HATS OFF
to the numerous tour players who
have won wearing FJ ICON golf
shoes - the crowning achievement
in Foot Joy’s iconic legacy.
The LPGA has canceled a tournament in
China that was supposed to begin next week.
The China Golf Association officially notified the
LPGA late Monday that the Imperial Springs
event scheduled for Sept. 29-Oct. 2 was off.
“Blindsided by the news, the LPGA has
exhausted all possibilities to carry on with the
event as scheduled but have been told that the
tournament must be canceled,” the LPGA said
in a release last Tuesday night.
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English is the lone U.S. Walker Cup player so
far to announce he will turn pro.
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Jack Nicklaus said Tiger Woods can still
beat his record of 18 major championships – if
he can stay in control of his mental game.
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College seniors can breathe a sigh of relief.
Golfweek has learned that the PGA Tour’s
proposed Q-School changes will not be imple-
mented until at least 2013.
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Rory McIlroy could miss next year’s Irish
Open because of a clash with the PGA Tour’s
AT&T National at Congressional Country Club.
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Ryo Ishikawa’s efforts to raise money for
the Japanese earthquake relief fund may have
been hit after he was fined £ 16,500 by the Japa-
nese Tour for pulling out of two tournaments.
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EA Sports is offering refunds to customers
of “Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters” on
PC, Eurogamer reports.
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Peter King Hunsinger is the new president
and publisher of the Golf Digest Companies.
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Only a week into his new gig as tournament
director of the new Manulife LPGA Classic,
which will be played next June in Waterloo,
Ont., Rich Kuypers hit the ground running.
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PUT YOURSELF IN THEIR SHOES
Phil Mickelson, Jim Furyk and Loren Rob-
erts have been added to the PGA Tour ballot
by the World Golf Hall of Fame for the Class of
2012 while Spain’s Miguel Angel Jimenez was
added to the international ballot.
A host of GB&I’s Walker Cup stars have de-
clared their intentions to turn pro while Harris
Former United States
Secretary of State Condo-
leezza Rice was in South
Bend, Ind., for a football
weekend and got in a round
at the Notre Dame Univer-
sity Golf Course. She was
rewarded with a hole-in-
one at No. 14. Rice gradu-
ated from Notre Dame in 1975. l