NEWS
Bill Lunde’s victory
Bill Lunde wins last Turning Stone Resort Championship The Turning Stone Resort Championship, which began in 2007, went off the 2011 TOUR schedule, but its last playing was a feel-good story. Less than five years after Bill Lunde
quit competitive golf, he won the Turning Stone Resort Championship for his first PGA TOUR victory in 53 tries. The victory was worth $720,000,
250 FedExCup points and a two-year exemption from qualifying.
Aces and eagles Hole-outs became a trend in consecutive weeks last October. Rocco Mediate holed out for eagle in all four rounds of his victory at the
Frys.com Open, including an ace. He holed his second shot for an eagle-2 on the 17th hole in the final round to win. Jonathan Byrd topped that the following week at the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in Las Vegas. With darkness about to halt a three-man playoff, Byrd played first on the par-3 17th hole, their fourth extra hole. He hit a 6-iron into the hole to capture the title. No one had ever made an ace on the
final hole to win a PGA TOUR event prior to Byrd.
Ben Crane won the inaugural event
The PGA TOUR returns to Malaysia In October, the PGA TOUR plays the CIMB Asia Pacific Classic at The Mines Resort & Golf Club in Selangor, Malaysia, a 7,280- yard, par-72 Robert Trent Jones, Jr., course. Ben Crane won the inaugural event in
2010 against a strong field of mainly PGA TOUR players and some Asian Tour stars. The front nine is laid out through jungle ter- rain and makes strategic use of water haz- ards and elevation changes. The back nine plays around the large Mines Resort Lake. The course is widely considered to be one of the finest in the region.
Robert Garrigus, prodigious Driving Distance leader
Jonathan Byrd’s ace
Statistical leaders Robert Garrigus repeated in 2010 as the Driving Distance leader, with an average of 315.5 yards. Garrigus won the Children’s Miracle Network Classic to become the first player since John Daly (1995 British Open) to lead the Driving Distance category and win in the same season. Garrigus balances his prodigious distance by using one of the shortest putters in golf—a 28-inch length shaft that encourages him to use his shoulders in the stroke instead of getting “handsy.” Joe Durant was aiming at a rare double in 2010, until the final event. Durant led the PGA TOUR in Driving Accuracy and Greens in Regulation entering the Children’s Miracle Network Classic, a feat last accomplished by Calvin Peete in 1981- 83. However, Omar Uresti passed Durant in Driving Accuracy, and John Senden moved to first in Greens in Regulation at the final tournament. Still, Durant, 46, finished 124th on the money list to retain his full exemption for 2011.
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