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| A Look Back: July 12 1908: Paul Runyan, winner of the 1934 and 1938 PGA Championships, was born in Hot Springs, Ark. 1959: Mike Souchak wins the Western Open by one shot over Arnold Palmer. 1975: Tom Watson wins his first major championship, defeating Australia's Jack Newton in an 18-hole playoff for the British Open title at Carnoustie. 1987: Gary Player win the U.S. Senior Open by six strokes over Doug Sanders. 1998: Gil Morgan shoots a final-round 66 to win the Ford Senior Players Championship by four strokes over Hale Irwin. |
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Environment
Audubon International and HoleView create an Environmental Yardage
Book for The Timbers at Troy, a KemperSports-managed golf course in Elkridge,
Md. 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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Juniors
Seventeen top junior golfers are named to the Tiger Woods Foundation National
Junior Golf Team that will compete at the Junior World Golf Championships
in San Diego, July 16-19.
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Organizers
announce that St Andrews Links junior golf tournaments, to be held Aug.
5-8 on the Eden and Old Courses, attract entries of top junior golfers from across
the world.
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Technology
Cybergolf announces that it has signed up Marriott's Seaview Resort & Spa
in New Jersey, to use its Broadcast Email Blast System.
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Business
Heritage Creations announces that it has been selected as the Exclusive
Licensee Partner of the Nicklaus Companies for Golf Shop Design, Golf Shop
Fixtures and Awards and Trophies.
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Architecture
Jacobson Golf Course Design's Rick Jacobson is selected from among 15 golf
course architects to design the new Hawk's Nest Golf Club, an 18-hole daily fee
facility located in the Williamsburg, Va., area.
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Sponsorship
Champion Group Marketing, Inc., developer of the Future Champions Fund
that provides financial support to promising young professional golfers, adds
Golden Bear Tour player Justin Hicks.
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Events
The PGA Fall Expo, scheduled for July 31-Aug. 3, is to be the first major
tradeshow booking in the newly expanded and renovated Reno-Sparks Convention Center.
Thousands of industry professionals are expected to attend the four-day event
featuring education programs, exhibits and on-course demonstrations.
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Players
Young up-and-coming Australian pro Adam Scott shares his time with juniors
at the St Andrews Links Junior Golf Association's Golf Practice Centre, talking
about fundamentals of the game and hitting golf balls.
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Accessories
Wizard Industries introduces two new products: The "Hold-In-One" key-chain
golf ball holder to keep a special golf ball attached to your keys and the "Quick
Ball Caddy" golf ball carrier that holds three balls and clips on the outside
of a golf bag.
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Briefly
Crescent Systems congratulates both its client, Prairie Dunes Country Club
in Hutchinson, Kan., for successfully hosting the 2002 Women's United States Open,
and tournament winner Juli Inkster. ... The Golf Channel will return to
Endicott, N.Y., for its sixth consecutive broadcast of the B.C. Open, July 18-21.
... Golf Trust of America takes possession and assumes management of the
Sandpiper Golf Course following arbitration proceedings with the tenant.
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Reader's
Forum In 1972, Jack Nicklaus won the first two legs of the Grand Slam and then had his quest ended at the British Open. Thirty years later, Tiger Woods has won the first two legs of the Grand Slam and now heads to Muirfield for leg No. 3. Will he win the British Open? If not, who will and why? Let us know your opinions by sending your responses to stuart@gpagolf.com with the subject line RE: Tiger. Also include your first initial and last name, along with your email address. |
Casual Friday
Pulling for
Monty
At last month's U.S. Open, Golf Digest mounted a campaign to "Be Nice to Monty."
With the British Open next up on the horizon, Casual Friday thinks that's just not good enough. Let's openly pull for Colin Montgomerie to win his first major.
Muirfield would be the perfect venue for the dour Scot to write some history, smack down that Woods fellow and add his own name to the Claret Jug.
For years, Montgomerie wore the dubious mantle of best player never to have won a major. Now the 39-year-old has been supplanted in that role by Phil Mickelson, with Sergio Garcia just a couple of steps behind.
Both Mickelson and Garcia certainly will win majors (didn't we all say the same thing about Montgomerie), but for Monty, his time might well be over.
The monkey on Monty's bag has grown old and fallen off and no one even noticed. Who even thinks about Montgomerie as a contender in majors these days?
For a player who for years has been one of the best of the world, Montgomerie's record in the majors isn't exactly glittering, except for the U.S. Open, where he has two seconds (one in a playoff) and a third.
In the British Open, Montgomerie hasn't had a top-10 since 1994. Of course, that's his only top 10, too. He also has one top 10 in the Masters and two in the PGA, one of which was a runner-up performance.
His showing in the Open Championship is puzzling. Obviously he should be familiar with the courses, and he's playing before a friendly home audience. No loutish Yanks ragging him, causing his face to flush.
Maybe he simply tried too hard. Who knows what goes on in a player's mind? Sometimes he can't figure it out himself.
Whatever the reason, his performance in the British Open is inexcusable and disappointing. He was, and is, better than that.
It's getting the point where it's now or never for Monty. What a shame it would be if the player who won the Order of Merit seven straight years never wins the British Open.
FIRST CUT
Here's two players to watch out in the British Open: Davis Love III and Peter Lonard.
Love, after getting off to a turgid start this year, is playing great golf. He's finished second in the last two tournaments, the Canon Greater Hartford Open and the Advil Western Open. He's one of the best drivers of the ball on the PGA Tour, and now his putting, which had held him back at the start of this year, is on track. He's got one major, and he said earlier this year that the British is the one major he'd most like to win.
Lonard is a long-shot and is still not well known by many golf fans, but he does just about everything well. The Australian averages 281 yards off the tee, ranks 29th on the PGA Tour in putting and is eighth in scoring average at 69.74. The soon-to-be 35-year-old has never done all that well in the British, with a tie for 24th his best showing in five tries. But he's never been playing as well as he is now either. In 16 PGA Tour events this year, Lonard has played the weekend in every one and earned over $1 million.
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