Cybergolf San Diego
The PGA Tour and the Farmers Insurance Group of Companies has announced an agreement whereby the Farmers Exchanges will title sponsor next week's tournament at Torrey Pines Golf Course in San Diego, to be known as the Farmers Insurance Open. The agreement, which includes a long-term option, is between the PGA Tour and the Farmers Exchanges, which as a group, are the third largest personal lines insurer in the United States and the largest auto insurer in California. Full Story |
Smylie Kaufman of Birmingham, Ala., and Kelsey Conway of Ventura, Calif., received the 2008 Presidents' Youth Leadership Award Thursday at the Rolex Tournament of Champions at Victoria National Golf Club in Newburgh, Ind. The award was created to recognize one boy and one girl American Junior Golf Association member who demonstrate leadership, character and community service through their involvement with the USGA-AJGA Youth Leadership Club - a joint initiative founded in 2006 to further develop junior golfers through volunteerism. Full Story |
Patrick Cantlay of Los Alamitos, Calif., and Veronica Valerio of Temecula, Calif., both jumped into the greenside pond on No. 18 in celebration of their victories at the ClubCorp Mission Hills Desert Junior on Thursday. Cantlay finished with a three-day tournament total of 7-under-par 209 in the Boys Division while Valerio carded a 1-over par 217 to win the Girls Division by three strokes. Full Story |
Tiffany Joh, 21, of San Diego, Calif., defeated Jennifer Song, 18, of Korea, 2 and 1, in Saturday's 36-hole final to capture her second U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links Championship. The 2008 event was held at the 6,158-yard, par-73 Erin Hills Golf Course in Erin, Wisc. Full Story |
The featured group at the 2008 U.S. Open will contain the top three players in the world. No. 1-ranked Tiger Woods and No. 2 Phil Mickelson will be paired in the first two rounds of the second major championship of the year. Full Story |
Mark Woodward, CGCS, has one remaining task before he assumes the duties as chief executive officer of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA) next month. Woodward wraps up a three-year stint as manager of golf operations for the city of San Diego by hosting the 108th U.S. Open, June 9-15 at Torrey Pines Golf Course. It is the first true, city-owned, municipal golf course ever to host a U.S. Open (state-owned municipal golf course Bethpage State Park in Farmingdale, N.Y., hosted the 2002 U.S. Open). Full Story |
|
|
|
