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Matt Kuchar competing in the Cadillac V-Series Challenge for Charity at the Countyline Dragway near Doral.
Crowds exceeded 500,000 for the 2012 Waste Management Phoenix Open.
the last six months and it’s been the reason why I’ve been up there so much.”
It was also a week of news off the course at TPC Blue Monster. Hanse Course Design was chosen to design the 2016 Olympic Games course in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. That came shortly after Gil Hanse, the founder, was also chosen to renovate TPC Blue Monster under the ownership of new boss Donald Trump. The rebuilding of TPC Blue Monster will occur next March, soon after the 2013 Cadillac Championship. Hanse promised to add drama to the finishing holes, including water and shorter, more risk-reward holes, to tempt the golfers and excite the galleries.
While that off-course news had a bearing on the tournament venue, another event did not but was real fast fun. Several of the participating players joined golf media and four South Florida charities to compete in the Cadillac V-Series Challenge for Charity at the Countyline Dragway near Doral. Hunter Mahan, Matt Kuchar, Louis Oosthuizen, Peter Hansen, Branden Grace, Sang-Moon Bae and Alvaro Quiros each raced in acceleration and stop, slalom and skill challenge events as the Boys & Girls Clubs of Broward County came away with the $11,000 top prize. They each drove brand-new, 556-horsepower Cadillac V-Series sedans and coupes. Quiros and Kuchar tied for first in the player driving competition. ■
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Record crowds at the Waste Management Phoenix Open
T
he busiest golf tournament in the world, hands down, is the Waste Management Phoenix Open played at TPC Scottsdale. The 2012 tournament, won by Kyle Stanley on February 5, continued to display its spectator- friendly course with a record single-day attendance of 173,210 during the third round on Saturday, February 4—part of 518,262 who attended during the entire tournament, the fourth-largest total in tournament history. “This is my first year here, so I didn’t really quite know what to expect with the crowds,” said Stanley, who rallied from eight strokes back to win after losing a five-stroke final-round lead the week before at the Farmers Insurance Open. “I knew it was going to be a different change of pace from what we’re normally used to. But they were so supportive. I kind of fed off them most of the week.”
Stanley made a clutch par putt on the short
par-3 16th on Sunday to preserve the lead. That key save came in front of approximately 15,000- 18,000 fans that surround the entire hole.
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