Equipment
PING's new S59 iron, the first traditional blade the company has offered since the 1960s, combines the the look, feel and performance of a blade with a small cavity for forgiveness and a slight progressive offset to make the long irons easier to hit. Suggested retail is $130 per club with a PING ZZ-65 steel shaft.
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Shaft maker True Temper highlights its product development process. By engaging in intense product analysis and planning, True Temper can always bring the most desired golf shafts to market through successful product launches.
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People
Pub Links Golfer Magazine announces that Michael Stinton will take the helm as the new editor starting with the upcoming issue. Stinton has contributed to past issues of the publication.
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Roche Sports, a leading manufacturer of golf outerwear including the popular and innovative Roche Motion Collection, appoints two new sales representatives. Ken Dudley will be responsible for Roche sales in Colorado, and Randy Bolton will cover Kentucky.
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With initial sales of West End Apparel's Firethorn junior clothing exceeding expectations, the company has added four sales representatives. They are John Dougherty, South Carolina and Georgia; Bill Morris, North Carolina; Joe Heim, Maryland and Virginia; and Mike Mondor, southwest Florida.
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Technology
Crescent Systems announces the release of Crescent WebLink, a feature that provides clubs with the ability to have members view monthly statements online and send statements via email to its membership base. The Crescent WebLink feature is available in the recently released Version 4.5 of Crescent Systems Accounts Receivable module.
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Clubessential is offering clients a new, online tee time solution called CE TeeTimes. Working in partnership with JC America, CE TeeTimes provides another tool clubs can use to service members more effectively and efficiently.
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Marketing
Antler Creek Golf Club near Colorado Springs, Colo., adds its name to the list of golf facilities using the Cybergolf Broadcast System, which includes E-mail marketing/newsletter functionality, E-mail capture tools, stats tracking and a online survey creator among its many features. Cybergolf will also build a Web site for the club.
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Collier's Reserve Country Club in Naples, Fla., chooses MembersFirst to provide them with the next-generation of Web-based interactive communications to members, allowing the club to send out timely information and news 24/7, increase member participation at social events and tournaments and build a greater sense of community.
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This week, Karrie Webb defends her title at the Weetabix Women's British Open, the fourth and final LPGA major of the season.

NEAL REID: Thanks for joining us, defending champion, same place we played in 1998. You just finished the Pro-Am. If you could just tell us what you think about the golf course.

KARRIE WEBB: Well, I think it's always good to come back to the British Open. I look forward to the tournament every year, and obviously we did play here in '98. With the wind the way it was today, it brought back a lot of memories of four long days.

I love the challenge of links golf. It's a lot different to what we're used to. I think it tests all aspects of the game, especially probably imagination and your patience. I think that's why even with the worst conditions, I look back on these tournaments and think of how much of a fun challenge it was. I don't know if you would call it fun, but a fun challenge.

But yeah I'm looking forward to this week. I had a good week last week and feel that my game is in fairly decent shape. It's just a matter of hopefully having the right half of the draw, as they say, for this tournament. I don't think the weather is supposed to be too great tomorrow but just trying to gut it out through that and just try to give myself a chance to win on Sunday.

NEAL REID: The golf course playing the way it is, what do you think you have to do to be successful out there this weekend?

KARRIE WEBB: The main thing for me is I just want to try to keep it in play off the tee, not be overly aggressive and just suck it up and have to hit 6-irons and 5-irons into greens, as long as I'm not chipping out of rough or the deep fairway bunkers that are out there. So I think there's a lot of places out there that you could choose to hit driver, but then you pay the penalty if you're a little inaccurate.

So my game plan is to be aggressive when I can, but I'm probably not hitting that many drivers. Probably maybe four or five drivers this week.

Q. What will you hit instead?

KARRIE WEBB: 2- and 3-irons.

Q. Where do you plan on using driver?

KARRIE WEBB: My first driver of the day will be on 6. Then not till the 11th tee is the next one, and 14 and 15, maybe one, might not be just depending on the wind, and 18 maybe one. That's it.

Click here for the complete transcript with Karrie Webb.