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A Look Back: Oct. 22 1950: Marvin "Bud" Worsham, brother of 1947 U.S. Open champion Lew Worsham and Wake Forest University golf teammate Arnold Palmer, dies in an automobile accident in North Carolina. 1957: Dennis Trixler, former PGA Tour member, was born in Portland, Ore. 1961: Bob McCallister wins the Orange County Open. 1972: George Knudson wins the Kaiser International Open Invitational by three shots over Hale Irwin and Bobby Nichols. 1995: Duffy Waldorf wins the Texas Open title by six strokes over Justin Leonard. |
Events
Using sponsor Maxfli's A10 golf ball, former hockey star Dan Quinn wins
the Kiawah Children's Hospital Classic in a playoff with defending
champion Rick Rhoden at Kiawah Island's private River Course. A related
event, the Delta Celebrity Challenge, starts Monday in Kiawah Island --
each team has both a professional and a celebrity participating.
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Real Estate
ClubLink Corporation donates 79 hectares in the Torrance Barrens
Conservation and Dark Sky Reserve in Ontario's Muskoka region to the Muskoka
Heritage Foundation. The donation ensures that the entire Torrance Barrens
-- 1,905 hectares in total and renowned among astronomy experts -- will
remain publicly owned untouched by development and preserved as a Dark
Sky Reserve.
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Twenty furnished model
homes and villas are open for viewing at Barefoot Resort & Golf
in North Myrtle Beach, S.C. The homes, built by Centex Homes, are in eight
different neighborhoods of the community, displaying the range of home
types available and are open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday
and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.
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People
Bobby Grace Putters names Ron Reed and Mike Simmel as territory
sales managers. Reed's territory is Washington, Montana and Alaska; Simmel's
is Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas.
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Equipment
Liquidmetal Technologies and Head Sport AG agree to develop
Liquidmetala alloy for use in sporting goods applications. The alloy has
twice the strength of titanium and has been used by Liquidmetal Golf for
drivers, fairway metals, irons, putters and golf balls.
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Fifty-nine players
at the PGA Tour's National Car Rental Golf Classic used Black Widow Cleats
by Softspikes. Golfers wearing that brand of cleat have won 17
PGA Tour events in 2001.
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People, Places
& Things
Jerry Haas
Wake Forest University golf coach
When asked his age, Jerry Haas politely answers, but with a qualifier.
"38... but I'm hardly old," he says as if to infer he had put in quite a bit of life into those years. And, in a sense, he has.
When Haas left Wake Forest University in 1985, he had the same goals as any other aspiring young pro -- to win and win often. And Haas did. Unfortunately, he won only three times and all in 1994 while playing on the then-Nike Tour.
Those wins were the extent of Haas' success in over 200 starts on the PGA and Nike tours in a career that spanned from 1986-96, the high-water mark being the '94 season in which he won a career-high $116,582, but also missed 14 of 26 cuts.
By '97, Haas was back at Wake Forest seeking to win what eluded him and the Demon Deacons during his stay in the early 1980s -- a national championship.
Only this time, Haas is coaching rather than playing.
"I'm really enjoying it. I really want to return the program to the level of prominence that it once had," said Haas, who has Wake Forest currently ranked in the nation's top 10 after the program was in the low 50s just four years ago. "I see my job as trying to get the most out of the players, both on and off the course.
"I can only do so much, though. The players are the ones who will determine our success because there has to be a sense of accountability. I expect them to practice, to work out and to attend class. Golf is the vehicle that brought them here, and so I expect them to do the work on the course and in the classroom."
The same principles Haas applies were in place under legendary coach Jesse Haddock during Haas' playing days, so little has changed in that aspect.
"We definitely play harder courses now than when I played," Haas said. "And the players are in much better shape they work out as hard as football and basketball players -- and can hit the ball so much further."
So much further that Haas is given a distance -- rather than a scoring -- handicap, his players joke.
"I miss the competition," Haas said of being off tour, "but I still like to play, and can still play quite well. Every now and then I have to put a beatin' on the players to show them I can still play."
And coach a pretty good game, too.