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10/8/00 -- Does familiarity breed contempt? Ken Venturi and Peter Thomson hope not in regards to the 4th-biennial Presidents Cup.
10/15/00 --There was a shootout in the desert on Sunday; and when the dust settled, Billy Andrade emerged as the last man standing.
10/14/00 -- Tom Byrum bogeyed his final two holes on Saturday to fall into a tie for first place with Billy Andrade entering the final round of the Invensys Classic at Las Vegas.
10/13/00 -- Tom Byrum went 79 straight rounds without shooting a 65. Now he’s carded three in a row. For the third straight day, on three separate courses, Byrum fired a 7-under-par 65 to maintain his lead through three rounds of the Invensys Classic at Las Vegas.
10/12/00 -- Tom Byrum’s been to the PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament - four times, in fact; and he doesn’t want to go back. A good finish this week, and Byrum can avoid trip number five
10/11/00 -- If you’re a professional athlete, you don’t spend eight hours a day staring at three manufactured walls called a cubicle. Your office is the playing field. Yet like any and everyone, an athlete’s work place can provide sanctuary or purgatory.
10/11/00 -- Scotland will get a chance to avenge past defeats at the hands of the English in this week’s Alfred Dunhill Cup. The top-seeded team has been placed in the same qualifying group with England, Germany and Wales.
10/8/00 -- The 4th biennial Presidents Cup matches get underway Oct. 19th at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Lake Manassas, Va., where the United States will once again be looking to use the home course to their advantage.
10/8/00 -- Lee Westwood takes a slight advantage over Colin Montgomerie into the second 18 holes of the Cisco World Match Play final on Monday morning.
10/8/00 -- David Toms defeated Mike Weir in sudden-death at the Michelob Championship in Williamsburg, Va. Toms sank a five-foot par putt on the first extra hole to capture his fourth-career PGA Tour title, and secure a spot at the season-ending Tour Championship.
10/7/00 -- Darkness officially gets the blame for suspending semi-final play at the Cisco World Match Play championship, but rain was the true culprit Saturday in Surrey, England.
10/7/00 -- Bradley Hughes couldn’t have started any worse, or finished much better than he did on Saturday. Leading by three strokes as the day began, Hughes bogeyed his first four holes, but birdied four of his last five to maintain a one-shot lead over three others at the Michelob Championship
10/6/00 -- Bradley Hughes was desperate. His PGA Tour card in jeopardy. He tried everything he could think of to turn around his game. Then, two weeks ago he switched golf balls.
10/6/00 -- Darren Clarke survived a scare from a three-time Masters winner, but he couldn’t get past the reigning Augusta champion.
10/5/00 -- Padraig Harrington, Sergio Garcia and Retief Goosen all advanced into the second round of the Cisco World Match Play at the Wentworth Club in Surrey, England.
10/5/00 -- J.P. Hayes has never won the Michelob Championship, yet he still has quite a fondness for the Kingsmill Golf Club’s River Course.
10/4/00 -- Colin Montgomerie and the Wentworth Club in Surrey, England - a match made in heaven. The 37-year-old Scot has won four of the last five events contested on Wentworth’s famous West Course.
10/4/00 -- One year ago, Notah Begay captured his second PGA Tour title of the season by defeating Tom Byrum in a playoff at the Michelob Championship. Since then, the two have been traveling down entirely different paths.
10/1/00 --Michael Campbell claimed his third European Tour title of the season without hitting a single shot on Sunday. Campbell won the Linde German Masters when the final round was cancelled due to rain.
10/1/00 -- David Duval didn’t make the trip to Pine Mountain, Ga. just to compete. He came to Callaway Gardens Resort to win. And he did just that.
9/30/00 -- Michael Campbell followed his Friday 64 with an equally impressive Saturday 65 to take a one-shot lead over Jose Coceres into the final round of the Linde German Masters.
9/30/00 -- Callaway Gardens may be a resort, but Jeff Maggert’s not relaxing. Maggert saw his overnight four-shot lead cut in half on Saturday.
9/29/00 -- For the second straight day, Jeff Maggert blistered Callaway Gardens’ front nine. Then he made the turn. The winds changed, and so too did Maggert’s movement on the Buick Challenge leaderboard.
9/29/00 -- There are a lot of little demons creeping around Padraig Harrington’s head. A win at this week’s Linde German Masters would go a long way in exorcizing them.