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July 25, 2011
2011 Senior Open Champion, Russ Cochran, after his fantastic finish in Surrey, England.
CHAMPIONS TOUR UPDATE – Week of July 25
The Champions Tour heads to Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio for the 2011 U.S. Senior Open Championship on July 25-31. The purse is $2.6 million and the winner will receive double Charles Schwab Cup points. Last year, at Sahalee CC, Bernhard Langer became the first USGA champion from Germany, shooting four rounds in the 60s to win by three strokes over Fred Couples who was making his first appearance in the championship.
LAST WEEK
Russ Cochran made six birdies in his first 10 holes during Sunday’s final round, and then held off Mark Calcavecchia down the stretch to win the 2011 Senior Open Championship by two strokes. The win was his third career victory on the Champions Tour in his 50th start.
Russ Cochran became the first left-hander to win a major on the Champions Tour since Bob Charles claimed his second Senior Open Championship in 1993.
Russ Cochran’s win earned him a check for $315,600, a five-year exemption into the season-opening Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai and an exemption into the 2012 Open Championship at Royal Lytham & St. Annes.
Russ Cochran won the Senior British Open after lying T27 at the completion of the first round. Tom Watson (T12/ Senior PGA Championship) is the only other Champions Tour winner in 2011 who was outside the top 10 after the opening round.
Defending champion Bernhard Langer finished T12 at the Senior British Open. It was Langer’s first appearance on the Champions Tour since he recovered from thumb surgery in March.
It was quite a week in London for Russ Cochran’s two sons. Reed, taking a short break from law school, was on his father’s bag for his first major championship. Older son Ryan, a former collegiate golfer at Florida, caddied for Mike Goodes at Walton Heath and they finished T7.
Five professionals have now played in all 15 official tournaments on the Champions Tour in 2011 – Jeff Sluman, Rod Spittle, Tom Kite, Mike Reid and Gary Hallberg.
Damon Green followed a week caddying for Zach Johnson at the British Open by teeing it up in the qualifying round for the Senior British Open. Green shot 66 at Betchworth Park GC to easily qualify for the Senior British Open and went on to finish T50. It was Green’s second Champions Tour event, having finished T46 at the Principal Charity Classic last month.
Tom Pernice, Jr. was the only Champions Tour professional in Canada, choosing to stay and play on the PGA TOUR instead of last week’s Senior British Open. Following his T2 finish at the Viking Classic, Pernice contested the RBC Canadian Open and failed to make the cut. He dropped from 20th to 22nd position in the Charles Schwab Cup standings when double points were awarded last week.
Peter Thomson and Kel Nagle are among 10 centenary ambassadors named by the PGA of Australia to launch the centenary celebrations on September 19. The centenary patron will be Greg Norman, who, back in 1999, was voted Australian golfer of the 20th century. The centenary celebration recognizes how the association has grown from 15 members to more than 2500, the growth of golf in Australia and the champions it has produced. A gala dinner will be held in Sydney on November 11, the day of the second round of the Australian Open at The Lakes
CHARLES SCHWAB CUP
Russ Cochran’s win at the Senior British Open earned him 632 Charles Schwab Cup points and he jumped from 10th place into second place in the season-long race with 1,163 total points. Mark Calcavecchia’s runner-up finish boosted him from 12th to 6th in the standings. After 15 events, Tom Lehman still leads the 2011 Schwab Cup race was 1,533 points.
Player Events Points Pts. Behind Wins Top-10s
Tom Lehman 12 1,533 - 3 7
Russ Cochran 9 1,163 370 1 7
Tom Watson 7 1,064 469 1 3
Nick Price 13 1,053 480 1 8
John Cook 14 868 665 3 4
Comments from the three leading players before last week’s Senior British Open:
“I’m just trying to play my best each week. I got off to a great start this year, but the last couple months have not been quite as good. I’m looking forward to getting back into that mode where my game is building and improving again. Hopefully, I’ll be back on top of my game soon.” – Tom Lehman.
“This is a crucial time in the Charles Schwab Cup race. Out of the guys in the top five, I think he who plays best during this stretch is probably going to have a really good shot at winning it. That’s one of the reasons I did not play last week in The Open Championship. With the Schwab Cup race, I wanted to be fresh and ready to go for the events we have coming up.” – Nick Price.
“If I’m going to hold or improve my position in the Charles Schwab Cup race, I need to play well in the majors. I’ve had three nice wins this year, but it’s the majors where you pick up ground. It can make or break your year. You can have a nice year, but if you don’t play well in the majors, guys can run by you in the Schwab Cup race. My emphasis is on the next four events with three of them being majors. I need to make up some ground.” – John Cook.
COMING UP
The Inverness Club, which hosted the U.S. Senior Open in 2003 when Bruce Lietzke won, will join Oakland Hills CC (1981, ’91) and Saucon Valley (1992, 2000) as the only courses to host a pair of U.S. Senior Opens.
Only three players finished under-par at Inverness Club during the 2003 U.S. Senior Open – Bruce Lietzke (-7), Tom Watson (-5) and Vicente Fernandez (-4). Lietzke is the only player of these three scheduled to compete at Inverness this week.
Bernhard Langer will be attempting to do something only three other players have done in the history of this event — defend his title. Miller Barber was the first to do so in 1985 at Edgewood Tahoe GC. Gary Player became the second in 1988 at Medinah CC, while Allen Doyle became the third when he won at Prairie Dunes CC in 2006.
Dale Douglass is in the field list for this week’s U.S. Senior Open at Inverness. It will be his 600th career start on the Champions Tour. Only Miller Barber has more with 603. Douglass will also set a new record by playing in his 26th consecutive U.S. Senior Open. He was tied with Arnold Palmer with 25 straight.
Hale Irwin, the 1979 U.S. Open champion at Inverness, owns a record six consecutive top-5 finishes at the U.S. Senior Open (1995-2000). Irwin has a total of seven top-5 finishes in the championship, a record he shares with Jack Nicklaus. Irwin and Nicklaus also share the tournament record for most rounds in the 60s (17).
Although there have been 17 aces in U.S. Senior Open history, only one player has recorded a double eagle – Bruce Lietzke at the NCR CC in 2005.
Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus are the only two players to have won the U.S. Amateur, the U.S. Open and the U.S. Senior Open.
In 1979, Hale Irwin won the U.S. Open when it was played at Inverness Club but the most memorable moment may have come that year in the first round when Lon Hinkle took a shortcut over the corner of the dogleg, par-5 8th hole by hitting onto the 17th fairway. Overnight, USGA officials planted a ‘Hinkle’ tree to block the shortcut.
Tom Watson will play at The Greenbrier Classic this week. He is the pro emeritus at The Greenbrier Resort. Watson’s last non-major start on the PGA TOUR came at the 2007 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, where he partnered with son Michael and finished T19. He finished T22 at the Open Championship two weeks ago.
NUMBERS
2,525 – The number of entries accepted by the USGA for this week’s U.S. Senior Open. Entries were received from 49 states (all except North Dakota) and the District of Columbia. In addition to the USA, entries were received from 17 countries.
16 – The number of times the record-low score of 30 has been recorded at the U.S. Senior Open, most recently by Olin Browne at Sahalee last year. Jim Thorpe is the only player to have posted 30 twice (2000 & 2001).
DID YOU KNOW?
Fred Funk holds the record for most strokes under par for 72 holes at the U.S. Senior Open. His 20-under-par score in 2009 also claims the record for most strokes under par at any point in the history of the championship. This is ironic because Funk, not known as a long hitter, achieved this feat at Crooked Stick, the longest course in U.S. Senior Open history (7,316 yards).
ON THIS DATE
7/25/09 – Mark Calcavecchia reels off a PGA TOUR record nine straight birdies in the second round (Holes 12-2) of the RBC Canadian Open at Glen Abbey.
7/26/98 – Despite opening with a 77, Hale Irwin birdies the final hole to nip Vicente Fernandez by one stroke at the U.S. Senior Open at Riviera CC in Los Angeles. The win comes one week after going wire-to-wire at the Ameritech Senior Open.
7/27/97 – Dave Stockton wins the Champions Tour’s 500th event when he beats Kermit Zarley by two strokes at the Franklin Quest Championship in Park City, UT.
7/27/06 – Corey Pavin sets a new PGA TOUR 9-hole scoring mark when he shoots an 8-under-par 26 on the front nine in the opening round of the U.S. Bank Championship on his way to a 9-under-par 61. Three days later he won the event.
7/31/05 – Allen Doyle wins the first of two consecutive U.S. Senior Open titles when he fires a final round 8-under-par 63 (tying a U.S. Senior Open record) and comes from nine strokes back to defeat Loren Roberts and D.A. Weibring by one stroke at NCR CC.
QUOTES TO NOTE
“I liked him better when he was injured.” – Mark Calcavecchia playfully refers to Russ Cochran, who beat him by two strokes at the Senior British Open after being out for two months with a wrist injury.
“I never will retire. You’ve got to keep going. The minute you retire, you’re gone.” – 75-year-old Gary Player explains why he continues to play in corporate days, design golf courses and stay active.
“Do I miss golf? I do now because I know I am going to get ready to play again.” – Greg Norman, who has been out of the game for an extended period due to shoulder surgery, looks forward to his preparation to play in the Australian Open and the Australian PGA Championship. In between those events, he will captain the International team against the United States in the Presidents Cup at Royal Melbourne.
“I think it’s a good thing. People still associate me with the tree. I hear about it on a regular basis.” – Lon Hinkle comments on his ‘legacy’ after USGA officials planted a tree overnight to block the shortcut he took on the 8th hole in the first round of the 1979 U.S. Open at Inverness.
“Once you’re a golfer, going back into the normal workforce, it ain’t that easy.” – Mike Harwood, the first-round leader at the Senior British Open last week, shares what life was like after he departed the European Tour in 1995 and ended up teaching golf before returning to the European Senior Tour.
July 4, 2011
CHAMPIONS TOUR WEEKLY UPDATE
The Champions Tour heads to Pebble Beach for the Nature Valley First Tee Open at Pebble Beach on July 4-10. The purse is $1.6 million and the winner will receive $240,000 and 240 Charles Schwab Cup points. Last year, Ted Schulz became the fifth first-time winner on the 2010 Champions Tour with a one-stroke win over Tom Pernice, Jr.
LAST WEEK
John Cook shot 63-66-66—195 to prevail by three strokes over Chien Soon Lu at the Montreal Championship. Cook made just one bogey over his final 51 holes. Cook’s 195 total was four better than Larry Mize’s 2010 tournament record.
Canadian Rod Spittle broke the Montreal Championship tournament scoring record with a final-round 10-under-par 62, two better than his career low on the Champions Tour (two times). The native of St. Catharine’s and two-time Canadian Amateur champion’s round included eight birdies and an eagle and helped him to a T7 finish. He had started the day T49. D.A. Weibring had set the tournament scoring mark (63) in 2010 before John Huston, John Cook and Chien Swoon Lu all matched it earlier in this year’s tournament.
Champions tour professional Craig Stadler was a guest speaker at the 25th anniversary of the Penn College Spring Golf Classic. The event helps secure funds for the Penn College Foundation Scholarship Aid Program, which provides money for the Golf Classic Scholarships to eligible students. With over $1 million currently in the fund, this year’s event raised $50,000.
Australian Peter Fowler came from seven strokes back, shooting a final-round 65 to win the Bad Ragaz PGA Seniors Open by two strokes on the European Senior Tour.
A day after U.S. Open champion Rory McIlroy attended Wimbledon last week, the announcers at Wimbledon stated that Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France defeated six-time champion Roger Federer in the quarterfinals “in the presence of athletic royalty,” referring to World Golf Hall of Fame members Jack Nicklaus and Greg Norman, who were at Wimbledon to witness the five-set upset result.
CHARLES SCHWAB CUP
With his victory at the Montreal Championship John Cook picked up 270 points in the season-long Charles Schwab Cup race and moved into fourth place with 830 points. Tom Lehman continues to lead with 1,533 points and Nick Price is second with 1,053. Tom Watson is third with 850 and Peter Senior is fifth with 717.
With 66-year-old Hale Irwin currently No. 22 on the money list it should be noted that Gil Morgan is the oldest player in history to have competed in the season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship. Morgan was 63 when he finished T10 in the 2009 tournament. The top-30 on the money list will qualify for the season-ending event.
NUMBERS
9 – The number of Core Values and Healthy Habits in The First Tee program. Core Values are Confidence, Courtesy, Honesty, Integrity, Judgment, Perseverance, Respect, Responsibility and Sportsmanship. Healthy Habits are Energy, Play, Safety, Vision, Mind, Family, Friends, School and Community.
DID YOU KNOW?
Pebble Beach is the only course on the Champions Tour where a PGA TOUR event is also played earlier in the season (AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am).
Only three defending champions have finished in the top 10 through the first 13 events this season. Tom Watson was third at the Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai, Fred Couples was T5 at the Toshiba Classic and Larry Mize was T7 at the Montreal Championship.
ON THIS DATE
7/8/76 – In the opening round of the Ed McMahon Quad Cities Open, Fuzzy Zoeller ties a then PGA TOUR record when he makes eight straight birdies on his way to a 63. (Mark Calcavecchia made nine birdies in a row at the 2009 RBC Canadian Open.)
7/9/77 – In one of the great British Opens, Tom Watson wins his second British Open title, nipping Jack Nicklaus by one stroke at Turnberry. Watson shoots 65-65 on the weekend, while Nicklaus shoots 65-66. Third-place finisher Hubert Green finishes 11 strokes behind Watson and 10 behind Nicklaus.
7/10/71 – Lee Trevino wins the first of successive British Open titles, beating Lu-Liang Huan by one stroke at Royal Birkdale.
QUOTES TO NOTE
“To add another championship in Canada is very special. I’m very pleased. I’m not kidding; I’m very, very touched by this.” – John Cook expresses his feelings after winning the Montreal Championship. Cook said one of his fondest memories was winning the 1983 Canadian Open in a playoff with Johnny Miller.
“My putting isn’t what it used to be. Probably until I was 44, putting was the best part of my game. By the mid 40s it started going downhill. When the best part of your game becomes a liability, it’s hard to compete.” – John Huston is thankful that he putted well down the stretch to win the Dick’s Sporting Goods Open in just his third Champions Tour start.
“Even though it may not be a vision of grace and beauty, the stylish, traditional‑looking golf swing, to me it’s all been very functional and very repetitive, so I’ve never tinkered with it. Find a way to work on your weaknesses but never take away your strengths.” – Tom Lehman discusses his unique golf swing.
“One gentleman I ran into on the range, he had five pictures where I had really long hair and funny pants and so I’m signing those pictures.” – Rod Spittle, who shot a tournament record 62 at last week’s Montreal Championship, recounts meeting a spectator who watched him win the 1978 Canadian Amateur Championship at nearby Laval GC.
“There’s no indecision about what he does. Once he makes a decision he’s 100 percent committed. In any sport, that makes a champion out of you.” – Loren Roberts comments on what he admires about Tom Watson.
June 27, 2011
'86 Masters champ, Larry Mize, hoisting the trophy after his win at the 2010 Montreal Championship.
CHAMPIONS TOUR WEEKLY UPDATE
The Champions Tour heads north of the border to the Montreal Championship at Club de golf Le Fontainebleau in Quebec, Canada, June 27-July3. The purse is $1.8 million and the winner will receive $270,000 and 270 Charles Schwab Cup points. Last year, Larry Mize used an eagle and three consecutive birdies on the back nine to sneak ahead of John Cook for his first Champions Tour victory.
LAST WEEK
John Huston closed with a 7-under-par 65 and had just one bogey on his card as he cruised to a three-stroke victory for his first Champions Tour title at the Dick’s Sporting Goods Open. It was just his third start on the Champions Tour.
John Huston’s win at the Dick’s Sporting Goods Open comes just 25 days after turning 50, making him the 11th youngest (tied with Dale Douglass and Bruce Lietzke) winner in Champions Tour history.
Hale Irwin’s T10 finish at the Dick’s Sporting Goods Open was the 203rd of his illustrious career, tying him with Bob Charles for the most top-10 finishes in Champions Tour history. It was Irwin’s fifth top-10 finish in 2011.
Joey Sindelar, from nearby Horseheads, finished T4 at the Dick’s Sporting Goods Open in Endicott, NY and was the only player in the field to post three sub-70 rounds (68-69-68).
Peter Jacobsen posted his first top-10 finish since The Walmart First Tee Open at Pebble Beach in 2007 (T10) with his T6 finish at the Dick’s Sporting Goods Open. Peter Senior also posted a T6 finish, his sixth top-10 this year.
The Dick’s Sporting Goods Open marked the 12th of 24 tournaments on the Champions Tour this season.
Last week, Bob Tway caddied for his son, Kevin, at the Travelers Championship. Kevin was making his professional debut on the PGA TOUR and opened with rounds of 72-68 to miss the cut. Also missing the cut at the Travelers Championship were Champions Tour professionals Kenny Perry, Michael Allen and Corey Pavin, who recorded 18 pars in an opening-round 70 to be one of a dozen players to post a bogey-free first round.
Bernhard Langer shot 76-79 to miss the cut at the BMW International Open on the European Tour.
American Tim Thelen tied for second behind winner Des Smyth at the European Senior Tour’s Van Lanschot Senior Open. It was Thelen’s second start on Tour, having finished T3 a week earlier.
World Golf Hall of Fame member Billy Casper, who is ranked 7th on the all-time win list with 51 PGA TOUR victories, celebrated his 80th birthday on June 24 last week. Phil Mickelson is Casper’s nearest active challenger with 39 wins.
CHARLES SCHWAB CUP
Tom Lehman failed to earn Charles Schwab Cup points last week, finishing outside the top-10 at the Dick’s Sporting Goods Open (T15), but remains in the lead with 1,494 points. With his second-place finish at the DSGO, Nick Price closed the gap and is second with 1,053 points. Tom Watson is third with 850 points.
Three players in their 60s are currently in the top-30 of the Charles Schwab Cup standings – Tom Watsonis third, Hale Irwin is 13th and Bob Gilder is 27th.
COMING UP
Larry Mize picked up his first Champions Tour victory at last year’s inaugural Montreal Championship.
Last year, Tom Wargo birdied the final three holes at Club de golf Le Fontainebleau, known as “The Hat Trick”, to shoot a first-round 65 and better his age by two strokes. It was the first time Wargo had bettered his age on the Champions Tour. He matched his age (68) earlier this year at the Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am. Wargo shared the first-round lead at the 2010 Montreal Championship with Russ Cochran who, as a kid, used to caddie for Wargo each year in a Paducah, KY, tournament.
Tom Lehman will be making his second appearance at the Montreal Championship after finishing T10 last year. A three-time winner in 2011, Lehman is bidding to become the first player to win Player of the Year honors on all three Tours. He was the Nationwide Tour Player of the Year in 1991 and the PGA TOUR Player of the Year in 1996.
John Cook was runner-up at the 2010 Montreal Championship. Between then and now, Cook has posted three victories on the Champions Tour (2010 Charles Schwab Cup Championship, 2011 Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai, 2011 Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am).
Canadian Rod Spittle earned a full 2011 exemption by winning the AT&T Championship in San Antonio last October. He’s posted three top-10s this year, including a T2 at the Allianz Championship and a T3 at The Principal Charity Classic. Spittle will be joined in the Montreal Championship by fellow Canadian’s Jim Rutledge, Yvan Beauchemin and Daniel Talbot, all of whom competed in 2010. The trio will be playing on sponsor’s exemptions. Rutledge has made six starts on the Champions Tour in 2011 with a best finish a T6 at the Allianz Championship. He also finished T10 at last week’s Dick’s Sporting Goods Open.
This year’s field includes Bob Gilder(1980), John Cook (1983), Wayne Levi (1990), David Frost (1993) and Hal Sutton (1999), all past winners of the Canadian Open.
The Club de Golf Fontainebleau was the second-easiest course on Tour last year, with an average score of 70.01. Hualalai GC was the easiest venue in 2010, averaging 69.13.
Michael Cammalleri of the Montreal Canadiens, Vincent Lecavalier of the Tampa Bay Lightning along with Montreal Canadiens legends Guy Carbonneau and Stéphane Richer will compete in the Hockey All-Star Skins Game on Friday, July 1 (Canada Day) after the opening round of the Montreal Championship. The special event will feature the players competing for $25,000, with all proceeds from the exhibition donated to the Birdies for Charity program, which benefits the Desjardins Foundation, Montreal Canadiens Children’s Foundation and Golf Québec. During the inaugural 2010 Montreal Championship, the Birdies for Charity program raised more than $140,000.
Golf Channel will televise all three rounds of the Montreal Championship. In addition, the tournament will be televised in Quebec on TVA, a French-language network in Canada.
The NHL’s Stanley Cup will be on display at Pebble Beach on July 4 to begin the Nature Valley First Tee Open at Pebble Beach. The public can have a photo taken with the trophy for a $20 donation per image with all proceeds going to The First Tee of Monterey County.
Five-time PGA TOUR winner and television announcer Roger Maltbie turns 60 on June 30. Maltbie has made seven career starts with partner and fellow announcer Gary Koch in the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf (Raphael Division) and never finished outside the top three. The pair won the title in 2003, 2008 and 2009.
NUMBERS
90 – The number of holes Hal Suttonplayed bogey-free since hole No. 4 of the Principal Charity Classic. Sutton bogeyed the par-5 fifth hole in the first round of the Dick’s Sporting Goods Open to end his streak. The record is 98 holes by Morris Hatalskyin 2003.
4 – The number of strokes by which Bernhard Langer (ACE Group Classic) and Tom Lehman (Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic) won, the most this season. John Huston won by three strokes at the Dick’s Sporting Goods Open last week.
DID YOU KNOW?
Mark Calcavecchia has appeared in the final group on the final day three times this season and finished fifth each time (ACE Group Classic, Regions Tradition and Principal Charity Classic).
Billy Casper, who celebrated his 80thbirthday last week, was the first player in Champions Tour history to play a tournament without making a bogey (1987 Del E. Webb Arizona Classic). This feat has been achieved just 26 times in 944 events in Champions Tour history – that’s 2.75 per cent!! Three players went bogey-free for the week at the recent Greater Hickory Classic at Rock Barn (Loren Roberts, Hal Sutton and Peter Senior).
ON THIS DATE
6/27/04 – Craig Stadler makes history near Boston, winning the Bank of America Championship the same day his son, Kevin, wins the Lake Erie Charity Classic on the Nationwide Tour.
7/3/59 – At age 23, Gary Playerclaims the first of nine major titles on the PGA TOUR when he wins the British Open by two strokes at Muirfield.
QUOTES TO NOTE
“You only have so many opportunities in your career, so every tournament means something.” – Tom Lehmanrecognizes the need to stay in the present and focus on the tournament at hand each week.
“I’m more recognizable and the topic of conversation is almost exclusively about the 2009 British Open. This – all for a guy who finished second. I’m humbled by the response. I was trying to win a golf tournament just like I did all my life.” – Tom Watson comments on how people respond to him when they meet him.
“Hey, that’s more valuable to me than you are.” – Nick Price referring to his beloved persimmon driver, while remembering what he told his wife (then girlfriend) many years ago after she laughed when he hit a tee shot and the club head flew off down the fairway.
March 29, 2011
GREATER HICKORY CLASSIC AT ROCK BARN JOINS CHAMPIONS TOUR CHARITY TICKET CHALLENGE
CONOVER, N.C. – Charitable organizations in the greater Hickory area now have a new way to raise money through the Greater Hickory Classic at Rock Barn presented by Kia Motors, it was announced today. The PGA Champions Tour event is set for June 6-12, 2011 at Rock Barn Golf & Spa.
As part of the “Together Anything’s Possible” charity challenge, Hickory-area charities can sell tickets and ticket packages for the ninth annual Greater Hickory Classic with 100 percent of the ticket proceeds going directly to the charity that sold them.
In its eight-year history, the Greater Hickory Classic has donated more than $1 Million to Hickory-area charities including nearly $20,000 donated to charities just through ticket sales last year. Any registered 501(c)3 charitable organization is eligible to join the 2011 charity challenge to raise money through the sale of Greater Hickory Classic at Rock Barn tickets.
“We are proud of the funds the Greater Hickory Classic has raised for our local charities,” executive tournament director Jim Correll said. “Through the ‘Together Anything’s Possible’ charity challenge, we are offering organizations a way to increase donations despite an economy that continues to have its challenges. With our new June tournament date, we could very well have record-setting crowds. Tens of thousands of people will be buying tournament tickets, and by purchasing them through one of our charities, our fans can support the tournament and their favorite charity at the same time. That’s a win for everyone.”
Interested charitable organizations can register for the program by contacting Greater Hickory Classic tournament assistant Nathan Harrell at (828) 459-4000 or by e-mail, nharrell@ghcfoundation.com. Tournament tickets are also available for purchase through the tournament office or the tournament website, http://www.etix.com/ticket/online/venueSearch.jsp?venue_id=1280.
The ninth annual Greater Hickory Classic at Rock Barn presented by Kia Motors is set for June 6-12, 2011 at Rock Barn Golf & Spa in Conover, N.C. The event features a week of special events and attractions, including exhibitions, pro-ams and three days of Champions Tour competition among some of the greatest legends in golf. Operated by the Greater Hickory Classic Foundation, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit, the tournament donates all net proceeds to charities throughout the Greater Hickory Metro area each year. For more information, please call (828) 459-4000 or visit www.greaterhickoryclassic.com.
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