ROUNDUP : STANKOWSKI A WINNER, QUALIFIES FOR MASTERS.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. 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. of Oxnard, who sports a goatee and is prone to saying things like ``This is cool'' or ``I was bumming,'' shot his way into the Masters by winning the BellSouth Classic in Marietta, Ga., Sunday in the first hole of a playoff with Brandel Chamblee Brandel Eugene Chamblee (born July 2, 1962) is an American professional golfer. He was born in St Louis, Missouri. He has one PGA Tour victory. He lost his PGA Tour card in 2003, and since then has worked as an analyst for The Golf Channel. . Stankowski, who went to Hueneme High School Hueneme High School, or HHS as it is more often referred to, is a public four-year high school serving grades 9-12 in Oxnard, California. The school was founded in 1959 and sits in the heart of South Oxnard. in Oxnard, didn't even know if he would be teeing off at Atlanta Country Club at the beginning of the week but became the fourth player in the past five 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. tournaments to earn his first win. More importantly, the victory earned him an invitation to the Masters, which begins next weekend. ``This is probably the most exciting day of my life,'' said Stankowski, who birdied the playoff hole while Chamblee bogeyed it after hitting a shot into the water. Stankowski, 26, who captured a Nike Tour event a week ago in Louisiana, is the first player ever to win on the minor-league circuit one week and the PGA Tour the next. Tradition and legend: Jack Nicklaus embellished his continually growing legend, vaulting past Hale Irwin with a three-shot swing on the 12th hole and staying ahead for his 100th pro victory and fourth in the Tradition in Scottsdale, Ariz. Nicklaus carded his second straight 7-under-par 65 for a 16-under 272 overall, beating Irwin by three strokes. Robbins prevails: Kelly Robbins beat Val Skinner on the fifth playoff hole to win a $500,000 LPGA LPGA abbr. Ladies Professional Golf Association tournament at the new Twelve Bridges Golf Club in Lincoln, Calif. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Jack Nicklaus reacts after sinking a birdie on the 18 th hole to win the Tradition senior tournament. Associated Press |
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