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| A Look Back: July 23 1960: Betsy Rawls earns her fourth U.S. Open trophy, beating out Joyce Ziske by a stroke with a final-round 75. 1967: In a battle of Dons, Don January defeats Don Massengale 69 to 71 in a playoff for the PGA Championship title at Columbine Country Club. 1978: Hollis Stacy wins the U.S. Women's Open by a shot over JoAnne Carner and Sally Little. 1989: In a three-hole playoff, Mark Calcavecchia bests Wayne Grady and Greg Norman to win the British Open at Royal Troon. 1995: John Daly wins a four-hole playoff against Costantino Rocca of Italy to win the British Open at the Old Course in St. Andrews. |
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Architecture
Palmer Course Design Company president Arnold Palmer, COO Ed Seay and architect
Greg Stang plan to visit the Palmer-designed TPC at Boston Wednesday. Palmer will
give a clinic and play the back nine during the trip.
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Equipment
Ernie Els won the British Open using a Titleist Pro V1 golf ball, and playoff
participants Thomas Levet and Steve Elkington used the same ball. On other tours,
Bob Gilder, Mi Hyun Kim, Todd Fischer and Alex Quiroz all won professional tournaments
this week using Titleist golf balls.
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Both Ernie
Els, who won the British Open, and Spike McRoy, who won the B.C. Open last week,
choose Black Widow cleats by Softspikes.
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Chad
Roberts defends his title at the Summer National Long Drive Championship, hitting
a 374-yard drive using an AccuFLEX shaft in his driver.
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Celebrity
Samuel L. Jackson sinks a $20,000 putt at the ESPY Celebrity Classic using a Never
Compromise TDP putter.
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Juniors
Teams are finalized for the American Junior Golf Association's Canon Cup,
a match-play competition between teams of 10 boys and 10 girls from the eastern
and western halves of the United States.
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Technology
Forest Ridge Golf Club, the No. 4-rated public golf course in Oklahoma, adds the
point of sale option to its existing Fore! Reservations tee sheet system. Pause
Golf will install the new system.
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Cybergolf
announces that it has signed up Marriott's Faldo Golf Institutes in Florida, New
Jersey and California to use its Broadcast Email Blast System.
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Integrated
Business Systems installs WebRes, an Internet Tee Time system, at The Gauntlet
Golf Club at Curtis Park, in Fredericksburg, Va. This is the first installation
of WebRes at a Meadowbrook Golf property.
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Players
Despite winning the British Open, Ernie Els remained at No. 3 in the world
after rankings were released this week. Runners-up Thomas Levet rose 66
places to No. 64, Steve Elkington moved up 69 spots to No. 46 and Stuart
Appleby improves 27 places to No. 36.
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Both Bob
Gilder and Hale Irwin move up two places in the Senior Power Performance
Rankings with their first and second place finishes last week.
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Apparel
PING Collection, a leading golf apparel brand and a division of Perry Ellis
International, launches a women's wear collection for Spring 2003.
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Events
The GolfCoach, Inc., which specializes in computerized motion analysis,
training aids and golf-specific fitness equipment, confirms the company will participate
in the PGA Fall Expo 2002 and the 2003 PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando.
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Briefly
Greenspike, which guarantees users they will only spend $8 a year for its
spikes, reports an increase in business to its Web site, www.greenspike.com.
... Bantam Press in the UK brings out "Nice Jumper," a memoir from British
amateur golfer Tom Cox. ... Ocean Ridge Plantation in North Carolina encourages
juniors to play golf by offering a "free golf for kids" program where children
under 15 can play any of its three courses free with a paying adult. Call 800-233-1801
or 910-287-1717 for tee times. ... Officials from Ashworth, a sportswear
and golf apparel company, comment on operations as well as revenue and earnings
expectations for its fiscal third quarter ending July 31 and the next fiscal year.
... RE/MAX Executive Realty in Bryn Mawr, Pa., is named as sponsor of Philadelphia
area qualifying day for the 2002 RE/MAX World Long Drive Competition. ...
Bloomberg ExpoVillage, an interactive fan pavilion designed to educate
and entertain golf fans about business and finance, returns to the FleetBoston
Classic at the Nashawtuc Country Club in Concord Mass., June 27-30.
Tee Box
Week of July
25-28
PGA
TOUR
John Deere
Classic
Dates: July 25-28
Site: Silvis, Ill.
Course: TPC at
Deere Run (par 72, 7,183 yards)
Purse: $3 million. Winner's Share: $504,000.
Television: TGC/FSN (Thurs.-Fri., 4-6:30 p.m.) CBS (Sat., 4-6 p.m., Sun., 3-6
p.m.)
Radio: PGA TOUR Radio (Sat., 4-6 p.m., Sun., 4-7)
Internet: www.pgatour.com
2001 Champion: David Gossett (67-64-68-66--265, 19-under)
EUROPEAN
TOUR
The TNT Open
Dates: July 25-28
Site: Hilversum, Netherlands
Course: Hilversumsche GC (par 71, 6,636 yards)
Purse:1,112,000 euros. Winner's
Share: 186,660 euros.
Television: TGC (Thurs.-Fri., 8:30-11:30 a.m., Sat.-Sun.,
9 a.m.-12 p.m.)
Internet: www.europeantour.com
2001 Champion: Bernhard Langer (69-67-67-66--269, 15-under)
SENIOR
PGA TOUR
FleetBoston Classic
Dates: July 26-28
Site: Concord,
Mass.
Course: Nashawtuc
Country Club (par 72, 6,777 yards)
Purse: $1.5 million. Winner's Share:
$225,000.
Television: PAX (Fri., 1-3 p.m.), CNBC (Sat.-Sun., 2-4 p.m.)
Internet: www.pgatour.com
2001 Champion:
Larry Nelson (65-69-67--201, 15-under)
LPGA
TOUR
Sybase Big Apple Classic
Dates: July 25-28
Site: New Rochelle,
N.Y.
Course: Wykagl Country
Club (par 71, 6,161 yards)
Purse: $950,000. Winner's Share: $142,500.
Television: NBC (Sat., 1:30-3:30 p.m., Sun., 4-6 p.m.)
Internet: www.lpga.com
2001 Champion: Rosie Jones (70-66-66-70--272, 12-under)
BUY.COM
TOUR
Price Cutter Charity Championship
Dates: July 25-28
Site:
Springfield, Mo.
Course: Highland Spring
Country Club (par 72, 7,060 yards)
Purse: $475,000. Winner's Share: $86,500.
Televison: None.
Internet: www.pgatour.com
2001 Champion: Steve Haskins (66-65--131, 13-under)
OTHER TOURNAMENTS
European Challenge Tour: Charles Church Challenge Tour Championship, July 25-28, Bowood G&CC, Wlltshire, England.
European Seniors Tour: Senior British Open, July 25-28, Royal County Down GC, Newcastle, County Down, Northern Ireland.
Japan PGA Tour: Sato Foods NST Niigata Open, July 25-28, Nakamine GC, Niigata, Japan.
Japan LPGA Tour: Golf 5 Ladies, July 26-28, Mizunami CC, Gifu, Japan.
Futures Tour: M&T Bank Loretto Golf Classic, July 26-28, The Links at Erie Village, Syracuse, N.Y.
USGA: U.S. Junior Amateur, July 23-27, Atlanta Athletic Club, Duluth, Ga.
USGA: U.S. Girls Junior, July 22-27, Echo Lake CC, Westfield, N.J.
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