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...golfer has the potential to accomplish what none other has managed: stealing the spotlight from Tiger Woods. SUZY WHALEY, a pro at a Connecticut golf club, has become the first woman to qualify to play in the PGA. Whaley, 35, beat all other competitors, including another woman, in a sectional championship in Connecticut, which automatically qualified her to play in the Greater Hartford Open next summer. At the moment, Whaley hasn't decided whether she'll join. She won the section championship by playing off the women's tees, which are 10% closer to the holes than...
...club. (Never mind that the club runs the event.) IBM, in a letter to Burk, cited its support for women's groups and added, "We do not view our sponsorship of the Masters tournament as contradictory to this commitment." But in 1990 IBM pulled its sponsorship from the PGA Championship after learning that host club Shoal Creek, in Birmingham, Ala., had no black members. The club quickly integrated, and the PGA passed a rule that tour events can be held only at clubs open to all. The Masters, however, is not an official tour event...
DIED. SAM SNEAD, 89, plainspoken golf great known for his straw hat and smooth swing, called the "sweetest" in the game; in Hot Springs, Va. Slammin' Sam, as he was dubbed, learned to play in a cow pasture using sticks as clubs. He won a record 81 PGA Tour events (17 of them after he had turned 40), including three PGA championships, three Masters and a British Open. "Watching Sam Snead practice hitting golf balls," said fellow pro John Schlee, "is like watching a fish practice swimming...
...include Hon, a 28-m-long, 6-m-high figure of a woman that houses music rooms, an aquarium and a cinema-accessed through the installation's vagina. DIED. SAM SNEAD, 89, golfing legend whose career spanned five decades; in Hot Springs, Virginia. With seven major championships and 81 PGA Tour victories, Snead was considered one of the sport's greatest players. He had won every major golf title except for the U.S. Open, of which he was runner-up four times. CHARGED. SAM BITH, 69, former Khmer Rouge general, with the 1994 kidnapping and murder of three backpackers-Australian...
DIED. PAUL RUNYAN, 93, tiny golf great of the 1930s known as "Little Poison" for his deadly short game, which helped him topple stronger, longer-driving opponents; in Palm Springs, Calif. His 50 tournament wins included two PGA championships, one of them a 1938 match-play victory over Sam Snead...