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| A Look Back: Apr. 15 1956: Sam Snead wins the Greater Greensboro Open in a playoff with Fred Wampler. The win is Snead's sixth of eight at this event. 1962: Billy Casper wins the Greater Greensboro Open by one stroke over Mike Souchak. 1979: Fuzzy Zoeller takes advantage of Ed Sneed's late-round misfortunes to win the Masters on the second playoff hole. Zoeller and Tom Watson joined Sneed in the playoff after Sneed bogeyed the last three holes of regulation play. 1984: Ben Crenshaw posts a final-round 68 to win his first Masters, finishing two strokes ahead of Tom Watson. 1990: Payne Stewart shoots a final-round 71, then defeats Larry Mize and Steve Jones in a playoff to win the MCI Heritage Classic. |
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USA Network
had national household rating of 2.5 during Thursday's opening round of the 2002
Masters. Thursday's opening round rating matched the network's 2001 national household
rating of 2.5.
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Equipment
Softspikes
introduces the new Black Widow Cleat Brush. The brush, which includes three sets
of bristles, is now being shipped to golf retailers.
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Titleist
tops the list of four equipment categories -- golf balls, irons, wedges and putters
-- at the Masters.
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People
Charles 'Bud'
White has been hired as a U.S. Golf Association agronomist for the Mid-Continent
Region to replace Brian Maloy, who accepted a position as a golf course superintendent
in Iowa.
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Publications
Bradley
S. Klein, architecture editor at Golfweek, has been named the recipient of the
2001 U.S. Golf Association International Book Award. Klein's book, "Discovering
Donald Ross: The Architect and His Golf Courses," documents, with previously
unknown detail, the career of the fabled Scottish-born golf course architect.
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Technology
Pause
Golf Solutions completes installation of the Fore! Reservations Golf Course
Management and Marketing Software at the Willow Valley Golf in Mount Hope, Ontario,
Canada.
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Players
The PuttingZone.com
completes analysis of 16 years worth of PGA Tour putting stats, determining that
the late Payne Stewart ranked the No. 1 putter from 1986-2001.
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Tournaments
The Club
Manager's Association of America partners with Gaylord Event Television to direct
and produce The 2003 Club Manager's Association of America National Club Championship
according to Frank Chirkinian, president of Gaylord Event Television.
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Former
Wake Forest greats, including members of the 1986 NCAA Championship team, will
play in the Wake Forest Pro-Am today, Monday, at Bermuda Run Country Club
in Winston-Salem, N.C. Curtis Strange, Billy Andrade, Lanny Wadkins, Jay Haas
and Len Mattiace are all scheduled to play. The annual event provides a major
portion of the funding for the Demon Deacon men's and women's golf programs.
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Courses
Golf Projects
International, a Los Angeles-based country club development and consulting company,
has been awarded a multi-year contract to oversee the marketing and operations
for The Club at Nine Bridges, located on Jeju Island, Korea.
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Associations
The Professional
Caddie Association forms a media advisory board to better focus its efforts
on enabling golf media to better cover "Inside the Loop" activities and initiatives.
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Reader's Forum
Woods? The Greatest?
Reader's Forum allows you, The Wire subscriber, to weigh in on the issues and topics surrounding the game.
On Saturday at the Masters, Tiger Woods erased a six-stroke deficit in 26 holes and by day's end was the third-round co-leader with Retief Goosen. Woods then went out on Sunday, shot a 1-under 71 and won his second straight Masters, third overall, and his seventh professional major. And Woods is not yet 27. Is Woods the greatest of all time? If not, who is?
Let us know your opinions by sending your responses to stuart@gpagolf.com with the subject line RE: Tiger Woods. Also include your first initial and last name, along with your email address.
Last week Reader's Forum asked: With the arrival of the year's first major, the winner of the Masters will become the only player with the chance to win the coveted Grand Slam - or will he? Open for debate is whether the Grand Slam is confined to the calendar year or can a player, like Tiger Woods in 2000-01, be entitled to the Grand Slam by winning the four major titles over two calendar years?