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Look Back: Aug. 30 1952: In an unusual twist, Hawaiian Jackie Pung is asked by U.S. Golf Association officials to quit doing a hula dance on the 17th green after Pung's 2 and 1 win over Shirley McFedters in the final. 1970: Bobby Nichols defeats Labron Harris Jr. by one stroke to win the Dow Jones Open. 1998: Brandel Chamblee gets his first PGA Tour win at the Air Canada Championship. He won by three strokes over Payne Stewart. 1998: David Duval wins the NEC World Series of Golf by two strokes over Phil Mickelson. |
Courses
More than 24,000 tons
of sand will be used to protect the coast beside the six golf courses,
including the Old Course, at St. Andrews Links. The project
will protect dunes that were severely eroded in winter storms the past
two years.
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The Cornish, Silva
and Mungeam-designed Sassamon Trace Golf Course, a unique 9-hole
course that straddles the Boston, Mass., suburbs of Natick and Sherborn,
opens for play Sept. 1. The four holes routed in Natick sit atop a former
landfill, while the other five holes play through a Sherborn apple orchard.
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Sponsorships
Maxfli's new
A10 golf ball will be the official ball for a celebrity pro-am event at
Kiawah Island in October that will benefit the MUSC Children's Hospital.
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Equipment
Women's Golf Unlimited
plans to sell its Square Two Golf and NancyLopezGolf clubs and bags in
Asia. Distribution will be handled by K Partnerz, based in Orlando.
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Photography
Photographic Design,
Inc. announces the completion of photographing Independence Golf Club
in Midlothian, Va., home of the Virginia State Golf Association.
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Business
Deere & Company
declares a quarterly dividend of 22 cents per share to be paid out to
shareholders on Nov. 1.
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Apparel
StudioDirect Golf,
which offers specialty retailers private label golf apparel, will host
a seminar detailing private label options Sept. 23 at the Association
of Golf Merchandisers Conference, just before the PGA Fall Expo in Las
Vegas. The company also debuts its private label line for spring 2002
at the Expo.
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Five Questions
Dan Jenkins
Golf
Writer and Founder of GoatHills.com
Q.:
What are you trying to do here? The Internet is not that old, but it looks
like you are trying to create something that no one else has done?
A.:
It's a gimmick a friend of mine thought up in Chicago. I went along with
it. It's a Web site where we're going to have a lot of fun and eventually
play the old golf course I grew up on, that I had written about on numerous
occasions -- first in Sports Illustrated, then in several anthologies.
To be able to recreate the golf course on the screen and have people be
able to play it with their trusty mouse appealed to me.
Plus we're going to have chat rooms and I'm going to
write a column for it, a golf column once a week or once a month. We will
have fantasy golf leagues, just a lot of fun for computer golfers to be
involved in.
Q.:
It seems like Goat Hills is supposed to be fun and not taken too seriously?
A.:
Pretty much, (although) everybody is serious about golf at one point or
other. The Goat Hills Web site is not only going to have a pro shop and
a merchandise division -- obviously it wouldn't be on there if it wasn't
trying to make money -- but that's not the whole point of it. The main
point is to have fun, communicate with golf fans all over the country.
It just has to have time to grow.
Q.:
What else are you working on?
A.:
My main job is to write for Golf Digest. I write a column every month
and I cover all the major championships. I will be covering the Ryder
Cup. I have this new golf novel out, another romantic comedy as they say,
I am hustling that and I will be starting on a new book pretty soon. It's
just me and my word processor, that's all I know how to do.
Q.:
Since you mentioned it, what do you think about this year's Ryder Cup
at the Belfry?
A.:
It's going to be interesting. It's not going to be any walkover for
us, it's always going to be tough. I don't care how many big names they
don't have. We don't have the strongest team in the world. We've got four
really good players and everybody else is sort of ordinary. So we're not
overloaded with major championships either. It will be a contest -- match
play always makes it close. I think it will be a lot of fun and their
fans will be rowdy and trying to get even for last time.
Q.:
You may be one of the only people that one can talk to about the evolution
of the game of golf over a period of time. Has golf evolved as you thought
it would and are you pleased with the outcome?
A.:
I'm astounded at the growth of the game, I really am. I can't believe
that in the last 30 years all the golf courses that have been built, all
the country clubs that have been built. It seems like everybody in America
has a country club they can join now and the biggest improvement is the
arrival of the public/private golf course. Plus the technology that's
come along helps people play the game better -- everybody has length now,
the ball is hot, the clubs are improved. They play ball in the air golf,
all you got to do in drive it along and make putts. In the old days on
some of the ragged courses you played you had to be more creative. That's
why everybody says the Hogans, Sneads and Nelsons were better shot makers,
but today the guys are bigger winners like Jack Nicklaus. It was a different
game, it's still golf, but if you've been around as long as I have you
know it is totally different.