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Colligan Golf Design: Completes a renovation of the Mustang Course at Ross Rogers Complex in Amarillo, Texas. … Pebble Beach Resorts / Pebble Beach, Calif.: Breaks ground on the Pebble Beach Driving Range and state-of-the-art Golf Academy. Other components of the project include 100 new guest rooms and expanded group meeting space at The Lodge at Pebble Beach and The Inn at Spanish Bay; improved traffic access near the Highway 1 gate into Pebble Beach; supplementary parking areas at The Lodge and The Inn; 90 residential lots; a new 100-room hotel near Spyglass Hill Golf Course; and the preservation of an additional 635 acres of native habitat. … Pinehurst Resort & Country Club / Pinehurst, N.C.: To convert the greens on three more courses to ultradwarf bermudagrass, the next stage in an evolution to extend championship conditions throughout the year and particularly during the heat of summer. This year, Pinehurst will convert No. 8, which is currently closed and will reopen July 24, and No. 3, which is scheduled to close Aug. 4 and reopen Oct. 4. The greens on Pinehurst No. 2 will be converted beginning in July 2014, following the hosting of the U.S. Open and U.S. Women’s Open in consecutive weeks, and the course will reopen for play in September.

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Golf Coaches Association of America: Announces Michael Kim (California) Alex Carpenter (Abilene Christian), Brad Shigezawa (Claremont-Mudd-Scripps), Sondre Ronold (Oklahoma City) and Jake Argento (South Mountain Community) as 2013 Jack Nicklaus Award recipients for collegiate Players of the Year. The Nicklaus Award recognizes the top players at the Division I, II, II, NAIA and NJCAA levels. … Will Twitty of South Mountain has been named recipient of the Phil Mickelson Award as the most outstanding freshman in NJCAA Division II men’s golf. Texas’ Brandon Stone was the Division I recipient of the award. … Orange County National Golf Center and Lodge / Winter Garden, Fla.: Promotes Toby Krause to assistant general manager and Kevin Naylor to golf shop and events supervisor.

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PGA of America / Carolinas Section: Reports that 25 percent of the nation’s 20 Professional Golf Management university programs are located in the Carolinas – Clemson, N.C. State, Campbell, Coastal Carolina and Methodist.