1 MORE AND OUT FOR TIGER; WOODS BUSHED, READY FOR HIATUS.Byline: GREG WILCOX The PGA (1) (Professional Graphics Adapter) An early IBM PC display standard for 3D processing with 640x480x256 resolution. It was not widely used. (2) (Programmable Gate Array) See gate array and FPGA. Tour's 1997 road show, otherwise known as the ``Year of the Tiger Volume I,'' concludes this week in Houston with its marquee act in need of some space. Tiger Woods  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled. and his golf clubs will be parting company once he
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It seems that 10 months of travel, courtesy cars, pampering and playing some of the best golf courses in the world can plum tucker a guy out. So starting in December it will be time to chill. ``It will definitely be a break from golf. There will be no practicing, no playing, no golf clubs, period. It will just be hanging out with my friends, going on vacation and just doing something away from the game,'' Woods said earlier this week from the Champion's Golf Club, where he starts play today in the season-ending Tour Championship. But golf is his job now, albeit a great one. It's tougher to go to work some days than others. Getting paid to do something all year is a lot harder than playing a summer schedule of amateur events. ``With professional golf it's like a 10-month season, so that's a lot longer than a little short burst of three months,'' Woods said. So far he has not locked in next year's schedule, but would like to play the AT&T National Pro-Am with his father Earl, if his health permits. This year also brought some closure to the question of what happened to his namesake, Tiger Phong, with whom Earl served in Vietnam. Golf Digest Golf Digest is a monthly golf magazine published by Advance Publications in the United States. It is a generalist golf publication covering recreational golf and men's and women's competitive golf. discovered Phong died in 1976 while being held in a Vietcong concentration camp. This summer the Woods family met the Phong family at Tiger's boyhood home in Cypress. ``It was very tough for all of us,'' Woods said. ``My dad obviously had a hard time, I had a hard time. It was a great way to put an ending to the entire issue. Everything that we have assumed did happen, unfortunately. Things that we didn't know about also happened. It was nice to meet his kin, and from there it was a real bonding experience.'' Now he's got a chance to bookend this season by finishing it in much the same way he started it, earning a big paycheck by beating a select field of the tour's best players. He's been working on his game since the Ryder Cup Ryder Cup Biennial team golf event first held in 1927. It was originally played between teams of golfers from the U.S. and Britain; since 1979 players opposing the U.S. have been chosen from all of Europe. The trophy was donated by the British seed merchant Samuel Ryder. . ``Everything is coming around. I'm actually putting pretty well, my short game is good. My iron play is coming around and I'm driving the ball well. It's just a matter of having everything click at the same time,'' Woods said. ``You've got to understand that it's my first year so I think I did pretty good.'' Get ready for ``Year of the Tiger Volume II.'' Notes: Next year is the last La Costa
The La Costa Resort and Spa hosts the Mercedes Championship, which will move to Hawaii. La Costa gets a match play event featuring the world's best players in 1998. . . . The pairings are set for the Franklin Templeton Shark Shootout Shootout Venture capital jargon. Refers to two or more venture capital firms fighting for the startup. on Nov. 11-16 at Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. as Ryder Cup captain Tom Kite Thomas Oliver Kite, Jr. (born December 9, 1949) is an American professional golfer. Kite was born in McKinney, Texas. He began playing golf at age 6 and won his first tournament at age 11. and Jay Haas Jay Dean Haas (born December 2, 1953) is an American golfer. Haas was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He attended Wake Forest University and was a member of the NCAA Championship team of the middle 1970s with Curtis Strange and Bob Byman that Golf World try to repeat as champions. . . . Host Greg Norman Noun 1. Greg Norman - Australian golfer (born in 1955) Gregory John Norman, Norman will team with fellow countryman fellow countryman n → compatriota m fellow countryman fellow irreg n → compatriote m fellow countryman fellow Steve Elkington. Other teams include Fred Couples and Brad Faxon; John Daly and Fuzzy Zoeller; Scott Hoch and David Duval; Craig Stadler and David Frost; Mark Calcavecchia and Andrew Magee; Peter Jacobsen and John Cook; Lanny Wadkins and Chip Beck; and Scott McCarron and Bruce Lietzke. The $1.1 million PGA Tour sanctioned event benefits the National Childhood Cancer Foundation and Interface Children Family Services. . . . The Foursome Ticket Package for next summer's U.S. Senior Open at Riviera Country Club The Riviera Country Club is a country club with a championship golf course. It is located in Pacific Palisades, California, within the city limits of Los Angeles, California. The country club opened in 1926, with George C. Thomas, Jr. as the course architect. is a sellout. It includes one round of golf for a foursome at the course and four season passes to the tournament. . . . Sherm Margoles, a 76-year-old Encino resident, recorded his fifth hole-in-one on Oct. 14, using a 3-wood to ace the 190-yard, par-3 fourth hole at Balboa GC. The next day, 8-year-old Nick Delio of Valencia aced the 110-yard, par-3 ninth with a 5-wood at Vista Valencia's Chica course. . . . The second LPGA LPGA abbr. Ladies Professional Golf Association Los Angeles Women's championship will be played Feb. 13-15 at Glendale's Oakmont Country Club Oakmont Country Club is a prestigious "top five" country club and the "oldest top-ranked golf course in the U.S.".[1] It is located in the Pittsburgh suburbs of Plum and Oakmont, Pennsylvania, USA. , preceded by a two-day Buick Cheryl Ladd celebrity pro-am featuring some of the top names in the entertainment industry. Ladd, an avid golfer with an 18-handicap, will invite at least 10 entertainment personalities to play in the pro-am. Terry-Jo Myers is defending champion in the LPGA event. . . . The newest look in golf-ball technology is non-circular. The Top-Flite Aero, a two-piece ball available in worldwide markets this month, features teardrop- and elipsoid-shaped dimples. The theory is by optimizing airflow, the Aero dimple pattern lowers wind resistance, and less resistance equals more distance. The Aero follows the multi-layer Strata as the latest introduction from Spalding/Top Flite, a company which as Spalding introduced the first American golf ball in 1895 - the Spalding Wizard. THIS WEEK'S TOURNAMENTS PGA TOUR Tour Championship Site: Houston, today-Sunday. Course: Champions Golf Club The Champions Golf Club is a golf club located in Houston, Texas. The club was founded in 1957 by Jack Burke, Jr and Jimmy Demaret, while in 1959 the Cypress Creek Course was opened for play, designed by Ralph Plummer. (7,200 yards, par 71). Purse: $4 million (winner's share, $720,000). Television: ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (Thursday-Friday, noon-3 p.m.) and Channel 7 (Saturday, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m.3 p.m.). Last year: Tom Lehman won at Southern Hills in Tulsa, Okla., to take the money title ($1,780,159), Vardon Trophy (69.32 scoring average) and Player of the Year honors. Lehman, also the 1996 British Open winner, had a 12-under 268 total for a six-stroke victory over Brad Faxon. Last week: Bill Glasson won the Las Vegas Invitational for his seventh tour title, closing with a 6-under 66 for a one-stroke victory over David Edwards and Billy Mayfair. Glasson had a 20-under 340 total. SENIOR PGA TOUR Ralphs Senior Classic Site: Los Angeles, Friday-Sunday. Course: Wilshire Country Club (6,571 yards, par 71). Purse: $1 million (winner's share, $150,000). Television: None. Last year: Gil Morgan became the tour's youngest winner at 50 years and 11 days, closing with a 5-under 66 for a one-stroke victory over Jim Colbert and Chi Chi Rodriguez. Morgan had an 11-under 202 total. Last week: Bob Eastwood won the Raley's Gold Rush at El Dorado Hills, Calif., finishing with a 4-under 68 for a two-stroke victory over Rick Acton. Eastwood had a 12-under 204 total. PGA EUROPEAN TOUR The PGA European Tour is an organisation which operates the three leading men's professional golf tours in Europe: the elite European Tour, the European Seniors Tour and the developmental Challenge Tour. Volvo Masters Site: Jerez, Spain, today-Sunday. Course: Montecastillo Golf Resort and Club (7,024 yards, par 72). Purse: $1.6 million (winner's share, $266,000). Television: The Golf Channel (today-Saturday, 5-8 a.m. and 5-7 p.m.; Sunday, 6-9 a.m. and 5-7 p.m.). Last year: Zimbabwe's Mark McNulty closed with a 3-under 68 for a seven-stroke victory at Valderrama. He had an 8-under 276 total. LPGA TOUR Nichirei International Site: Tsukuba, Japan, Friday-Sunday. Course: Tsukuba Country Club (6,294 yards, par 72). Purse: $675,000 (winner's share $24,000 each). Television: None. Format: Friday and Saturday, nine best-ball stroke-play matches; Sunday, 18 singles stroke-play matches. Last year: The U.S. LPGA beat the Japan LPGA 21-1/2-14-1/2 for its 12th straight victory in the team event. Karrie Webb was selected the tournament MVP (Multimedia Video Processor) A high-speed DSP chip from Texas Instruments, introduced in 1994. Officially introduced as the TMS320C80, it combines RISC technology with the functionality of four DSPs on one chip. , beating Ayako Okamoto 68-73 and teaming with Michelle McGann and Joan Pitcock to win best-ball matches. CAPTION(S): Box Box: THIS WEEK'S TOURNAMENTS (see text) |
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