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One win puts Love at 20 and into Hall of Fame light
So much for that notion the Fall Series on the PGA Tour is meaningless.
On the surface, Davis Love III winning at Disney might have looked that way.
He scrambled for pars on the last two holes to hold off a rookie (Tommy Gainey) who was 228th on the money list, wears two gloves and looks like he's trying to kill a snake every time he swings. When it was over, Love posed with a bronze trophy of Mickey Mouse playing golf (just think of the white elephant gift nobody will take off your hands).
But that one victory was enough to change the perception of Love.
Timing is everything.
He won the final event of a season in which Love struggled to return from a devastating ankle injury last October that kept him out of golf for four months, out of the Masters and off another Ryder Cup team. And his victory came one day before the induction ceremony for the World Golf Hall of Fame.
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PGA chips in more cash
The PGA Tour released its schedule for the 2009 regular season yesterday, with 25 tournaments featuring purses of at least $6 million US and a newly configured "Texas swing" of three events in the spring.
Still to be determined are details on a revamped FedEx Cup, and whether to take a week off before the Tour Championship.
Once that it is decided, the Tour said it would release the rest of its Fall Series schedule.
By announcing the majority of the schedule, the Tour put to rest speculation that some tournaments might be in jeopardy because of the economy. The title sponsors are under contract at least through 2010, and most of them have slight increases in prize money built into their agreements.
Among those that kept prize money the same were the FBR Open and Travelers Championship, both at $6 million.
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Garcia Wins The Vardon Trophy
With the PGA Tour season officially over, it's now official: Sergio Garcia has won the Vardon Trophy, the first European-born winner since 1937 to have the lowest adjusted scoring average.
Garcia played 72 rounds with an adjusted average of 69.12, overtaking Phil Mickelson (69.17) at the Tour Championship. Anthony Kim finished third at 69.28.
The last European-born winner was Harry "Lighthorse" Cooper in 1937, the first year of the award when it was based on points. Tiger Woods was not eligible because it requires 60 rounds, and Woods only played 25 before he was injured.
Padraig Harrington wrapped up the points-based PGA player of the year award after winning the PGA Championship, which came with a 50-point bonus for winning two majors in one year. Harrington, who also won the British Open, finished with 116 points to finish ahead of Woods, who had 78 points in six events.
An architect among 6 inducted to golf Hall of Fame
Pete Dye, who designed more than 120 courses with risk-and-reward options that brought pleasure to some and frustration to most, was among six people inducted Monday night into the World Golf Hall of Fame.
The 2008 class featured an amateur, an architect and an author, along with three major champions.
Craig Wood was the only player elected through the PGA Tour ballot. Wood, the first player to win the Masters and U.S. Open in the same year and the first to lose all four majors in extra holes, received the minimum 65 percent of the vote.
Three-time major champion Denny Shute and Bob Charles, the first left-hander to win a major, got in through the Veteran's category.
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