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Courses
St Andrews Links Trust, the organization that runs the courses
at St Andrews, is asking golf enthusiasts to take a survey about setting
up an affinity group at www.standrews.org.uk.
For
more...
Equipment
Thanks to ClubCorp golf and country clubs in Texas, along
with the Pinehurst resort in North Carolina, troops of the U.S. Army's
4th Infantry Division in Tikrit, Iraq, are driving their morale up and
their golf handicaps down with donated clubs, balls and range mats on a
driving range bulldozed into the Iraqi landscape.
For
more...
Nike
Golf's
Tour
Staff
dotted
the
Top
10
on
leaderboards
around
the
world
this
past
weekend,
due
in
part
to
the
success
of
the
Tour
Accuracy
2
and
the
prototype
Nike
One
TW
golf
balls.
Most
notably,
50-year-old
Craig
Stadler
used
the
Nike
TA2
ball
to
win
the
B.C.
Open
one
week
after
winning
the
Ford
Senior
Players
Championship.
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more...
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Tournaments
British Open champion Ben Curtis has committed to play
in the 2003 John Deere Classic September 8-14 at the Tournament Players
Club at Deere Run.
For
more...
Marketing
MembersFirst, the best-selling interactive marketing and
member communications system, now offers club management online member
statements. MembersFirst interfaces with some of the industry's leading
club management accounting systems including Gary Jonas Computing, ClubTec,
Club Systems Group, IBS, Priority Club Systems and Club Software.
For
more...
Colleges
The Division I, II and II National Golf Coaches Association
All-American Scholar Teams are announced with 297 women's collegiate golfers
being recognized with the prestigious honor. The criteria for selection
to the All-American Scholar Team are some of the most stringent of all
college athletics.
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more...
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Burroughs & Chapin Golf Management's marketing cooperative, MyrtleBeachTrips.com,
partners with Hooters Air to offer air inclusive vacation packages
to Myrtle Beach, S.C., from Newark, N.J., and the Baltimore,
Md./Washington, D.C. area. Rates including golf start at $419
per person. ...
MyrtleBeachTrips.com also
is offering a "3 Pay/4 Play" package,
which includes accommodations, breakfast, greens fees, carts and
taxes. When three golfers book their 2003 golf package by July 20
and play before December 31, their fourth player gets to stay and
play free - a savings of up to $465. ...
Ricky Barnes, the 2002 U.S. Amateur champion and co-winner
of this year's Ben Hogan Award for the best collegiate player, has
turned professional and signed a management agreement with Gaylord
Sports Management. Senior Executive Cricket Musch will represent
him. ...
Armed with a new line-up of sponsors and media partners, the 2003
U.X. Open has grown to five tournaments for its fifth season.
In addition, for the first time, the extreme golf tour will make
stops in Vermont and Colorado - two of the biggest ski resort areas
in the country. ...
The 18-hole championship golf course at Tauqueta Falls has a new
name - Canyon Ridge Club. Currently under construction, the
approximately 7,000-yard course is located atop Lookout Mountain
within the gated community of Tauqueta Falls, Ga. |
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IN THEIR OWN WORDS: Ben Curtis |
Ohio
resident Ben Curtis became the first golfer to win in his first
major appearance since Francis Ouimet in the 1913 U.S. Open. Curtis
won by a shot over Dane Thomas Bjorn and Fiji native Vijay Singh.
STEWART McDOUGALL: Ladies
and gentlemen, champion golfer of the year, Ben Curtis. Ben it's
been some week for you. How does it feel sitting here as the champion
golfer, give us your reaction.
BEN CURTIS: Oh,
man, that's about all I can say now. I came in here this week just
trying to play the best I could and hopefully make the cut and compete
on the weekend. And obviously I did that and went out there and probably
played the best weekend of my life.
Q.: All
throughout that ceremony on the 18th green you seemed to have this
look of bewilderment on your face. Have you comprehended what you
did or when do you think you will?
BEN CURTIS: Probably
tomorrow morning when I wake up. Right now I was just in a zone and
very focused on what I was doing that I didn't really think about
winning until afterwards, and it's just kind of been pretty hectic
-- it's been unbelievable. I just can't describe how I feel right
now. I just wish that my family was here to be with me. But fortunately
I had Candace with me. We had a great time this week. The fans were
great and I felt right at home.
Q.: When
you've never finished in the top-10 of any event, let alone a major,
how do you cope with that pressure, when you find yourself two shots
ahead in the Open Championship?
BEN CURTIS: Well,
I've won in the past, just not at this level yet. This is my first
year at this level, really, a rookie on Tour. I was shaking in my
boots, obviously, but I was just out there very focused on what I
had to do and let my work speak for itself. And if it was good enough,
fine, if not, I can live with it.
Q.: What's
it feel like that you're never going to have to qualify for another
major?
BEN CURTIS: I
don't even know. Knowing that I'll be able to tee it up at every
major for the next I don't know how many years it is, but it's going
to be awesome. And I feel like my game is good for major championship
golf, because you don't have to go out and shoot 20-under. You can
go out and shoot right around par, like this week, and have a chance
to win. And I feel that's where my game is the best.
Click
here to read the complete transcript with Ben Curtis.
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