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November 12, 2004 • Volume 6, No. 221
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Today's News
Equipment
GOLF Magazine's November issue putter test find's that Nike's new Blue Chip OZ T100 putter was rated No. 2 overall. For more...

Cleveland Golf announces that 2004 ended as the company's most successful season on the PGA Tour as staff members totaled 17 wins. For more...

Players
The Royal Bank of Scotland Group announces a new program with The First Tee called the RBS Achievers' Award. The RBS Achievers Award recognizes deserving young people who participate in The First Tee program by awarding one male and one female participant each $10,000 to be use toward future education. For more...

Events
The World Golf Hall of Fame in St. Augustine, Fla., will unveil four new exhibits Tuesday, Nov. 16 that recognize the personal and professional achievements of its 2004 inductees -- Isao Aoki, Tom Kite, Charlie Sifford and Marlene Stewart Streit. For more...

Courses
The National Golf Course Owners Association Board of Directors selects Harbour Town Golf Links at The Sea Pines Resort on Hilton Head Island, S.C as the 2005 Jemsek Award recipient. For more...

Accessories
The Bag Boy Company unveils the EZ FOLD 12 three-wheel push cart, which incorporates a patented one-hand folding system for quick and convenient storage. For more...

Briefly
Graphite Design International announces that its shafts were used by an industry-leading 20 PGA Tour players en route to their tournament wins in 2004, and that its YS-6 model was the most-played driver shaft for the second straight year according to the Darrell Survey.

Former U.S. Curtis Cup team member Meriam Bailey Leeke will receive her athletic letter from Northwestern University 47 years attending the university. Leeke will be presented her ‘N' at halftime of the Wildcats' football game on Nov. 20.

For the first time this season, Georgia is the top ranked team in college golf according to the GCAA/Precept Coaches Poll. On the strength of back-to-back victories at the Isleworth Collegiate Invitational and the Carpet Capital Collegiate, the Bulldogs captured 18 first-place votes to move up from third.

Golf & Tennis Pro Shop Inc. announces that the first step in its national expansion of its PGA Tour Superstores began with the signing of its first lease outside the Myrtle Beach, S.C. area in Roswell, Ga.

Circling Raven Golf Club and Coeur d'Alene Casino Resort Hotel in Worley, Idaho announces that sales and marketing director Marcy Morris was named Extraordinary Employee nationwide in a recent issue of Indian Gaming magazine.

Award-winning radio and TV presenter D.J. Spoony is the latest to commit to the London Golf Show, April 21-24 at the ExCel Centre in London.

The Phoenix Golf & Tennis Show will be held Nov. 13-14 at the indoor Rawhide Sports Pavilion in north Scottsdale, and will feature over 100 exhibitors.

Former Miami Dolphin head coach Don Shula will appear on USA Network's PGA Tour Sunday at 11 a.m. ET, live from the World Golf Village in St. Augustine, Fla.

No Casual Friday for this week.

Reader's Forum
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