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Today's Feature Highlights
Courses
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The Rock Golf Club, a Marriott Golf-managed property in Muskoka, Canada, will re-open on Thursday, May 22, after undergoing a series of refinements.
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Sun Valley Resort in Sun Valley, Idaho, will open its Trail Creek Course May 15, and the anticipated first nine holes of the White Clouds Course are in the final grow-in phase and remain on schedule to open this summer.
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Destinations
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Boyne in Boyne Falls, Mich., opens its golf season with family and value packages. Seven courses are currently open with the eighth scheduled to open May 16.
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Endorsements
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Sonocaddie, manufacturer of golf GPS systems, signs LPGA player Amy Hung to an endorsement deal. This marks the first endorsement deal for Sonocaddie.
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Equipment
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Daiwa Golf Co. announces that its new OnOff irons have been named "2008 Irons of the Year" by Golf Digest Japan.
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» Shafts
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Aldila captured the wood and hybrid shaft manufacturer counts at the Nationwide Tour's Fort Smith Classic, and led the hybrid count at The Players Championship, according to the Darrell Survey.
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SMT Golf introduces its first steel golf shaft, available in both R/S and A/L combination flexes are 40.5-inches long raw length and .370 tip diameter to cover the wide array of flexes.
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» Spikes
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PrideSports reports that, year-to-date, the company's stable of plastic cleat offerings are worn by more than 70 percent of the top 50 PGA Tour leaders in driving accuracy, including The Players Championship runner-up.
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Events
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The Golf Industry Show received the No. 82 ranking from Tradeshow Week for its performance in February in Anaheim, Calif.
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Exhibitions
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The Royal and Ancient Golf Club will display some of its artifacts at the Pine Valley Golf Resort in Beijing, China.
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Honors
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PGA Honorary Member Dennis Walters of Jupiter, Fla., whose dream of a tour career ended after a paralyzing accident in 1974, only to become a popular trick shot entertainers, has been named the recipient of the 2008 PGA Distinguished Service Award.
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Rosen Shingle Creek in Orlando, Fla., which has yet to even celebrate its second birthday, has won Meetings & Conventions magazine's 2008 Gold Tee Award.
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Instruction
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French Lick Resort Casino in French Lick, Ind., announces the debut of the Dave Pelz Short Game Clinics in 2008.
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Internet
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Cybergolf adds Eagle Vines Golf Club in Napa, Calif., as its newest client and will custom design and host the property's website, e-mail marketing newsletter system and e-commerce tool.
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Dakota Golf Management in Sioux Falls, S.D., selects Golf Fusion's interactive web-based Event Manager.
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People
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ProLink Holdings Corp., provider of GPS golf course management systems and digital out-of-home on-course advertising, appoints Ron Bension to its board of directors.
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KemperSports names Rosa Guevara as sales and marketing director of Ridge Creek Dinuba Golf Club in Dinuba, Calif.
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K-Motion Interactive promotes Brian Vermilyea to general manager.
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The San Diego Golf Academy reports on brothers who have made golf business a family affair.
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Players
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Annika Sorenstam, 37, announces she will retire from competitive play at the conclusion of the 2008 LPGA season.
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Software
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Crescent Systems reports that Arbor Springs Golf and Resort in Newnan, Ga., has upgraded its Crescent Systems suite of software.
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Training Aids
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The Putting Arc reports that Andrew Tschudin, who won the NGA/Hooters Tour's Orion Group Golf Classic, uses its putting aid.
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Briefly
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» Etcetera Plymouth Country Club in Plymouth, Mass., moves to ClubTec's SQL Club Management Solutions. ... John Harbottle Design announces the completion of renovations to Marin Country Club in Novato, Calif., and The Country Club at Salt Lake City. ... Northwestern director of golf Pat Goss announces the hiring of Emily Fletcher as the Wildcats' women's head coach. ... The Golf Coaches Association of America announces the Division III Cleveland Golf All-America Scholars. The scholars are: Matthew Becker (Rhodes), Justin Palmer (Rhodes), Joshua Chen (Carnegie Mellon), Nicholas Profancik (Maryville), Dave Christie (Hamilton), Luke Redfern (Claremont McKenna), Patrick Cohn (Emory), Andy Schillig (Ohio Wesleyan), Jeff Corbett (Hamilton), Patrick Serfass (Susquehanna), Scott Cruff (Susquehanna), Ryan Sheets (Hope), Joe Daly (Saint John's), Corey Shemelya (Allegheny), Michael De Runtz (Illinois Wesleyan), Howard Smith (Carnegie Mellon), Ryan Eastman (Mary Hardin-Baylor), Paul Soener (Luther), Jeremy Evans (Emory), Mark Stuckey (Gustavus Adolphus), Andrew Gihm (NYU), Bradley Sutherland (Transylvania), Jordan Hawkinson (Gustavus Adolphus), Ryan Swanson (Clarkson), Mike Hayes (Hamilton), Alexander Timmons (Carnegie Mellon), Nathaniel James (Washington & Lee), John Treacy (St. Thomas), Adam Krainson (NYU), Gregory Turcotte (Transylvania), Donald Kring (Hope), Reid Turner (Central), Thomas Lantzy (Luther), Taylor Urbanski (Oglethorpe), Matthew Lapham (Hope), William Wisniewski (Allegheny), Tyler Lawson (Nebraska Wesleyan), Thomas Yamaoka (Hope), Kyle Martin (Ohio Wesleyan), Jason Zubatkin (Manhattanville), and Lee Nalley (Huntingdon). |
 | GolfBrief.com: Raking it in
GolfBrief columnist Jim McCabe has a peeve that was irritated at The Players Championship. No, it's not the quirky 17th island green - though that's for another day. Instead, it's the practice of bunker rakes, of all things, not being in bunkers. Story |
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