Luke Donald, despite missing a bid to cap-
ture one of golf’s four major championships,
combined steady play and two victories to cap-
ture both the 2011 PGA of America Player of the
Year Award and the Vardon Trophy.
Donald becomes the second native of
England to win the PGA of America Player of the
Year award, joining Nick Faldo (1990); and he is
the second Briton to capture the Vardon Trophy,
first presented to “Lighthorse” Harry Cooper in
1937.
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Lexi Thompson plans to make her LPGA
debut at the ISPS Handa Women’s Australian
Open at Royal Melbourne Golf Club Feb. 9-12.
The LPGA is co-sanctioning the event with the
Australian LPGA.
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Donald has withdrawn from this week’s
WGC-HSBC Champions to stay home and wait
for the birth of his second child.
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Graeme McDowell said Wednesday that
he had no influence over friend Rory McIlroy‘s
decision to join him at Dublin-based Horizon
Sports Management.
NBC Sports chairman Mark Lazarus has
named Jon Litner as a group president in
charge of overseeing the
Comcast SportsNet regional
sports networks and all
of NBC’s golf businesses,
and is moving most of
NBC Sports’ operations to
Connecticut. Golf Channel
president Mike McCarley
will report to Litner and run
NBC Sports’ golf businesses and Golf Channel.
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Jon Litner
EA Sports announced Monday that Rory
McIlroy and Rickie Fowler will share the cover
with Tiger Woods in the 2013 edition of Tiger
Woods PGA Tour video game.
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Former PGA of America CEO Jim Awtrey, of
Windermere, Fla.; Jack Barber, of Indianapolis,
and Guy Wimberly, of Elephant Butte, N.M., A
Annika Sorenstam
has been selected as
the recipient of the
United States Golf
Association’s 2012
Bob Jones Award.
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Orlando’s Reunion Resort – home of the
Annika Academy – is fighting the economic
woes of recent years by joining forces with
resorts on both Florida coasts to form a
“Legends of Golf” trail that new managers
expect will breathe life into the property.
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