COUPLES WILL BE BACK FOR MORE.Byline: DAVE A file sharing program from Thursby Software Systems, Inc., Arlington, TX (www.thursby.com) that allows a Macintosh to share files with a PC. Designed specifically for and needing installation only on the Mac, DAVE works with Microsoft's native SMB/CIFS file sharing protocols and uses SHELBURNE Golf Fred Couples will defend his title at the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic The Bob Hope Chrysler Classic is a professional golf tournament played each January in California's Coachella Valley. Part of the PGA Tour's early season West Coast Swing, this tournament is well known for its celebrity pro-am, as well as having five daily 18-hole rounds of when the Southern California swing of the 1999 PGA Tour gets under way next month in Palm Desert. The five-round competition, which runs Jan. 20-24, will be played this year at Bermuda Dunes Country Club, Indian Wells CC, Tamarisk tamarisk (tăm`ərĭsk), shrub or small tree of the genus Tamarix, native chiefly to the Mediterranean area and to central Asia. The plants are often heathlike and thrive in arid and coastal regions. CC and the Arnold Palmer Private Course at PGA West. The Palmer course hosts the final round. Couples, 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. Player of the Year in 1991 and '92, has had to deal with the loss of both parents to cancer in recent years but rebounded this year to set a personal record for earnings with $1,650,389. He edged Bruce Lietzke in a playoff for the Hope title in January, won the Memorial in May and led the Masters until the final holes before finishing second to eventual Player of the Year Mark O'Meara. As usual in the popular Hope format, pros will be paired with celebrities for the first four rounds. The PGA Tour arrives in Los Angeles the following month, when 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. resumes its role as host of the Feb. 15-21 Nissan Open - hosted by Valencia Country Club last year when Riviera hosted the U.S. Senior Open. Billy Mayfair, who defeated Tiger Woods in a playoff to win at Valencia, will return to defend his title in the Nissan, which has boosted its purse to $2.8 million - $504,000 for first place. The tournament, managed by the Los Angeles Junior Chamber of Commerce for a 73rd year, is the oldest civic-sponsored event on the PGA Tour. Nissan has been affiliated since 1986 and been title sponsor since '89. We are the champions: Forty-eight area golfers have earned the right - as club or affiliate champs - to compete Monday in the Southern California Golf Association's tournament of champions. The annual December competition will include 344 players this year, divided by handicap into three flights for play at Yorba Linda Country Club, Los Coyotes CC and Rolling Hills CC. This year's field includes Chatsworth's Tim Hogarth, a longtime successful amateur player who won the U.S. Public Links title in 1996. Other area players in this year's championship flight include longtime Braemar CC champ Don Baker and Woodland Hills CC champ Michael Turner, the former Cal State Northridge star who two years ago became the fourth ex-Matador to win the 1997 L.A. City championship. Nissan Open discounts: The Nissan Open returns to Riviera with a discount opportunity for early ticket-buyers and a chance to help area charities. With a charity ticket package, the entire amount of the ticket purchase goes to participating charities. A $300 charity package, which benefits the Boys and Girls boys and girls mercurialisannua. Club of the Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. , includes two season tickets for all practice and tournament rounds, 20 daily tickets valid any day and one weekly parking pass. The price increases to $400 after Feb. 1. Other packages are available for $500 (four season passes, 35 daily tickets) and $700 (six season, 50 daily), those prices rising to $675 and $900 after Feb. 1. Information: (800) 752-6736 or (213) 480-3232. More skins, please: The Senior Skins Game will be played Jan. 30-31 at Mauna Lani, Hawaii, where notable participants Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and Hale Irwin will try again to hold off Raymond Floyd. History suggests it won't be easy. Floyd comes into this Super Bowl Weekend, made-for-television event (ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. will cover) having won the last five times. Floyd, the first player to win tournaments on the PGA Tour and Senior PGA Tour in the same year, will be playing in his seventh Senior Skins Game, having already won $1,820,000 in that competition. Two or three more skins next month, and he will surpass Palmer's career earnings ($1,861,857) on the PGA Tour. For all of his skinning prowess, this one might be tougher for Floyd. No one in golf - on any tour - is hotter than Irwin, who earned a all-tour record $2,861,945 this year while winning seven times. In his past two senior seasons, Irwin has won 16 tournaments and more than $5.1 million. Names in the game: Aren Burd, Kirk Jensen, John Van Leeuwen and Stuart von Wolffradt are the latest golfers to post aces on hole-in-one heaven Scholl Canyon, which has had nearly a dozen in the past few months. . . . J.T. Kohut, the Westlake High senior expected to be one of the top prep golfers in the area next spring, advanced to the semifinals of the American Junior Golf Association The American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) is a "501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the overall growth and development of young men and women who aspire to earn college golf scholarships through competitive junior golf. Polo Golf Junior Classic in Florida last week. THIS WEEK MILLION DOLLAR CHALLENGE Dates/Site: Today-Sunday at Sun City, South Africa. Course: Gary Player Country Club The Gary Player Country Club is a golf club in Sun City, South Africa, and is home to one of the world's longest golf courses - approximately 8,000 meters. The club is open 6 days a week taking Mondays off for maintenance work. (7,669 yards, par 72). Purse (Winner's share): $2.57 million ($1 million). Television: Fox Sports West (Today-Sunday 10 a.m.). AUSTRALASIAN PGA TOUR Australian Open Dates/Site: Today-Sunday at Adelaide, Australia. Course: Royal Adelaide Golf Club The Royal Adelaide Golf Club (often referred to as Seaton) is a private golf club in Adelaide, South Australia. It is widely acknowledged as ranking with the best in Australia, and has a world ranking that fluctuates around 50. (7,178 yards, par 72). Purse (Winner's share): $640,000 ($115,200). Television: The Golf Channel (Today-Saturday, 5 p.m.). PGA TOUR-LPGA TOUR JCPenney Classic Dates/Site: Today-Sunday at Tarpon tarpon (tär`pŏn), common name for members of the family Elopidae, large herringlike game fish of the warm seas of the Western Hemisphere, ranging occasionally from Long Island to Brazil and to the west coast of Africa and entering freshwater Springs, Fla. Course: Westin Innisbrook Resort, Copperhead copperhead, poisonous snake, Ancistrodon contortrix, of the E United States. Like its close relative, the water moccasin, the copperhead is a member of the pit viper family and detects its warm-blooded prey by means of a heat-sensitive organ behind the nostril. Course (women 6,330 yards, men 7,054 yards, par 71). Purse (Winner's share): $1.75 million ($218,750 each). Television: ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (Friday 1 p.m.; Saturday, 2 p.m.) and Channel 7 (Sunday, 1 p.m.). CAPTION(S): Box BOX: THIS WEEK (see text) |
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