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| A Look Back: Aug. 19 1940: Sam Snead wins his second Canadian Open in a playoff over Harold "Jug" McSpaden. 1945: Byron Nelson finishes fourth to amateur Fred Haas at the Memphis Invitational, ending his 11-tournament winning streak. 1949: Fifteen-year-old Marlene Bauer wins the first U.S. Girls' Junior Championship. 1984: Lee Trevino wins the PGA Championship at Shoal Creek for his first major title in 10 years. 1990: Betsy King wins the Japan Airlines Big Apple Classic by three strokes over Beth Daniel. |
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Technology
Cybergolf announces that it has completed new online marketing systems
for 5-OB Sports managed golf facilities. The suite of online tools includes new
websites and Broadcast Email Blast Systems.
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Associations
Members of the Professional Clubmakers' Society plan to provide golf club
repair services during the Dupont World Amateur Championships in Myrtle Beach.
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Equipment
According to the independent Darrell Survey, Black Widow cleats were worn by 80
of the 101 players (79 percent) choosing to use plastic cleats at the 84th PGA
Championship in Chaska, Minn. More than half of the field (51.9 percent) wore
Softspikes brand cleats. As well, Weetabix Women's British Open winner
Karrie Webb wore Black Widow cleats in her victory last week.
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Juniors
On a CNN program last month, CEO Renny Roker introduces the Teens On The Green
new program to put a set of clubs in the hands of 30,000 young minority players
in the U.S., and 2,500 in the Caribbean by end of 2003 via a national and international
fund raising campaign. A second program aired Saturday on CNN featuring Executive
VP Stanley Johnson and program participants.
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Briefly
The site for the 2003 Virginia State Golf Association Four-Ball Championship has
been selected: Bay Creek Golf Club in Cape Charles, Va. ...
Audi of America announces it will be the official vehicle of the First Union Betsy King Classic for the fifth year. The 72-hole tournament will take place Aug. 22-25 at the Berkleigh Country Club in Kutztown, Pa. ...
Pawleys Plantation Golf and Country Club, located in Pawleys Island, S.C., is offering a special $49 rate, including cart, for participants in the 2002 DuPont Coolmax World Amateur Handicap Championship through Sept. 12.
Reader's Forum
Covering
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Reader's Forum allows you, The Wire reader, to weigh in on the issues and topics surrounding the game.
Now that the final putt has fallen for the year's last major - congratulations, Rich Beem! - The Wire wants to hear what television broadcast you liked best of the four majors and why. Did you prefer CBS at the Masters with Ken Venturi for the final time, NBC at the U.S. Open with Johnny Miller's insights, ABC at the British Open featuring Mike Tirico and Curtis Strange in the booth or CBS' recent broadcast of the PGA? If you could make one suggestion to improve television coverage of golf's majors in 2003, what would it be?
Let us know your opinions by sending your responses to info@gpagolf.com with the subject line RE: TV coverage. Also include your first initial and last name, along with your email address.
Last week Reader's Forum asked:
Should the USGA allow amateurs to use drivers with a higher spring-like effect, or are they right to set one limit for all players? What would you tell the manufacturers who were operating under the earlier proposal and designed high COR clubs for use in the U.S.?
Click here to read the responses.