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LETTER FROM ATLANTA
Memo From Helensburgh
Northwest Ireland
by Helicopter
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For 2004
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Officials have lengthened Royal
St. George's, the course that will host the
Open Championship, July 17-20. The course will be
246 yards longer than it was 10 years ago, when the
event Greg Norman won at Sandwich. The changes, made
last year and early this year, bring the yardage to
7,106 yards. The par for the course has also been
increased from 70 to 71, with the 497-yard fourth
hole changed from a par 4 to a par 5. New tees have
been built at eight holes: Nos. 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11,
12 and 13. The green at No. 14 has been moved back
43 yards.
 The
Royal and Ancient Golf Club has announced that the
2007 Walker Cup match between Great
Britain and Ireland and the United States of America
will be played at Royal County Down.
This year the 2003 Walker Cup Matches will be played
at Ganton.
Tony Binks, executive chef at De
Vere Slaley Hall, was seconded to the Belfry
to be the personal chef to the American team during
last year's Ryder Cup. The Americans enjoyed his cuisine
so much that they have invited him to travel to America
and be their personal chef at the 2004 Ryder Cup.
Congratulations to past Ryder Cup
Captain, Sam Torrance for receiving
his second OBE from the Queen.
The qualification process for The
2003 Seve Trophy, to be played at
Campo de Golf Parador El Saler Valencia, Spain, on
November 7-9, will be similar to that for The 2004
Ryder Cup Matches. Both Captain Seve's Continental
Europe and Captain Monty's Great Britain and Ireland
teams will be made up of four players from the Official
World Golf Ranking, four more from the Volvo Order
of Merit and one selected by the captain. In the event
of a top-four player in the Official World Golf Ranking
also being in the top four in the Volvo Order of Merit
then the next best in the latter will come in.
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