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E-Z-Go names Five Star Golf Cars of Laconia, N.H., as its distributor for golf courses and facilities in northeastern New York, Maine, eastern Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. … The Inn at Bay Harbor, located in Bay Harbor, Mich., earns a No. 41 ranking on Golf Digest‘s 75 Best Golf Resorts in North America list. The ranking appears in the October issue currently on newsstands. … Jim Nantz, Christy O’Connor Jr. and Arnold Palmer will be in attendance to present Lanny Wadkins, Christy O’Connor and the late Dwight D. Eisenhower, respectively, at the World Golf Hall of Fame‘s Induction Ceremony on Nov. 2. Seve Ballesteros will present José María OlazÁbal through a videotaped message. … Legends launches a new Players Club in which new members will receive free afternoon greens fees, free USGA Handicap service, free weekly instructional clinics and free unlimited range balls at four Legends courses. Legends owns Legends Golf and Resort, which features the Heathland, Moorland and Parkland courses in Myrtle Beach, S.C., and Oyster Bay Golf Links in Sunset Beach, N.C. … Geek golf clubs were played by the respective division champions at the recent European Long Drive Championship. … Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club in Innisbrook, Fla., will celebrates the unofficial National Mulligan Day on Oct. 17. Resort guests playing one of its four golf courses, including the PGA Tour Copperhead Course, will get to play the same course again for free. … LPGA professional Paula Creamer becomes an ambassador for The First Tee, serving as co-chair of the program’s new Young Ambassadors Council launched in August. Creamer will serve alongside fellow professional Anthony Kim as co-chair. … Laurence W. Pithie, the first man in the United Kingdom to earn master greenkeeper honors and who now runs the training and consultancy company Turf Master One, is confirmed as a speaker for the 2009 European Golf Business Conference in Amsterdam, Dec. 2-4. … The Golf Course Superintendents Association of America will present Judy Rankin, a World Golf Hall of Fame member and television golf commentator, with its Old Tom Morris Award. The Old Tom Morris Award is presented annually to an individual who “through a continuing lifetime commitment to the game of golf has helped to mold the welfare of the game in a manner and style exemplified by Old Tom Morris.” … The Brunswick Isles Golf Trail, located along the northern coast of South Carolina and the southern coast of North Carolina, extending its fall golf packages through Feb. 24. Packages start at $182 per person, based on quad occupancy and include a free night’s accommodations with two or more paid night, a free Brunswick Isles Golf Trail souvenir golf towel, and a free lunch each day of play. … Stirling Properties announces the redevelopment of the University Club Golf Course, home of the LSU men’s and women’s teams in Baton Rouge, La., For a limited time, University Club Plantation will waive the golf initiation fee for new lot purchasers closing prior to Dec. 1. … Utopia Golf Products, maker of milled putters, made its official début at the PGA Fall Expo earlier this month and introduced its Utopia TXR I cavity-back blade and TXR II heel-shafted cavity-back mallet putters. … CordeValle in San Martin, Calif., will host the fifth CordeValle Collegiate Golf Tournament, Nov. 8-11. UCLA will serve as the host school for the 14-team tournament.

Golf Channel will air the PGA Tour’s Fall Series, beginning with this week’s Turning Stone Resort Championship. Following are air times for each tournament: Turning Stone Resort Championship (Oct. 1-4), 4-6 p.m. ET; Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospital for Children Open (Oct. 15-18), 4-7 p.m. ET; Frys.com Open (Oct. 22-25), 5-7 p.m. ET; Viking Classic Ì¢?å¬(Oct. 29-Nov. 1), 2:30-4:30 p.m. ET; and Children’s Miracle Network Classic (Nov. 12-15), 1-4 p.m. ET.

Jeev Milkha Singh and Anthony Kim commit to play the Volvo World Match Play Championship at Finca Cortesin in Malaga, Spain, Oct. 29-Nov. 1. … The 2009 Golf Channel Amateur Tour National Championship crowned 12 Open and Senior division champions in La Quinta, Calif., on Sept. 25. The winners were: Open division -Snead Flight (20+ handicap), Alfred Defeo of Absecon, N.J.; Jones Flight (16.0-19.9), Charlie Reiter of Palm Desert, Calif.; Sarazen Flight (12-15.9), Stephen Cannon of Southlake, Texas; Hogan Flight (8-11.9), Zac Day of San Antonio; Palmer Flight (4.0-7.9), Patrick Polzin of Indian Head Park, Ill.; and Championship Flight (handicap of less than 3.9), Pete DeTemple of Callaway, Md. Senior division -Snead Flight (20-plus handicap), Pekka Ojapalo of Oakville, Ontario; Jones Flight (16.0-19.9), Chip Fleming of River Ridge, La.; Sarazen Flight (12-15.9), Steven Owensby of Stone Mountain, Ga.; Hogan Flight (8-11.9), Scott Godino of Las Vegas, Nev.; Palmer Flight (4.0-7.9), Clifford Conover of Roosevelt, Utah; and Championship Flight (handicap of less than 3.9), Ken Larney of Orland Park, Ill.