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The ADT Golf Skills Challenge introduces a Reverse Scramble competition to the traditional situational shotmaking event set for Oct. 26 at The Breakers in Palm Beach, FL. The eight-player field will feature the teams of Kenny Perry/J.B. Holmes, Brandt Snedeker/Boo Weekley, Nick Price/Fred Funk and Hunter Mahan/Nick Watney in scramble. The eight pros will compete for $800,000 in prize money. The six long-standing skills – long drive, mid-iron, bunker shot, chip shot, trouble shot and short iron – will be followed by the reverse scramble that represents the seventh and eighth skills. The rules of the reverse scramble call for the opposing team to select which shot its rival twosome must play. … ESPN schedules a debut telecast of the Long Drivers of America‘s 2009 Re/Max World Long Drive Championship finals on Sunday, Dec. 20, 1-2:30 p.m. ET. … Golf Tourism Scotland announces the nominees for its 11 golf-specific Gold Standard Awards – golf course, caddiemaster and secretariat. “Like most industries, Scotland’s golf sector has been confronted by a number of challenges,” said Nick Hunter, chairman of GTS. “What is encouraging is the way in which we have responded to these difficulties by upping service levels and improving customer experiences. The GTS Gold Standard Awards salutes the gains made by clubs and courses in these testing times.” … Premium Golf Brands, owner of the Green Lamb apparel brand, signs a licensing agreement with Initmelle to distribute its line of clothing into the Canadian market. … Bear Creek Golf Club in Murrieta, CA., appoints Sexton Communications as the agency of record for the club. … St. Mellion International Resort announces that Scott Drummond, 2004 European PGA Championship winner and former PGA European Tour Rookie of the Year, will represent the resort on the PGA European Tour for the rest of the 2009 season. Drummond will wear the resort’s logo on his golf bag and clothing. Drummond will also write a weekly tour diary blog on the St. Mellion Web site. … Jack Nicklaus will make a personal appearance at Bighorn Golf Club in Palm Desert, CA, on Nov. 16, to help raise funds for American Lake Veterans Golf Course, the nation’s only course designed specifically for the rehabilitation of wounded and disabled veterans. … Philip Bleakney, PGA director of golf at The Golf Club of Dallas, recently conducted the seventh Golf Club of Dallas’ 24-Hour Teach-A-Thon. This year’s event raised just under $25,000 for the Northern Texas PGA Junior Golf Foundation. … The Glenlivet, the No. 1-selling single malt Scotch whisky in the United States, will kick off whisky season by hosting the The Glenlivet Whisky Season Open online with World Golf Tour. The tournament is open to the public and held at WGT.com. Registration is free through Nov. 30. … Pro Defender Series retains Arrive Golf Group to manage its product introduction into the U.S. marketplace. The Pro Defender Series alarm warns of unauthorized movement of a golf bag, sending a radio signal to a pocket-sized remote receiver held by the owner. … King Golf signs a licensing agreement with Bradford Licensing to have its KGKouture apparel line distributed to high-end domestic and international retailers. … Loren Roberts maintains his lead in the Champions Tour’s Charles Schwab Cup. With just one full-field event and the season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship remaining, only five players remain in the hunt to win the Charles Schwab Cup. Roberts leads with 2,458 points, followed by Fred Funk (2,293 points), Bernhard Langer (2,056), Jay Haas (1,731) and John Cook (1,385). … FizGolf announces that its Fiz product, a dry foam solution sprayed from a CO2 can, was recognized at the recent European Golf Show in Munich. … The Golf Course Builders Association of America announces the upgrade of three of its members – East Coast Shaping of Dalton, MA, JonesPlan Inc. of Tulsa, OK, and Landirr Inc. of Orlando, FL. Each has been elevated from Associate Builder Members to Builder Members after meeting the designated qualifications.

LPGA and World Golf Hall of Famers Amy Alcott, Pat Bradley, JoAnne Carner, Betsy King and Patty Sheehan have committed to play the Legends Tour Open Championship, Nov. 20-22 at Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club in Innisbrook, Fla. … The third Nationwide Children’s Hospital Invitational, held July 27-Aug. 2 at the Ohio State University Golf Club, raised a total of $881,270 for charitable organizations, including $325,000 for pediatric cancer research and treatment at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Also, dates for the 2010 Nationwide Tour event were announced for July 19-25. … European Ryder Cup captain Colin Montgomerie has committed to play the inaugural Egyptian Open, Nov. 5-8 in Cairo.