Tournaments
At the Ford Senior Players Championship at the Tournament Players Club of Michigan, McDonald's Corporation made a $50,000 donation to Driving 4 Life, a Cambridge, Mass.-based fundraising organization campaign started by Tom Watson, Bruce Edwards and Jeff Julian in support of research into treatment and a cure for ALS.
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Marketing
Edgewood in the Pines Golf Course in Drums, Penn., becomes the eighth Kemper Sports-managed property to sign on to use the Cybergolf Broadcast System at its facility. The system includes E-mail marketing functionality, E-mail capture tools, stats tracking and a online customer survey creator, among its many inexpensive, easy-to-use, revenue driving features.
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Courses
The HoleView has just completed a new Environmental Yardage Book for Coyote Moon, an East West Partners golf course for Tahoe Mountain Resorts in Truckee, Calif. The course has been certified as an Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary course, for its environmental stewardship through participation in the Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Program for Golf Courses.
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The Chambers of Commerce in Emmet and Charlevoix Counties in Michigan announce a new joint initiative designed to increase awareness and boost tourism in Northwest Michigan by emphasizing golf in the area. Nearly 30 golf courses, most notably Boyne USA's Bay Harbor Golf Club, lie within an easy drive or shuttle ride of each other and promise a richly diverse offering of holes for any length vacation.
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Associations
Champions Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame member Arnold Palmer was on Capitol Hill this week to help announce The First Tee's first seven scholarship recipients during the second annual The First Tee Congressional breakfast.
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PGA TOUR Commissioner Tim Finchem today announced the support of the Tournament Players Club Network (TPCs) to develop localized programs with The First Tee Chapters across the country. In addition to becoming access affiliates, these programs will provide Chapters with use of the TPC facilities, fundraising assistance and more.
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Health
KINeSYS Performance Sunscreens will be on-site for the Canadian Women's Open held at the Point Grey Golf & Country Club in Vancouver, British Columbia from July 10-13.
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Apparel
Firethorn junior golf clothing licensed by West End Apparel, LLC, is offering introductory, on-line pricing of $17.99 for junior solid color, cotton pique, golf shirts, sizes 6-12.
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Business
Callaway Golf Company will release its second quarter 2003 results on Thursday afternoon, July 17. The Company will subsequently hold a conference call with financial analysts and investors to review the results at 2:00 p.m. PDT that same day.
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Environment
Nearly 50 individuals representing environmental and golf interests will gather in Lawrence, Kan., July 29-31 to participate in a strategic planning session for The Environmental Institute for Golf, formerly The Golf Course Superintendents Association of America Foundation.
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People
Longtime Egypt Valley Country Club golf professional Lynn Janson adds another chapter to his career by being elected to the Grand Rapids Sports Hall of Fame. The former Michigan State All-America star will officially gain induction to the hall at a ceremony later this year.
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Tours
The Asian PGA Tour will stage eight tournaments offering US$3.25 million in its homeward stretch, raising the total prize money for the season to $9.13 million. Big-name players such as former world number one Nick Faldo and seven-time European Tour Order of Merit winner Colin Montgomerie are amongst the stars expected to participate in the Tour's ninth year.
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The Champions Tour approves changes to eligibility and the size of fields for open, full-field Champions Tour events. Starting in 2004, fields will be reduced by three to 78.
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Lunke, 24, became the first qualifier to win the U.S. Women's Open in an 18-hole playoff Monday at Pumpkin Ridge in North Plains, Ore. Lunke's previous best finish on the LPGA Tour was a tie for 15th. In preparation for the Canadian Women's Open this week in Vancouver, B.C., Lunke spoke with the media.

MODERATOR: Hilary, thank you for joining us. Congratulations, wonderful win, and I'm sure you're probably tired, but very excited. So if you want to kind of tell us how you feel right now?

HILARY LUNKE: Yeah, I feel a little better today. I got a good night's sleep last night. Yesterday I showed up here at the golf course, didn't take a shower, didn't put on any makeup. Just came right out of the hotel just thinking I could come here and register and get out of here. I was definitely wrong about that. (Laughing).

I've never walked into a parking lot and had that happen to me before, but it's a fun experience. I'm learning as I go along and happy to be here.

Q. Can you tell us a little bit about what you've done?

HILARY LUNKE: Yeah, Tylar just said to me this morning, "I can't believe it's only Wednesday and you won on Monday." It just seems like so much has happened since then. Basically, just had a celebration in Portland with a bunch of my friends that night. They rented out the basement of a restaurant downtown and threw a big party. Then started driving up here, just talking to newspapers and doing interviews and calling home and talking to all of my friends. My e-mail box has filled up two or three times. My voicemail box has filled up two or three times. I'll leave my phone off for three hours and call and find out I have 18 new messages. Just trying to make sure I talk to all of my friends and do what I need to do.

Q. Have you been able to sleep?

HILARY LUNKE: I did. Finally, last night, got a great night's sleep. One thing I haven't been able to do is prepare for this golf tournament, (laughing), and that's kind of a goal for me this afternoon. I have to postpone it until late this afternoon and actually try to go walk the course today and maybe hit a few putts and figure out the speed of the greens here and try to hit a few balls, if I can.

I haven't hit a shot since I made that putt on 18 on Monday. So I'm not exactly prepared to tee off tomorrow, but I'm going to try to do that this afternoon.

Q. Have you ever been to the Vancouver area?

HILARY LUNKE: No, I'm really excited to be here. A bunch of people came up to me and said, "I can't believe you're here this week, I can't believe you're going to play." I was so excited come to Vancouver. It was one of the tournaments I was looking most forward the entire year. It's such a neat area.

I enjoyed playing in this event last year in Montreal, and I'm excited. We are going to have to try to find some time to go downtown and check everything out here while we're here.

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