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| A Look Back: Dec. 18 1932: The Associated Press names Gene Sarazen as the year's most outstanding athlete after winning the U.S. and British Opens. 1933: Bobby Jones announces that he will compete in an invitation tournament at his new Augusta National Golf Club next March. 1938: Harold McSpaden wins the Miami Open. 1944: Byron Nelson is named The Associated Press' outstanding athlete after winning eight times on the PGA Tour. 1971: Bobby Jones, winner of 13 major championships and the Grand Slam in 1930, dies at age 69 following a 20-year bout with a crippling spinal ailment that gradually paralyzed his arms and legs. |
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Architecture
Raymond
Hearn Golf Designs opens a new office in Florida to spearhead company directives
in the southeast United States. The Detroit area-based design firm will begin
operations at its new Port St. Lucie, Fla., location in January 2002, according
to company founder Ray Hearn.
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Events
Citing a changing
golf industry and a more service orientated approach to its trade customer, including
a commitment to shipping custom-fit product in 48 hours, PING announces
it will not exhibit at the 2003 PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando, Fla. The
company will take part in the 2002 show next month.
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PGA Golf
Exhibitions releases a statement reminding the golf industry that space at the
2002 PGA Merchandise Show next month in Orlando cannot be re-sold or sub-leased.
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Organizers
of the 2002 Mercedes Championships in Kapalua welcome Spanish golfer Sergio
Garcia as a competitor to watch. He won twice within a month on the PGA Tour,
capturing the MasterCard Colonial and the Buick Classic, to earn a spot in the
field.
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Courses
Arcadia
Bluffs Golf Club, located above the Lake Michigan shoreline in Arcadia Township,
earned the No. 2 ranking in Golf Digest's Best New Upscale Public Course category
for 2001. The magazine annually ranks the best public and private courses in the
nation.
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Equipment
California
equipment maker Gauge Design Golf releases a putter engraved with the American
Flag. A portion of the sales on that putter, which retails for $250, will go to
Marine Corp and Navy families who cannot afford basic home necessities.
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Yamaha
Golf-Car Company enters into a five-year agreement with ParView, a
provider of GPS Course Management Systems, to put those systems in Yamaha customers'
golf cars through a flexible leasing program. Details of the program will be announced
at the PGA Merchandise Show next month.
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Technology
The
State of Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department names Pause Golf Solutions
as the software/solution provider for the 10 golf courses in the state system.
Beginning in January, Pause Golf will provide software to handle tournaments,
make reservations and market those courses.
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People
Sports
marketing and event management company Peter Jacobsen Productions signs LPGA Tour
professional Mhairi McKay to a player representation contract. McKay, a
four-year all-American while at Stanford, recently finished 20th on the LPGA money
list in her third year on Tour.
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Week of Dec. 17-23
Tee Box
PGA/SENIOR PGA/LPGA TOUR
Wendy's
Three-Tour Challenge
Dates: Dec. 22-23
Site: Henderson, Nev.
Course:
Lake Las Vegas Resort (SouthShore Golf Club)
Purse: $800,000.
Television:
ABC (Sat.-Sun., 4-6 p.m.)
2000 champions: Notah Begay III, Rocco Mediate,
Phil Mickelson
Note: Play date was Tuesday, Nov. 6.
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The 19th Hole As usual this time of year, there are plenty of lists being checked. So The Wire thought it would check one of its own. We want to know what/who you, the reader, think is (1) the best course in the United States; (2) the course you most want to play; (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. |