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| A Look Back: Nov. 25 1923: Masters winner Art Wall is born in Honesdale, Pa. 1962: Bo Wininger wins the Carling Open. 1964: PGA Tour member Nolan Henke is born in Battle Creek, Mich. 1973: The United States team of Johnny Miller and Jack Nicklaus wins the World Cup by six strokes over South Africa. Miller also wins the individual trophy. 1984: Jack Nicklaus wins the second Skins Game at Desert Highlands in Arizona.
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Business
GolfGopher,
a division of Software Performance Systems, Inc., completes the acquisition
and merger of Teetimes.com. With the deal, GolfGopher
will add tee time reservations and marketing systems to its web-based
golf course management solutions.
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People
Keyonix hires
Bill McKissock of dBmComm to sell and install its Smart
Key golf cart accountability system in South Florida.
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Clay Brittain,
chairman of the board of Myrtle Beach National Company, will be honored
with the National Golf Course Owners Association Don Rossi Award, which
recognizes an individual who has made a significant and long-lasting contribution
to the association.
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Peter Johncke,
"The Trick Shot Master," performed his "Mysteries of Golf
Show" before an audience of more than 1,000 golf fans and tour players
at the ADT LPGA Tour Championship Saturday.
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Tournaments
The Sony Open in Hawaii, the first full field PGA Tour
event of the year, will feature 144 Tour pros from around the world competing
for the $810,000 victor's share of the overall $4.5 million purse Jan.
13-19.
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The $700,000 Omega
Hong Kong Open, which is being joint-sanctioned by the Davidoff
Tour and the European Tour for the second year in a row, has undergone
some changes to its traditional layout and will see six new holes used
in competition.
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Instruction
Kelli Kostick, New England PGA Section Teacher of the
Year in 2001, is named director of instruction at the winter home of the
Dr. Jim Suttie Golf Academy at The Club at TwinEagles in Naples, Fla.
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Courses
The National Golf Course Owners Association board of directors votes to
honor Fox Hills Golf and Banquet Center in Plymouth,
Mich., with the 2003 Course of the Year Award. This award honors a single
course that demonstrates quality, good management, contribution to its
community and promotion of the game.
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Now that Palmer Course
Design Company has completed the Arnold Palmer Signature Golf Course at
Frenchman's Reserve, Toll Brothers, the nation's leading
builder of luxury homes and the community's developer, has opened the
challenging 18-hole course to members.
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Players
Gary Player will receive the 2003 National Golf Course
Owners Association Award of Merit in recognition of his outstanding contributions
to the game of golf. The award will be presented at the Awards Banquet
on February 26 at the NGCOA Solutions Summit annual conference.
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Briefly
The Golden Sprinkler Award was presented at the seventh annual Golf Symposium
Nov. 19, to golf courses in Massachusetts' Barnstable and Plymouth counties
that demonstrate top conditions and service. Barnstable County's recipient
was New Seabury Resort in Mashpee, while the Plymouth
County recipient was the Pinehills Golf Club in Plymouth.
Reader's
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Dominating Force
Reader's Forum allows you, The Wire reader, to weigh in on the issues and topics surrounding the game.
Annika Sorenstam just won her 11th LPGA Tour event and 13th worldwide event Sunday when she collected the ADT Championship trophy. Is Annika as much of, or more a force on her tour than Tiger Woods is on his? Is she doing all she can to promote women's golf? What, if any, responsibility does she have to speak out on issues like Augusta National admitting a woman member? If you were in her position, what would you do to improve the profile of the LPGA Tour and life for women golfers?
Let us know your opinions by sending your responses to info@gpagolf.com with the subject line RE: Annika. Also include your first initial and last name, along with your city and state or country.
Last week Reader's Forum asked:
Recent legislation proposed by the NCAA could lead to the elimination of the fall collegiate golf season and would limit the playing and practice time of NCAA student-athletes in every sport, including out-of-season weight training and conditioning, summer weight training and conditioning and foreign tours. The reasoning for this is that athletes need to limit their time on the field of play in order to study and enjoy a collegiate social life. But traditionally, collegiate golfers maintain among the highest grade-point averages and graduation rates on campus. Should golf be treated differently from other collegiate sports?