Results for September 2008
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Annika and the AJGA team up to host girls tourney
As the featured speaker at last November's American Junior Golf Association awards banquet, Annika Sorenstam made a notable impression on many of the game's top junior golfers. It turns out the reverse also occurred as Sorenstam has decided to lend her name to a newly created AJGA tournament beginning next year. The ANNIKA Invitational will feature a field of 60...
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Is Sergio Settling Down?
ATLANTA -- Dateless for the Ryder Cup, the European wives and significant others were teasing Sergio Garcia last week about his love life, saying the notorious bachelor should settle down. The Spaniard played along by asking if they'd like it if "Morgan came back" -- Morgan, of course, being Morgan-Leigh Norman, daughter of Greg. The two were an item at...
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Kim: Good Finish Could Help the Mortgage
ATLANTA -- The housing market crash has only slightly crimped the plans of Anthony Kim, who has an architect and a lot picked out to build "a house they'd want to put on 'Cribs,' " the popular MTV reality show. "But it will take a win," Kim said at East Lake GC. Money can be a great motivator, but Kim...
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Villegas Has A New Fitness Plan
ATLANTA -- Camilo Villegas has no plans to challenge Lance Armstrong, but the Colombian who won the BMW Championship has caught the rush of cycling. Featured in Men's Fitness as one of the most finely conditioned athletes on the PGA Tour, one can imagine golf's Spiderman all decked out in bike shorts and jersey, hair flying out of his...
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AK Is "One Funny Dude", Says Phil
ATLANTA -- At the Ryder Cup, when he was asked what he had learned about Anthony Kim, Phil Mickelson replied, "He's one funny dude." That sense of humor was on display Thursday at East Lake CC, along with Kim's very impressive game, when he took a four-shot opening-round lead with a six-under par 64. Asked about his ability to go...
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Hart: Comeback Player of the Year?
ATLANTA -- It was just a year ago that Dudley Hart was looking at a few months of being snowbound in Buffalo, NY, and then facing the prospect of having to scramble to keep his playing privileges after taking most of the year off to tend to his triplets while his wife, Suzanne, underwent life-threatening lung surgery. Now, Hart is...
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Azinger Will Throw Out First Pitch for Rays
It's official. Paul Azinger, the victorious U.S. Ryder Cup captain, will throw out the first pitch when the Tampa Bay Rays hold their first home playoff game. The date and time are to be determined, because the American League season ends Sunday, and the Rays--who have clinched their first playoff berth in franchise history--still could be either a wild-card or...
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Campbell, Kim Still On Ryder Cup High
ATLANTA -- Most of the members of the victorious American Ryder Cup team have begun staggering into East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta for the Tour Championship, with the accent on the stagger. The U.S. team, along with several members of the European side, stayed up until the approach of dawn Monday morning celebrating the week that was in Kentucky....
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The Boo Weekley-Fights-An-Orangutan Story
LOUISVILLE--A lot of people at the Ryder Cup are talking about Boo Weekley, and one of the stories they want to hear is about a young Boo going head-to-head with an orangutan. Here's the story from his "My Shot" with Golf Digest's Guy Yocom from December 2007: One Friday night when I was 16, a bunch of us went to...
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What They Were Saying
LOUISVILLE--Reactions from the final day of the Ryder Cup: Paul Azinger, steering away from an answer after being asked if he would consider captaining the U.S. team again [Phil Mickelson and Justin Leonard interrupt by saying, "Zinger in 2010," and Jim Furyk adds, "Is that a promise, by the way?" before Azinger responds]: "We're going to have a good time...
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