Tour Links launches its Designer Pre-Packaged Putting Greens series. For the first time, Tour Links makes its patented panel system in ready-to-use, large putting green kit form. For information, visit www.tourlinks.net. … Through August, Bay Harbor Golf Club in Bay Harbor, Mich., is offering an additional 18 holes of play for $49 when staying on a Boyne Unlimited Golf package, which starts at $88 per person, per night. For information, visit www.boyne.com. … The Nationwide Tour announces Nos. 15 and 16 in its 20 Greatest Moments program. In 2007, Daniel Summerhays, playing on a special invitation, won the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Invitational to become the first amateur to win on the tour. No. 16 came in July 2002 when PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem announces that Nationwide Insurance would become the tour’s umbrella sponsor beginning in 2003 with a five-year agreement. In 2007 the agreement was extended for five years. … Crown Golf announces that chief operating officer John Weir left the company at the end of July 2009 to pursue a private equity-backed opportunity in the United Kingdom golf sector. … ProSun introduces its WaterWave massage therapy for country clubs and resorts. For information, visit www.prosun.com.
CBS Sports‘ final-round coverage of the Buick Open, in which Tiger Woods won his 69th PGA Tour victory, scored an overnight household rating/share of 4.0/9, up 167 percent from last year’s 1.5/3 in the metered markets. Third-round coverage earned an overnight household rating/share of 2.4/7, up 140 percent from last year’s 1.0/3 in the metered markets.
Scotland’s Catriona Matthew secured her place in the Samsung World Championship after winning the Ricoh Women’s British Open. … Two-time Wyndham Championship winner Rocco Mediate commits to this year’s tournament, Aug. 20-23 at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C.
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