the Silly Season, what would it entail?

The Wire wants to know your thoughts. Send comments to info@gpagolf.com with the subject line "Silly Season." Only those responses that include first name, last initial and hometown will be considered. Send responses by 9 a.m. ET on Thursday, Oct. 28. Comments will be published in the Friday, Oct. 29 edition of The Wire.

Send your responses to info@gpagolf.com