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2013 PGA Minority Collegiate Golf Championship field announced

The 2013 PGA Minority Collegiate Golf Championship field has been announced, and currently features more than 200 participants, who will compete, May 10-12, at PGA Golf Club in Port St. Lucie, Fla. The 54-hole, stroke-play event will consist of four team divisions — NCAA Men’s Division I, II and NAIA as well as a Women’s Division.

In addition to the team competition, the PGA Minority Collegiate Golf Championship features a men's and women's Individual Invitational that is open to collegiate golfers who are African-American, Hispanic-American, Native or Alaskan American, Asian or Pacific Island American.

Four division champions will look to defend their titles in the 27th edition of this National Championship. Justin Watkins from the University of Central Oklahoma (Men's Individual), the University of Texas-Pan American (Division I Men's), Bethune-Cookman University (Women's Division) and Fayettville State University (Division II Men's) will all return to PGA Golf Club in 2013.

Bethune-Cookman University's women's team will be seeing their Championship-record ninth title, Fayetteville State University their eighth division crown, and Texas-Pan American their sixth men's Division 1 title.

Ariel McNair of Xavier University, the Women's Independent Division champion in 2012, will not participate in this year's Championship. In addition, there was no NAIA competition held in 2012.

Brown Capital Management will mark its third year as the presenting sponsor of the Championship. They will also remain the presenting sponsor of the Championship's one-hour Golf Channel highlight show scheduled to debut Wednesday, July 3 at 9:00 p.m. ET.

The Business of Golf Career Expo, which remains a staple of the Championship, features golf industry associations and companies that enable student-athletes to learn about additional employment opportunities in manufacturing, media, trade, golf course management and the game's premier governing bodies, will take place again in 2013.

About the PGA Minority Collegiate Golf Championship
The PGA Minority Collegiate Golf Championship presented by Brown Capital Management originated in November 1986 following the Jackson State University Golf Tournament and has elevated golf in minority colleges and universities by providing opportunities to more players to compete in a national championship.

The 1986 organizational meeting brought together a significant group of founders: the late Dr. Herschel Cochrane; Dr. Joe D. Saunders of the National Negro Golf Association; Jackson State University Golf Coach Eddie Payton; Rose Harper-Elder of the Sports Management Institute; and William (Bill) Dickey, founder of the Bill Dickey Scholarship Association and recipient of the 1999 PGA Distinguished Service Award. The founders' goal was to provide a national stage for players from minority colleges and universities after being denied opportunities to compete in NCAA Collegiate golf events.

The inaugural Championship was conducted in the spring of 1987 at Highland Park Golf Course in Cleveland, Ohio. Since 1998, PGA Golf Club in Port St. Lucie, Fla., has been host to the Championship, and in 2006, The PGA of America was granted complete ownership and management of the Championship by the National Minority College Golf Scholarship Fund.

In 1990, a Career Fair was conducted for the first time in conjunction with the national Championship to provide corporate sponsors the opportunity to interview and recruit outstanding college students for future employment. As a result, the Career Fair has developed into an invaluable resource to assist students in gaining internships and full-time positions within the golf industry.

In 2008, the Championship featured a record number of participants, with nearly 200 students from 47 schools, with representatives from 14 countries.

In 2011, The PGA of America announced that Brown Capital Management., an investment management firm based in Baltimore, Md., had become the presenting sponsor of the PGA Minority Collegiate Golf Championship and the one-hour Golf Channel Highlight Show.

About The PGA of America
Since its founding in 1916, The PGA of America has maintained a twofold mission: to establish and elevate the standards of the profession and to grow interest and participation in the game of golf. By establishing and elevating the standards of the golf profession through world-class education, career services, marketing and research programs, The PGA enables its professionals to maximize their performance in their respective career paths and showcases them as experts in the game and in the multi-billion dollar golf industry. By creating and delivering world-class championships and innovative programs, The PGA of America elevates the public's interest in the game, the desire to play more golf, and ensures accessibility to the game for everyone, everywhere. As The PGA nears its centennial, the PGA brand represents the very best in golf. 

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Chapman 10 presented by KitchenAid Champs past 74 will lead the Senior PGA Championship.

In champion Roger Chapman KitchenAid May 23-26, Bellerive Country _ at Club St. Louis, Missouri presented 74 rose returning Senior PGA Championship defending UK champion to capture 10 two senior major title heads past one year from obscurity.

54 Would be 5/1, Chapman was a U.S. senior open - Michigan in 2012 to add finished KitchenAid hosted Senior PGA Championship victory style victory drought less than two months after. They were his first professional victory since 2000.

"Must be something air" visited the State of Michigan for Chapman joked. "Has been the feeling to say I won the Senior PGA Championship it is remarkable. It was the best feeling in the world. I also to go and to prove I was not as long as those one time no. could win 2 major wish. "

Famous Bellerive Country Club to join the Senior PGA Champions past Chapman next month is: Michael Allen (2009); Jay Haas ( 2006, ' 08), Hale Irwin (1996, 97, 98, 2004 ), John Jacobs (2003), Tom Lehman (2010) Tom wargo, Mike Reid (2005) ( original (1993), Denis Watson (2007), Tom Watson (2001, 1 l).

156 13 Field players in senior Golf represents a historical event. 4/19 Is the final entry in the Championship.

Currently 23 in areas of past major champions: Mark Brooks, mark Calcavecchia, Steve Elkington, Irwin, Marc Jacobs, Steve Jones, Tom kite, Bernhard Langer, Lehman, Sandy Lyle, Larry Mize, Andy North, Mark O'Meara, Nick price and Scott Simpson, Jeff Sluman, Craig Stadler, Curtis strange, Hal Sutton, ??????, Dennis Watson, Tom Watson and Ian Woosnam.

Presented Senior PGA Championship is caused by Augusta National Golf Club, the legendary amateur Bobby Jones invited 1937 at the oldest events senior Golf by KitchenAid. KitchenAid thereby featured 12-hour golf channel live TV on ESPN2 and viewership over the present Senior PGA Championship 130 countries and regions all over the world. By KitchenAid 74 presented to Senior PGA Championship tickets are available at SPGA2013.com.

Among the world-class field present senior 35 PGA Club professionals, including members of the contingent PGA professional national champion Jim Woodward Edmond, Oklahoma State 5 30 won the berth Southworth Senior PGA professional championship Aldie, Virginia, in October last year.

About the PGA of America
PGA of America maintains two missions since its inception in 1916: establish and enhance the professional standards of order, expand the participation in the game of golf and interest. Established a golf professional to enable its experts to maximize performance in the PGA, marketing research program to enhance the career service standards of global education through career paths and then showcase those professional golf industry-wide game of 1 billion dollars. Promoted lust creates to provide innovative programs and World Championships and play more golf games, PGA of America public interest, anywhere, guaranteed accessibility to the game for everyone. PGA is established 100 anniversary approached, PGA brand represents the best of golf.

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Sorenstam, Lopez and Bradley set to team up at 3M Championship event

The 3M Championship is not just about the men this year. Three of the top women's golfers in history are scheduled to play in an event that's part of the Champions Tour stop at the TPC Twin Cities July 29-Aug.  Annika Sorenstam, Nancy Lopez and Pat Bradley will comprise the first women's team in the Greats of Golf Challenge associated with the event.  "We always try to do new and different things," Hollis Cavner, the tournament's executive director, said in making the announcement Monday. "Annika is excited to come here, Nancy is working on her game and Pat is just thrilled." 

Sorenstam won 72 LPGA tournaments, including 10 majors; Lopez has 48 career LPGA wins, including three majors; and Bradley has won 31 LPGA events, including six majors. The women will compete on Aug. 3 against a pair of men's teams. One will be comprised of Lee Trevino, David Graham and Bill Rodgers and the other will be Johnny Miller, Dave Stockton and player Cavner said is "somebody that everybody's going to love." Arnold Palmer is scheduled to captain the women's team while Billy Casper and Don January will serve as men's team captains. 

"We think Saturday will be a special deal," Cavner said. Cavner said 28 of the top 30 Champions Tour players are scheduled to participate in the tournament, including Minnesota native Tom Lehman. However, defending champion Bernhard Langer will miss the tournament due to a business commitment in Europe. Among the scheduled first-time players are Colin Montgomerie, Rocco Mediate and Steve Elkington. Admission to the tournament will again be free. "We want to grow the game and have a lot of fun with it," Cavner said. 

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Golf: Simpson Remembers Thrill of US Open Championship

He's been stopped by strangers, been interviewed with his trophy by his side, and quizzed about the bird man who interrupted his celebration.

But it was registering for this year's Open at Merion Golf Club when the feat really hit him.

"It brought back so many good memories of winning the tournament last year," he said Tuesday.

Simpson emerged from a fog-filled final round at Olympic Club in San Francisco with a 1-over 281 to win in only his fifth time at a major.

He hasn't won a tournament since, but it hasn't softened the impact the championship had on his career.

"There hasn't been a day that went by that I haven't thought about winning the U.S. Open, being the U.S. Open champion, being announced on the first tee as U.S. Open champion," he said. "That hasn't gotten old. I don't want that to change. So it's been a great year. It's been a fast year."

He recalled being crushed at the start of the week because he missed his son's first steps. By the time Simpson won the trophy, it turned out to be one of the best weeks of his life. His championship speech on the course was interrupted by a man who stepped in front of TV cameras and made bird noises.

"Usually that's the first question, tell me about bird man," Simpson said. "People thought that it took away from the ceremony. I thought it added to it. Everybody wants to talk about it. I got an official 'Bird Man' hat now. I don't think we'll be seeing him this week."

MUD BALLS: Merion is wet. The course is soft. And the balls are caked in mud.

That's a problem.

Players don't think it's fair that a round can potentially become affected by the ball landing in the slop. The PGA Tour will use a lift-clean-and-place rule in certain tournaments. The USGA, however, is unlikely to bend for the U.S. Open at Merion Golf Club.

"I hope they make the right call," Graeme McDowell said. "If it's picking up mud, then I think we need to lift, clean and place just for a level playing field. I'm not a guy that controls the mud ball very well. I'm a low spinner. Every time I get mud on the ball, my deviation gets quite heavy. I'm hoping they make the right call."

The U.S. Open could come down to fewest mud balls as much as birdies and bogies.

"I think mud balls are a problem. I think they're unfair," McDowell said. "I think golf is designed to be played from a closely mown fairway. If you hit it in that fairway you deserve a great line and a great opportunity to attack the green surface. That's the reward you get for hitting the fairway."

WICKER SHOCK: Resting atop the flag sticks, wicker baskets are the official symbol of Merion.

They're officially the biggest headache for caddies.

Sure, fans and Merion Golf Club traditionalists love the baskets. The flag sticks don't have flags, and the origin of the color-topped pins remains a mystery.

So also is the maker of the baskets. The club guards the secret so tightly that few know who crafts them.

"We'll never play anything like this," defending U.S. Open champion Webb Simpson said. "It's a once-in-a lifetime opportunity. It's just part of the tradition of Merion, part of the tradition of the club. When I was here in September they told me they were going to keep the wicker baskets and I was pretty excited about it."

While the baskets color up the course, they also stay as stationary as the sticks. Which way is the wind blowing? Might to have to try the ol' tested way of licking a finger to measure wind strength and direction. Wicker doesn't budge.

"It makes their job harder," Simpson said. "They might be a little on edge to keep their job this week. We like it because it's different. I honestly think it will make us make decisions quicker. We're sitting there a lot of times and we see one flag over here blowing that way and a flag over here blowing that way, we get confused and second guess."

It could still be tricky for Open contenders.

"You just have to commit and trust yourself, trust your caddie and trust you've got the wind right," former U.S. Open champ Rory McIlroy said.

HAD HIS PHIL: Phil Mickelson always knew he would be home in San Diego the day before the U.S. Open at Merion. Wet weather put him home a little early.

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