A Look Back: Oct. 12 1904: Harvey Penick, the Texas teaching legend who coached Ben Crenshaw, Tom Kite, Kathy Whitworth, Betsy Rawls and Sandra Palmer, is born in Austin, Texas. 1951: Sally Little, winner of 15 LPGA Tour events, including three major championships, is born in Capetown, South Africa. 1980: Dan Halldorson posts a 13-under-par total to win the Pensacola Open by two strokes over Gary Hallberg and Mike Sullivan. 1986: Ernie Gonzalez edges Joey Sindelar by one stroke to win the rain-shortened 36-hole Pensacola Open. 1997: David Duval wins his first PGA Tour event, the Michelob Championship at Kingsmill, defeating Duffy Waldorf and Grant Waite in a playoff.

Events
All 12 United States players to compete in the inaugural UBS Warburg Cup at The Ocean Course at Kiawah Island Nov. 12-18 are named. Arnold Palmer will serve as playing captain in the match between the United States and the Rest of the World. Six players on each side will be ages 40-49 and six players will be over 50.
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Long hitters gather Oct. 16-20 in Nevada to vie for the RE/MAX World Long Drive Championship and a share of the $300,000 purse. Players will compete in one of three divisions: Open (96 entrants), Senior (48 entrants) and Women's (16 entrants).
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People
PGA Tour Partners Magazine hires Tom Brown to be its new publisher. The magazine is published by North American Media Group and is strongly affiliated with the PGA Tour.
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Courses
ClubLink, Canada's largest owner and operator of golf courses, announces it will open Le Fontainebleau Club de Golf as its first private club in the greater Montreal area. The course, scheduled to open in summer 2003, will be designed by Darrell Huxham and Graham Cooke.
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Equipment
Sixty-four players are wearing Black Widow cleats made by Softspikes at the PGA Tour's Invensys Classic at Las Vegas. Players wearing the spikes have won the last two PGA Tour events.
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Business
Shareholders of Carbite Golf approve a 1:4 reverse stock split to take effect Oct. 12. The company's trading symbol on the Canadian Venture Exchange will also change from CAB to CGT.
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Callaway Golf plans to broadcast its third-quarter results in an online conference call Oct. 18. The call can be accessed at www.callawaygolf.com.
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Casual Friday
Tiger Tomes

Tiger Woods' highly-anticipated "How I Play Golf" (Warner Books) arrived on bookshelves this week. This book is different from the litany of other Woods books in that it's written by Woods -- with a little help from Golf Digest editors Pete McDaniel and Guy Yocum.

While the book offers interesting tidbits about Woods, the real appeal is the world's No. 1 player's own insight into the swing, course management and pressure. Woods attempts to reach both the serious and casual golfer in a tone that is could be described as a combination of "Five Modern Fundamentals of Golf" by Ben Hogan and the "Little Red Book" by Harvey Penick.

"We tried to make the book fun, which is hard to do with an instruction book," Warner vice president and executive editor Rick Wolff told the Associated Press. "But it's meant to be a hip, humorous, fun book to read."

There are believed to be approximately 70 books published about Woods, though "How I Play Golf" is the first book Woods has authorized.

Add to that list David Owen's "The Chosen One: Tiger Woods and the Dilemma of Greatness" (Simon & Schuster), which quietly hit bookstores this week, as well. Owen takes a philosophical look at Woods' social, economic and athletic impact.

In the end, there may be more to be learned about Woods from Owens' book than Tiger himself.

TAP-INS

Mark the calendar as The Golf Channel's Viewer's Forum (Wednesday, Oct. 17, 8 p.m. ET) should offer a lively discussion. A panel that includes Titleist CEO Wally Uihlen, Spalding Sports Vice President of Research and Engineering Tom Kennedy, golf course architect Bobby Weed and U.S. Golf Association Senior Technical Director Dick Rugge will discuss how technology -- specifically golf ball design -- is affecting golf courses, their design and redesign....
Ever wonder what became of Jenny Chuasiriporn, who in 1998 as an amateur lost an 18-hole playoff to Se Ri Pak at the U.S. Women's Open? After playing 11 events on the SBC/Futures Tour and winning only $1,146 this past year, Chausiriporn this week accepted a position as assistant coach for the University of Virginia's men's team.