BRIEFLY : STANKOWSKI HOLDS OFF COUPLES.Paul Stankowski Paul Francis Stankowski (born December 2, 1969) is an American professional golfer who has played on both the Nationwide Tour and the PGA Tour. Stankowski was born in Oxnard, California. He first played golf on Easter Sunday in 1978 at the age of 8. , who won his first PGA Tour The PGA Tour is an organization that operates the USA's main professional golf tours. It is headquartered in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, USA. Its name is officially rendered in all caps as “PGA TOUR". event earlier this year, had to roll in a 3-foot birdie putt on the 72nd hole to defeat two-time champion Fred Couples Frederick Stephen Couples (born October 3, 1959) is an American professional golfer and former World No. 1 who competes on the PGA Tour. He has won numerous events, and is most famous for winning the 1992 Masters Tournament. by a stroke Sunday in the Kapalua International on the island of Maui. Jay Sigel's steady, consistent play led to his first major victory, in the Senior Tour Championship in Myrtle Beach, S.C. The Senior Tour Championship will get its own home in Myrtle Beach by 1998, an ultra-modern Tournament Players Club Tournament Players Club (TPC) is a chain of American public and private golf clubs operated by the PGA Tour. Most of the courses either are or had been hosts for PGA Tour events, and even those that have never hosted an event on the main tour have frequently hosted events on the course backed by 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. and designed by Tom Fazio and consultant Lanny Wadkins. TENNIS Sweden's Thomas Enqvist, 22, won his second straight ATP ATP: see adenosine triphosphate. ATP in full adenosine triphosphate Organic compound, substrate in many enzyme-catalyzed reactions (see catalysis) in the cells of animals, plants, and microorganisms. tournament, beating American Todd Martin 7-5, 6-4, 7-6 (7-0) to capture the Stockholm Open for the second consecutive year. Enqvist, who took the Paris Open last week, has lost only one set during his past 10 matches. Goran Ivanisevic of Croatia, eliminated in the first round a year ago, defeated Russian star Yevgeny Kafelnikov 3-6, 6-1, 6-3 to win the Kremlin Cup in Moscow. Fourth-seeded Hernan Gumy upset top-seeded Marelo Rios of Chile 6-4, 7-5 in the final of the $278,750 Hellmann's Cup in Santiago, Chile. BASEBALL A visiting American all-star team couldn't hold two late leads and wound up with an 8-8 tie in Tokyo against a team of Japanese stars in the final game of an exhibition series. The Americans finished 4-4-2. TRACK AND FIELD Florence Griffith Joyner, the outstanding runner who attended Cal State Northridge and UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX , is one of 10 women profiled in a new book, ``Dynamic Modern Women Athletes'' by Occidental College graduate Laurie Lindop (Twenty-First Century Books). Abderrazak Haki of Morocco successfully defended his Columbus (Ohio) Marathon men's title, completing the 17th annual event in 2 hours, 17 minutes and 28 seconds. Russia's Tatiana Titova won the women's event in 2:28:05. |
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