Word: pga
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...counterpoint to its stagnation in the U.S., golf is exploding overseas and attracting PGA stars, including Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, to the design game. Courses are popping up in places never before imagined as golfing destinations, such as Ghana, Vietnam, Croatia and Turkey. In the past five years 1,055 courses were built outside the U.S., in sunny spots like Majorca as well as in Sweden, where golf among young people is thriving. Over the next two years, 850 overseas courses are planned, according to the Golf Research Group. "Mediterranean countries, Eastern Europe and the Middle East will...
Hang around Oakmont long enough, and you will hear a jarring refrain: "We like to punish the members and destroy their guests." Consider this guest duly destroyed. Starting June 14, Oakmont will torture a more skilled set of duffers: Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and the rest of the PGA players chasing the U.S. Open title. "I can't think of a hole where you go, 'Whew, I'm glad I'm on this one,'" says Brad Faxon, a 25-year tour veteran. "No golf club in America takes more pride in the difficulty of its course." Or, as an Oakmont...
...Carolyn Bivens--the first woman to hold the job--hasn't been afraid to take some divots out of the LPGA's old business plan. She's reorganized the tournaments, the staff, even the television production. The goal: close the purse and popularity gap with the men's tour (PGA), as women have done in professional tennis...
...Nike's main campus, its own rented building a mile from corporate headquarters. It would then take Nike Golf two years to produce something that Woods could use, the Tour Accuracy golf ball, which Woods promptly teed up to post victories at the U.S. Open, British Open and PGA Championships...
...conventional way to take the measure of an athlete is to concentrate on the numbers: Grand Slam or PGA titles, touchdown passes, new records. By that yardstick alone, a racehorse called Silent Witness was a winner many times over. Just retired, Silent Witness was unbeaten at his first 17 starts, eclipsing the 16-win streaks of past greats Ribot, Citation and Cigar. For three years running (2003 to 2005), the Paris-based International Federation of Horseracing Authorities ranked him the world's fastest sprinter. And over five seasons of racing, he amassed $8 million in prize money. Yet those numbers...