Peninsula championship

Trophy news from Washington State

Peninsula championship

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All seven golf courses on the North Olympic Peninsula held organizational meetings to structure the first ever Peninsula Championship for May 12 with a 9 a.m. shotgun start.

Ray DeJong is the chairman for this first-time event, and he reports progress was made.

Cedars at Dungeness Golf Course head PGA professional Bill Shea has agreed to host the event – and the very large silver cup will be the traveling golf trophy awarded to the winner.

This year’s winner will keep the trophy for one year on display at their golf course, and each annual winner that follows will do the same.

Twelve players will be selected to represent each team, and no professional players will be allowed as team members.

Prizes are yet to be determined along with individual awards and special awards to all team members of a winning team.

Harrington sorry that he can’t compete for Vardon

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Trophy news from St. Louis, MO

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

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