Results for June 2009
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OU hires Drouin; Texas Tech takes Robertson
Should the University of Georgia athletic department be contacting local authorities to see if they can have grand theft charges levied against their counterparts at the University of Oklahoma? Less than a week after luring Georgia assistant Ryan Hybl to...
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While Lucas Glover was winning the Open ...
Sorry for the silence on my end the last few days ... finally have dried out from Bethpage.I talked to Clemson men's coach Larry Penley Monday afternoon, not long after former Tiger Lucas Glover won the U.S. Open title. Not...
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SMU, Chattanooga latest to work on practice facilities
The arms race among college golf programs to build the newest, biggest, fanciest courses/practice facilities doesn't seem to have been curbed too much by a sagging economy. At least that's the impression I get from having my e-mail inbox the...
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Nearly 30 amateurs in U.S. Women
FARMINGDALE, N.Y.--There's 15 amateur here in the field at Bethpage Black for the 109th U.S. Open, all either in college or just having finished up school. Still, that number paltry in comparison to the 29 amateurs (19 with college ties,...
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Florida hires Jan Dowling as women's coach
The men's coaching carousel finally started moving this past weekend with Charlotte taking the interim tag off Adam Pry on Friday and Ohio State naming Donnie Darr to replace the retiring Jim Brown on Saturday. Now, the women's side is...
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Two more collegians making their way to Bethpage
Scott Lewis, a rising sophomore at UC Santa Barbara, and David Erdy, a rising sophomore at Indiana are now in the field at the U.S. Open after Dudley Hart and Shingo Katayama withdrew from the tournament with back issues. Lewis...
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Alabama golf teams cited in NCAA report; placed on probation
The Alabama men's and women's golf programs were among 16 different sports teams at the Tuscaloosa, Ala., school that the NCAA put on three years' probation June 11 for major violations due to the misuse of free textbooks. The NCAA...
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School ties at the U.S. Open
The USGA frequently gets creative with its pairings for the first and second rounds of the U.S. Open, often putting together a couple of threesomes that all played at the same college, among other things. This year, that creativity extended...
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Francis to leave UCLA and transfer to Arizona State
Heard yesterday from a reliable source that Philip Francis is going to leave UCLA after two seasons with the Bruins and will enroll at Arizona State for the next school year. I got confirmation this afternoon from UCLA men's coach...
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Men's early, early top 10 for 2009-10
Sorry for the delay with this ... but here's my thoughts on how the men's side of things stacks up with less than three months until the first tournaments of the 2009-10 season.1. Oklahoma StateNCAA finish: Qualified for Elite Eight,...
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