NOT A CARE IN THE WORLD ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT KEYED SURGE FOR HART GRAD GORE.Byline: Dave Shelburne Staff Writer Jason Gore Jason William Gore (born May 17, 1974) is an American professional golfer. Gore was born in Van Nuys, California. He attended Pepperdine University. Gore plays on the PGA Tour after moving from the Nationwide Tour midseason in 2005. arrives 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. for this week's 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. coming off the best season of his nine-year professional golf career - a season so good it rivals the best ever achieved by most of his fellow pros. The former Hart High of Newhall standout, who led Pepperdine to the NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association team title as an All-American with the Waves in 1997, accomplished so much in 2005 it is difficult to come up with a definitive pecking order pecking order Basic pattern of social organization within a flock of poultry in which each bird pecks another lower in the scale without fear of retaliation and submits to pecking by one of higher rank. For groups of mammals (e.g. . Starting the year with no exempt status on the 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". and only partially exempt on the Nationwide Tour, Gore went from playing in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, mini-tour events to ... --Sharing the midway lead as a qualifier in 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:
Goosen was born in Pietersburg (now Polokwane), South Africa. . ... --Shooting 59 in the Nationwide Tour's Cox Classic. ... --Winning three consecutive Nationwide starts - a record for that tour - to earn a midseason ``Battlefield Promotion'' to the PGA Tour. ... --Winning the 84 Lumber Classic in his fourth PGA Tour start to secure a two-year exemption in professional golf's major league. ... --Being voted Nationwide Player of the Year. That was then. This year, Gore - who improved from No. 668 to 88th in the world rankings during that remarkable 2005 season - finished last in the winners-only Mercedes Championship, then missed the cut in his first four starts in full-field events. His reaction to that might be as satisfying to him as all of what he accomplished as a player last year. ``This (golf) is just what I do, but it's not really who I am - it doesn't identify me as a person,'' Gore said after his first round at the Buick Invitational The Buick Invitational, is a PGA Tour professional golf tournament played in the San Diego, California area in the early part of the Tour season, known as the "West Coast Swing. , where he arrived ranked last in tour scoring and exited before the weekend. The big man with the big smile didn't always take the ups and downs ups and downs pl.n. Alternating periods of good and bad fortune or spirits. ups and downs Noun, pl alternating periods of good and bad luck or high and low spirits of his game with such equanimity e·qua·nim·i·ty n. The quality of being calm and even-tempered; composure. [Latin aequanimit , spending most of his early professional years trying to live up to what he thought were the expectations of others. ``Before,'' he said, ``when I shot 76, I thought I was a bad person. I felt like I was failing my wife and my son. And really, in the grand scheme of things, who cares? When I go home - I shot three rounds in the 80s at the Mercedes - and pick up my son, he doesn't care if I shot 50.'' That realization, Gore now believes, enabled him to have that breakout 2005 season. But the knowledge didn't arrive in any dramatic moment of epiphany. ``I think I really just kinda stopped caring,'' he said. ``I just went out and played golf. That's what I was struggling with - trying to live up to my expectations of people's expectations instead of just going out and playing golf. ``You hit a bad shot, who cares? I think that's really what it was I forgot - that I was on a dance floor, and I forgot to dance.'' The win at the Lumber Classic, and the two-year exemption that came with it, enhanced the relaxation that freed him up to play his best golf last year - and some think Gore's best is yet to come. ``This guy is one of the stars,'' said Mike Miller, Gore's coach and former high school teammate at Hart. ``It's just a matter of getting the performance out of his potential. I don't like to use a word like potential, but he's a five-tool guy and he's got it all.'' PGA Tour driving leader Bubba Watson Gerry "Bubba" Watson (born November 5, 1978) is an American professional golfer. Watson was born in Bagdad, Florida. He played golf for Faulkner State Community College in Alabama, where he was a junior college All-American. , who played on the Nationwide Tour with Gore last season, is another who believes more success is just a matter of time for the long-hitting Gore - who averaged 311.3 yards driving in his half-season on the top tour. ``Unbelievable,'' Watson said of Gore's 2005 season. ``It was as good a season as anybody could have. Struggling at the beginning and not sure what he was going to do, he just got confidence at the U.S. Open. ``You play with the big boys and you're off and running, and that's what he did. Who knows what's going to happen from here, but probably a lot of good things for him.'' It won't be a surprise to Gore's longtime friends at the Vista Valencia executive course in his hometown of Valencia, where he learned golf and still participates in semi-regular skins games but can't give anyone strokes. ``They're too proud, they'd never do that,'' Gore said. ``But I've got some good friends back there, and they're not afraid to rail into me, that's for sure.'' These days, Gore does as good a job as his Vista golf buddies do in keeping his game in perspective, taking the highs and lows in stride Adv. 1. in stride - without losing equilibrium; "she took all his criticism in stride" in good spirits and enjoying the opportunity when he can't find much to celebrate in achievement. ``Last year was pretty special,'' he said. ``But it doesn't really identify me as who I am. It really hasn't. The most important thing to me is someday my son can look up to me and say, `Dad, you're my hero.' That's the only way I look at it.'' Dave Shelburne, (818) 713-3609 dave.shelburne(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): 5 photos, 2 boxes Photo: (1) Former Hart High standout Jason Gore credits a different attitude for his newfound success. Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images (2) RONNY TURIAF (3) JOE MONTANA (4) RICK TOCCHET (5) Seattle Seahawks running back Shaun Alexander, about playing in today's Pro Bowl in Honolulu, where the winning team members receive $40,000 apiece and the losers get $20,000. He is pictured here with his mother, who is in Hawaii with him. Box: (1) SUNDAY PUNCH BY TOM HOFFARTH (2) NISSAN OPEN |
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