The Putting Arc, this past week, had 28 top ten or better finishes on the various tours made up of 2 wins, 3 seconds and 23 top tens.

Golf is free for one week at Old Channel Trail Golf Course during the fall Membership drive. From September 19-25, 2004, golfers pay no greens fees to play the course.

Circling Raven Golf Club and Coeur d'Alene Casino Resort Hotel announces it has appointed Tammie J. Woster as Food and Beverage Manager.

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The HoleView is selected to produce the hole-by-hole Spectator Guide that will be distributed at the Valero Texas Open, September 13-19, 2004, at LaCantera Golf Club, in San Antonio, Texas.

Editor's Note: Following are the transcripts of Ryder Cup captains Hal Sutton and Bernhard Langer's Wednesday interview session, courtesy of ASAP Sports. Due to the transcripts' length, the content has been linked to separate locations after the opening paragraphs.


JULIUS MASON [Moderator]: Hal Sutton, ladies and gentlemen, joining us. Hal, I think you may get some questions about what you're looking at in front of you here but maybe some opening thoughts is we'll go to Q&A.

HAL SUTTON: We're ready. Are y'all ready? I'm excited. The team is ready. The team is excited. It's been calculated what we've done. There's been a plan to it, I know maybe y'all haven't seen the plan but we've seen the plan. Everybody's excited about tomorrow.

Q. Just talk about that first group off tomorrow morning, it's got some pretty serious star power, you ought to be able to squeeze a few birdies out of your two, I would think?

HAL SUTTON: I think so. That was the plan. I told these two guys that I felt like the perception of the world was that the U.S. Team didn't bond and we didn't come together as a team. I said, "I can't think of any other message that we could send any louder than to put the two of you guys out first." Both were committed to it and, you know, I know a few of you guys have been worried about Phil Mickelson, where he's been, what he's been doing, all that sort of stuff. I didn't want to tip any of y'all off. He had some different balls over on the North Course doing some things. Y'all didn't know what we were doing. It's a damn shame we worked that out, isn't it? Confused everybody.

Q. A lot of people would look right at a Tiger/Phil pairing and say that's a lot of eggs in one basket, what would you say to that?

HAL SUTTON: We came here to win. I don't know that we could pair two guys together that were more matched for one another than those two guys.

You know, I realized a year and a half ago whenever the bags came into my office there was four bags sitting there. I said if I pick that bag, 25 percent of the team is going to dislike it and if I pick that one, 25 percent of the team is going to dislike it, all the way down the line. So I said, "I like that bag right there, end of discussion." And that's exactly the way I put these teams together.

So, you know what, I'm either going to get criticized or praised over this. But my pairing is down. I'm proud of it.

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JULIUS MASON: European Ryder Cup Captain Bernhard Langer, ladies and gentlemen.

Bernhard, what's going on?

BERNHARD LANGER: Not much. Been a busy morning. Obviously we just handed in our -- my team, and it looks like we are going to have some very exciting matches here tomorrow morning.

JULIUS MASON: We'll go to Q&A, as you see on the pairing sheet in front of you, the information is embargoed till the opening ceremonies, till it's announced at the opening ceremonies. Thank you all for complying.

Q. Hal Sutton said he wanted his team to make a very fast start and he just picked a pair that he thinks could give it to them, it looks as if you might have felt the same way, wanting a fast start and picking a pair that could give it to you.

BERNHARD LANGER: Of course. I don't think I want to get into a situation where I'm three or four points behind. I want to get out in the lead if possible, and I think I've sent out some very strong pairings, and obviously, it's the same on the other side. They have 12 very strong players and they are going to have strong pairings no matter who they send out together.

Q. You sort of talk about that first pairing, looks like we are going to get this thing off to a pretty rock and rolling start with arguably, well, it's your highest ranked player in the World Ranking with a guy who has been through this more than anybody else versus Phil and Tiger?

BERNHARD LANGER: Yeah, I agree, Phil and Tiger are obviously some of the crowds favorites, no matter where they play. I think I have two very good opponents for them to match up. So it should be a thrilling match and it will be exciting. It will come down to who makes a few putts here and there as it usually does. I think it's a wonderful pairing for the spectators and it's a great way to start off the 35th Ryder Cup Matches.

Q. How much did you try to anticipate what Hal was going to do with his pairings, or were you just putting your guys out the way you wanted them? Or were you thinking and trying to anticipate what Hal would be doing?

BERNHARD LANGER: Well, I had a bit of an idea of what Hal is trying to do and I was right what he's doing. But that really doesn't change my theory too much, either. I had to put out what I believe are the strongest players, even though my 12 guys are all very solid, they are all playing good, so it's difficult to leave anybody out. But I had to put eight guys out there that I felt would get us off to a good start and it looks great on paper to me.

To read the rest of the transcript: http://www.golftransactions.com/langer091704.html