A Look Back: Sept. 13 1987: Sam Randolph shoots a final-round 64 to win the rain-shortened Bank of Boston Classic by four strokes over Wayne Grady, Gene Sauers and Ray Stewart in Sutton, Mass. 1987: Nancy Lopez wins the Safeway LPGA Golf Championship by one stroke over Kelly Leadbetter, Jan Stephenson and Muffin Spencer-Devlin. 1992: Greg Norman defeats Bruce Lietzke in a playoff to win the Canadian Open ay Glen Abbery Golf Club in Oakville, Ontario. 1998: Billy Andrade defeats Bob Friend in a playoff to win the Bell Canadian Open. 1998: Colin Montgomerie wins the Victor Chandler British Masters a shot over Eduardo Romero and Pierre Fulke.

Events
Following Tuesday's tragedies, the PGA Tour announces it will not play the World Golf Championships-American Express Championship in St. Louis this week. In addition, the Tampa Bay Classic, the Senior PGA Tour's Vantage Championship and the Buy.com Tour's Oregon Classic are canceled and will not be rescheduled.
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LPGA Tour Commissioner Ty Votaw announces that the LPGA Tour's Safeway Classic in Portland, Ore., will be played. However, if there is a national day of mourning, the tournament will be shortened.
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Travel
In light of the tragedies and airline groundings, PerryGolf permits clients booked on tours to the British Isles to reschedule their trips any time in the next 12 months.
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From Nov. 17 to Feb. 28, the Hilton Head Marriott Beach & Golf Resort will give away a custom-fitted set of Wilson Fat Shaft irons to guests staying at the resort for at least three nights.
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Equipment
PING Golf introduces its PING Golf Collection of accessories. The line includes a backpack, briefcase, medium and small duffel bags, large travel cover with wheels, small travel cover, shoe bag, valuables pouch, cart gloves, umbrellas in two sizes, wood covers and towels.
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Swingless Golf debuts a new product that allows non-golfers, seniors and the physically challenged to hit drives of 50 to 200 yards. Chipping, pitching and putting are done using conventional clubs.
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Courses
Jeffersonville Golf Course, the recently rediscovered Donald Ross design in Pennsylvania, holds the inaugural Donald Ross Cup on Oct. 7. Players will compete in a two-person scramble format, with all teams competing without the use of handicaps.
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People
Tiger Woods signs a multi-year agreement with EA Sports, which makes the Tiger Woods PGA Tour Golf video game. Woods has worked with the company since 1998, when the Tiger Woods PGA Tour franchise debuted.
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Former Wake Forest player Laura Diaz is featured on the cover of Golf World magazine as an up-and-coming golfer on the LPGA Tour.
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Collectibles
Sports card manufacturer Upper Deck introduces PenCam, an autograph authentication device that combines a pen and video camera to document autographed items. Tiger Woods, among other athletes, endorses the use of the product.
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Five Questions
Tom Doak
Architect and author

Tom Doak is a noted architect and author who debuted highly-acclaimed works in both arenas this year. On the peaceful Southern coast of Oregon, Doak has unveiled Pacific Dunes, a breathtaking course that is reminiscent of Scottish links and that is the talk of the golfing community. Doak also collaborated with Dr. James Scott and Ray Haddock on the writing of The Life and Work of Dr. Alister MacKenzie, a compelling biography that provides a fresh insight to the man and his legacy. In a special two-part Five Questions session, Doak recently talked about MacKenzie and the course designer's lasting influence on the profession, the on-going changes at Augusta National, as well as Doak's own masterpiece, Pacific Dunes. This is the second of two parts.
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Q.: One of your newest designs, Pacific Dunes, has received nothing but critical acclaim. What influenced your thought process in that specific design and, given your affinity for MacKenzie's work, were you able to incorporate elements of his works into the Pacific Dunes design?

A.: Partly the owner's wish and partly a reaction I had from Cypress Point, because Cypress Point is probably one of MacKenzie's more subdued sets of greens. It's such a beautiful site, he didn't want -- didn't need -- to compete with that. There is so much going on from tee to green, you never have a level lie, the wind is always in play. You don't really want to twist the knife and make the greens that much harder.

So yes, there are a lot of parallels to MacKenzie and Cypress Point, in particular, going right down to having two par-3s in a row on the golf course. That was something I never thought I would do in laying out 18 holes, but as it turned out we had two great par-3 settings right along the ocean, couldn't turn either one of them into a par 4 and basically couldn't stand to just walk around and not use that ground. So that's what you have. In fact, if you look at the scorecard of Pacific Dunes, it's pretty unconventional in with the back-to-back par-3s and a bunch of par-3s and par-5s on the back nine. But we were convinced that the experience of the golf course, the routing and how it explored the property was so good and was such a great experience for the golfer that we didn't care what the par was for particular holes.

I think experience has born us out to be right on that. I had my doubts because I had played all over the world and usually I can come up with a parallel for anything wild I want to do on a golf course. I have seen greens with a lot of fall, I have seen great courses that were par 68s and 74s, so usually I can come up with something comparable any time I want to do something a little unusual. That scorecard for the back nine at Pacific Dunes with three par-5s and four par-3s, I have never seen that on a great golf course.
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