The Players Club at Santa Ana announced its 2010 tournament schedule, which includes 20 events on weekends and on Wednesdays, for retired players or players with flexibility.
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The University of New Mexico Championship Golf Club has set its 2010 tournament schedule, which features 10 events starting Feb. 1.
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Albuquerque’s Katie Kempter says now that she’s achieved her dream of qualifying to play on the LPGA Tour, “The dream just got bigger.”
Headed home for the holidays after winning the Hawaii State Open, Kempter said in a phone interview from Phoenix’s Sky Harbor that now that she’s won her 2010 LPGA Tour card – which grants her eligibility to at least 13 of 24 Tour events – “the next goal now is to get into the Top 50 on the money list.”
“I want to set my sights high and be good enough in six years to play in the 2016 Olympics,” Kempter said.
Newly minted LPGA Tour player Katie Kempter won the Hawaii State Open with a birdie in the second hole of sudden death — an event she played in while “hanging out” and enjoying warm weather in Hawaii with her friend, University of New Mexico Lobo Women’s Golf Team member Britney Choy.
Kempter stayed with Choy’s family, who lives on Oahu, said Chris Kempter, Katie’s father. Choy caddied for Kempter over two days on the Fazio course and the final day on the Palmer Course. Kempter’s win was worth $1,000.
Kempter was second low medalist in the LPGA Q School in Daytona Beach, Fla., earlier this month. In Hawaii, she was tied for the lead after 54 holes of regulation play Sunday at the Turtle Bay Resort with Xyra Suyetsugu and amateur Cyd Okino, who was trying for her fourth consecutive Hawaii Open win. Kempter shot 75-71-74.
Choy was a standout at Leilehua High School in Waihiawa before going to UNM.
Kempter, who grew up in Albuquerque and now lives in Denver, was expected to return to Albuquerque for the holidays. Her finish at Q School means she’ll likely get into most 2010 LPGA Tour events, not counting invitationals or events based on world rankings. She’ll not likely play in overseas events her first year out, her father said.
(Photo Courtesy Norm Guenther, Hawaii Golf News & Travel)
ESPN, Fox and Comcast all are signaling plans to use the Internet to push into local sports markets, according to a national sports journal. Already four cities — Boston, Los Angeles, Dallas and Chicago — have local ESPN websites up and running and devoted mainly to local sports news.
Local sports coverage, now largely owned by local newspapers, is seen as the quickest way to increase advertising revenue, says John Ourand, a writer for the Sports Business Journal.
In addition to news-hungry local sports fans around the country, possible winners include local sports journalists. “This is the one area of journalism where people are really hiring and throwing money at it,” Ourand told American Public Media’s Marketplace on Monday.
