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| A Look Back: Dec. 13 1921: U.S. Women's Amateur Champion and LPGA Tour member Jackie Pung is born in Hawaii. 1953: Doug Ford wins the Miami Open. 1970: Doug Sanders beats Chris Blocker in a playoff to win the Bahamas National Open. 1987: Orville Moody wins the Senior PGA Tour's Kaanapali Classic. 1992: Raymond Floyd wins the Senior Tour Championship by five shots over Dale Douglass and George Archer. |
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Architecture
Palmer
Course Design Company announces today that company president
Arnold Palmer and Chief Operating Officer Ed Seay will attend the ground
breaking ceremonies at White Oak Plantation next Tuesday. Palmer Course
Design Company has been selected by CM Group, LLC to redesign the current
nine-hole golf course as well as to design an additional 18-hole Arnold
Palmer Signature golf course.
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Accessories
QLink
Golf is offering a limited time special featuring each of their
three core products to help retailers meet anticipated demand from a new
infomercial the company will launch next month. Now through Dec. 31, retailers
may purchase a "QLink Stocking Special" that includes the company's
acrylic classic pendants, sterling silver pendants and one 14K Gold pendant.
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Equipment
Royal
Precision unveils its PURE RIFLE graphite shaft, the first name-brand
graphite shaft to incorporate SST PURE technology. Custom
clubmakers will have a high-performance, RIFLE-branded graphite shaft
that integrates PUREing technology, an orientation-analysis process that
has been used by more than 150 PGA players.
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Tournaments
Advance tickets
for the 2003 Kraft Nabisco Championship LPGA golf tournament
held March 24-30 at Mission Hills Country Club - one of only four majors
on the women's Tour - are available through Friday, March 7, at reduced
prices. Tickets will also be available at the gate during Tournament Week.
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Briefly
Callaway Golf Company will hold a conference call with
financial analysts and investors Dec. 16 at 1:30 p.m. PST. The call will
be hosted by Ron Drapeau, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
and Brad Holiday, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.
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Golf Digest has selected Prairie Highlands Golf Course in Olathe, Kan., as one of the top 10 Best New Affordable Public Golf Courses in its America's Best New Courses 2002 survey. The course was designed by Craig Schreiner and Todd Clark of Craig Schreiner Course Architects, Inc. ...
GolfGear International Inc., reports that Rankmark.com placed its Tsunami 340cc driver first in the "Tops in Distance" category in an independent test, "The Long and Short of It," published this month. The driver finished fourth overall out of more than 40 clubs.
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Reader's Forum 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. |
Casual
Friday
Reflecting
on Pressure
On Monday, the PGA Tour handed out 38 playing privileges for the upcoming 2003 season, the culmination of six excruciating rounds at the Qualifying Tournament at La Quinta, Calif.
For champion Jeff Brehaut, who finished at 16-under 416, the pressure was a bit less intense than say, oh, Cameron Yancey, who had to shoot a 3-under 69 in order to finish at 8 under and claim one of the final spots.
Looking for a great 19th hole debate?
How about this: What is more difficult - winning a major or earning a tour card at the qualifying tournament?
Ask Woody Austin, who has struggled mightily just to stay on tour the past few years, and he will likely say the latter. Austin was headed to the Nationwide Tour in 2003, sitting at 6 under with three holes to go. But three consecutive birdies got him playing privileges with the big boys next year.
In agreement with Austin would likely be Carl Pettersson, the Swede who is making the move from the European Tour after climbing 43 spots to a tie for 21 st after a final-round 66, or Ken Green - yes, that Ken Green - who gained 28 spots to finish tied for 26 after a 68.
Those are the feel-good stories writers look for heading into the holiday season. The opposite end, though, are the gut-wrenching tales of players like Barry Cheeseman, who entered Monday in a tie for 11th, but closed with an 82. Had Cheeseman shot an 83, he would not have even gotten playing privileges for the Nationwide Tour.
Or Casey Martin, who dropped from 21st to 57th with a 77.
"That was as bad as it gets," Martin said of his final round. "I really wanted it, so there was a lot of pressure on me."
He wasn't the only one. Ý
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One of the nicer additions to television coverage of the PGA Tour this coming season will be USA Network's increase to coverage of 32 tournaments, most notably providing more early-round coverage before handing it over to the networks on the weekend. ...
USA Network will also debut PGA Tour Sunday, an hour-long show devoted to the Tour and will feature John Cook as a studio analyst and features from a team of writers from Golf Digest and Golf World. ...
On the topic of additions, Golf Magazine announced earlier this week that Peter Kessler, the former distinctive voice of The Golf Channel, has joined their editorial team as a contributing writer. Ý
DOUBLE CLICK
www.talkingolf.com
Yes, the PGA Tour's Q-School is over and the 2003 season is still several weeks away, but if you have got a serious golf jones, try going to this site, which provides a daily Internet broadcast. If there is a drawback, it is based in Australia, which limits its scope of the U.S.-based tours.