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People
Plastic cleat maker Softspikes, Inc., names Ari Flaisher as an Account Manager for the company's branded cleats and accessories in parts of 10 states, including Florida, Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
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Courses
The Rick Jacobson-designed Spirit Hollow Golf Club in Iowa, a public, 18-hole course, draws excellent reviews after hosing the Iowa State Amateur competition.
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Travel
Luxury travel company PerryGolf announces early booking incentives for its 2003 travel programs and provides details about its 2003 cruise offerings onboard The Lord Of The Glens and The Clipper Adventurer.
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Business
TaylorMade-adidas Golf announces record revenues for both the second quarter and six months ended June 30. Second quarter revenues of 203 million euros were 19 percent higher than the same quarter in 2001, marking the 13th consecutive quarter in which revenues have exceeded those in the prior year.
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Women's Golf Unlimited, owner of the Square Two Golf, NancyLopezGolf and Lady Fairway brands, announces net income increased to $332,365, or $0.10 per diluted share, from $36,248 in the second quarter of 2001, while revenues fell 28 percent.
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Shaft maker True Temper Sports, Inc., announces net income for the second quarter increased to $3.7 million from $3.4 million in the second quarter of 2001, while net sales decreased 13.5 percent to $29.9 million.
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Associations
The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews amends Rule 2-3 (Professionalism: Professional Tournament Players), which will take effect Sept. 1.
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Media
GOLF MAGAZINE releases the results of the "Report on the American Golfer," the largest and most definitive survey of golfers in the United States ever done, in its September issue.
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Technology
Managers at the Chi Chi Rodriguez-designed Moss Creek Golf Club turn to Crescent Systems to provide its club management software.
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Cybergolf announces that it has signed up International Golf Club in Orlando, Fla., to use its Broadcast Email Blast System with new electronic Survey Creator & Stats Tracking features. International Golf Club is operated by Marriott.
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Equipment
Mizuno announces that it will support the USGA's Coefficient of Restitution (C.O.R.) ruling of August 6 and will only offer products in the U.S. which conform to the USGA standard.
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For those players who are looking for the results provided by the original TA7 Micro-Cavity irons, but don't like to set up to a club with offset, Cleveland Golf introduces the TA7 Tour Micro-Cavity irons with reduced offset for more shot-shaping ability.
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Tournaments
Walker Cup players Nigel Edwards, Jamie Elson and Gary Wolstenholme form the nucleus of the Great Britain and Ireland team selected for the St Andrews Trophy which will be played in Lausanne, Switzerland, Aug. 30-31.
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Briefly
Junior Golf Scoreboard (www.juniorgolfscoreboard.com) attracts record traffic for the month of July with features like tournament and college information and player profiles. ...
Twelve former Deacon Deacon golfing greats - Billy Andrade, Jay Haas, Gary Hallberg, Scott Hoch, Joe Inman, Jack Lewis, Len Mattiace, Arnold Palmer, Jay Sigel, Curtis Strange, Leonard Thompson and Lanny Wadkins - are to represent Wake Forest on the Atlantic Coast Conference 50th Anniversary Men's Golf Team. ...
Former president George Bush uses the Laser Link Distance System, produced by Laser Link Golf, during a recent round of golf in Kennebunkport, Maine.

In Their Own Words
Looking Ahead to the PGA

It's interesting because we go into a major, we talk about this kind of course, this style of course, and really what it boils down to is who is playing well. We know that in all of the majors, especially the PGA and the U.S. Open, you have to put the ball in the fairway and the Hazeltine, with the thick, gnarly rough and the quick greens -- the greens in the U.S. Open in '91 were the fastest greens I had ever seen.

Now the contouring is very subtle at Hazeltine, so the speed doesn't necessarily show like it does at Augusta, but they were rolling 13, 14 on the Stimpmeter easily, and I expect it to be the same. So the greens will be extremely quick, and if you want to play well there, you just put the ball in the fairway and hit greens and make putts; it's just like any other course. It's not like there's a secret to playing Hazeltine well. It's really just whoever is playing well should do well there.

- Phil Mickelson

When you're playing for a major championship and you're out there on the final round and you're not making putts, it affects your game because you try harder and harder and harder to hit it closer to the pin because you're thinking, if I don't hit it to give, I can't make many birdies. So that's not the way to go in a major. It's hard enough the way the course is hard and everything, to even try even harder when you're out there.

Unfortunately, that's the way it goes. You're willing to try to win the major and you're not able to get the ball in the hole. That's the beauty of those kind of tournaments.

Hopefully, I'll be able to... give me a little bit of confidence and hopefully I'll be able to go out to Hazeltine. If I can just roll the ball nicely, make a couple of putts here and there and feeling relaxed going into the tournament. So I'm looking forward to that.

- Sergio Garcia

I think what the PGA -- they are not so concerned about a score, whether it be even par or 5-under or whatever, they are not concerned with that. They are just concerned, they want to have a great golf tournament on a good golf course and let the conditions of the golf course and what the weather we get, let that dictate what happens to the scoring.

So they are playing on a great course -- Hazeltine is a long golf course, but a lot of the length is in five or six holes. I mean, you have a 635-yard par 5, you have a 590-yard par 5. That's 150 yards right there that are different than what we normally play. So you look at that, there are a lot of birdie holes out there.

So I definitely think it's a course -- obviously, the best players and the longer players, if they are playing well, they are still going to be up there, but I think you'll see anybody will have a chance to do well, a lot like what happened at Atlanta Athletic Club.

- David Toms

After my first victory, I wasn't focused on the next -- I skipped the Memorial, played Memphis, but I was not focused that week. The PGA being a major, I'm going to be pretty focused. I'm excited about it.

- Rich Beem

(I have won) three of the four, and right now, myself and Hogan are the only ones who have ever won three in the same year. So that would be nice to win three out of four again.

- Tiger Woods

Reader's Forum Tiger Woods won't be contending for the Grand Slam next week at Hazeltine, site of the PGA Championship. Would you like to see Woods win a third major in 2002 or, since the Grand Slam isn't on the line, would you prefer to see another player prevail? Who is your favorite for the year's final major? Let us know your opinions by sending your responses to info@gpagolf.com with the subject line RE: PGA Pick. Also include your first initial and last name, along with your email address.