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Anthony Kim moved to fifth in the U.S. Ryder Cup point standings with his win at the Wachovia Championship. Tiger Woods remains No. 1 with 8,665.627 points, while Kim has 2,163.796 points. Steve Stricker holds the eighth and final qualifying position with 1,991.118 points. … PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem and architect Pete Dye will be host Matt Adams‘ guests on the “Fairways of Life Show” on the PGA Tour Network/XM 146, Saturday and Sunday at 11 a.m. ET. … Puma signs 24-year-old Jeff Overton to an endorsement agreement. Overton will kick off his new relationship at The Players Championship, wearing Puma’s new performance shoe, the Swing GTX, in the exclusive chrome colorway. … Rickie Fowler of Oklahoma State, Jamie Lovemark of Southern California and Michael Thompson of Alabama have been named finalists for the 2008 Ben Hogan Award, presented annually to the top men’s NCAA Division I, II or III, NAIA or junior college golfer of the past 12 months. … PricewaterhouseCoopers will host seven participants from The First Tee Scholars, Class of 2007 at its annual Executive Forum during The Players Championship in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. The participants are Sam Hartman (University of Michigan), Brittany Hulings (Michigan State University), Joanna Lau (New York University), Katie Lenz (Purdue University), Marvin Phisitkraiyakorn (Stevens Institute of Technology), Timbes Riley (University of Florida), and Sam Williams (University of California-Berkeley). … Apparel company Nivo-Sport reports it is a sponsor of Mo Martin, who recently won the Duramed Futures Tour’s El Paso Golf Classic. … Matrix reports that the winner of the Wachovia Championship used its OZIK TP-7 shaft in his driver and the OZIK XCON Altus Hybrid shaft in his Adams utility club. … Hireko announces the newest addition to its Karma line of grips, the Karma Supra Putter grip, which measuring nearly 1 ¾ inches across. … Golf course architect Pete Dye will be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame, Monday, Nov. 10, as part of the Class of 2008. Dye was selected in the Lifetime Achievement Category. … Women on Course, a golf-related networking organization for women, announces it will hold 32 events in 16 U.S. cities this year. For information, go to www.womenoncourse.com/events.php. … Golf instructor David Leadbetter announces the 2008 seasonal openings of three David Leadbetter Golf Academy locations – May 16 in Pittsburgh, Pa.; already open in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada; and May 26 in Vail, Colo. … Duke junior Amanda Blumenherst becomes the first recipient of the Nancy Lopez Award, given annually to the world’s most outstanding female amateur. … The Golf Coaches Association of America announces the finalists for the 2008 Byron Nelson Award – Bruno Buccolo (Oklahoma Christian), Jonas Enander Hedin (Charlotte), Rob Grube (Stanford), Nathaniel James (Washington & Lee), and Joseph Sykora (Alabama). … Oobgolf launches an equipment database that ties amateur golfers’ scores to the equipment they play. Site members create an online golf bag of their equipment, matching the brand and model. Oobgolf can then report equipment performance across all users. … Golf Channel announces an agreement that will give the network exclusive rights to televise early rounds of the Senior PGA Championship through 2011. … CyberLinksGolf.com selects The Atchafalaya at Idlewild in Patterson, La., as its Featured Course of the Week. … The Raven Golf Club at Snowshoe Mountain in West Virginia will open for the 2008 season Monday, May 12. The Gary Player-designed course was named the top pubic access course in West Virginia for a sixth straight year and has also been named one of the Top 100 Resort Courses in the country by Golfweek. … Precept reports that Paula Creamer played its Precept Pink Lady iQ 180 golf ball en route to winning the SemGroup Championship. … Lohmann Golf Designs Inc. will break ground in August on a comprehensive renovation project at Westmoor Country Club in Brookfield, Wisc. All 18 greens will be converted to A1 bentgrass and the layout’s hodge-podge of design features will be unified under a single style inspired by William Langford. … Big Canyon Country Club in Newport Beach, Calif., moves to ClubTec‘s SQL Club Management Solutions. … The Southern Golf Association names Alabama’s Michael Thompson as its National Amateur of the Month for April.

Camilo Villegas and Hunter Mahan commit to play the AT&T Classic, May 15-18 at TPC Sugarloaf in Duluth, Ga. … South African Ashleigh Simon, 18, accepts a sponsor’s exemption to the second Ginn Tribute, which is hosted by Annika Sorenstam, May 26-June 1. Simon turned professional in May 2007 and competed on the Ladies European Tour where she won the Catalonia Ladies Masters. … The Sybase Classic is offering several new promotions for this year’s LPGA event. Sybase Inc., the tournament’s title sponsor, has developed a Text-to-Win promotion in which fans can text “LPGA” to “Sybase” (792273) on their mobile phones to receive two free daily tickets to the Sybase Classic. In addition, all fans that participate will automatically be entered in the Lincoln Mercury Sweepstakes Putt-Off contest for a two-year lease on a Lincoln Mercury vehicle. … The Champions Tour’s Administaff Small Business Classic, scheduled for Oct. 13-19 in Houston, Texas, will move to the Woodlands Country Club’s Tournament Course, which hosted the Shell Houston Open 1985-2002.