Golf notebook:Frys.com Open moves to Miller's Silverado course in 2014

Golf notebook:Frys.com Open moves to Miller's Silverado course in 2014

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Tom LaMarre, The Sports Xchange July 14, 2013 10:50 PMThe SportsXchange


--Johnny Miller, part owner of Silverado Resort and Spa in Napa, Calif., along with his partners, announced that the 2014Frys.com Open will be played on Silverado's North Course.



"We are thrilled to host the season-opening PGA Tourtournament on our iconic property," said Miller, the 1973 U.S. Open champion and now lead golf commentator for NBC Sports.



Silverado hosted the PGA Tour's Kaiser International Open from 1968 to 1976, and the tournament was played as the Anheuser-Busch Golf Classic from 1977 to 1980.



Miller captured the Kaiser in 1974 and 1975, and other winners of the tournament included Jack Nicklaus, Billy Casper, Tom Watson, Ben Crenshaw and Miller Barber.



"It's an opportunity to enhance the reputation of our tournament, generate new sponsors, expand the volunteer base and make significant contributions to deserving charities," said Kathy Holder, tournament chairwoman.



--Hal Sutton and Russ Cochran were forced to withdraw from the 34th U.S. Senior Open Championship last week at Omaha Country Club in Omaha, Neb., because of injuries.



Sutton, who underwent left hip replacement surgery in October, told the Shreveport Times that he plans to have his right hip replaced this fall.



David Ladd, who shot 73 and was the first alternate from sectional qualifying at March Creek Country Club in St. Augustine, Fla., replaced Sutton.



--ArabianBusiness.com reported that Dubai Properties Group, a unit of Dubai Holding, has dissolved its partnership with Tiger Woods, after construction of his golf estate at Dubailand was suspended in 2010 amid the worldwide economic crisis.



Plan for the Tiger Woods Dubai project, which was to include a complex of 100 villas, 75 mansions, 22 palaces, a boutique hotel and golf academy, were announced in 2006, with a scheduled opening in 2009.



Dubai Properties Group, a unit of Dubai Holding, announced early in 2010 that work had been suspended but that it would "continue to be monitored and a decision will be made in the future when to restart the project."



Diamante is the fourth contracted design for Tiger Woods Design since the firm's inception in 2006. The first three, Punta Brava in Ensenada, Mexico, the Cliffs in Asheville, N.C., and Al Ruwaya in Dubai, have run into problems and not been completed.




The 25-page motion claims the PGA Tour is "not entitled to judicial deference" and that the circuit's anti-doping program's release provision is "unenforceable."



However, Singh was later cleared of the charge but turned around and sued the PGA Tour on May 8 claiming the circuit "exposed Singh, one of golf's most respected and hardest working golfers, to public humiliation and ridicule for months without basis or justification" after his admission that he used Ultimate Spray.



Peter Ginsburgh, Singh's New York-based attorney, claimed that "despite having no foundation on which to determine that Singh had used a banned substance, the PGA Tour decided to discipline Singh, simply blindly relying upon WADA."



The PGA Tour does not comment on ongoing litigation.



Daly began having problems with the elbow at the Byron Nelson Championship in May and tests revealed a torn tendon. He said doctors told him he could try to play as long as he did not hit a rock or a tree root.



The 47-year-old Daly, who was replaced in the field at Muirfield by Stephen Gallacher of Scotland, said he will miss the rest of the regular season after surgery.



"I hate missing the British Open, especially at Muirfield," said Daly, who was planning to play seven consecutive weeks. "It's one of the best (courses) on the planet.



Daly, whose career has gone downhill with a number of controversial incidents on and off the course, burst onto the scene when he captured the 1991 PGA Championship at Crooked Stick after getting into thetournament as the ninth alternate.



--Paul Goydos has given it a go, but for now, his surgically repaired left wrist simply cannot take it.



"The pain tends to come and go," said Goydos, who has been endured tendinitis throughout his career and had a bone spur that was irritating a tendon removed from his wrist in March after a procedure last October to remove a bone spur from his left index finger.



Goydos does not plan to play again until the Frys.com Open at CordeValle Golf Club in San Martin, Calif., in October, when the 2013-14 season is scheduled to begin.



In his two tournaments since returning, Goydos missed the cut, shooting 73-72 -- 145 in the St. Jude Classic, and 74-80 -- 154 in the Travelers Championship.

Golf-Teen Spieth wins John Deere on fifth playoff hole

Golf-Teen Spieth wins John Deere on fifth playoff hole

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July 14, 2013 11:26 PM


* Teen becomes youngest U.S. Tour winner in 82 years

* beats Johnson and Hearn in playoff (Adds details, quotes)

July 14 (Reuters) - Jordan Spieth become the youngest player to win on the PGA Tour since 1931 after the 19-year-old took the John Deere Classic title on the fifth hole of sudden-death on Sunday.

Spieth, who had holed out from a bunker on the last hole to join a playoff, tapped in for par on the 18th hole to beat 2007 Masters champion Zach Johnson, who won last year, andCanadian David Hearn after the trio finished the regulation 72 holes tied at 19-under-par at TPC Deere Run in Silvis, Illinois.

Spieth, a two-time U.S. Junior Amateur champion who began the round six shots off the pace, shot a final-round 65 and earned a spot in next week's British Open, an invitation to the 2014 Masters and membership on the Tour with the win.

"It's not settling in yet," said Spieth, who last year won a U.S. college championship with Texas. "It hasn't hit me yet. I'm not sure it will until maybe I wake up on the plane in a little while."

The win made Spieth the first teenager to claim a PGA Tour title since Ralph Guldahl won the Santa Monica Open 82 years ago.

"I don't think of my age as my age," Spieth said. "I just think of playing and competing with these guys as my peers. The guys in this event, each week, week to week, I don't think of myself as younger than them."

At 18-under-par, one stroke away from joining the playoff, were Martin Flores (63), Jerry Kelly (68) and overnight leader Daniel Summerhays (72), who overcame a string of four successive bogeys from the fifth hole.

Summerhays fought his way back into contention but failed to make the playoffs when he bogeyed the last after a brutal lie in a greenside bunker.

Playing on special temporary member status for his play in select events this year, which included five top-10s, Spieth put himself in position for something special when his greenside bunker shot on the last took one hop, hit the pin and dropped into the cup for a birdie.


Johnson came to the 18th holding a one-shot lead and looked poised to repeat as champion and notch his 10th tour title but bogeyed the hole to set up the three-way playoff.

The defending champion came close to winning the playoff when he lipped out a chip for birdie on the first extra hole and grazed the edge on another birdie putt.

Hearn, looking for his first tour title, missed two putts of about 10 feet, and Spieth had a 25-footer for a winning birdie on the first extra hole that died just short.

On the decisive hole, all three pushed their tee shots into the right rough, with Hearn having to thread a shot through a tight gap of trees and Johnson virtually stymied behind an oak.

Hearn came out short of the green, while Johnson deflected off a tree and into the water hugging the left side of the hole.

Spieth, who had the best lie of the trio, punched out of the rough and ran the ball to the fringe in back of the green, from where he two-putted for the winning par.

Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Rory McIlroy all won their first PGA events at age 20.

"A year ago we had just won a national championship, and I thought I'd be back at school right now," said Spieth. "I had a plan. I guess the plan got exceeded.

"I wanted to just earn my Tour card for next year this year somehow. And now to be able to have it for a couple of years and to be able to have an exemption to Augusta (and) all the stuff that comes with it ...

"It hasn't hit me yet, and it will, but I'm just happy to go compete with those guys you mentioned."

(Reporting by Larry Fine in New York; Editing by Peter Rutherford/Greg Stutchbury)