Publications
Brett Marshall, former golf editor at Sleeping Bear Press and executive editor at Clock Tower Press, has announced the formation of a new company - Harbor Links Publishing, LLC. The publishing company will focus primarily on books about golf, histories of clubs, associations, organizations and corporations.
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Instruction
The staff of the Pelz Golf Institute will again travel to Myrtle Beach, SC, to take part in the annual DuPont Coolmax World Amateur Handicap Championship August 25-29. They will conduct research on more than 4,000 participants as they play and practice over the course of five competitive rounds.
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Players
Jim Thorpe moved from 26th to 24th place in the Power Performance Rankings with his victory at the Long Island Classic. Craig Stadler dropped from second to fourth due to a T24 finish, his second lowest since turning pro, and Bruce Lietzke returns to the second place in the standings.
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Hale Irwin, three-time U.S. Open Champion and five-time victorious Ryder Cup team player, accepts the honorary chairmanship of the Third Annual Golf Classic at Troon Golf & Country Club. The Classic, scheduled for November 9-10, is sponsored by Stinson Morrison Hecker, LLP, and benefits the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Central & Southern Arizona.
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Marketing
Pellucid and Edgehill complete an additional four Golf Local Market Analyses for an investing entity screening facilities on both the west and east coast. The GLMA is a quick and inexpensive multi-dimensional evaluation of a given market that helps clients screen potential areas.
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Business
Callaway Golf Company announces that its Board of Directors has approved a dividend with respect to the second quarter of 2003 of $.07 per share, payable September 24 to shareholders of record as of September 3.
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Equipment
The Price Cutter Championship, held at Highland Springs Country Club in Springfield, Mo., yielded the most top-10 finishes on the Nationwide Tour in one weekend for shaft manufacturer AccuFLEX Golf.
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Associations
2003 British Open Champion Ben Curtis joined PGA TOUR Commissioner Tim Finchem, The First Tee Executive Director Joe Louis Barrow, Jr. and Akron Mayor Don Plusquellic for the grand opening of The First Tee of Akron at Mud Run Park Wednesday.
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This week, Presidents Cup captain Jack Nicklaus named his selections to the team: Fred Funk and Jay Haas. Yesterday, Nicklaus asked Jeff Sluman to be an assistant captain at the competition that pits a U.S. squad against a world team.

JAMES CRAMER: Why don't we go ahead and get started. I'd like to thank everybody for coming out this morning this early. We have the United States President's Cup captain Jack Nicklaus joining us this morning. I'd like to turn it over to Jack to make a few comments and then make an announcement.

JACK NICKLAUS: I think the announcement I read in the paper this morning, but that's all right. Somebody scooped it somewhere. But anyway, we announced the two captain's picks on Monday, which -- George, are you awake enough to remember that? Which of course was Jay Haas and Fred Funk. We wanted today to announce that Jeff Sluman I've asked to be any assistant captain and he has accepted. We're delighted to have Jeff on board. I told him what we try to do is find guys that may someday be chosen as captains themselves.

Jeff, being a PGA champion, certainly falls in that category, and the experience of being there and doing it and being a part of it would be a great experience for him, and I do need some help, so that's where we are. And of course, Jeff is far more current with the players today than I am, and I'll get an awful lot of help and insight into what their games and so forth are going to be. Slew?

JEFF SLUMAN: Well, as Jack said, it came as a very nice surprise for me after a disappointing week in Rochester professionally for me. Jack was kind enough to call me and ask me to be assistant captain, and it took me about a nanosecond to say yes. I was very, very happy with that. I'm very anxious and excited to get down to South Africa and watch our team play and compete. We just got done with a meeting with them, and I know they're all ready to play, and they're looking forward to it and they're going to go down there and play some great golf and they're also going to have a trip of a lifetime. I haven't been down there but Jack has a home down there, and the description that you told the team, it sounds like it's going to be fantastic and we're going to have some unique experiences.

JAMES CRAMER: If we have any questions for Captain Nicklaus or Assistant Captain Sluman, please ask.

Q.: How will you divide up the duties?

JACK NICKLAUS: Well, the way it usually works is the captain says, I think we'll do this, and then he goes and does all the work. No, I think that what happened, Jackie was my assistant captain in Australia, and there's really -- one guy can't cover everybody, and there's a lot of needs that the players have. I'll be out on the golf course all over the place and so will Slew. We'll probably be in different places most of the time taking care of players in different ways. The biggest job of the captain is to make sure that he has new golf spikes and fresh towels and sunscreen and things like that. That's our biggest job.

Obviously I'm being a little facetious about that, but still, it is part of the job. Little things that the guys want. A guy says, hey, can you grab me a sandwich or can you get me this at the turn. Yeah, obviously our duties are official. There's official functions we do, representing the team and this and that and I obviously will do most of that.

Jeff will assist me in other stuff that we do with the team. It will help me an awful lot in the selection of matches and the players and we'll talk about that and who do we think will play best together and so forth and so on. You need somebody with you that can do it and that understands what is going on, and that's why I asked Slew. I know he'll do that and he'll do a good job. How do we divide it up? I'm going to -- I'm going to keep myself free to do the things that I need to do and I think Slew will do most of the other stuff.

Click here for the complete transcript with Jack Nicklaus and Jeff Sluman.