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Anthony Abraham accepts the nomination to become president elect of the English Golf Union for 2010 with a view to becoming president in 2011. … Dunmaglas Golf Club in Charlevoix, Mich., joins the social networking scene through the use of Twitter, Facebook and MySpace. … Poinsett Club in Greenville, S.C., moves to ClubTec‘s Web site product, WebTec. … Ian Poulter‘s IJP Design introduces its limited-edition Quintessentially British Collection among its autumn/winter 2009 collection. … Outlast Technologies licensee Isok & Ferguson will debut a new performance golf shirt, which features added temperature regulating benefits, at the West Palm Beach Golf Expo, Aug. 18-20 at the South Florida Fair. … Pinnacle Country Club in Rogers, Ark., reports increased membership at the club, which recently completed a $6.2 million renovation. During the eight months the course was closed for renovations, the club increased its golf membership by 35 percent, gaining a total of 120 new memberships since the end of 2008. … Summit Golf Brands, parent company of Fairway & Greene, EP Pro and Zero Restriction, announces the resignation of Todd Martin, president of Fairway & Greene and Zero Restriction. Martin had been with Fairway & Greene since the brand’s launch 15 years ago. … Glenmuir unveils its technologically-advanced golf shirt in its autumn/winter 2009 collection. Glenmuir’s new Performance Tech polo uses ThermoCool, a unique blend of hollow and solid fibers that interact with the golfer and allow for body temperature regulation through a process known as thermo-buffering.

Turner Sports will air 18 hours of exclusive PGA Championship television coverage on TNT, complemented by four video streams of live coverage exclusively through PGA Championship LIVE on PGA.com. TNT will air first- and second-round coverage on Thursday-Friday, 2-8 p.m. ET, and third- and fourth-round coverage, Saturday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. ET. Also, Turner Sports announces that online traffic for the golf sites it represents – PGATour.com, PGA.com and Yahoo! Sports – averaged 4.1 million unique users over the first six months of 2009, according to Nielsen. This performance capped a period in which the sites led the online golf marketplace every month and averaged more than twice the number of monthly uniques of the nearest competitor. … Golf Magazine celebrates its 50th anniversary with a retrospective of the past half century in its September issue that hit newsstands on Aug. 11. … CBS Sports‘ final-round coverage of the World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational, which featured Tiger Woods winning his 70th PGA Tour, scored an overnight household rating/share of 4.7/11 for Sunday’s final-round coverage. That total was up 104 percent from last year’s 2.3/5 in the metered markets.

Fred Couples commits to play the Wyndham Championship, Aug. 20-23 at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C. Also, the inaugural Jamestown Swing into the Wyndham Championship in Jamestown, N.C., is set for Saturday, Aug. 15, 3-8:30 p.m. The event will feature seven bands performing on two stages at opposite ends of the event, food vendors, two beer gardens and a wine tasting area. Admission is $10 for adults and $5 for students, and members of the military are admitted free of charge. … All 50 of the LPGA’s current top-50 money winners have committed to play the Safeway Classic, Aug. 28-30 in Portland, Ore. The field will include Lorena Ochoa and Cristie Kerr, the 2007 and 2008 winners, respectively.