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| A Look Back: Dec. 9 1949: U.S. Open winner, PGA and Senior PGA Tour member Tom Kite is born in Austin, Texas. 1951: Sam Snead wins the Miami Open. 1962: Arnold Palmer wins the PGA Player of the Year award and his second straight Vardon Trophy. 1984: Seve Ballesteros wins the Sun City Challenge. 1990: Betsy King defeats Deb Richard to win the Itoman LPGA World Match Play Championship. |
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Courses
Course designer Jim Engh's first foray into Michigan
resulted in Golf Digest magazine selecting his design at Tullymore
Golf Club in Stanwood, Mich., as its prestigious Best New Upscale
Public Course for 2002.
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Internet
PING
creates a Web site to help golfers select the features of their own custom-designed
PING SPECIFY putter. There is no cost until users actually place an order
for a putter.
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Players
Peter Lonard moves up eight places to World No. 44 this
week after winning the MasterCard Masters at Huntingdale Golf Club in
Melbourne. This puts him solidly in the top 50 and secures a Masters invitation
for the Australian golfer who just finished his rookie season on the PGA
Tour.
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India's Jyoti
Randhawa collected the Davidoff Tour Order of Merit trophy and
received the Players' Player of the Year title at the Asian PGA's Gala
Dinner and awards night held at the Sheraton Subang Hotel just outside
Kuala Lumpur.
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Briefly
Golfsmith International promotes Toby Fausett to executive
coordinator of the Golf Clubmakers Association. He previously worked as
the company's call center manager and a teacher in the Advanced Clubmaker
Program. ...
The University of California Riverside has opened its new Turfgrass Research Program Web site at ucrturf.ucr.edu. ...
Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences is enrolling students for a new certificate program that trains students to be turfgrass and agricultural equipment service technicians. ...
An investor group that has agreed to acquire real estate investment trust National Golf Properties and course management firm American Golf Corporation hires Roland Smith as CEO of each of the companies, to take effect after the completion of the acquisition. ...
Square Two Golf, a brand of Women's Golf Unlimited, is sponsoring the 2002 Square Two Golf LPGA Teaching and Club Pro Team Classic in Phoenix, Ariz., again this year. ...
The Mississippi Development Authority Division of Tourism announces that Shell Landing Golf Club in Gautier has been rated No. 5 in the category of "Best New Public Upscale" course by Golf Digest in the magazine's just-released America's Best New Courses 2002 rankings.
Reader's
Forum
Tiger
Shows Attitude
Reader's Forum allows you, The Wire reader, to weigh in on the issues and topics surrounding the game.
Last week, Tiger Woods got so annoyed at an amateur photographer in the gallery at the Skins Game that he spoke sharply to him while his caddie Steve Williams confiscated the man's camera and threw it into the nearby lake. Sunday at his own Target World Challenge Woods refused to speak with NBC commentators after hitting a poor approach shot at the 18th and losing to Padraig Harrington by two shots. Do you admire Tiger's intensity no matter what is on the line, or should he tone it down for these unofficial, "Silly Season" events?
Let us know your opinions by sending your responses to info@gpagolf.com with the subject line RE: Intensity. Also include your first initial and last name, along with your city and state or country.
Last week Reader's Forum asked:
For the second time in a month, a title on a major golf tour has been shared. Peter Lonard and Jarrod Moseley elected to share the Australian PGA trophy rather than return Monday to finish a playoff. Australian golf star Greg Norman criticized the decision, saying tournament rules that state sudden death should continue until a winner is decided should be adhered to no matter what. Last week, Norman criticized organizers of the Australian Open for canceling the first round because of unplayable greens, saying Australian golf was humiliated.
Should Norman continue to speak out on issues in golf, especially in his native Australia? Do you enjoy hearing what he has to say? What role should Norman take in the golf world as he gets older and continues to diversify into other business interests?