August 15, 2003, Vol. 3, No. 33

Sponsored by:

__/ MICHIGAN GOLFER TELEVISION-THE WESTERN AMATEUR-POINT O'WOODS
__/ WESTERN AM LOSER WALKER CUP WINNER
__/ MORE INTERNET TELEVISION FOR GOLF
__/ TRAVEL MICHIGAN WILL HIGHLIGHT GOLF ON NEXT RADIO PROGRAM ON WJR
__/ MICHIGAN AMATEUR PUTTING CHAMPIONSHIP AUGUST 23-24
__/ BARRONS ROLLS OUT THE GRIM NEWS WITH THEIR "A ROUGH ROUND" STORY
__/ FORBES LAUDS GRAND BEND'S OAKWOOD INN AND OTHER GOLF ON THE CANADIAN SIDE OF LAKE HURON
__/ BOYNE COMMERCIALS
__/ CLIO CC HOST GAM WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP
__/ RIP: ROCHESTER HILLS GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB
__/ MICHIGAN SENDS TWO OF EIGHT BIG HITTERS TO LONG DRIVE CONTEST IN MESQUITE
__/ MISSISSIPPI TO HOST ING
__/ NAME IS SORTA THE SAME
__/ GOLF CHANNEL COVERAGE OF BAY MILLS OPEN
__/ QUOTE OF THE WEEK
__/ GOLF CALENDAR

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MICHIGAN GOLFER TELEVISION-THE WESTERN AMATEUR AT POINT O'WOODS

We visit the prestigious Western Amateur this week and follow the
semi-finals and final match. Jennie McCafferty brings us the action
with comments from Mike Stoltz- President of Point O'Woods and R.E. "Buffy"
Mayerstein of the Western Golf Association.

Compete results are on
http://westerngolfassociation.com

Chris Botsford, 22, Pasadena, Calif. Fifth-year senior, University of
Southern California, where he was co-captain in 2003. Medalist, 2003 and
2002 U.S. Amateur qualifying. Round of 32 at the 2002 U.S. Amateur.

J.J. Jakovac, 21, Napa, Calif. Junior, Cal State-Chico. 2003 California
Collegiate Athletic Association MVP. 2003 and 2002 NCAA Division II
first-team All-American. Winner, 2002 NCAA Division II individual
championship.

Adam Rubinson, 23, Forth Worth, Texas. 2003 graduate, Texas Christian
University. Winner, 2003 Rice Planters Amateur. 2003 third-team
All-American, honorable mention in 2002. 2003 Conference USA Player of
the Year, All-Conference in 2002 and 2003. Runner-up, 2002 Western
Amateur.

Justin Smith, 21, Franklin, Pa. Senior, University of Minnesota. 2003
honorable mention All-American, 2002 third-team All-American. Helped
lead Minnesota to 2002 NCAA Championship, tying for fourth individually.
Co-medalist, 2002 NCAA Division I Western Regional.

Chris Botsford was the winner with J.J. Jakovac runner up.

http://michigangolfer.tv
Michigan Golfer Television
24/7
Always On

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WESTERN AM LOSER WALKER CUP WINNER

The United States Golf Association recently named eight of the 10
members for the 2003 Walker Cup matches to be contested at Ganton Golf
Club in North Yorkshire, England.

The matches, which will take place on September 6 and 7, pits 10
players from the United States against a team representing Great Britain and
Ireland. The final two players will be selected to the squad after the
U.S. Amateur Championship on August 24.

Adam Rubinson, a semi-finalist at the Western Am was one of the eight
selected.

Those selected Monday included Bill Haas, Trip Kuehne, Matt Hendrix,
Brock Mackenzie, Ryan Moore, Chris Nallen, Adam Rubinson and Casey
Wittenberg.

The coach of the team is Bob Lewis, a four-time Walker Cup team member Haas and Kuehne recently qualified for the U.S. Open. Kuehne is the
only one of the eight players that has previous Walker Cup experience,
having played on the 1995 team. Haas meanwhile was a semifinalist in the 2002
U.S. Amateur after being the medalist during the stroke play portion.

Hendrix, who will be a senior this fall, was a member of Clemson's 2003
NCAA Championship and Atlantic Coast Conference Championship team.
Mackenzie finished fifth in the 2003 NCAA Championship while a member
of the University of Washington's golf team. He set a school record with
his 71.1 stroke average in 2002.

Moore won the 2002 U.S. Amateur Public Links championship and was a
quarterfinalist at the 2002 U.S. Amateur. He also qualified for the 2002
U.S. Open and made the cut at the 2003 Masters Tournament. Nallen won the
2003 Northeast Amateur and finished fourth at the 2002 Porter Cup.

Rubinson was the 2003 Conference USA Player of the Year and recently
finished fifth at the 2003 Northeast Amateur. At 18, Wittenberg is the
youngest member of either squad. In 2003, he has posted victories at
the Southern Amateur and the Porter Cup.

Taken and edited from the Sports Network
http://sportsnetwork.com/default.asp?c=sportsnetwork&page=golf-m/news/BEN2735554.htm

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MORE INTERNET TELEVISION FOR GOLF

America Online, the world's leading interactive services company, and
Turner Sports Interactive, producer of PGA.com, will offer AOL and AOL
for Broadband members the chance to catch live action from the 6th and 11th
Par 3 holes at the 2003 PGA Championship's over the tournament's four
rounds. In addition, fans will also be able to see the live action on
http://pga.com for $4.95. The 2003 PGA
Championship will be played August 14-17 at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester,
NY.

The streamed video coverage will also include a live audio feed for the
final two hours of play during the first two rounds, and over the final
three hours of play for the last two rounds. Audio updates on all
players will be available every 30 minutes.

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TRAVEL MICHIGAN WILL HIGHLIGHT GOLF ON NEXT RADIO PROGRAM ON WJR

Dave Richards, CEO of Golf Marketing Services, was a guest on last week's
Travel Michigan program. Interest was of such a nature that the entire hour
will be devoted to golf on this week's show. Travel Michigan is on from
6:00 to 7:00 on 760 WJR.

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MICHIGAN AMATEUR PUTTING CHAMPIONSHIP AUGUST 23-24

Shepherd's Hollow Golf Club will host the inaugural Michigan Amateur
Putting Championship Saturday and Sunday, August 23-24. The
championship, a two-day, 36-hole event, is open to two-person teams of any
composition. Men, women, seniors, juniors, public players and private club
members are all welcome to form teams and compete.

"This is a genuine competition designed to allow players of all handicaps
to compete fairly. Everyone can compete evenly when it comes to putting
"puttings about feel and touch - not power. Anyone has a chance to win,"
said Mike Bylen, managing partner of Shepherd's Hollow, who founded the
event. "We're going to use the 27-best greens in the area to determine the
best putters in Michigan."

Both rounds will begin with a shotgun start at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday and
Sunday. The entry fee is $125 per-team, which includes golf cart,
prizes, soft drinks and hors d'oeuvres at a Saturday night reception.

For more information or to enter the championship, phone Shepherd's Hollow
at (248) 922-0300 s
Taken and edited from a Golf Marketing Services PR release.

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BARRONS ROLLS OUT THE GRIM NEWS WITH THEIR "A ROUGH ROUND" STORY By Jonathan Laing.

The Barrons July 28 issue featured a cover story on golf entiled, "The
Golf Glut". It is available online for a fee at http://barrons.com and is a
great read. Some of the highlights included: ...rounds dropped from
518 million in 2000 to 502 million in 2002. We are currently on track to do 491
million this year.

...50 courses closed because of financial matters
...400 courses are up for sale
...bank financing is drying up
...green fees have become outrageous

John Rooney, who presented at the 1st Michigan Golf Summit and is a
consultant to the golf industry, indicated that the five-six hour
commitment to golf is less attractive for time pressed adults.

However, everything is cyclical and while the Barrons story was definitely
a downer, it did point out that there will continue to be another 200+
courses coming online each year and that a comeback in the market would
create a comeback in the golf market and could cure many current ills.

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FORBES LAUDS GRAND BEND'S OAKWOOD INN
AND OTHER GOLF ON THE CANADIAN SIDE OF LAKE HURON

Forbes Magazine ran a nice article lauding our Canadian neighbors, many
of whom get the MGN, in particular, singling out Oakwood Inn Resort in
Grand Bend. This resort has gone through some considerable changes this
year, adding a new indoor pool, a conference area and a new pine lodge with
34 more rooms. They have a nice 18 resort course that is celebrating its
82nd year of serving the golfing public.
http://oakwoodinnresort.com

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BOYNE COMMERCIALS

The new :30 television commercials that Boyne is running are
spectacular. They continue to benchmark golf marketing in Michigan.

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CLIO CC HOST GAM WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP

The 12th GAM Women's Championship will be held August 18-19 at Clio
Country Club. This event, sponsored by Ford Division, will feature many of the
state's top female amateur golfers.

The GAM Women's Championship will begin on Monday, August 18 with the
first18-hole round of stroke play. The second and final round will be on
Tuesday. In case of a tie for the Championship, an immediate hole-by-hole
playoff will be used to determine the winner.The tournament is open to
allfemale GAM members with a GAM/USGA Handicap Index of 15.4 or less.
Thefield is limited to 144 golfers.

Submitted by Toni Branch

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MICHIGAN SENDS TWO OF EIGHT BIG HITTERS TO LONG DRIVE CONTEST IN MESQUITE

The first two of 18 district finals conducted in the United States and
Canada for the 2003 RE/MAX World Long Drive Championship awarded 18
long drivers tickets to the big show in Mesquite.

Eight RE/MAX WLDC competitors headed to Mesquite after District 11
finals in Hartland, Michigan on August 9 are:

Open Division

Brett Cleverdon, Markham, ONT, 365 yards
Graeme Elstob, Keswick, ONT, 353 yards
Tim Hanley, Gaylord, MI, 353 yards

Senior Division

Rick Tijerina, West Chicago, IL, 350 yards
James Mantell, Cleveland, OH, 343 yards
Al Helsel, Gowen, MI, 342 yards

Women's Division

Jennifer Whitmore, Brownsburg, IN, 264 yards

Super Senior Division

David Rowles Sr., Akron, OH, 318 yards

Championship week in Mesquite takes place at the Palms Golf Club on
Oct. 14-18, 2003. The RE/MAX finals, with a $350,000 total purse, unfold
under the lights on Saturday night in front of a full house and ESPN's
cameras.

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RIP: ROCHESTER HILLS GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB

Rochester Hills Golf and CC will become a new neighborhood, Country
Club Village of Rochester Hills, of 256 single-family homes, reportedly
worth $90 million. Taken from Andrew Dietderich story in Crain's Detroit
Business, August 11-17.

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MISSISSIPPI TO HOST ING

The International Network of Golf, who held their conference in Gaylord
a couple of years ago, has selected Mississippi this year. Mississippi
was recently named the "Best Up-and-Coming Domestic Golf Destination of the
Year" by The Golf Insider (http://thegolfinsider.com), a leading golf-travel-rating publication?

This does not come as a big surprise to us, our Michigan Golfer
Television Show host, Bill Shelton visited Mississippi last year and filed this
report: http://michigangolfer.tv/2003shows/show2/index.html

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NAME IS SORTA THE SAME

Cedar Chase Golf Club Cedar Springs
Cedar Creek Golf Course Battle Creek
Cedar Glen Golf Course New Baltimore
Cedar Hills Golf Course Traverse City
Cedar Valley Golf Club Comins

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GOLF CHANNEL COVERAGE OF BAY MILLS OPEN

- Thurs. Aug. 21st 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Live First Round Coverage

- Fri. Aug. 22nd 2:00am - 4:00am
First Round Coverage (Tape Delay)

- Fri. Aug. 22nd 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Live Second Round Coverage

- Sat. Aug. 23rd 2:00am - 4:00am
Second Round Coverage (Tape Delay)

- Sat. Aug. 23rd 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Live Third Round Coverage

- Sun. Aug. 24th 2:00am - 4:00pm
Third Round Coverage (Tape Delay)

- Sun. Aug. 24th 12:00am - 2:00pm
Live Final Round Coverage

- Mon. Aug. 25th 2:00am - 4:00am
Final Round Coverage (Tape Delay)

- Tues. Aug. 26th 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Third Round Coverage (Tape Delay)

- Wed. Aug. 27th 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Final Round Coverage (Tape Delay)

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"Talking to a golf ball won't do you any good. Unless you do it while
your opponent is teeing off." -Bruce Lansky

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MICHIGAN GOLF NEWS ASSOCIATION SUBSCRIBERS

Golf Association of Michigan
http://www.gam.org

Michigan Golf Course Owners Association
http://mgcoa.org

Michigan PGA
http://michigan.pga.com

Michigan Women's Publinx Golf Association
http://mwpga.com

Michigan State Amateur Golf Association
skillplay@aol.com

Upper Peninsula Golf Association
http://upga.org

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GOLF CALENDAR

August

08/16-17 Michigan Women's Publinx State Championship, Forest Akers West GC, East Lansing
08/17-18 Wendy's Charity Golf Classic LPGA Pro-Am, Country Club of Jackson
08/18-20 Michigan PGA Championship-Shanty Creek Resort, Bellaire
http://michigangolfer.tv/2002shows/show26/index.html
08/18-19 GAM Women's Championship, Clio CC, Clio
08/18-24 Bay Mills Open, Brimley-Wild Bluff GC
http://baymillsopen.com
08/25-26 GAM Women's Senior Amateur Championship, Crystal Mountain,Thompsonville
http://michigangolfer.tv/2001shows/show25/index.html
08/28-29 GAM Men's Mid-Amateur Championship, Treetops, Gaylord
08/29-31 Par 3 Amateur Shootout-Treetops, Gaylord
http://treetops.com

September

09/08 6th Annual Fight Against Breast Cancer Fundraiser,Hidden River and Casting Club
http://michigangolfer.tv/2002shows/show27/index.html
09/08-11 Lincoln Mercury Classic-Pine Lake CC
09/03-04 GAM Men's Senior Amateur Championship, Lakewood Shores Resort, Oscoda
09/13-14 Michigan Net Amateur Championship, Pilgrim's Run
09/20-21 Atlas Matches, The Loon, Gaylord
http://www.theloongolfclub.com 09/28-30 Pepsi Fall Charity Invitational, Treetops, Gaylord
http://treetops.com
09/30 Tournament of Club Champions (Men and Women) Egypt Valley, Ada

October

10/17-18 Fall Golf, Ski and Travel Show- Novi Expo
10/19-21 The GOLF 20/20 Conference, World Golf Village, Florida

November

11/14-16 The International Golf Show is November 14-16, 2003 at the TorontoCongress Centre.
http://golf-show.com

2004

January

01/23-25 Atlanta Golf Show
01/29-02/02 PGA Merchandise Show-Orlando, Florida
http://www.pgamerchandiseshow.com

February

02/06-8 West Michigan Golf Show, DeVos Place
http://showspan.com
02/13-15 London Golf and Travel Expo at the Western Fair Event Centre
http://golf-show.com
http://michigangolfer.tv/2003shows/show5/index

March

03/05-07 12th Annual Michigan Golf Show- Novi Expo
http://michigangolfshow.com
03/19-21 6th Annual Lansing Golf Show- Lansing
http://golf2020.com

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Tour and Association Calendars

Associations

Golf Association of Michigan
http://www.gam.org/champ/schedule.cgi
Michigan Section PGA
http://www.Michigan.PGA.com
Michigan Golf Course Owners Association
http://mgcoa.org
Golf Course Superintendents Association of America
http://www.gcsaa.org

Tours

Canadian Tour- http://www.cantour.com/schedule.php
European Tour- http://www.europeantour.com
Hooters Tour- http://www.ngahooterstour.com
Futures Tour - http://www.futurestour.com/Schedules.html
PGA - http://www.pgatour.com/tournaments/pgatour.html
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