DOZENS SIGNED UP FOR AT&T CLASSIC.Byline: Daily News VALENCIA - At least 89 players are ready to tee off in March at the AT&T Classic tournament, including returning champion Des Smyth Des Smyth (born 12 February, 1953) is an Irish golfer. Smyth was born in Drogheda, County Louth. He turned professional in 1974 and was a member of the European Tour for over a quarter of a century. His best finish on the European Tour Order of Merit was seventh in 1988. , organizers said Monday. The annual 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. Champions Tour stop is scheduled for March 6-12 at the Valencia Country Club. Additional players are being added in the coming weeks, tournament executive director Brian Fitzgerald Brian Fitzgerald (born March 1 1947) is an Irish Independent politician. He was a Labour Party Teachta Dála for Meath from 1992 to 1997. Previously a trade union official with SIPTU, Fitzgerald was elected to Dáil Éireann for Meath during the swing to Labour in the 1992 said. ``The AT&T Classic has grown into one of the top Champions Tour events,'' he said in a statement. ``We're anticipating our roster of golfers to expand in the coming weeks and look forward to hosting another exciting tournament in 2006.'' In 2005, winner Smyth had the luck of the Irish on his side as he scored a 4-under 68 on the final day of the seniors tournament to win by one stroke. Other notable players scheduled to compete include three-time winner Gil Morgan Gilmer Bryan Morgan II, OD (born September 25 1946) is an American professional golfer. Morgan was born in Wewoka, Oklahoma. He graduated from East Central State College in Ada, Oklahoma in 1968. , 2002 winner Tom Kite, seven-time PGA Tour winner Peter Jacobsen, and 2003 winner Tom Purtzer. Also attending are Ben Crenshaw and Curtis Strange. This will be the first year the golf tournament - formerly the SBC (1) (SBC Communications Inc., San Antonio, TX, www.sbc.com) A large, national telecommunications company that grew from a multitude of local and regional companies, including Southwestern Bell, Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell, into a single, unified brand by 2002. Classic - will carry the AT&T moniker (1) A name, title or alias. See alias. (2) A COM object that is used to create instances of other objects. Monikers save programmers time when coding various types of COM-based functions such as linking one document to another (OLE). See COM and OLE. . Sponsor SBC Communications changed names last year following its $16 billion purchase of AT&T Inc. The annual golf classic was held at sites throughout the Los Angeles region, including Rancho Park Golf Course and Wilshire Country Club, before settling in Santa Clarita in 2001. Its contract with Valencia expires 2007. Each day of tournament play will air on The Golf Channel. Tickets are available for purchase through the Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital Foundation at (661) 253-8082 and the Los Angeles County Junior Golf Foundation at (213) 738-2972. |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion