Turner Network Television will provide exclusive coverage of the PGA Grand Slam of Golf from the Mid Ocean Club in Bermuda. This year’s competitors include Masters champion Zach Johnson, U.S. Open champion Angel Cabrera, British Open champion Padraig Harrington and world No. 3-ranked player Jim Furyk (alternate for PGA champion Tiger Woods). TNT will air coverage on Tuesday, Oct. 16 (4-7 p.m. ET/PT) and Wednesday, Oct. 17 (5-9 p.m. ET/PT). … National City signs on as the title sponsor of the fourth ADT Championship Million Dollar Shootout, Nov. 13-18 in West Palm Beach, Fla. … The Colorado Golf Association appoints Erin Bessey as the Eisenhower-Evans Scholarship recruiter, which is a newly created position. … An informal survey of Golf Magazine‘s Top 25 Best Golf Schools in America confirms that the Phil Ritson-Mel Sole Golf School, headquartered at Pawleys Plantation in Pawleys Island, S.C., is the best value among the 25 schools. … The ADT Golf Skills Challenge, NBC‘s situational golf competition featuring PGA and LPGA Tour pros and celebrity challengers, will move to the Fairmont Turnberry Isle Resort and Club in Miami, Fla. The event will be taped in front of a private gallery on Nov. 5 and is scheduled to air on NBC Sports on Dec. 29-30. … The Colorado Golf Association and Colorado Women’s Golf Association announce that the official groundbreaking ceremony for the redesign of the association’s-owned Mira Vista Golf Course will take place Oct. 17 at 11:30 a.m. … Nate Dunn won the Iowa Golf Association‘s Player of the Year Award, while Jim Butler won his second Senior Player of the Year Award and Jared Walahoski won Junior Player of the Year honors. … Layne Savoie has been promoted to associate head men’s coach at the University of Arkansas. Savoie is in his second year with the Razorbacks.
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