Michigan Golf News, August 13, 2010

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August 13, 2010

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Una Jones: PGA Championship Notebook Inside the Ropes with Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson, Arnold Palmer & Johnny Miller: By Jennie McCafferty Brehm Wins Another Tournament - 19th GAM Women's Championship Junior Golf Championship Scheduled for IMA Brookwood GC on August 23 Michigan PGA Junior Tour - Tour Championship @ the Fortress Results Powered by BlueGolf Skins Game with Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Tom Watson and Johnny Miller Thad Gutowski - The Cyber-Geezer Minzey's Musings Michigan Golfer Magazine - Summer Issue Michigan Golf Calendar Michigan Golfer Television Upcoming Shows Michigan Golf Archives

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======================================= UNA JONES': PGA CHAMPIONSHIP NOTEBOOK ======================================== "There's going to be a lot of guys here thinking that it's the right time for them to break through, and I'm definitely one of those guys. And you can never write the likes of Tiger and Phil off. But I definitely think guys have a lot better chance coming into this event with those two guys not playing great and Lee (Westwood) obviously not playing."

Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland, who is 21 and is seeking his first major championship.

"Always in a major you're feeling a little bit of extra pressure, but because of those expectations, I'm feeling a little bit more pressure.You want to perform at a high level and you want to be around on the weekend and you want to be in contention coming down the stretch."

Wisconsin native Steve Stricker, on the expectations he has put on himself to win his first major championship this week. Stricker, the No. 4 ranked player in the world, said he has left upwards of 50 tickets for friends and family this week.

Tops in International Presence: The 73 international players here this week are the most for any PGA Championship. They represent 22 countries -- not a PGA Championship record, by the way.

97 of Top 100: Once again, the PGA Championship features the strongest field in golf, with 97 of the top 100 ranked players in the world set to challenge the Straits course at Whistling Straits, starting tomorrow.

The three who are not here — Lee Westwood of England (No. 3, injury); Robert Allenby of Australia (No. 17, injury); and Toru Taniguchi of Japan (No. 77, personal reasons).

65 Low at Straits Course: The 7-under-par 65s fired by Darren Clarke of Northern Ireland (first round) and Miguel Angel Jimenez of Spain (second round) in the 2004 PGA Championship are the low competitive rounds here at Whistling Straits.

Floyd and Bradley Share Low First-Round Mark: Raymond Floyd and Michael Bradley each shot 63 some 13 years apart, and that score remains the lowest shot in the first round of the PGA Championship.

In 1982, Floyd's 7-under-par 63 at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Okla., set him on the way to a wire-to-wire victory and his second PGA Championship triumph. Bradley shot 8-under-par 63 in the first round of the 1995 PGA Championship at Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, Calif.

Bradley ultimately tied for 54th place that year.

Saluting the Champions: Defending PGA Champion Y.E. Yang hosted the annual Champions' Dinner Tuesday night at The American Club in Kohler, Wis. Yang, who made history last year by becoming the first Asian male to win a major golf championship presented 15 other PGA Champions in attendance with a specially made Korean ceramic as their gift for the evening.

Click below to access the image of the 15 PGA Champions at the Tuesday night PGA Champions’ Dinner: http://mediaarchive.pgalinks.com/cgi/viewerlogin.pl?lbjobid=8230 Once you are in the lightbox, you have several options, to see a large thumbnail or caption information of any of the photos displayed, click directly on the thumbnail. To download a photo you must click in the box at the upper left hand corner of each thumbnail that you want. Once you have checked that box, you will be able to click the download hi-res button on the top left hand corner of the page.

Working for the Weekend: Of the 20 PGA Club Professionals here at Whistling Straits, three have the distinction of being the low PGA Club Professional in a PGA Championship.

Mike Small, who has won consecutive PGA Professional National Championships, was the low PGA Club Professional in 2007 at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oka. Chip Sullivan, the 2007 PGA Professional National Champion, was low in 2004 here at Whistling Straits. In 1993, Stu Ingraham earned that distinction at the Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio.

11 PGA Champions in the Field: Defending Champion Y.E. Yang is one of 11 PGA Champions in the field this week at Whistling Straits.

The other Champions and the year(s) of their triumphs: Mark Brooks (1996) John Daly (1991) Steve Elkington (1995) Padraig Harrington (2008) Davis Love III (1997) Shaun Micheel (2003) Phil Mickelson (2005) Vijay Singh (1998, 2004) David Toms (2001) Tiger Woods (1999, 2000, 2006, 2007) 20 PGA Club Professionals Gather for Historic Photo Prior to 92nd PGA Championship at Whistling Straits See the below link for a photograph of the 20 PGA Club Professionals competing in the 92nd PGA Championship at Whistling Straits.

The photo session just off the 18th fairway at The Straits Course marked the first time that all PGA Club Professionals gathered to record their appearance in a PGA Championship, a reward for having advanced through the 43rd PGA Professional National Championship last June at French Lick (Ind.) Resort.

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Players in the Photograph are Listed Below with Residence and Facility: Front Row: Danny Balin of Greenwich, Conn., representing Burning Tree Country Club in Greenwich, Conn.

Middle Row: Mark Sheftic of Blue Bell, Pa., representing Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pa., Ryan Benzel of Bothell, Wash., representing Battle Creek Golf Course in Tulalip, Wash., Scott Hebert of Traverse City, Mich., representing Grand Traverse Resort & Spa in Acme, Mich., Rob Labritz of Pound Ridge, N.Y., representing GlenArbor Golf Club in Bedford Hills, N.Y., Rich Steinmetz of Gilbertsville, Pa., representing Spring Ford Country Club in Royersford, Pa., Rob Moss of Broadview Heights, Ohio, representing Pepper Pike Club in Pepper Pike, Ohio and Keith Ohr of Louisville, Ky., representing Wildwood Country Club in Louisville, Ky. Back Row: Kyle Flinton of Oklahoma City, Okla., representing Quail Creek Golf and Country Club in Oklahoma City, Okla., Tim Thelen of College Station, Texas, representing The Falls Golf and Country Club in New Ulm, Texas, Reigning PGA Professional National Champion Mike Small of Champaign, Ill., the head men's golf coach at the University of Illinois, Mitch Lowe of San Francisco, Calif., representing Del Rio Country Club in Modesto, Calif., Jason Schmuhl of Windsor, Calif., representing Windsor (Calif.) Golf Club, Stu Ingraham of Harrisburg, Pa., representing M Golf Range & Learning Center in Newtown Square, Pa.; Bruce Smith of Frisco, Texas, representing Brookhaven Country Club in Dallas, Sonny Skinner of Sylvester, Ga., representing River Pointe Golf Club in Albany, Ga., Troy Pare of Wauregan, Conn., representing Wannamoisett Country Club in Rumford, R.I., Chip Sullivan of Troutville, Va., representing Hanging Rock Golf Club in Salem, Va., Robert McClellan of Butler, Pa., representing Butler (Pa.) Country Club and David Hutsell of Baltimore, Md., representing The Elkridge Club in Baltimore, Md. Web Interviews of PGA Club Professionals: You can see exclusive web interviews with some of the PGA Club Professionals competing here this week at Whistling Straits by clicking on the link below: http://www.pgamediacenter.com/videos/2010_pga.cfm A Tip of the Tam to Una Jones of the PGA, who always provides these great news items. =========================================================================== INSIDE THE ROPES WITH JACK NICKLAUS, TOM WATSON, ARNOLD PALMER, & JOHNNY MILLER: By Jennie McCafferty =========================================================================== The Golf Club at Harbor Shores threw a grand party for their Grand Opening Tuesday in Benton Harbor, Michigan. Course designer Jack Nicklaus played a skins game in a foursome with golf legends Arnold Palmer, Johnny Miller and Tom Watson. Tickets for the event sold out so large galleries followed the single foursome around the beautiful and somewhat unusual course adjacent to Lake Michigan sand dunes..

I had the rare privilege of an "Inside the Ropes" armband, which let me scoot through the crowds to keep up with the players and shoot some photos. A CBS camera crew was there videotaping a show planned for next Spring's Masters tournament and players wore microphones to pick up their conversations for that show.

Tom Watson seemed to be enjoying himself immensely-- smiling and greeting galleries. "Arnie's Army" was out in force-- cheering Palmer enthusiastically ofter each shot. Johnny Miller demon-

Harbor Shores architect, Jack Nicklaus, signs autographs for fans as he leaves No. 8 green.

strated how to hit the ball from the deep bunkers a time or two. Jack Nicklaus seemed quite serious about his game-- perhaps, as the designer, he felt just a little pressure. Nicklaus graciously signed autographs for fans as he moved along the ropes-- even as one woman yelled "Mr. Mickelson, Mr. Mickelson."

Whatever.

Folks who play the course will not forget that Jack Nicklaus is the architect. Each hole is marked with a unique sculpture commemorating each of the record eighteen major tournaments Jack Nicklaus won throughout his playing career. ==================================================================== BREHM WINS ANOTHER TOURNAMENT - 19TH GAM WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP ==================================================================== Natalie Brehm (East Lansing/MSU) did not play what she considers to be her best golf during her second round at the GAM Women’s Championship at Forest Akers West Golf Course on August 10, 2010, but she still managed to snare a victory in the two-day golf tournament. In what Brehm described as an up and down round (70-76-146), she managed to beat Alainna Stefan (Dearborn) (7374-147). Brehm just came off her solid match play win at the Michigan Women’s Amateur Championship at St. Clair River CC to capture this stroke play championship.

“It was a battle today,” said Brehm. “Yesterday, I made three birdies and only one bogey and today I was up and down all day. I can’t believe I won, I’m shocked. It wasn’t pretty. But I had to stay patient with my game through the two days of stroke play competition, so that I could be holding the Betty Richart Trophy at the end.

Brehm starting playing golf when she was a freshman in high school. She’s heading into her 5th year at Michigan State University where her home course for her team is Forest Akers West.

“This was a great Championship and to be able to play it at my home course adds a lot of momentum going into my final collegiate year,” said Brehm.

This is the end of summer competition for Brehm as she prepares for her final year at MSU studying Nutrition and plans to graduate in April of 2011, and then find employment at a hospital. She said she is not entertaining the idea of turning professional since there’s already one family member who is a professional golfer – her brother, Ryan Brehm.

When asked how it was competing against her head golf coach, Stacy Stobink-Stoll, Brehm replied, “we warmed up next to each other on the practice tee and she told me to go out and get them. We have a great team going into this year."

Taken from a GAM release =========================================================================== JUNIOR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP SCHEDULED FOR IMA BROOKWOOD GC ON AUGUST 23 =========================================================================== IMA Brookwood Golf Club is currently accepting registrations for the 2010 IMA Junior Golf Championship. The 18-hole tournament will be held on Monday, August 23 with an 8:00 a.m. shotgun start and is open to boys and girls, ages 12 – 18 (as of August 23).

“IMA Brookwood’s Junior Golf Championship is a fun and challenging event that we run just like an adult tournament” said Chris Allard, Golf Course Manager at IMA Brookwood Golf Club. “The tournament has a shotgun start so that the participants can finish together for the awards presentation and tournament luncheon. There will be a Long Drive and Closest to the Pin contest to add some fun and prizes to their day”.

The tournament is flighted by age with a 12-15 year old division and a 16-18 year old division. “ It’s great to see so many good players in one event” said Allard. “Last year IMA hosted 75 area players and this year looks to be even bigger” Entry fee is $35 per player and includes 18 holes of golf (walking), range balls, tee gift, awards luncheon following play, trophies in each age division, prizes and contests. Official deadline for entries is August 19, 2010.

For more information, please contact Ron Mitchell at (810) 742-4920 or email rmitchell@imarecreation.org.

=========================================================================== MICHIGAN PGA JUNIOR TOUR- TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP @ THE FORTRESS RESULTS POWERED BY BLUEGOLF =========================================================================== Results for contest Girls 13-15: 1 Sarah Thompson Canton, MI 98-94--192 +48 Results for contest Boys 13-15: 1 Dean Hitt Jackson, MI 72-72--144 E 2 Brandon Barrows Lake Orion, MI 73-72--145 +1 3 Nikolaj Brons-Piche Traverse City, MI 76-74--150 +6 4 Landon Osborne Battle creek, MI 77-75--152 +8 5 Alec Breit Muskegon, MI 79-76--155 +11 6 Brody Schiller Freeland, MI 81-75--156 +12 T7 Mitchell Wandell Plainwell, MI 83-74--157 +13 T7 Manak Singh Troy, MI 75-82--157 +13 T9 Nathan Schwalm Brighton, MI 77-81--158 +14 T9 Alexander Papa Birmingham, MI 78-80--158 +14 11 Johnny Fortuna Bloomfield Hills, MI 82-77--159 +15 12 Nick Margolis Ann Arbor, MI 79-81--160 +16 T13 James Kneen White Lake, MI 82-81--163 +19 T13 Marcus Robinson Rochester, MI 81-82--163 +19 15 Luke Mackley Richmond, MI 80-84--164 +20 16 Alexander Dombrowski Gaylord 81-84--165 +21 T17 Daniel Raicevich Shelby Township, MI 85-81--166 +22 T17 Reese Lassila Calumet, MI 82-84--166 +22 T19 Hunter Pulaski Brutus, MI 81-87--168 +24 T19 Travis Veenhuis Grand Blanc, MI 78-90--168 +24 21 Justin Nowak Richmond, MI 89-81--170 +26 22 Justin Webster Adrian, MI 92-83--175 +31 23 Bennett Langton Brutus, MI 92-84--176 +32 T24 Tyler Lewis Ortonville, MI 89-88--177 +33 T24 Cameron Lippoldt Midland, MI 88-89--177 +33 T24 Tyler Masters Olivet, MI 81-96--177 +33 27 Nick Marsh Westland, MI 88-90--178 +34 28 Bradley Minniear Northville, MI 93-92--185 +41 29 Jake Marshall Grand Blanc, MI 89-98--187 +43 30 Jay Burzych Okemos, MI 90-101--191 +47 31 Spencer Haupert Clarkston, MI 97-99--196 +52 Results for contest Boys 16-18: 1 Jared Dalga Grand Rapids, MI 69-71--140 -4 T2 Joe Parker Commerce Twp, MI 73-72--145 +1 T2 Collin Breit Muskegon, MI 72-73--145 +1 4 Kory Roberts Battle Creek, MI 72-74--146 +2 5 Patrick Colburn Traverse City, MI 72-75--147 +3 6 Charles Green Ann Arbor, MI 72-77--149 +5 7 Evan Bowser Dearborn 76-76--152 +8 T8 Nick Williams Farmington Hills, MI 78-75--153 +9

T8 Eric Hepker St Ignace, MI 75-78--153 +9 T10 Michael Bork Rapid City 80-74--154 +10 T10 Justin Haase Macomb, MI 79-75--154 +10 T12 Evan Telzerow Grand Rapids, MI 80-75--155 +11 T12 Nick Robeson Clarkston, MI 78-77--155 +11 T12 Tyler Polulak DeWitt, MI 77-78--155 +11 T12 Kevin Cross East Grand Rapids, MI 77-78--155 +11 T12 Kyle King Sterling Heights, MI 73-82--155 +11 T17 Bryan VandenBerg Battle Creek, MI 79-77--156 +12 T17 Peter Von Spreecken Lansing, MI 77-79--156 +12 T19 Gregory Bussell Farmington, MI 81-76--157 +13 T19 Craig Stoddard Fenton, MI 78-79--157 +13 T19 Matt Benson Grand Ledge, MI 77-80--157 +13 T22 Robert Doll Grand Blanc, MI 80-79--159 +15 T22 Matthew Fellows West Bloomfield, MI 78-81--159 +15 T22 Alex Haik Portland, MI 75-84--159 +15 T25 Shawn Carmody Harrison Twp., MI 82-79--161 +17 T25 Alex Green West Branch, MI 78-83--161 +17 T27 Matt Abramson Glen Arbor, MI 84-78--162 +18 T27 Timothy Dawkins Rodney, MI 84-78--162 +18 29 Chris Holmes Shelby Twp, MI 77-86--163 +19 30 Andrew Morgan Clio, MI 91-76--167 +23 31 Andrew Kalinowski Stevensville, MI 84-84--168 +24 32 Tyler Jackson Clyde, MI 87-83--170 +26 33 Patrick Sweeney St. Ignace, MI 82-89--171 +27 Results for contest Girls 16-18: 1 Elizabeth Dawkins Rodney, MI 80-88--168 +24 2 Sarah Dilts Lake Orion, MI 82-87--169 +25 3 Brandi Studer Essexville, MI 90-87--177 +33 4 Courtney Jenkins Pinckney, MI 91-87--178 +34 5 Allison Goodman Lansing, MI 91-91--182 +38 6 Michelle Bishop Westland, MI 116-106--222 +78 Taken from a Michigan PGA release

=========================================================================== SKINS GAME WITH JACK NICKLAUS, ARNOLD PALMER, TOM WATSON AND JOHNNY MILLER. =========================================================================== Jack Nicklaus, whose accolades as a golf course designer parallel a legendary career that includes a record 18 professional major championships, joined friends and fellow greats Johnny Miller, Arnold Palmer and Tom Watson today to celebrate the grand opening of The Golf Club at Harbor Shores, a new 18-hole Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Course. The Harbor Shores Champions for Change Golf Challenge featured the foursome competing in an 18-hole scramble skins format with rotating twoman teams.

More than 3,600 spectators witnessed this historic day of golf that was kicked off with a community

Photo by Jennie McCafferty

Arnold Palmer joined Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson and Johnny Miller in an 18-hole scramble skins game with rotating two-man teams.

clinic for all attendees. Prior to the clinic, Whirlpool Corporation CEO Jeff Fettig, announced that the Benton Harbor-based company would donate $1 million in honor of the four players to the Boys and Girls Club of Benton Harbor and The First Tee of Benton Harbor.

“The golf course has been many decades in the making in terms of transforming the industrial base in the community into something very productive,” said Fettig. “I can’t think of a better group of people, the four legends of golf, we had here today to kick it off.”

With introductions and morning ceremonies complete, the four players took to the course for its ceremonial first round in a rotating two-man skins format with partners switching every six holes. Patrons were treated to the two-man team of Nicklaus/Palmer to start off the round, followed by Nicklaus/Watson from holes 7-12 and Nicklaus/Miller to close out the round.

“I thought the golf course was in fantastic condition,” said Nicklaus. “The golf course was quite good and I’m quite proud of it. I’m also proud that I was asked to be a part of this project.”

Although it didn’t count on the scorecard, the highlight of the day came on the No. 10 green when Johnny Miller saw Arnold Palmer’s 100-foot eagle putt fall short of the three-tier ridged green and fall back towards his direction. Miller questioned the makeability of such a putt, which got Nicklaus’ attention. The course designer himself then demonstrated how the putt could be made by sinking the more than 100-foot uphill putt, which broke 15 feet from left to right, in front of more than 2,000

spectators who were surrounding the green.

While the focus of the day centered around the revitalization of the community and raising funds for two local charities and no actual money was exchanged, Tom Watson did earn the most honorary skins money ($381,250). His total was followed by Jack Nicklaus ($268,750), Arnold Palmer ($181,250) and Johnny Miller ($168,750).

More than just a golf course, Harbor Shores will serve as a catalyst for ongoing community transformation—economic, environmental and social. Not only will the non-profit resort community stimulate increased tax revenue, create jobs and generate new consumer spending, it will build human capacity in areas including work-force training, youth development, education, life skills development, housing and homeownership.

Harbor Shores has already restored beauty to a pristine area of Lake Michigan’s waterfront through rehabilitation of local public park space, clean-up of brownfields and preservation of natural wetlands.

All 18 holes of The Golf Club at Harbor Shores are currently open for play. Video footage and photos from today’s event are currently available at http://www.harborshoreschampions.com.

Taken from a B.R. Koehnemann release =================================== THAD GUTOWSKI - THE CYBER-GEEZER =================================== A lot of water has gone over the bridge as they say in Hamtramck, since the World Wide Web made its debut in 1969.

The predicted so-called golf explosion was still a long way off. Wood golf club heads were as the name implies, oil-hardened, tight-grain persimmon and irons were crudely formed from a chunk of red-hot steel in a huge hydraulic press. The golf club industry was an oligopoly: Wilson, Spalding and MacGregor. Now its Nike, Taylor-Made, Cleveland and a plethora of other club marketers ( I say marketers because almost all golf clubs today are produced in China) promoting gigantic space-age titanium woods (how’s this for an oxymoron) lost-wax process, cast stainless-steel “rescue” clubs with precise weight distribution that promises “long and straight” results on every swing.

But in spite of these and many other miraculous game-improvement features, the average golf score today is the same as it was four decades ago. But much of the rest of the world is not the same. Not even close!

Let’s begin with the information revolution which has made a profound change in the way we communicate. I am referring to the computer and specifically website development and electronic mail. From a standing start just two score years ago when Al Gore said he invented the internet, there are now an astounding 234,000,000 dot com’s, dot nets and a dozen other dot something-or-other, offering over 25 billion web-pages.

Email as we call it, has grown to a breathtaking figure. Over 247 billion emails are sent every day. I’ll do the math, that’s 2,800,000 every second – to over one and half billion addresses. This is almost beyond comprehension to your writer who identifies with two empty cans connected with a long string.

Though golf is pretty much as it was in 1969 and even 400 years before - eighteen holes of grass, sand,

trees and water carefully spread out over a couple of hundred acres - the way golf tells its story is more contemporary. But when you carefully look at how the story is told, it is often apparent there is significant room for improvement.

And that dear reader is why I am writing this piece. To let you know that I have been given the assignment by the publisher, to take a look at how golf facilities market their product on the internet. Over the next few weeks I will report my findings here.

I’m not sure about the title of this column, but when it comes from a guy who teed up Po Do golf balls with square dimples from Cunningham’s drug store, and walked the golf course because the riding cart had yet to be introduced, I suppose it fits!

Editor's Note: Thad Gutowski, former CEO of Falcon Golf, noted golf writer, golf marketing specialist and now starting up his own golf marketing firm, has seen it all in the golf business. We felt that our readers needed a serious look at all the technology that has become available between them and the courses that serve them. This is the first of a ten part series. ================== MINZEY'S MUSINGS ================== The Importance of Walking Walking can add minutes to your life. This enables you at 85 years old to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing home at $7000 per month.

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

The only reason I would take up walking is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.

I have to walk early in the morning, before my brain figures out what I'm doing..

I joined a health club last year, spent about 400 bucks.Haven't lost a pound. Apparently you have to go there.

Every time I hear the dirty word 'exercise',I wash my mouth out with chocolate.

The advantage of exercising every day is so when you die, they'll say, 'Well, she looks good doesn't she.'

If you are going to try cross-country skiing, start with a small country.

I know I got a lot of exercise the last few years,......just getting over the hill.

We all get heavier as we get older, because there's a lot more information in our heads. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Every time I start thinking too much about how I look, I just find a Happy Hour and by the time I leave, I look just fine.

Note: Dr. Jack Minzey, now retired, was one of Eastern Michigan University's finest professors, The wit he brings to this page, was also the wit he brought to his classroom. ============================================ MICHIGAN GOLFER MAGAZINE - SUMMER ISSUE ============================================ Our Summer issue of the Michigan Golfer is now online, our fifth issue in the new ISSUU format. The Michigan Golfer has been through a number of stages, print from 1983, online in 1996, television in 2001, a newsletter spin off in 2001 and now in ISSUU, a software that combined with the new iPad, allows for magazines to be downloaded and read at any time. Chris Lewis takes us on a visit to both Alma College and Aquinas College to learn about their collegiate teams. William and Brad Shelton, our father and son team of writers, team up to tell us about the new Pete Dye course at French Lick.

Mike Duff, one of veteran writers, joined a media fam trip to explore the suddenly famous Forest Dunes course in Roscommon. Enjoy.

Table of Contents Alma Scots - Chris Lewis Walter Hagen Returns to French Lick - Brad Shelton French Lick Defies Economic Downturn - William Shelton Forest Dunes - Mike Duff Acquinas Golf - Chris Lewis http://issuu.com/michigan_golfer/docs/mg0610 Past Issues 1996 - 2010 http://michigangolfer.com/#pastissues ============================================ MICHIGAN GOLFER TELEVISION UPCOMING SHOWS ============================================= Michigan Golfer Television Channel http://michigangolfer.tv Michigan Golfer You Tube Channel (234 shows) http://www.youtube.com/my_videos?pi=0&ps=20&sf=added&sa=0&sq=golfer&dm=2 PGA Championship, Sheboygan, WI Sweetgrass Golf Course, Harris, MI Skins Game at The Golf Club of Harbor Shores ============================= 2010 MICHIGAN GOLF CALENDAR ============================= August 13-15 PGA Championship, Whistling Straits, Sheboygan, WI http://pgatour.com 16-17 89th GAM Championship, Flint GC http://gam.org 19 17th Annual MGCOA Golf Outing And Supplier Field Day Bedford Valley Golf Course, Battle Creek http://www.mgcoa.org

21 MIAGT at Calderone Golf Club, Calderone Golf Club, Jackson, MI http://www.miagt.com/index.php?pg=schedule Aug. 21-22 Treetops Resort hostsGolfweek's Junior Series Qualifier http://www.golfweekevents.com/Juniors2010.shtml 23-25 Michigan PGA Championship, Eagle Eye GC 23-29 U.S. Amateur, Chambers Bay, University Place, Washington September 3-6 Labor Day Madness at Marsh Ridge Resort, Gaylord, MI Registration: http://marshridge.com/golf/proto/marshridge/calendar/calendar.htm Videos of Past Tournaments http://glsp.com/marshridge 3-5 3rd Annual Patriot Golf Day Shootout, Treetops Resort, Gaylord, MI Registration: http://treetops.com/index.php?method=golf&subpage=patriotgolfday Videos of Past Tournaments http://glsp.com/treetops 11 MIAGT at Coyote Preserve GC, Coyote Preserve Golf Club, Hartland, MI http://www.miagt.com/index.php?pg=schedule 13-16 Michigan PGA Match Play, Oakland University, Sharf 18 MIAGT Tour Championship, The Grande Golf Club, Jackson, MI http://www.miagt.com/index.php?pg=schedule 26-28 23rd Annual Pepsi Charity Invitational, Treetops Resort, Gaylord, MI Registration: http://www.treetops.com/index.php?method=golf&subpage=pepsitournament Videos of Past Tournaments http://glsp.com/treetops October 1-3 Ryder Cup, Celtic Manor Resort, Newport, Wales 2 Golf League Championship Tournament. Eagle Eye Golf Course, Bath http://www.migolfleague.com or http://www.mgcoa.org 9-10 Toughman Scramble, Treetops and Black Bear GC, Gaylord and Vanderbilt, MI http://www.treetops.com/index.php?method=golf&subpage=Toughman_Tournament November and December 30 - Dec 2 Michigan Golf Business Conference and Vendor Fair,Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, Grand Rapids http://www.mgcoa.org - MG -