25
Oct
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SAN ANTONIO (AP)—Phil Blackmar won his first Champions Tour title Sunday, birdieing five of his first six holes en route to a 7-under 64 and a one-stroke victory over Jay Haas, Tom Kite and Andy Bean in the AT&T Championship.
Blackmar, a three-time winner on the PGA Tour who joined the Champions Tour late in 2007, had a 10-under 203 total on the Oak Hills course. The 6-foot-7 former University of Texas player earned $255,000 in the final full-field event of the year.
http://sports.yahoo.com/golf/pga/news?slug=ap-championstour&prov=ap&type=lgns
25
Oct
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) – Tied for 106th after the first round in the Frys.com Open, Troy Matteson thought it might be a short tournament.
It turned out to be a long and rewarding one.
Recovering from a late collapse, Matteson birdied the second playoff hole to beat Jamie Lovemark and Rickie Fowler on Sunday at Grayhawk Golf Club for his second PGA Tour victory.
“On Thursday, if you would have told me that I could get into a playoff to try to win this tournament, I would have said you’re absolutely out of your mind,” Matteson said.
After all three players parred the first playoff hole, Matteson hit his approach within 3 feet on the 464-yard, par-4 17th hole. With shadows stretching onto the green, he rolled in the putt to win.
http://msn.foxsports.com/golf/story/10254704/Matteson-wins-Frys.com-on-2nd-hole-of-playoff
22
Oct
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One of the holes is called 90 Mile Straight
The vast Australian emptiness of the Nullarbor Plain is famous already as one of the world’s most gruelling car journeys.
Eighteen holes spread over 1,365 km (848 miles) of outback terrain that can take as long as seven days to play – longer even, if you keep on hitting your balls into the scrubland or suffer the indignity of having them stolen by an errant dingo.
But more of the hazards of playing this mega-course later. Let’s deal first with the mega-logistics.
This is a course which favours patient drivers, because you will be spending an awful lot of time behind the wheel.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8319749.stm
19
Oct
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LAS VEGAS (AP)—The higher the stakes, the calmer Martin Laird became.
The 26-year-old Scot won the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open on Sunday for his first PGA Tour title, beating George McNeill with a birdie on the third hole of a playoff in the Fall Series event.
Laird closed with a 3-under 68 to match McNeill (67) and former UNLV player Chad Campbell (69) at 19-under 265. Campbell was eliminated on the second extra hole.
“I don’t know whether it was because I had a nice long par on 18 to get into the playoff,” Laird said. “But when I got into the playoff I was surprised; I kind of chilled out a little. I was pretty nervous the last two or three holes in regulation, and once I got there in the playoff I kind of relaxed a little more.
http://sports.yahoo.com/golf/pga/news?slug=ap-lasvegas&prov=ap&type=lgns
12
Oct
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Dave Adamonis Sr. flanked by his sons, David Jr. (left) and Brad. Adamonis Sr., 63, died Oct.
Dave Adamonis Sr. flanked by his sons, David Jr. (left) and Brad. Adamonis Sr., 63, died Oct. 10.
Time hadn’t really been on his side.
Which was OK, because Dave Adamonis Sr. had a bottomless reservoir of spirit and an endless line of friends to get him through these last few agonizing years.
You could dwell on the sad news that he died Oct. 10 in a Providence, R.I., hospice after an unrelenting struggle with cancer, but that would diminish the greater picture, which is this: Dave Adamonis Sr., 63, lived a rewarding life built upon a formidable double foundation of family and golf.
There had been so many turns for the worse since Adamonis was diagnosed with cancer in the fall of 2005. When doctors in Florida on Sept. 27 recommended to the family that hospice was the only recourse, there wasn’t much debate between Roberta and her three children, Kim, Dave Jr. and Brad.
Leave it to Dave Adamonis Sr. to call an audible. The towel wouldn’t be thrown in – at least not yet, not in a fashion he didn’t approve of.
http://www.golfweek.com/news/2009/oct/11/dave-adamonis-sr-62-dies-cancer/
