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| A Look Back: Mar. 25 1934: Horton Smith defeats Craig Wood by one stroke to win the inaugural Augusta National Invitation Tournament, which would become known as the Masters. Host Bobby Jones finishes tied for 13th. 1940: At the rain-shortened Greater Greensboro Open, Ben Hogan defeats Craig Wood by nine strokes. The win is Hogan's second in four days. 1973: Jack Nicklaus defeats Miller Barber to win the Greater New Orleans Open at Lakewood Country Club. 1979: Lanny Wadkins survives to win the Tournament Players Championship. On a day when the field scoring average was 78.46, Wadkins shoots a final-round 72 to win by five shots over Tom Watson. 1990: Robert Gamez holes out for eagle at the par-4 18th hole to win the Nestle Invitational by one stroke over Greg Norman at Bay Hill Club and Lodge in Orlando, Fla. |
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Golf Foundation, the organizers of the LPGA's Safeway Classic Sept. 13-15
at Columbia-Edgewater Country Club, announces it is giving an additional $85,000
to local charities. This supplemental giving is part of $1 million in announced
donations following the cancellation of 2001 event, due to the Sept. 11th tragedy.
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People
Bite Footwear
names Keith Sparks as director of sales. Sparks' focus will be on the Bite
outdoor line, reaching new sales outlets and building relationships with current
retailers.
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The Professional
Clubmakers Society announces that Thomas E. Cook of Minnetonka, Minn.,
has been awarded the PCS International Clubmaker of the Year award for 2002. Cook
owns and operates Pat Ryan Golf in Minnetonka.
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Equipment
PowerBilt,
a division of Hillerich & Bradsby, will now offer its new, orange colored ProPower
shaft, manufactured by AccuFLEX Golf, as an option on its entire Citation line
of drivers and fairway woods.
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According
to the independent Darrell Survey, 83 percent of the players wearing plastic cleats
at The Players Championship wore Softspikes' Black Widow cleats. A total
of 71 players wore Black Widow cleats.
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Colleges
Cal-State Bakersfield
jumped over Florida Southern in the Division II Precept Coaches Poll, garnering
12 of 22 first-place votes. Georgia Tech and Methodist remain first in the Division
I and III rankings, respectively.
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Events
The Golf Coaches
Association of America announces that the 27th annual USA vs. Japan Collegiate
Golf Championship will be played July 15-17 at The Glen Club in Glenview,
Ill. Also, the U.S. men will be coached by University of West Florida coach Steve
Fell, while the women will be led by Michigan State coach Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll.
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Callaway Golf becomes the
title sponsor of the Junior World Golf Championships. The 2002 Callaway
Golf Junior World Golf Championships will be played July 16-19 at seven courses
across San Diego County, marking the event's 35th anniversary.
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Courses
One
week ago Greg Norman hit the first shot on the new Shark's Tooth Golf Club
at Wild Heron in Lake Powell, Fla., to officially open the course. Opening
events, including a media preview, were successful in introducing the new 7,200-yard
track to the public.
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Business
ASGA, Inc.
agrees to sell all of the outstanding common shares of its wholly owned subsidiary,
American Senior Golf Association, Inc., to that company's management in
exchange for assets of $1.6 million on the closing date.
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Technology
Hong Kong-based
ClubVentures offers golf courses an end-to-end Internet solution from web
design, hosting and strategic planning to development of Club Portal sites to
provide golfers information about the course.
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Reader's Forum
LPGA Headed
In Right Direction?
The LPGA Tour recently held a three-day players' summit, in which the LPGA established goals for increased TV viewership and tournament attendance as part of a five-year marketing plan.
In addition, the LPGA wants to become more fan-friendly.
What are the LPGA's main issues? How should it go about addressing those issues? And is the LPGA Tour being realistic in thinking it can raise TV viewership by 10 percent each year and increase tournament attendance by 15 percent each year?
Let us know what you think and send your responses to stuart@gpagolf.com with the subject line RE: LPGA. Also include your first name and last initial.
Last week Reader's Forum asked: Is Tiger Woods as dominant a player as he was two years ago or has his game already peaked at age 26?
M. Frost responsed: "Personally, I believe Tiger has shown the other players on the Tour the benefits of physical conditioning. Physical conditioning is now a "must" if the other players are going to consistently compete with someone who is in excellent physical shape.
"I've read in the past that in the "good 'ol days," the boys used to hit the 19th hole for a few "hits" at the end of a PGA round while Ben Hogan, a tour newcomer, always headed for the practice range to work on solving the problems he had just encountered during the day's round. The "good 'ol boys" made fun of him until he started winning all of the tournaments. Then they started hitting the range rather than the bar after a day's round.
"As with Hogan, Tiger has introduced a new aspect to the game and has thus taken all players to a new level."