Golf World - April 30, 2012

Mayakoba Classic and T- 8 at the RBC Heritage before his career-best finish at San Antonio.

Every closed with a 71 after making birdie on four of the first six holes on the AT&T Oaks course at TPC San Antonio. He missed numerous opportunities for birdies on the back nine. “Four top-10s this year,” he said. “Really turning my career around. I’m pumped.” Dude, go for it. —R.S.

grassroots golf

Tewell to give back to
oklahoma juniors

�� Doug Tewell came out of sleepy Stillwater, Okla., and made it to the PGA Tour. In June he wants to give small-town kids in his state a taste of the game that has given him so much.

Tewell, 62, who won four times on the PGA Tour and eight times on the Champions Tour, is planning a schedule of free instructional clinics at public courses across Oklahoma with his son-in-law, Pat Bates, a former PGA Tour player and current men’s golf coach at Central Oklahoma.

“We were talking about doing a
summer camp, making a little side
money for him, but the problem is a
lot of kids don’t have $600 to $1,000
to attend camp,” Tewell said. “I
thought we should get some corpo-
rate sponsorship and put on some
two-hour clinics.”
Tewell and Bates hope to visit up
to 30 courses this year. Juniors 8 to 17
will receive a complimentary T-shirt. If
they wear their shirt, they will be able
to get a free bucket of balls a day the
rest of the summer and use U.S. Kids
Golf equipment that will be donated
to the courses. “The follow-up is so
important,” said Tewell, who plans to
pay host pros a stipend. “But if you get
these kids hooked, those public courses
are going to benefit. The kids eventual-
ly will buy green fees and range balls.”
Tewell hopes the clinics, which
begin June 4 in Ardmore, Okla., will
attract between 20 and 120 children.
“I think it will be a lot of fun,” Tewell
said. “People will get close to real-live
touring pros in Pat and I, that a lot of
folks in small towns would never see.
Hopefully, we’ll encourage some of
these kids to take up the game. I hope
it won’t be a one-year deal, that we’ll
be able to visit about 30 courses each
summer.” —Bill Fields

colleges

Frittelli, White named
Nelson Award winners

�� Texas’ Dylan Frittelli and Georgia Tech’s James White have been named co-winners of the 2012 Byron Nelson Award, which is given to the graduating senior who demonstrates

lIpouTS

“If it was important, they would
probably bring it up. We’ve
been selected to do that job,
and we feel comfortable with
the time frame that we have.”
–Gil Hanse,
2016 Olympic golf course designer,
on a dispute over ownership of the
course site. The matter is in the
hands of the Brazil Higher Court
of Justice.

“Because I have the whole
state now, it makes it more
difficult.”
–JoHn Boozman,
Republican senator from Arkansas,
who “played a lot of golf” before
being elected to Congress and has
less time since he moved from the
House to the Senate this term.

“I was five over after the
third hole of the first round
and I was going to withdraw
[because of a sore wrist], but
I [told] myself, ‘Don’t give up,
you’ve got a lot of golf left.’”
–JoHn HUH,
who was eight-over 44 on his first
nine holes at the Valero Texas
Open, yet still finished T- 2, two
shots back of winner Ben Curtis.

“We’ve been trying to find
windows where we can have a
Tuesday, Wednesday, or even
Monday night live-golf situation
on the East Coast of America.”

–mike wHan,

LPGA commissioner, on the televi-
sion benefits of the tour finishing
events on different nights, such as
the Lotte Championship in Hawaii,
which had a Saturday finish.

“There is no denying the
attachment people feel to
their mobile phones in terms
of gathering information.
Allowing their use will enrich
the Open experience.”
–peter dawson,
chief executive of the R&A, on
allo wing fans to carry cell phones
during the British Open at Royal
Lytham & St Annes in July.