The Armadillo Golf Players, a co-ed golf league in Austin, Texas, will host its Summer League at Falconhead Golf Club on Sundays, June 1-29 with 4:30 p.m. shot-gun starts. For information, call 512.402.1558. … CBS Sports will air third- and final-round coverage of the Wachovia Championship, Saturday-Sunday, May 3-4, 3-6 p.m. ET. … The Golf Club at Chelsea Piers in New York City will hosting the fifth Golf Fest, May 2-3. In addition to club demos, 15 pros will provide free swing tips and Golf 101 schools. … The World Golf Hall of Fame partners with the Sports Museum of America as an exclusive founding sports partner. The relationship with the New York City-based all-sports museum, which opens May 7, will include a display on the World Golf Hall of Fame and its members. … Golf Channel wins its first Sports Emmy Award, the George Wensel Technical Achievement Award for its virtual, putting-line technology – called AimPoint – which is showcased during the network’s PGA Tour and LPGA coverage. AimPoint graphics technology predicts the break of a putt and suggests where a player must aim to hole out. … Registration opens for the 25th PGA Tour Superstore World Amateur Handicap Championship, Aug. 25-29 in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Golfers can register online at www.worldamgolf.com, and new entrants will receive a $50 discount, while past participants who register before May 14 receive $100 off the entry fee, and $50 off if they sign up between May 15-Aug. 1. … Singapore Island Country Club retains the course architecture firm Golfplan – Fream, Dale & Ramsey to comprehensively redesign 36 of the club’s 72 holes, beginning in the fall. … Edgewater Beach and Golf Resort in Panama City Beach, Fla., wins a 2008 Gold Tee Award from Meetings & Conventions magazine. … Bobby Jones introduces its XH20 collection, crafted from stainless steel with an enamel crown that features the Bobby Jones logo, it is waterproof to a 100 meters and features a chronograph timer that measures both seconds and minutes, a durable, urethane strap and a deployant buckle. Bobby Jones watches retail for $295. … Duke University dedicates a memorial for former Blue Devil Maria Garcia-Estrada on the 12th hole at Duke University Golf Club in Durham, N.C. Garcia-Estrada, who won the Atlantic Coast Conference Championship as a freshman in 2000, died on Sept. 3, 2005, from a rare form of cancer. … Jan Dowling has been named Duke University women’s assistant coach, effective June 1. Dowling, currently the assistant women’s golf coach at Kent State, will become the second full-time assistant women’s golf coach for the Blue Devils, replacing Kalen Anderson, who took the head coaching position at South Carolina in January. … Juma Entertainment‘s “Rules of the Game,” an interactive television quiz show highlighting the rules of golf, returns for a second installment, May 4 at 2 p.m. ET on CBS Sports and CBSSports.com. The one-hour special tests contestants’ knowledge of the funny, surprising, and unexpected applications of the rules of golf. … The English Golf Union announces a new three-year sponsorship deal with Your Golf Holidays. The specialty golf tour operator will support a number of golf initiatives throughout England.
The China Golf Association, Grand China Air, LPGA and IMG announce that the LPGA’s first-ever event in China, the Grand China Air LPGA, is set for Oct. 24-26 at the Haikou West Golf Club. Sixty-three players will compete for a purse of $1.8 million. … J.B. Holmes commits to play the AT&T Classic, May 15-18 at TPC Sugarloaf in Duluth, Ga. … Tickets for the ADT Championship, Nov. 20-23 at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla., are available online beginning today, Thursday. Tickets are available at www.adtchampionship.com. … The Florida State Golf Association reports that entries close for the 59th Florida State Four-Ball Championship at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach on May 28. The championship is set for July 12-13. To register, go to www.fsga.org. … The Pennsylvania Golf Association announces its 2008 schedule, which opens with the 69th George Dressler Amateur Public Links Championship, May 10-11. … The Iowa Golf Association announces that the 107th Iowa Amateur Championship will be played July 27-29, 2009, at Sunnyside Country Club. … SemGroup will combine efforts with the American Junior Golf Association to host the Scissortail Junior Championship, Aug. 11-14 in Broken Arrow, Okla. The Scissortail Junior Championship will feature 99 of the nation’s top junior golfers.
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