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| A Look Back: Nov. 14 1912: George Fazio, former PGA Tour member and golf course designer, is born in Norristown, Pa. In two national Opens, Fazio won the Canadian in 1946 and lost the 1960 U.S. in a playoff to Ben Hogan. 1965: Homero Blancas wins the Mexican Open. 1971: Jack Nicklaus and Lee Trevino represent the U.S. with a 12-stroke win over Japan in the World Cup at PGA National Golf Club in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. Nicklaus wins the individual title. 1999: Michael Campbell wins the Johnnie Walker Classic by a stroke over Geoff Ogilvy. 1999: Se Ri Pak defeats Laura Davies and Karrie Webb in a playoff to win the PageNet LPGA Tour Championship. |
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European PGA
Tour player Paul Casey, 24, earns the 37th Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the
Year Award. Casey secured his Tour card by finishing tied for second in his fifth
tournament, The Great North Open, and then collected his first title and a two-year
exemption when he won the Gleneagles Scottish PGA Championship in August.
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The
Golf Course Superintendents Association of America selects Houston Couch,
William Ploetz and Bruce Williams as recipients of the association's
Distinguished Service Award. The award is given to individuals who have made an
outstanding, substantive and enduring contribution to the advancement of the golf
course superintendent profession.
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Events
As
part of the LPGA Tour's Tyco/ADT Championship, ADT Security Services hosts
an interactive panel discussion on women's security and safety issues. The panel
will feature LPGA players, including defending champion Dottie Pepper, and local
law enforcement officials in addition to national and local security representatives
from ADT and the National Crime Prevention Council.
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Thousands
of visitors from almost a dozen European countries attend Premiere Golf 2001,
a Reed Exhibitions Pan-European golf trade show held in Marbella, Spain. More
than 100 vendors -- including Taylor Made, Cobra, PING and Wilson, which all introduced
new drivers -- offer on-course product introductions and traditional exhibitions
at the show.
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Sponsorships
Reed
Exhibitions enters into a 10-year event licensing agreement with the Professional
Golfers Association of Great Britain and Ireland. The relationship will provide
the association's membership with registration, travel and housing privileges,
for Europe's Premiere Golf event, among other resources.
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Tours
Three senior mini-tours
join operations to form the United America Tour, which will begin play
in 2002. The tour will incorporate the Retired.com Senior Golf Tour, Southeast
Senior Tour and Sunbelt Senior Tour, and be aligned into three divisions.
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Courses
Dyersburg
Country Club @ the Farms in Tennessee joins the list of courses using management
company Signet Golf Associates of Pinehurst. Signet also manages four courses
in North Carolina and one in the metro Atlanta area.
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Equipment
Nike
Golf Tour Staff member David Duval carries a new driver designed and developed
by Nike Golf. The prototype 275cc driver, made of forged Beta Titanium, was in
Duval's bag for this past weekend's Dunlop Phoenix Tournament.
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Slazenger's
Scott McCarron, along with playing partner Brad Faxon, became the first repeat
winners of the Franklin Templeton Shootout. McCarron uses the Slazenger Players
ball and wears Slazenger apparel, headwear and golf gloves.
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Media
USA Network
airs coverage of the EMC World Cup at the World Golf Championships from Shizouka,
Japan, Nov. 15-16. Tiger Woods and David Duval headline a field that includes
nine out of the 24 members of the U.S. and European Ryder Cup teams.
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Commentary
Lorne Rubenstein on
Royal Dornoch
Lorne Rubenstein is an award-winning golf columnist for The Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper. His work has appeared in Golf Digest, Golf Magazine, Esquire, and many other publications around the world. Rubenstein's new book A Season in Dornoch: Golf and Life in the Scottish Highlands is published by Simon & Schuster. It's available in all bookshops or via www.amazon.com. For information and reviews check www.amazon.com or www.simonsays.com.
"The urge to seek out the remote places grows year by year." Pat Ward-Thomas, a superb English golf writer, said this years ago about a visit he took to the Royal Dornoch Golf Club, far in the northeast of Scotland. Ward-Thomas had it right: The remote places remind us of what golf at its best offers, and it was the urge of which he wrote that sent me to Royal Dornoch in the summer of 2000, where I lived above the local bookshop with my wife Nell for three months.
Golf has been played on Royal Dornoch's links for some 400 years, while the course itself was formalized about a century ago. Donald Ross grew up in a small row house in the village, about a five-minute walk from the course and around the corner from the flat we rented. He learned much of what he would later bring to America in the way of course design while walking Dornoch's rumpled, lonely links at the edge of the North Sea.
Dornoch is too far for the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews to host its British Open -- remote, that is. Dornoch's remoteness is one of its primary appeals. Golf should be a game in which we get away from it all, not in which life gets busier and busier. In Dornoch, in high summer, it's possible to play golf some 20 hours a day, alone or in company. It's also possible simply to walk along the links and feel the wind and the firm, fast ground. Townspeople walk their dogs while golfers move along, carrying their clubs or pushing and pulling their trolleys. Play is fast. Match play is the usual thing.
Golf, a sport, offers much more than sport in open places and spaces. I've felt the repose it offers in many places: Machrihanish in west Scotland; Bali Handara in Bali, Indonesia; Royal West Norfolk or Brancaster in the area known as the Wash, in England; Dooks in southwest Ireland; Jasper in Alberta, Canada; and a little course in Keene, New Hampshire whose name escapes me.
But in Dornoch I found my spiritual golfing home. Back in Toronto, my usual physical home, I wrote my book "A Season in Dornoch: Golf and Life in the Scottish Highlands." Early in the book I write: "I have traveled to this seaside village of 1,300 permanent residents because Royal Dornoch is one of the most beautiful, and tranquil, courses in the world. I have come to explore empty lands, to fill myself with the virtues of golf as sport rather than commercial enterprise."
I found this and so much more in Dornoch. Golf's remote places are worth seeking out, for in seeking them out, we can find something in ourselves: Calm, peace, and, perhaps, shots we didn't know we have. The urge to seek out the remote places grows year by year. It certainly does.