A Classic effort.A Classic effort GOLF: Graeme McDowell made good use of his sponsors' invitation at the St Jude Classic last night to claim a place on the leaderboard heading into today's second round in Memphis. The Northern Irishman had intended to play the Austrian Open this week before that tournament was moved to September and instead chose to play in the States as he prepares for next week's US Open at Bethpage, New York Bethpage is a hamlet and a census-designated place in Nassau County, New York, USA. The population was 16,543 at the 2000 United States Census. Bethpage is within the Town of Oyster Bay with its own school district. . His decision paid off as McDowell shot an opening four-under-par 66 at TPC (Transaction Processing Performance Council, San Francisco, CA, www.tpc.org) An organization devoted to benchmarking transaction processing systems. In order to derive the number of transactions that can be processed in a given time frame, TPC benchmarks measure the total performance of Southwind to take a share of third place, two strokes behind overnight leader Brian Gay.. |
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