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- A reborn TPC Four Seasons Las Colinas opens
- IRVING, Tex. -- Under sunny skies with a solid drive in the fairway off the first tee Tuesday morning, course architect D.A. Weibring christened the redesigned TPC Four Seasons Las Colinas course. It was a...
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- Bill Fields for President
- In the March 14 issue of Golf World columnist Bill Fields, with an audaciousness we're not used to, announced his candidacy for the presidency of golf. As his platform, Fields offered sensible solutions for slow...
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- Legends Of Golf Goes To Team Format
- Great news out of Georgia today with the official announcement that the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf will be a two-man team event in 2008 contested for official money and counting as an official victory....
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- Champions Tour Q School
- Punching your ticket to the Champions Tour always has been tough. Last year it got even tougher when Q school stopped awarding full one-year exemptions to the top eight finishers and replaced it with...
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- Thorpe Wins Schwab Championship
- SONOMA, Calif. -- The Charles Schwab Cup Championship will be returning to Sonoma GC in 2008, and Champions Tour officials are talking with the club about a possible 2009 date before the event moves...
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- Watson Leads And The Race For The Cup Heats Up
- SONOMA, Calif. -- By shooting a third-round 67, Brad Bryant pulled within a shot of leader Denis Watson (right) in the Charles Schwab Cup Championship at Sonoma GC. More interestingly, Bryant positioned himself squarely...
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- A Gentleman Retires
- SONOMA, Calif. -- After this weekend, Ben Nelson can pay less attention to the weather forecast and more attention to his golf game. After three years as tournament director for the Champions Tour, which came...
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- In The Hunt Can Be The Prize
- SONOMA, Calif. -- Dinner would taste good for Denis Watson (right) Friday night. All he did Friday in the second round of the Charles Schwab Cup Championship at Sonoma GC was birdie the last...
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- Scott Simpson's Home Also Threatened By Fires
- SONOMA, Calif.--Scott Simpson hit practice putts Wednesday after his pro-am round in the Charles Schwab Cup Championship. It was an idyllic afternoon, far from the harrowing conditions that caused the 1987 U.S. Open champion to...
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- Green, Strange Talk Hall Of Fame
- Hubert Green and Curtis Strange gave wide-ranging interviews yesterday on the occasion of their Nov. 12 induction into the World Golf Hall of Fame. I was traveling to the Charles Schwab Cup Championship and missed...
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- Roller Derby Makes For Good Golf
- PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. -- The idyllic setting along the Monterey Peninsula contrasts starkly with the rough-and-tumble world formerly occupied by one of the senior pros in the field at the Wal-Mart First Tee Open. Frank...
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- Remembering Gay Brewer
- PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. -- The loop and the laughs. When informed of the death of Gay Brewer Jr. -- who passed away Friday at 75 after battling lung cancer since 2006 -- players at...
