SORENSTAM TAKES AIM AT FOURTH WIN IN ROW.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 Annika Sorenstam, who owns the best single-round score in the history of women's professional golf, will shoot for another LPGA LPGA abbr. Ladies Professional Golf Association record next month at Wilshire Country Club. Ms. 59 is bidding for a fourth victory in as many events on the women's tour, which is in the midst Adv. 1. in the midst - the middle or central part or point; "in the midst of the forest"; "could he walk out in the midst of his piece?" midmost of a two-week break that started after Sorenstam won the Nabisco Championship. Sorenstam, a three-time major champion who won back-to-back U.S. Women's Opens in 1995 and '96, will join quality company if she wins at Wilshire. Hall of Famers Mickey Wright (twice) and Kathy Whitworth share the women's-tour record with four wins in consecutive scheduled events. Nancy Lopez, another Hall of Famer, had five consecutive wins in tournaments she entered. The April 12-15 City of Hope LPGA Championship will be the first women's tour event at Wilshire, which has been the site of Senior PGA Tour events the past five years. Sorenstam enters as the Tiger Woods of her tour, thanks to a three-week streak that produced consecutive victories in the Welch's Circle K Championship, Standard Register Ping and Nabisco Championship - a run that featured her second-round 59 in the Ping event. She also will be facing a familiar challenger: Se Ri Pak Se Ri Pak (born September 28 1977 in Daejeon) is a South Korean professional golfer, playing on the LPGA Tour. She will be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in November 2007. Career overview Pak turned professional in 1996. , who battled Sorenstam to the wire in the Ping, when both challenged the old 72-hole LPGA record of 26 under par. Sorenstam finished 27 under and Pak 25 under. --Scoring clinic: The Dave Pelz Scoring Game Tour, which concluded its first session of daily clinics two weeks ago at Lost Canyons Golf Club, will return to the Simi Valley facility in October for another 11 days of instruction in putting, chipping, pitching and wedge play. Priced at less than the cost of the latest titanium driver, the $350 daily clinics also offer more opportunities to amortize the expense, as 60 to 65 percent of all strokes in a round are taken from inside 100 yards of the flagstick flag·stick n. A removable pole with a flag marking the placement of each hole on the putting greens of a golf course. , according to former NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. scientist Pelz. --Shadow opens: Lost Canyons, which opened its Sky course in November, opened its Shadow course last month, and Fred Couples was on hand to set the first course record at 72. Couples, who worked as a design consultant on both courses with Lost Canyons architect Pete Dye, is a past record-holder on the Sky course. His early 71 on that layout has been lowered to 67 by Charlie Wi, the former Westlake High star and 1990 state amateur champion. --Matadors are bullish: Cal State Northridge freshman Beth Allen won her first collegiate tournament Tuesday to lead the Matadors to their first-ever team title on the road - a two-stroke victory in the 10-team Colby Classic at Rancho Canada GC in Carmel Valley. Allen shot 72-73 for a 3-over-par 145 that won the individual competition by five strokes. Kelly Carlson (155), Alexis Arnold and Amanda Carmichael (both 161) also were top-10 finishers for CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge , which is in its second season of women's golf. --Masterful start: The Master's College, in its second season of men's golf, has turned in three consecutive top-five tournament finishes, including team and individual titles at the Cal Lutheran Invitational. Freshman Ryan Higton has been a tournament medalist twice for the Mustangs and junior John Anderson once. Joe Chally, a sophomore, placed eighth in leading the Mustangs to a fifth-place finish in the Monterey Bay Invitational at Fort Ord. --Names in the game: Greg Puga, the former Los Angeles Roosevelt High all-around athlete who won last year's U.S. Mid-Amateur championship, will play in next week's Masters as a result of winning that USGA USGA United States Golf Association USGA Uhren & Schmuck Gassner (Germany) USGA US Global Nanospace Inc. (stock symbol) USGA Undergraduate Student Government Association title. He is the third Los Angeles-area amateur to qualify for the Masters in 10 years, following Tim Hogarth of Northridge (1996 U.S. Public Links champion) and current PGA Tour player David Berganio Jr. of Sylmar, who won U.S. Publinks titles in 1991 and '93. ... Les Johnson, longtime teaching pro at Vista Valencia, has accepted a teaching position at Robinson Ranch. ... Katherine Hull and Lindsey Wright of Pepperdine, the nation's No. 6- and 7-ranked collegiate women's golfers, have helped the Waves earn a No. 9 national team ranking. ... --Marathon opportunity: Ocean Trails Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes Rancho Pal·os Ver·des A city of southern California on a channel of the Pacific Ocean west of Long Beach. Population: 42,100. offers one of the best views in the state. Now it also offers one of the better rates, provided you are in shape for a marathon day of golf. At $125, the greens fee isn't cheap by the round. But that fee - available Monday through Thursday - covers all the golf you can play in a day on the Pete Dye-designed layout that overlooks the Pacific Ocean from the Palos Verdes peninsula. The course plays just 15 holes because of reconstruction that has taken out the ninth and 12th holes as equipment-staging areas for repair work on the 18th, which was lost to a landslide. The facility is expected to return to 18-hole play this summer. ON THE GREEN PGA TOUR BellSouth Classic at Duluth, Ga. Course: 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 of Sugarloaf (7,259 yards, par 72) Schedule: Today through Sunday Purse: $3.3 million, $594,000 to winner TV: USA (today and Friday, 1-3 p.m.); NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. (Saturday, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.; Sunday, 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m.) LPGA TOUR No event scheduled 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. SENIOR TOUR BellLegends of Golf at St. Augustine, Fla. Course: World Golf Village, The King & The Bear Course (6,606 yards, par 72) Schedule: Friday through Sunday Purse: $1.8 million, $240,000 to winner TV: ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (Friday, 1-3 p.m.); 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. (Saturday, 10 a.m.-noon; Sunday, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.) PGA 1 Davis Love III Davis Milton Love III (born April 13, 1964) is an American professional golfer. Love was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. He attended the University of North Carolina before turning professional in 1985. 69.06 1 Tiger Woods 69.06 3 Vijay Singh 59.13 4 Nick Price 69.41 5 Mark Calcavechia 69.58 PGA SENIOR 1 Gil Morgan 69.00 2 Larry Nelson 69.14 3 Hale Irwin 69.33 4 Jose Maria Canizares 69.48 5 Allen Doyle 69.57 BUY.COM (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. 1 Chris Couch 67.75 2 Keoke Cotner 68.00 2 Dean Pappas 68.00 2 Tim Petrovic 68.00 5 Chad Campbell 68.13 SPOTLIGHT TIGER WOODS He finished 14-under par at difficult TPC at Sawgrass The TPC at Sawgrass is a well-known golf course in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, and was the inaugural Tournament Players Club. Sawgrass has two courses, the Stadium Course and the Valley Course, and is also home to the PGA Tour's headquarters. to win his first Players Championship and second consecutive tournament, raising his PGA Tour victory total to 26 and his worldwide win total to 32. In winning by a stroke over defending Masters champion Vijay Singh, Woods also outlasted strong charges from winless tour veteran Jerry Kelly and two-time Masters champion Bernard Langer. CAPTION(S): box Box: ON THE GREEN (see text) |
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