BRIEFLY : MARTIN WINS PLAYOFF AND U.S. OPEN BERTH.Byline: Daily News Wire Services Casey Martin Casey Martin (born June 2, 1972 in Eugene, Oregon) is an American professional golfer. He still resides in Eugene. He was educated at Stanford University, and was briefly a teammate of Tiger Woods. overcame a balky cart and a double bogey Verb 1. double bogey - to shoot two strokes over par golf, golf game - a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes on the 36th hole - one he feared would be his last - before qualifying for the U.S. Open The term U.S. Open is applied to "open" United States national championships in a particular sport, in which anybody, amateur or professional, American or non-American may compete. These include:
Martin sank a 25-foot birdie putt in the rain to clinch the fifth and final qualifying spot at Clovernook Country Club. He had failed his three previous attempts to make the Open, which will be held at the Olympic Club in San Francisco starting June 18. ``I'm going to fly around the Open. I don't think I'll need a cart. I'll be so pumped,'' he said, moments after winning the five-player playoff. Until his winding putt found the middle of the cup on the par-4, 420-yard second hole, Martin figured this would wind up as a day he would long regret. Martin, who won a court order to ride a cart because of a circulation problem in his right leg, took a while to adjust to a one-person cart brought in for the event. It had a different breaking system than a standard cart and quit on his second hole when he accidentally kicked the power switch. He had to walk two holes before the cart was revived. ``I liked it. There are a few kinks that need to get worked out,'' he said of the cart, which he will use at the Open. FOOTBALL: Roy Kramer, chairman of the Bowl Championship Series - the new name for the old Bowl Alliance - today will detail the system he designed to determine which two teams play in college football's so-called title game. As was the case with the previous system, the formula will involve a blend of the Associated Press media poll and the USA Today-ESPN coaches poll. But the new twist will include input from a supposedly objective power system that measures strength of schedule and strength of opponents' schedule, along with wins and losses. San Francisco 49ers Defensive tackle Shawn Lee, whose performance has fallen off dramatically the last two years, was traded from the San Diego Chargers
TENNIS: Top-seeded Petr Korda, bothered by the flu, won his opening-round match at the Gerry Weber Open The Gerry Weber Open is a tennis tournament held in Halle, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Held since 1993, the tournament is played on four outdoor grass courts and is a part of the International Series Tournaments on the ATP Tour schedule. , struggling to a 6-1, 7-6 (7-5) victory over Germany's Kevin Goellner in Halle, Germany. Rain washed out most of the play at Queen's Club in London, a grass-court tuneup for Wimbledon. Only five matches got under way and none were completed. ALSO: Kellee Booth of Arizona State, who helped lead the Sun Devils to a second straight NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association golf title, is the winner of the Honda Award as the top woman collegiate athlete in her sport. . . . Mike Bobinski, director of athletics at the University of Akron Enrollment in fall 2006 was 23,539 students.[1] The school offers more than 200 undergraduate degrees [2] and 100 graduate degrees [3]. The University's best-known program is its College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering, which is located in a since 1994, was hired to head the athletics department at Xavier of Ohio. |
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