NAMES APLENTY IN NISSAN FIELD.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 Adam Scott
Adam Derek Scott (born July 16, 1980) is a professional golfer and one of a crop of young Australians plying their trade on the major golf tours. of Australia opens defense of his Nissan Open The Northern Trust Open, formally known as the Nissan Open and originally known as the Los Angeles Open, is a regular golf tournament on the PGA Tour. It is played annually in February in Pacific Palisades, California. championship in two weeks at 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. , where he will be part of another strong international contingent. Early entries for that Feb. 16-19 event in Pacific Palisades Palisades, cliffs along the west bank of the Hudson River, NE N.J. and SE N.Y., extending from N of Jersey City, N.J., to the vicinity of Piermont, N.Y., with a general altitude of from 350 ft to 550 ft (107–168 m). include more than a dozen international players, including past champions Robert Allenby Robert Allenby (born 12 July 1971) is an Australian professional golfer. Allenby was born in Melbourne. He turned professional in 1992 and was soon successful, topping the PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit in his first season and again in 1994. of Australia, Ernie Els Theodore Ernest "Ernie" Els (born October 17, 1969) is a South African golfer who has been one of the top professional players in the world since the mid-1990s. A former World No. 1, he is known as "The Big Easy", for his imposing physical stature (he stands 1. of South Africa and Mike Weir of Canada. Three-time Mercedes Championships winner Stuart Appleby of Australia and two-time PGA Tour Player of the Year Nick Price, another South African-born golfer, are other internationals among the early entries in an event that will set its field Feb. 10. Top U.S. players among the early entries include 2003 U.S. Open champion Jim Furyk, 2005 Tour Championship winner Bart Bryant and Chris DiMarco, who lost in a playoff to Tiger Woods at last year's Masters. Past area standouts Olin Browne, from Occidental College, and Pepperdine alumnus ALUMNUS, civil law. A child which one has nursed; a foster child. Dig. 40, 2, 14. Jason Gore - who shared the lead as qualifiers midway through last summer's U.S. Open - are already in the field. So are Ryder Cup captain Tom Lehman and his assistant captain, two-time Nissan Open winner and 1995 U.S. Open champ Corey Pavin. Ditto for 20-something stars of the future Charles Howell III Charles Gordon Howell III (born June 20, 1979) is an American golfer. Howell was born and raised in Augusta, Georgia, the home town of the Masters Tournament. He was a member of Augusta Country Club, which is adjacent to Amen Corner at Augusta National Golf Club. and Justin Rose. Young and old are attracted early and often to Riviera, where Ben Hogan won the U.S. Open in 1948, 25-year-old Hal Sutton held off Jack Nicklaus in the 1983 PGA Championship, and Steve Elkington's 25-foot birdie putt denied Colin Montgomerie in a playoff after both shot a tournament-record 17-under par at the '95 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. . ``I love the course and I love the history,'' said Howell, who became part of Riviera's history at age 22 in 2002, when he tied the course 9-hole record with a front-nine 28. --Nissan qualifying: Open qualifying will be in two stages for all players other than 2006 PGA Tour and Nationwide Tour members and those with 150 career cuts in PGA Tour events. Entry for all others requires a handicap index of 2.0 and participation in one of two pre-qualifiers - Feb. 8 at Angeles National Golf Club in Sunland or Feb. 9 on the Los Serranos South Course in Chino Chino (chē`nō), city (1990 pop. 59,682), San Bernardino co., S Calif.; founded 1887, inc. 1910. It is the business and processing center of a diversified farming (notably dairying) area. Hills. Those two pre-qualifiers will advance a combined 50 players to the final Nissan Open qualifier, scheduled for Feb. 13 at the Industry Hills Babe Zaharias Course in the City of Industry, where the low four scorers earn Nissan berths. Entry fee for pre-qualifying is $200, and another $200 is required for the Industry Hills qualifier. Entry deadline for pre-qualifying is 5 p.m. Friday. Registration may be done online at www.scpga.org. --Champions Tour: Qualifying tournaments for upcoming Champions Tour events in Southern California will be held March 6 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 Valencia and March 13 at Goose Creek Golf Club in Mira Loma. The TPC Valencia qualifier is for the March 10-12 AT&T Classic at Valencia Country Club. The event, played the past three years at Valencia and won in 2005 by Des Smyth of Ireland, was called 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 until this year. The Goose Creek qualifier is for the March 17-19 Toshiba Classic at Newport Beach Country Club, where longtime Southern California Golf Association amateur standout Mark Johnson won his first professional title last year. Champions Tour qualifiers are open to professional players at least 50 years old, with an entry fee of $100 for tour members, $200 for associate members and $400 for nonmembers. Entry forms are available online at www.scpga.org. --Names in the game: Area teaching professional Roger Gunn of Oak Park came within a playoff of earning a berth in the upcoming Nissan Open, shooting 2-under-par 70 in the PGA of Southern California section qualifier Monday. Jim Gormley of Redondo Beach shot 67 to win that competition at 6,632-yard, par-72 Glendora Country Club. Then, Tim Parnum of San Diego birdied the first extra hole to eliminate Gunn and Brad Benkey of Bermuda Dunes in a three-man playoff for the final Nissan berth. It was the second strong qualifying effort in five months for Gunn, the 2001 section Teacher of the Year who instructs at Tierra Rejada Golf Club in Moorpark. He shot a final- round 68 in a top-10 finish in the section championship at PGA of Southern California Golf Club, where winner Scott Miller - head pro at Moorpark Country Club - earned berths to three 2006 PGA Tour stops in Southern California, including the Nissan. Jon Fiedler, head pro at Las Posas Country Club in Camarillo, missed the playoff at Glendora by a stroke. Simi Valley pro Paul Holtby - who won Big Break IV last summer at Carnoustie Golf Club in Scotland to earn berths in two 2006 European Tour events, shot 73 in the qualifier at Glendora. Holtby, the 1998 section Player of the Year who instructs at Tom Barber Golf Center in Moorpark, had earned Nissan berths in the past two section qualifiers. He also survived qualifiers to win Buick Invitational berths in 2004 and 2005. CAPTION(S): photo, box Photo: WOODS Box: ON THE GREEN BY DAVE SHELBURNE |
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