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Tournaments
Hootie
Johnson, Chairman of Augusta National Golf Club and the Masters Tournament, announces
that the lifetime exemption for past champions will remain a Masters qualification.
In 2004 the qualification would have changed for a past winner to end his competitive
Masters career at age 65 and having played a minimum of 10 sanctioned events
during the prior year.
For
more...
The
Masters Tournament issues invitations to six players to compete in
next week's event. Tim Clark, Jay Haas, John Huston, Tom Lehman and
Kirk Triplett all finished in the top 50 on the Official World Golf
Ranking to earn their spots in the field, while Chad Campbell qualified
by finishing on the top 10 in the PGA Tour's money list.
For more...
Technology
Five
of seven EagleGreens courses will install ParView's GPS Golf Course Management
System on their cart fleets this spring.
For more...
People
For
2003, CHAMP, a leading manufacturer of golf spikes, hired Arnie
Cunningham as PGA Tour Representative, and it has paid dividends. In the first nine
full-field events in 2003, usage of CHAMP soft golf spikes have increased
320 percent over the same events in 2002.
For more...
Callaway
Golf's Ron Drapeau drew a large crowd of golf aficionados and business
types to this month's TiE San Diego event, where he shared sound
business advice with the audience in the areas of corporate strategy,
organizational management and global distribution.
For more...
Nike
Golf appoints David Pillsbury to U.S. General Manager, effective
immediately. He will oversee the U.S. business for Nike Golf, including
sales, operations, marketing and sports marketing while reporting
directly to company president Bob Wood.
For more...
Golf
shoe maker Cyclonic Inc. adds three new members to the company's
sales force. Jack Adare, territory Texas, Mike
Pottinger, covering
Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma and Steve Peloquin, covering Northern
California are the new representatives.
For more...
Courses
Treetops
Resort, one of the countries premier golf resort destinations is ready
to tee off on the 2003 golf season with several golf package opportunities.
The Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum packages all offer one-night accommodations,
18 holes of golf, and range balls, with prices starting at $69.
For more...
Bolingbrook
Golf Club, the newly opened 7,104-yard championship Arthur Hills
/ Steve Forrest designed course outside of Chicago, receives GOLF
Magazine's Top 10 New Course Honor For 2002.
For
more...
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Players
A
victory at The Players Championship moved Davis Love III into the Official
World Golf Ranking's World No. 3 spot for the first time since the week
of the 1999 PGA Championship, while Phil Mickelson falls out of the World
Top-3 for the first time since December 31, 2000.
For
more...
With
today's announcement by Hootie Johnson, Chairman of Augusta National
Golf Club and The Masters Tournament, that the lifetime exemption
for past champions will remain a Masters qualification, three-time
Masters champion Gary Player issued a statement supporting the decision.
For more...
Events
A
panel representing a broad brush of the golf business will lead a "State
Of The Golf Industry" discussion at the International Network
of Golf Spring Conference June 1-5 at Keystone Resort in Colorado.
For
more...
Equipment
Davis
Love III won The Players Championship title by six shots in poor weather
conditions while using FootJoy Classics Dry Premiere golf shoes and
the FootJoy F3 glove.
For more...
Davis
Love III uses EI-70 and Dynamic Golf shafts from True Temper
Sports in his win at The Players Championship. The victory marks the fourth
consecutive time a PGA Tour event winner has had True Temper shafts
in his bag.
For
more...
Davis
Love III earned his second win of the season at The Players Championship
with the new Titleist Pro V1x golf ball and a full bag of Titleist
equipment. Titleist was also the choice of Patricia Meunier-Lebouc
who played the new Titleist Pro V1 to capture her first LPGA major
championship at the Kraft Nabisco Championship.
For
more...
Drivers
made by Callaway Golf Company were used by two of the three professional
tournament champions last week: Patricia Meunier-Lebouc at the
LPGA Tour's Kraft Nabisco Championship and Brett Wetterich at the
Nationwide Tour's Chitimacha Louisiana Open.
For
more...
Sponsorship
TaylorMade-adidas
Golf will again be the official shirt company of the International
Network of Golf Spring Conference June 1-5 at Keystone Resort in Colorado. This
is the 12th consecutive year that TaylorMade has been a sponsor at the
ING Spring Conference.
For
more...
Associations
The
Independent Women's Forum comes out against Martha Burk's tactics in
her campaign to get a woman admitted to Augusta National.
For
more...
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Briefly
CART-PRO, a division of E-Z Care Products, generates 200 new
accounts from its "We're Convinced" free sample and six-product Power
Pac campaign. ...
The NorCal Long Drive Challenge, to be held at Lockeford
Springs GC in California, will feature a demo day, local media coverage
and a top field of long drive professionals. Sponsorships are still
available. ...
Local qualifying for the 2003 RE/MAX Long Drive Championship has
begun and will continue throughout the spring and summer at more
than 400 sites worldwide, Long Drivers of America announces. ...
Fujikura Composites America, Inc. announces that, according
to the Darrell Survey, they have won the wood shaft brand count for
the 13th consecutive week on the 2003 PGA Tour. ...
Alpha Golf adds select AccuFLEX Golf shafts to the
Alpha Golf custom shaft program. The AccuFLEX Golf ICON, ICON v.2,
Vizion, Assassin 2: World Champion and PRO LD: World Champion shafts
will be immediately available to Alpha Golf's network of dealers
and distributors. ...
The Golfing Machine, an instructional program for golf teaching
professionals, is under new ownership. Danny Elkins and Joe
Daniels, PGA Teaching professionals and Golfing Machine Authorized
Instructors, will lead the organization in its efforts to reignite
its current authorized instructor program and expand its certification
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TEE BOX: Week of April 3 - 6 |
PGA TOUR
BellSouth Classic
Dates: April 3-6
Site: Duluth, Ga.
Course: TPC
at Sugarloaf (par 72, 7,293 yards)
Purse: $4 million. Winner's Share: $720,000.
Television: USA (Thus.-Fri., 4-6 p.m.) NBC (Sat.-Sun., 3-6 p.m.)
Internet: www.pgatour.com
2002 Champion: Retief Goosen (68-66-68-70--272, 16 under)
LPGA TOUR
The Office Depot Hosted by Amy Alcott
Dates: April 4-6
Site: Tarzana, Calif.
Course: El
Caballero Country Club (par 72, 6,394 yards)
Purse: $1.5 million. Winner's Share: $225,000.
Television: ESPN2 (Fri., 3-5 p.m., Sat., 6-8 p.m., Sun., 5-7 p.m.)
Internet: www.lpga.com
2002 Champion: Se Ri Pak (68-68-73--209, 7 under)
OTHER TOURNAMENTS
European Seniors Tour:
Tobago Plantations Seniors Classic, April 3-5, Tobago Plantations Golf & Beach
Resort, Tobago.
Japan PGA
Tour: Token Homemate Cup, April 3-6, Token Tado CC, Mie, Japan.
Davidoff Tour: Thailand
Open, April 3-6, Krisada City Golf Hills, Bangkok, Thailand.
Futures Tour: Tampa Bay's
Next Generation Futures Golf Classic, April 4-6, Rogers Park GC, Tampa,
Fla.
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| Reader's
Forum
It
was recently announced that LPGA Tour Commissioner Ty Votaw and player
Sophie Gustafson were romantically involved. Gustafson is an independent
contractor and Votaw has promised to excuse himself from any decisions
that might impact Gustafson. Should the relationship be a concern to
the LPGA or should the public and players keep out of a private relationship?
Let
us know your opinions by sending your responses by Thursday at
5 p.m. ET with the subject line RE: Relationship. Also include
your first initial and last name, along with your city and
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