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Arnold Palmer Award: Presented to Tain Lee of Claremont McKenna for winning medalist honors at the NCAA Division III Championships.

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PGATour.com: Reports that its four-day Live@ streaming coverage from the 36th Players Championship was up 167 percent compared to last year’s tournament. In total, the website averaged 843,000 daily unique visitors, a 17 percent increase from 2009. On the PGA Tour’s mobile WAP site, traffic totaled 1.9 million page views, up 43 percent over last year.

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Golframes: Creates a limited edition print featuring the original proposed links at Pebble Beach. The print is hand drawn by Forrest Richardson and is an interpretation of early depictions, writings and a personal interview with Jack Neville, the man who laid out the original plans for Pebble Beach.

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Lennox/Quakerdale Invitational Pro-Am: Announces Champions Tour player Bruce Fleisher as the guest celebrity profession for this year’s tournament, June 17 at Elmwood Country Club in Marshalltown, Iowa. … Korean LPGA Pro-Am: Set for June 16 at Blue Heron Pines Golf Club in Galloway Township, N.J., the charity event will feature Mi Hyun Kim, Gloria Park and approximately 15 more of the top Korean LPGA professionals. The event is in association with the ShopRite LPGA Classic. … Andy North & Friends Golf Classic: Announces Trappers Turn Golf Club and Kalahari Resort in Wisconsin Dells, Wisc., as host of the second annual event, June 6-7. The event benefits the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center. … Wyndham Championship: Announces American Express as the tournament’s volunteer sponsor. The American Express logo will appear on all volunteer clothing and tournament volunteers will work out of the American Express Volunteer Pavilion. American Express will also host an expo inside the volunteer pavilion.

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Hidden River Joins "Winning" GAM Exclusive Tee Time Program

Hidden River Golf and Casting Club: Joins Golf Association of Michigan’s Exclusive Tee Time program, which enables GAM’s 60,000 members to book a tee time at one of the participating clubs. Hidden River is located in Brutus, Mich.

Golfweek Names New Publisher

Golfweek: Appoints Jason Redditt to the position of publisher effective immediately. Redditt succeeds Clayton Morris, who will continue to oversee the brand’s portfolio of offerings with his promotion to group publisher.

Golf Summit Rolls Out New Programmes

Asia Pacific Golf Development Conferences: Announces that the 2010 Asia Pacific Golf Summit, Oct. 18-20 in Bangkok, Thailand, will launch of the Asia-Pacific Golf Hall of Fame. “Asia now has its own heroes of golf and the time has come to honor these men and women for their outstanding contributions to golf and to the growth of the game in the region,” said Mike Sebastian, managing director of APGDC, which owns and operates the golf summit.