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| A Look Back: Dec. 7 1929: Leo Diegel defends his PGA Championship title, defeating Johnny Farrell 6 and 4 in the championship at Hillcrest Country Club in Los Angeles. 1930: Dan Sikes Jr., a six-time winner on the PGA Tour, is born in Jacksonville, Fla. Sikes died on Dec. 20, 1987. 1936: Ralph Guldahl wins the Miami Biltmore Open. 1969: Arnold Palmer wins the season-ending Danny Thomas Diplomat Classic and winning for the second straight week. 1975: The United States wins the World Cup by 10 strokes in Bangkok, Thailand. The Americans were represented by Johnny Miller and Lou Graham. |
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Equipment
Orlimar
Golf announces is has entered into a joint venture with Dave Pelz,
a leading authority on golf's short game play. Under this agreement, Orlimar will
manufacture and distribute a complete line of Pelz-designed wedges.
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In
2001, players wearing CHAMP spikes posted 28 PGA Tour victories, while
three of the top five and six of the top 10 players on the PGA Tour chose CHAMP
spikes. CHAMP's closest competitor posted 17 victories.
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Cleat
manufacturer Softspikes agrees to partner with the Dodge Celebrity Invitational
hosted by Jim McMahon, scheduled for Dec. 12-16 at Miromar Lakes Beach and Golf
Club in Bonita Springs, Fla. Softspikes will offer each of the 275 participants
an opportunity to have their golf shoes changed out to a new set of the company's
Black Widow or Shadow cleats.
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Courses
Billy Casper
Golf announces that it has signed a multi-year management agreement deal with
Timberlake Development Partners L.L.C. to provide turnkey planning, construction
and management services for The Golf Club at Oxford Greens, a new, semi-private
golf club located in Oxford, Conn.
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Architecture
Courses
committed to remodeling projects in 2002 are taking a long, hard look at every
line item because of the economic slow down, and irrigation often gets the longest
review because of its high cost, according to Brian Vinchesi, president of the
American Society of Irrigation Consultants.
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Business
American
Golf Corporation is implementing the National Golf Foundation's Customer Loyalty
and Satisfaction Program in all 200 of its public facilities. The program will
help determine who AGC's customers are, what they think of their facilities, and
how the courses compare in golfers' minds to the competition.
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Women's
golf equipment manufacturer Women's Golf Unlimited relocates its Lady Fairway
operations from Tampa, Fla. to its corporate headquarters in Fairfield, N.J. Lady
Fairway's customer service, product distribution and administrative functions
have been consolidated with those of the Square Two Golf and NancyLopezGolf brands.
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Toro
announces that it will sell its Riverside, Calif., headquarters and plant, where
much of the manufacturing of its golf-related products is done. The company will
move manufacturing operations to its facility in El Paso, Texas, and office operations
to a leased facility to be established in the Riverside area.
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Real Estate
Hilda
W. Allen Real Estate Company announces that courses from Florida to Pennsylvania
are available for purchase. These properties range in size and features, with
public, private and semi-private courses available.
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Health
Some
golfers are using a medical device called Light-Force-Therapy to reduce
pain and relieve arthritis. Makers claim the various spectrums of light from their
product increases oxygen and blood flow, stimulates nerve functioning, decreases
inflammation, increases mobility and facilitates pain reduction and muscle relaxation.
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Casual Friday
Checking those lists
twice
As if there were not enough lists floating around this time of year, another one was dropped in the mail recently in the form of Golf Digest's America's Best New Courses list that is published in the January 2002 issue.
Not surprisingly, Tom Doak's Pacific Dunes (Bandon, Ore.) heads the list of Best New Upscale Public courses, followed by Arcadia Bluffs Golf Club in Arcadia, Mich., and Wolf Creek at Paradise Canyon in Mesquite, Nev. There are also top-10 lists for Best New Private (Kinloch GC, Manakin-Sabot, Va.), Best New Affordable Public (The Golf Club at Redlands Mesa, Grand Junction, Colo.) -- green fees of $50 or less, which we at The Wire really appreciate.
Wait, there's more.
In the Dec. 10 issue of Sports Illustrated's Golf Plus, writer Gary Van Sickle chimes in with his own list of the top 10 new public courses, regardless of the dime dropped. Tops on Van Sickle's list are Pacific Dunes at No. 1 and Golf Club at Redlands Mesa at No. 3, but also Doonbeg Golf Club in Doonbeg, Ireland, at No. 2, and Augusta Pines in Spring, Texas, at No. 4.
Who, though, says these are the authoritative lists? No one.
The Wire would like to know what you, the reader, think is (1) the best course in the United States; (2) the course you most want to play, but have not; (3) the best course designer -- past or present.
Send your picks to stuart@gpagolf.com with RE: poll in the subject line and the results will be published in The Wire in early January.
TAP-INS
The
U.S. Golf Association announces that 558 golfers were reinstated as amateurs in
2001, marking the fifth straight year more than 500 golfers had their amateur
status restored....
The PGA Junior Series, a program that provides competitive
golf for juniors age 13 to 17, will offer seven new sites when it's 11-state series
begins June 3-5 at Kearney Hill Golf Links in Lexington, Ky....
The PGA of
America announced that Twin Warriors Golf Club in Santa Ana Pueblo, N.M., has
been selected to host The 36th PGA Club Professional Championship June 19-22,
2003. The PGA also will return to Sunriver (Ore.) Resort's Crosswater Club in
2007 for the CRC....
Nissan will continue to be the title sponsor of the Los
Angeles Open at Riviera Country Club through 2006.