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Nike Inc., the world's largest athletic shoe-maker, signed top-ranked golfer Tiger Woods to a new endorsement contract, both his agent and Nike said.
-- Bloomberg

John Daly will play in the Tiger Woods Target World Challenge, will be by far the lowest-ranked player on tour at No. 193 and will draw among the biggest galleries.
-- Los Angeles Times

Tom Byrum has played on the PGA tour for 21 years and has won $6.2 million. But Byrum won't be at the Tiger Woods Target World Challenge. He will be at home, in the Houston suburb of Richmond, thinking about his chances on tour in 2007. Last Tuesday, at the PGA Tour's qualifying school Byrum shot 75 on the final 18 holes. He three-putted for the first time in the tournament on the par-three 17th, then missed the green with an eight-iron on the 18th and took another bogey.
-- Los Angeles Times

Notah Begay is about to do something that few of his PGA Tour peers would ever dream of doing. He is moving to England. "I'm aiming to start in Abu Dhabi in January and from then on play around 22 to 25 events all around Europe," Begay says. For Begay, whose career has been blighted by injury and depression since he won four times on the PGA in the space of 11 months back in 1999, this is a shot at redemption.
-- The Guardian

Native American casino operators, already established as major players in the gaming industry, are becoming increasingly prominent in the golf business, where they are making lavish investments in new courses and expanding at a pace that outstrips much of the industry. This has resulted in an infusion of buzz-generating new layouts from top architects such as Tom Fazio and Rees Jones.
-- golfweek

It was Nick Price, an old friend from Zimbabwe and the first of David Leadbetter's pupils to win a major, who advised Nick Faldo to go to Leadbetter when he wanted to revamp his swing. Early on, there was plenty of criticism of the union, not least because of the extent of the changes to the technique of a player who had already begun to make his mark. However, the moment Faldo won the first of his six majors in 1987, Leadbetter felt vindicated. Leadbetter is equally satisfied with what he has done for Ernie Els.
-- The Telegraph

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