Global Golf Post - September 20, 2010

The second Asian Amateur Championship
will be played Oct. 7-10 on the West Course at
Kasumigaseki Country Club, northwest of To-
kyo. Organized by the Asia Pacific Golf Confed-
eration and supported by The Masters Tourna-
ment and The R&A, a field of 120 players from
up to 34 APGC-member nations are expected to
compete in the 72-hole, stroke play event.

The winner will again receive an invitation
to the 2011 Masters, while the winner and the
runner(s)-up get a pass to the International
Final Qualifying for the Open Championship.

South Korea took the top two places at the
2009 Asian Amateur in China, led by winner Han
Chang-won, who finished at 12-under 276. Eric
Chun was second at 7 under. Han shot 79-76 to
miss the cut at The Masters. Chun advanced to
the Open where he missed the cut by a shot.

Japanese star Ryo Ishikawa, an eight-time
winner on the Japan Golf Tour at age 19, will
speak at a private dinner for players and of-
ficials, a role filled by Gary Player last year.
of Harvard Law School and former IMG chief le-
gal counsel. Trager began his career with NBC
in New York and L.A., and was a past chairman
man of Clear Channel Entertainment Television.

Jim Mrva, head professional at Monroe Golf
Club in Pittsford, N. Y., a 33-year member of
the PGA of America, has been named the 57th
recipient of the PGA Golf Professional of the
Year Award.
Page Thompson, presi-
dent of Golf Channel since
2007, is leaving the network
and returning to parent
company Comcast Corp.,
a network spokesman
confirmed … Golf Channel
announced last week that it
will launch a live morning
show, tentatively titled “Dawn Patrol,” in Janu-
ary. It will air from 7 to 9 a.m. weekdays.

Page Thompson

Tiger Woods is keeping his Orlando home in
Isleworth in addition to the one he is building
in Jupiter, Fla. The Isleworth home is valued at
$2.4 million, according to court records ob-
tained by Bloomberg News. It is the home he
and his ex-wife, Elin Nordegren, shared with
their two children until that fateful Thanksgiv-
ing evening last year. Woods has resided in
Isleworth since 1996.

Sports law expert Peter Carfagna and TV ex-
ecutive Michael Trager have been added to the
LPGA Board of Directors, signing for three-year
terms. Carfagna is a Rhodes Scholar, graduate

Greg Norman, David Duval and Vijay Singh
have added their support to “Golfers for the
Gulf” to help endangered wildlife impacted in
the Gulf of Mexico resulting from BP’s Deepwa-
ter Horizon drilling rig explosion. The PGA Tour
and Falconhead Capital chairman David Moross
are funding the purchase of specially designed
skiffs known as a Shallow Water Attention
Terminal. The boats will be used to rescue
at-risk wildlife as well as perform vital ongoing
monitoring and testing of critical areas impact-
ed by the spill. The boats have been adapted
to provide a specialty treatment tables, cooling
and rinsing systems for distressed wildlife. l

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