Golf awards to honor golfers with unwavering drive

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Golf awards to honor golfers with unwavering drive

Two new additions to the popular laser sport crystal golf trophy series are a huge hit. With the new choices of Closest To The Pin and Longest Drive crystal awards, honoring those great golf moments has never looked better. The highly detailed sport graphics are lasered  inside the crystal, with your personal engraving lasered on the surface. So for those crowning achievements go for the crystal and give something that will be cherished for a lifetime.

Harrington sorry that he can’t compete for Vardon

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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Padraig Harrington was about the only one not complaining that a double major champion could not qualify for the Tour Championship, blaming only himself for missing consecutive cuts at the start of the PGA Tour Playoffs.

His biggest letdown? Realizing he couldn’t win the Vardon Trophy.

Harrington figured he was safe playing the minimum 15 events on the PGA Tour. But he missed the cut three times, and finished the year with only 52 rounds. Players must complete 60 rounds to be eligible for the Vardon Trophy for lowest adjusted scoring average.

Trophy is Long Overdue for Bognor Golfers

Trophy News From England

Following several years in the lower reaches of the table, Bognor have again won the Evening League golf trophy.

Not since the 1990s have the club won the trophy, contested between Bognor, Cowdray Park, Ham Manor, Littlehamp-ton and Worthing.

Teams of ten from each club play foursomes matchplay, home and away, on Wednesday evenings through the summer.

So Bognor were crowned champions by one point, and at the end-of-season presentation supper at Cowdray Park, Bognor again stunned the 60-strong assembled golfers by achieving a notable double as they won the Supper Trophy, edging out Cowdray on countback.<!–more–>

Bognor club captain Ian Pettie was delighted to get his hands on the Evening League trophy after such a long time.

And team captain Simon Watts paid tribute to his ‘loyal, long-suffering’ team who patiently and good-humouredly endured numerous wooden spoons and lowly finishes before finally achieving top spot.

Those who contributed to the epic win were John Adams, John Carlton, Paul Elliott, Robbie Hughes, John Lampard, John Meek, Clive Millett, Ian Paine, Brian Poston, Jason Rae, Rob Redmond, Trevor Rich, Ron Stevens, Mark Watson, Simon Watts and Mark Willmer.

* Bognor’s ladies’ section’s captain’s day trophy was won by N Vincent with a nett 68.

Originally Written by Petworth Observer Staff

Harrington Soars to Lead in PGA Player of Year, Vardon Trophy Races

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Trophy News from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

Padraig Harrington of Ireland, who wrote a remarkable chapter in major championship history over the past few weeks with victories in the British Open and PGA Championship, has taken a commanding lead in The PGA of America’s 2008 Player of the Year point standings.

Harrington also leads the Vardon Trophy race, and with 44 completed rounds, needs to record 16 additional complete rounds to meet the required minimum of 60 rounds for one of the most prestigious season-ending awards.

Should Harrington continue his momentum toward both awards, he would be the first European since Nick Faldo in 1990 to win the PGA Player of the Year award and would be the first-ever European to capture the Vardon Trophy, presented annually by The PGA of America since 1937 (not awarded from 1942-’46 due to WWII).

The PGA of America has honored the game’s best players with The PGA Player of the Year Award since 1948. The Award is currently presented to the top touring professional based on a point system for tournament wins, official money standings and scoring averages.

Since 1937, the Vardon Trophy, named by The PGA of America in honor of famed British golfer Harry Vardon, is awarded annually to the touring professional with the lowest adjusted scoring average.

Originally Written by PGA.com Staff

British Open Champ Wraps Up Rare Double in Majors

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Trophy News From Michigan

Padraig Harrington’s Irish eyes don’t smile. At least not until he’s holding some hulking trophy in celebration of another major championship.

In the heat of a major Sunday, those eyes sear. They could burn holes in kevlar. We know that they can melt his opponents at just the right time.

They are the eyes that show no fear, only a fierce determination to do what so many others find impossible: produce the shots and the putts when you absolutely have to.

Harrington already had shown he could do so in capturing back-to-back British Open trophies. He’s never done it better, however, than he did yesterday when the 90th PGA Championship trophy was in doubt, and he responded with one of the finest closing efforts a major has seen.

The 36-year-old from Dublin made a 20-foot putt to save par at 16, made a spectacular 10-foot birdie at the brutally difficult par-3 17th, and saved an all-world par from the sand and rough with a 15-foot putt at 18 to win a major golf trophy for the second time in a 21-day span.

Already lauded as Ireland’s greatest golfer, Harrington ended a 78-year PGA drought for the Europeans, who hadn’t won since Tommy Armour beat Gene Sarazen in match play in 1930.

“I knew the situation. I knew what I had to do,” Harrington was saying last night, the enormous Wanamaker Trophy sitting at his side. “I’m a great believer in making your own responsibility, whether you win or you don’t win. You get chances on the back nine in a major tournament, and you’ve got to take them.”

Harrington wanted it badly, and few beyond the absent Tiger Woods seize it the way he does.

“I kind of felt like I won the PGA at that stage, thinking this is it,” Harrington said. “I had the opportunity to get the putt in first, which was important.”

He was dead on. Harrington made his effort, Sergio Garcia missed – as he had done on the 72nd hole at Carnoustie last year – and Harrington had the one-shot cushion.

There was still the hardest hole on the course to conquer, and Harrington made it interesting. He drove under the lip of the right bunker and blasted out into the rough, but then launched an excellent 7-iron to 15 feet.

Harrington stroked it true, and got to celebrate a major trophy win like never before, pumping his fists in celebration.

Originally Written by Tod Leonard of the San Diego Union-Tribune

As Norman Fades, Harrington Cruises to Second British Title Trophy

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SOUTHPORT, England — They’re dancing in the streets of Ireland for the second year in a row after favorite son Padraig Harrington crashed Greg Norman’s improbable party Sunday in the final round of the 137th British Open at Royal Birkdale.

“Obviously, winning a major puts you in a special club,” Harrington said. “Winning two of them puts you in a new club altogether.

Harrington, who woke up Thursday wondering if his sore right wrist would allow him to defend his trophy, survived three consecutive bogeys starting at the seventh hole and fired a back-nine 4-under 32 that included an eagle-3 to win by four shots at 3-over 283.

Norman, who was tying to become the oldest winner of a major trophy by five years, began with three bogeys. After reclaiming the lead at the turn, Norman could muster only one birdie on the inward nine.

Norman, who has lost seven times when leading a major after 54 holes, was not downcast.

“Quite honestly, I’m sure I surprised a lot of people,” he told the Associated Press.

Poulter thought he could bring England its first British championship trophy since Nick Faldo in 1992, playing bogey-free over his final 15 holes.

“I can only do what I can do,” Poulter said. “And I done my best.”

Harrington, who ended Europe’s eight-year drought in majors with his victory last year, is the first European to walk away with the Claret Jug golf trophy in consecutive years since Scotland’s James Braid did it — 102 years ago.

“I did say to Greg coming down 18 that I was sorry it wasn’t his story that was going to be told,” said Harrington, who punctuated his win with an eagle on the par-5 17th, where he hit a 5-wood to 4 feet.

“But I wanted to win myself. … Greg has been a great champion through the game, and you know, another win at this time in his career would have been the icing on the cake.”

Originally Written by Steve DiMeglio in USA Today

Richard S. Johnson Gets First PGA Tour Victory Trophy

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Richard S. Johnson knows there was one shot that gave him the confidence to win his first tournament trophy on the PGA Tour.

“It all started out with that first day. I made that hole in one and all of a sudden I felt like I could make some birdies,” Johnson said.

Johnson birdied three of his last four holes Sunday to shoot six-under-par 64 and win the U.S. Bank Championship by a stroke over Ken Duke. He finished at 16-under 264 on the 6,759-yard Brown Deer Park Golf Course to win the $720,000 first prize.

Johnson, the sixth golfer from Sweden to win a trophy on tour and seventh first-time winner this season, had to go through qualifying school last fall to get his tour card back and he had made the cut in only three of 10 events this season before this one.

Kenny Perry closed strongly with a 64 to get to 12-under and finish tied for sixth. He had been criticized for skipping the British Open after winning golf trophies in three of his last five tournaments, including last week’s John Deere Classic trophy.

Originally Written in the Times Wire Reports