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| A Look Back: Apr. 2 1925: MacDonald Smith wins the North and South Open with a record 281 total. 1944: Byron Nelson posts a 270 total to win the Knoxville War Bond Tournament by one stroke over Harold "Jug" McSpaden at the Knoxville (Tenn.) Municipal Golf Course. 1973: Chi Chi Rodriguez shoots a final-round 66 to win the Greater Greensboro Open by one stroke over Lou Graham amd Ken Still. 1989: Mike Sullivan wins the Shell Houston Open by one stroke over Craig Stadler. 1995: Davis Love III defeats Mike Heinen in a playoff to win the Freeport-McMoran Classic in New Orleans and to qualify for the following week's Masters. |
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Players
Vijay Singh
moved up two spots to No. 6 in the Official World Golf Rankings after winning
the Shell Houston Open on Sunday. Shell runner-up Darren Clarke moved up to No.
11.
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Tours
April marks the
10-year anniversary of the partnership between the LPGA and the Susan G.
Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, the LPGA's official national charity.
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The United
America Senior Tour will hold its first major championship of 2002, a 54-hole,
two-man Team Championship. The tournament will be played at Ballantrae Golf and
Yacht Club in Port St. Lucie, Fla., April 3-5.
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Events
Jeremy West,
of Abiliene, Texas, was awarded $10,000 after hitting a drive of 283 yards at
the Pinnacle Distance Challenge conducted in Houston, Texas. West won when
Mike Moulton, who consistently hit drives of more than 360 yards, was unable to
keep his four shots in bounds against West.
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Travel
Mount Juliet
Conrad, located in southeast Ireland just 75 miles from Dublin in Thomastown,
Co. Kilkenny, becomes the 14th hotel to join the international luxury portfolio
of Conrad hotels. The 59-room hotel resort features Mount Juliet House, the Hunter's
Yard, the Rose Garden Suites, four conference rooms with 2,800 square feet of
meeting space and a recently developed Mount Juliet Leisure Center and Spa.
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Courses
Cushman & Wakefield
arranged the sale of the Valencia (Calif.) Country Club, which includes
an 18-hole Robert Trent Jones Sr. design, to Heritage Golf Group, a San Diego-based
owner and operator of premier private and daily fee golf facilities. Sale price
was not disclosed.
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The one-year,
$3 million tee and green renovation to Jeffersonville (Pa.) Golf Club,
a 71-year-old Donald Ross designed muncipal course, was completed in time for
the Easter weekend.
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The ACE
Club, a Gary Player signature design golf course and corporate-oriented private
club, is being develped in Lafayette Hill, just outside of Philadelphia. The ACE
Club is scheduled to open in mid-2003.
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Instruction
Natural
Golf Corporation unveils an Indoor Training Package, which includes a new
25-inch single-plane practice club and a three-pack of Natural Golf instructional
videos. The Indoor Training Package retails for $99.
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Technology
The official
Web site of the 2002 Masters, www.masters.org,
has been expanded to include live streaming video coverage and up-to-the-minute
hole-by-hole scoring of the entire field on a downloadable real-time leaderboard.
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KANA, a provider
of external-facing eCRM solutions, announces that TaylorMade-adidas Golf
has seen productivity improvements and enhanced customer service through the deployment
of KANA's external-facing, Web-architected contact center solutions.
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Education
The Golf
Academy of Hilton Head Island and the University of South Carolina-Beaufort
announce the formation of a professional golf management program, in which
students can obtain Associate of Arts degrees with a concentration in golf. The
two-year program will be implemented in August 2002.
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Business
National
Golf Properties, Inc., announces that its board of directors has approved
a definitive merger agreement with its primary tenant, American Golf Corporation
and certain American Golf's affiliates, including Golf Enterprises, Inc. and European
Golf, LLC.
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Golf
Trust of America, Inc., announces that based on an updated analysis by its
financial advisors, Golf Trust currently estimates that its common stockholders
will ultimately receive between $6.01 and $9.43 per share in liquidating distributions.
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People
MacNeill Engineering
Worldwide announces that Martin Greenwald has been promoted to National
Sales Manager. Greenwald's responsibilities will include direct selling to top
OEM accounts, such as Adidas, Etonic, FootJoy and Mizuno, and all of MacNeillís
distributors in North America, both golf and athletic.
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Environmental
Golf, a division of Environmental Industries, Inc., appoints Glynne Taylor
as Golf Course Superintendent at Woodcreek Golf Course in Modesto, Calif.
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Tournaments
Western
Golf Association officials announce that the purse for the 2002 Advil Western
Open has been increased to a record $4 million, with the winner earning $720,000.
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Equipment
Callaway
Golf staff professional Annika Sorenstam successfully defended her title at
the Kraft Nabisco Championship on Sunday, becoming the first major championship
winner of the 2002 golf season. Sorenstam used a Big Bertha C4 Driver, HX Golf
Ball and Odyssey White Hot 2-Ball Putter.
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According
to the Darrell Survey, 39 golfers (approximately 42 percent) in the Kraft Nabisco
Championship field, including champion Annika Sorenstam, wore CHAMP spikes.
Overall, CHAMP-manufactured spikes were worn by 54 golfers (59 percent).
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Vijay
Singh won the Shell Houston Open playing Titleist's Pro V1 ball. Singh
topped a leaderboard that saw eight of the top 10 finishers at Shell playing the
Pro V1.
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According
to the independent Darrell Survey, Vijay Singh won the Shell Houston Open wearing
the Black Widow cleats by Softspikes, Inc. For the second consecutive week,
and for the sixth time this season, a PGA Tour winner has worn Black Widow cleats.
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Media
USA Network
will provide live coverage of the PGA Tour's BellSouth Classic April 4-5 from
4-6 p.m. ET/4-6 p.m. PT.
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Sponsorship
Softspikes,
Inc., is named the official cleat of the Long Drivers of America, which
boasts a membership of more than 450 active members.
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LIZGOLF
by Liz Claiborne has been named the official apparel provider of the 2002 U.S.
Solheim Cup Team. The 2002 Solheim Cup is Sept. 20-22 at Interlachen Country Club
in Edina, Minn.
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Juniors
In honor of
Major League Baseball's Opening Day, Scott DeRosier, program director for Independence
Golf Club, and Courtney Holliday, a PGA assistant professional, provided kids
in the Richmond, Va., instruction in golf's fundamentals and helped them with
their swinging, hitting and putting.
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Colleges
The Friends
of Golf and Colonial Country Club, in association with the Golf Coaches Association
of America, announce the 20 semifinalists for the Ben Hogan Award. The
award will be presented to the outstanding male college golfer over the course
of the last 12 months at a black-tie dinner Monday, May 13 at Colonial Country
Club in Fort Worth, Texas.
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Tee Box
Week 0f April
4-7
PGA
TOUR
BellSouth
Classic
Dates: April 4-7
Site: Duluth, Ga.
Course: TPC at Sugarloaf (par 72, 7,293 yards)
Purse: $3.8 million.
Winner's Share: $684,000.
Television: USA (Thurs.-Fri., 4-6 p.m.), NBC (Sat.,
2-5 p.m., Sun., 3-5:30 p.m.)
Internet: www.pgatour.com,
www.bellsouthclassic.com
2001
Champion: Scott McCarron (68-67-72-73--280, -8)
LPGA
TOUR
The Office Depot
Dates: April 5-7
Site: Tarzana, Calif.
Course: El Caballero Country Club (par 72, 6,394 yards)
Purse: $1
million. Winner's Share: $150,000.
Television: ESPN2 (Fri., 2-4 p.m., Sat.-Sun.,
5-7 p.m.)
Internet: www.lpga.com
2001
Champion: Annika Sorenstam (71-73-66--210, -6)
EUROPEAN
PGA TOUR
Algarve Open de Portugal
Dates: April 4-7
Site: Algarve,
Portugal
Course: Vale do Lobo (par 72, 7,108 yards)
Purse: $1 million
euros. Winner's Share: 166,660 euros.
Television: The Golf Channel (Thurs.-Sun.,
9 a.m.-Noon)
Internet: www.europeantour.com
2001 Champion:
Phillip Price (72-67-70-64--273, -15)
SENIOR
PGA TOUR
Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf
Dates: April 5-7
Site:
St. Augustine, Fla.
Course: The King & Bear (par 72, 7,048 yards)
Purse: $2 million.
Winner's Share: $300,000.
Television: ESPN (Fri., 1-3 p.m.), ABC (Sat.-Sun.,
2-4 p.m.)
Internet: www.pgatour.com
2001 Champion: Jim Colbert
and Andy North (59-65--124, -20)
OTHER TOURNAMENTS
Australasian Tour: April 4-7, Volvo Trucks Golf Klassik, Bonville International Golf Resort, Coffs Harbour, Australia
Canadian Tour: Scottsdale Swing at Eagle Mountain, April 4-7, The Golf Club at Eagle Mountain, Scottsdale, Ariz.
NGA/Hooters Tour: April 4-7, Deer Brook Classic, Deer Brook Golf Club, Shelby, N.C.
Tight Lies Tour: April 4-6, KLTV Tyler Open, Briarwood Golf Club, Tyler, Texas.
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Reader's Forum Considerable alterations have been made at Augusta National, especially in terms of length. Will these changes positively or negatively affect the Masters, and how so? Also, were these changes necessary to keep up with the technological advances in equipment and today's better-conditioned players? Let us know your opinions by sending your responses to stuart@gpagolf.com with the subject line RE: Masters alterations. Also include your first name and last initial. |