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Look Back: Aug. 27 1955: Pat Lesser defeats Jane Nelson 7 and 6 to win the U.S. Women's Amateur at Myers Park Country Club in Charlotte, N.C. 1960: JoAnne Gunderson defeats Jean Ashley 6 and 5 to win her second U.S. Women's Amateur Championship at Tulsa (Okla.) Country Club. Gunderson would marry and be know on the LPGA Tour as JoAnne Carner. 1972: Jack Nicklaus defeats Frank Beard in the final of the U.S. Professional Match Play Championship. 1995: Greg Norman prevails in a three-way playoff with Billy Mayfair and Nick Price to win the NEC World Series of Golf. |
Equipment
Callaway
introduces the company's Variable Face Thickness technology in irons,
launching the Hawk Eye VFT Tungsten Injected Titanium irons. The VFT technology
makes it possible to vary the face of each iron to produce a higher ball
flight in long irons and lower in shorter irons. Also, the clubs feature
weight pockets filled with tungsten that run along each club's sole and
behind the sweet spot to provide more consistent trajectories and increase
accuracy.
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Courses
Black Sheep Golf
Club, a 27-hole facility near Chicago, will open next spring as a
men-only private club with memberships starting at $85,000. All three
nines were designed by David Esler in his architectural debut and
resemble classic inland links courses like Chicago Golf Club and Shinnecock
Hills.
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White Pine Partners
purchases Island Green Country Club, a new 18-hole course and driving
range, from Transit America. The course was designed by Jim Blaukovitch
Associates and construction should be finished this week.
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Instruction
Cindy Reid,
the Director of Golf and Instruction at the Tournament Players Club at
Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra, Fla., produces with Kestrel Communications an
instruction video targeted to women entitled "Golf for Ladies Only with
Cindy Reid."
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Business
Losses are reduced
and revenues are up at Book4golf.com, according to the company's
third-quarter results announcement. Revenues were $569,351 compared to
just under $200,000 for the same quarter last year, and the loss for the
quarter was $0.11 a share instead of $0.34 in 2000. Additionally, the
company is selling all the assets of Book4golf Travel Services and will
continue to reduce operating expenses to move closer to the black.
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Technology
ClubCorp,
the Dallas-based owner or operator of more than 210 golf courses and resorts,
chooses ParView to provide global positioning technology for its
daily fee and semi-private courses. ParView gives golfers electronic scoring
and an overview of the hole ahead as well as yardages and pin placement
information as they play. Its system also provides course management tools
such as cart tracking and tournament scoring software.
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People, Places
& Things
The Havemeyer Trophy
One of the most coveted awards in all of golf, the Havemeyer Trophy is awarded annually to the U.S. Amateur champion by the U.S. Golf Association. The Havemeyer is the symbol of amateur golf in the United States.
Sunday at the East Lake Golf Club, Bubba Dickerson added his name to the trophy that includes those of Bobby Jones, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods -- to name just a few. It is one of the most difficult trophies to win because it requires qualifying in a local event, competing in 36 holes of stroke play and then winning seven consecutive match-play contests.
Jones is the most closely linked to the trophy, having claimed five U.S. Amateur championships in 1924, '25, '27, '28 and '30.
The trophy he took home in 1924 and 1925 was donated by Theodore A. Havemeyer, the first president of the USGA. Unlike the cups and jugs that were awarded for other championships, the Havemeyer trophy was very ornate. It was all silver and incorporated balls and chains in its design.
After his second win in 1925, Jones brought his new hardware to East Lake, his home course, to display for all to see. A clubhouse fire destroyed it completely and a new trophy was donated by Edward S. Moore, USGA secretary from 1922-25.
The current version is gold in appearance with the names of all the previous winners etched in its base.
"It makes me feel just overwhelmed," said Dickerson about seeing his name with Jones, Palmer and Nicklaus. "I really don't have the words to describe the way I feel right now."
The Havemeyer will be in the possession of Dickerson until 2002, when the next U.S. Amateur will be held at Oakland Hills Country Club. Then, once again, the symbol of amateur golf -- the most prestigious trophy in golf -- will be displayed for all to see.