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A Look Back: Oct. 30 1966: Ted Makalena wins the Hawaiian Open. 1977: Leonard Thompson wins the Pensacola Open by two shots over Curtis Strange. 1983: Mark McCumber wins the Pensacola Open by four strokes over Lon Hinkle and Mark Lye. 1984: Curtis Strange wins the Southwest Golf Classic by two strokes over Mark O'Meara. 1994: Mark McCumber wins the Tour Championship, defeating Fuzzy Zoeller in a playoff. |
Business
Adams Golf is unable to escape the effects of a sagging economy,
citing a net loss of just more than $7 million and a drop in net sales
for the company's third quarter. Non-recurring charges of more than $3
million in the quarter also hurt the bottom line, but the company's nine-month
report shows net sales up more than 25 percent over last year.
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Courses
Sam Torrance, Europe's Ryder Cup captain, officially opened the aptly-named
Torrance Course, his first foray into course design, on Oct. 15
at St Andrews Bay Resort -- the new $80 million golf resort just south
of St. Andrews, Scotland. The 7,020-yard, par-72 course sits on cliff
tops overlooking St. Andrews.
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Events
The LPGA and Gateway Sports Promotion Group announce the addition of the
Kellogg-Keebler Classic at Stonebridge Country Club in Aurora,
Ill., a Chicago suburb, May 27-June 2, 2002. The Kellogg-Keebler Classic
will be the first LPGA Tour stop in the Chicago area since the 2000 U.S.
Women's Open and the first regular Tour stop since the 1994 Chicago Challenge.
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Equipment
Callaway Staff Professional Annika Sorenstam wins her seventh event
of 2001 -- the Cisco Ladies Match Play World Championship in Japan --
and locks up a fourth Rolex Player of the Year award. Sorenstam uses 11
Callaway golf clubs and a Callaway golf ball. In other tour news, Per-Ulrik
Johansson used an Odyssey White Hot "2-Ball" Putter to secure his 2002
PGA Tour card while Doug Tewell and Tohru Taniguchi used new HX balls
to rack up second-place finishes on the Senior PGA Tour and Japanese PGA
Tour, respectively.
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Winner of the 2001
Senior Tour Championship Bob Gilder uses Black Widow cleats from Softspikes,
as did 28 others in the field. Black Widow cleats were also worn by the
winners of all four of the major championships on the Senior PGA Tour
in 2001.
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Tours
The Small Business Alliance recognizes the LPGA Urban Youth Golf Program
with its Award of Excellence that pays tribute to businesses with extraordinary
recent achievements and outstanding contributions to their respected fields.
The LPGA Urban Youth Golf Program is a year-long, community-based risk
prevention program geared specifically to children who reside in urban
communities and may not otherwise have the opportunity to play golf.
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Nov. 1-4,
2001
Tee Box
PGA
TOUR
Tour Championship
Dates: Nov. 1-4
Site: Houston, Texas
Course: Champions
Golf Club (par-71, 7,220 yards)
Purse: $5 million. Winner's share: $900,000.
Television: ESPN (Thurs.-Fri., 1-6 p.m.; Sun., 1-2:30 p.m.) and ABC (Sat.,
1-3:30 p.m.; Sun., 2:30-6 p.m.)
Internet: www.pgatour.com
2000 champion: Phil Mickelson (67-69-65-66 -- 267, 13 under)
Southern Farm Bureau
Classic
Dates: Nov. 1-4
Site: Madison, Miss. Course: Annandale
Golf Club (par-72, 7,199 yards)
Purse: $2.4 million. Winner's share: $432,000.
Television: Golf Channel (Thurs.-Fri., 12:30-3 p.m.; Sat., 3-5:30 p.m.;
Sun., 6-8:30 p.m.)
Internet: www.pgatour.com
2000 champion: Steve Lowery (64-67-65-70 -- 266, 22 under)
EUROPEAN PGA TOUR
Atlanet Italian Open
Dates: Nov. 1-4
Site: Sardinia, Italy
Course: Is Molas Golf Club (par-72, 7,013 yards)
Purse: 1 million euros. Winner's share: 166,660 euros.
Television: Golf Channel (Thurs.-Sun., 9 a.m.-noon)
Internet: www.europeantour.com
2000 champion: Ian Poulter (66-67-65-69 -- 267, 21 under)
LPGA TOUR
Mizuno Classic
Dates: Nov. 2-4
Site: Saitama, Japan
Course: Musashigaoka Golf Course
Purse: $1,080,000.
Internet: www.lpga.com
2000 champion: Lorie Kane (70-68-66 -- 204, 12 under)
OTHER TOURNAMENTS
Davidoff Tour: Honda Siels PGA Championship, Nov. 1-4,
Delhi Golf Club, Delhi, India
Japan PGA: Ube Kosan Open, Nov. 2-5, Ube 72 Country
Club, Yamaguchi, Japan
Sunshine Tour: Nissan Pro-Am, Oct. 30, Royal Johannesburg
and Kensington Golf Club
European Senior Tour: STC Seniors Tour Championship,
Nov. 2-4, PGA Golf de Catalunya, Spain
European Challenge Tour: Challenge Tour Grand Final,
Nov. 1-4, Golf du Medoc, Bordeaux, France
Note: All times Eastern Time, schedule subject to change.