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OUR 1655 TH ISSUE Vol. 32, No. 43 R O C H E S T E R Monday, November 30, 2020 Monday Scramble: What The Best Story of the 2020 Golf The European Tour, PGA Year Was That We Actually Had Golf Tour Alliance Means BY REX HOGGARD Consider that just last week 16 college football games were either canceled or postponed be- cause of COVID-19 infections. It was the second consecutive week college football lost dou- ble-digit games and even the games that are being played are coming with competitive asterisks. Last week’s college schedule included a dozen teams that played short-handed games, including Minnesota who was missing nearly two dozen players week and even though teams are already began. Even the mighty in its victory over Purdue. trying to create their own version NFL isn’t immune to the wreak- BY RYAN LAVNER tours took a serious financial hit College basketball begins this of a bubble handwringing has Best Story — PAGE 5 The PGA and Europeans tours in 2020 because of the corona- form an alliance, Christian Be- virus pandemic. In a conference zuidenhout joins the game’s elite, call, European Tour chief exec- the PGA Tour wraps up its 2020 utive Keith Pelley took pains to The Life of Haley Moore Resonates slate and more in this week’s edi- describe this announcement as tion of Monday Scramble: something other than a potential During Holiday Season 1. The PGA and European merger, saying that won’t hap- tours took a big first step pen unless it’s beneficial for his BELLEAIR, Fla. (AP) — Haley toward potentially creating a membership or his circuit is in Moore will never forget the shot. global golf calendar, agree- financial straits. Though a take- It was in April 2019 when stood ing to an alliance that will over is years away, if it happens on the 16th tee at Augusta Na- allow them to collaborate on at all, this partnership should tional, home of the Masters, 156 commercial opportunities, mark the end to the Premier Golf yards from the flag with a short media rights and scheduling. League, which had tried (unsuc- iron in her hands and watched TAKEAWAY: This seemed cessfully) to lure the top players the ball take flight. like an inevitable move, as both Monday Scramble — PAGE 6 It landed a few yards to the left of the hole on the sharply sloped green and gravity did the rest, the ball eventually rolling 2020–21 Qualifiers for Majors, to a stop close enough for a (Getty Images) tap-in birdie. Moore smiled on THE PLAYERS, WGCs her entire walk to the green, “It was pretty iconic,” Moore She made the winning putt in a the fans who lined all sides of said. playoff to clinch the 2018 NCAA the hole roaring in delight and So is her story. championship for Arizona and appreciation. Moore is a 22-year-old LPGA qualified for the inaugural Augus- No bullies were in sight. rookie from Southern California. Haley Moore — PAGE 6 Callaway’s New B21 Line Consists Of the Biggest, Baddest Berthas Yet BY JONATHAN WALL AND ANDREW TURSKY If you’ve picked up a Call- Rickie Fowler has played in 10 consecutive Masters but has yet to qualify away club in the last few de- for the 2021 edition. (Patrick Smith/Getty Images) cades, you’ve likely come across a driver or iron with the words BY ROB BOLTON he remained inside the top 50 to “Big Bertha” emblazoned on Christiaan Bezuidenhout has it secure his tournament debut. the head. all figured out. Win an event at His first appearance was de- Of all the names founder Ely home = Play the Masters. layed seven months. He made the Callaway chose to bestow upon In February (and pre-pandemic), cut and finished T38. However, his creations, Big Bertha is the the South African prevailed at the by then he had slipped to 60th in one that’s stood the test of time. Dimension Data Pro-Am. The vic- the OWGR with another top- Initially introduced in 1991 with tory in his homeland lifted him to 50 checkpoint looming at the a collection of oversized drivers Callaway’s new Big Bertha B21 driver and irons. (Jeffrey Westbrook/Prop Styling: 48th in the Official World Golf end of calendar-year 2020 for that took the industry by storm, Sophia Pappas) Ranking. A month later when the entry into the 2021 Masters. the Big Bertha line was expand- OWGR was used to fill the field at A T15 at the Joburg Open the ed by Callaway three years later lar traits: a generous profile, two decades later, Big Bertha’s the Masters (originally scheduled week after the 2020 Masters was to include irons. offset to eliminate a slice and new B21 line remains true to for its traditional date in April), Qualifiers— PAGE 7 The clubs all shared simi- game-changing distance. Nearly Biggest, Baddest — PAGE 5 See Local Holes-In-One at golfweekrochester.com Page 2 • Rochester GOLF WEEK • Monday, November 30, 2020 Leonard Kamsler, a Dissecting Golf Photographer, Dies at 85 BY GLENN COLLINS though lugging a camera instead image suggestive of a pinwheel. Leonard Kamsler, a photo- of clubs. Beginning in 1963, he George Peper, his editor at journalist whose award-winning covered 40 consecutive Masters Golf Magazine for 25 of Mr. pictures of professional golf for tournaments, 17 P.G.A. cham- Kamsler’s 60 years associated nearly 50 years pushed the en- pionships and 22 U.S. Opens, with the publication, said it was velope of sports strobe photog- freezing moments of action in Mr. Kamsler who “created the raphy as he amassed a trove of indelible images. swing-sequence in golf without more than 200,000 images on “His ability to take the perfect question.” the PGA Tour, died on Nov. 18 picture at the perfect time was Mr. Kamsler, he said, “learned in Bethel, N.Y. He was 85. unsurpassed by anyone in the at Edgerton’s knee,” referring His husband and only immedi- business,” the champion golfer to Harold Edgerton, a professor ate survivor, Stephen Lyles, said Tom Watson said in a video- at the Massachusetts Institute the cause was organ failure. Mr. taped tribute when Mr. Kamsler of Technology who pioneered Kamsler had homes in Bethel received the lifetime achieve- stroboscopic technology. Mr. and Manhattan. ment award. Kamsler began consulting with Jim Richerson, president of Mr. Kamsler’s technical innova- Mr. Edgerton in 1957. the PGA of America, called Mr. tions in high-speed strobe photog- He also developed a close re- Kamsler “the undisputed dean of raphy broke down the complete lationship with Charles Hulcher, golf photography.” Last month, arc of a golf swing from beginning who had developed a specialty Leonard Kamsler used stop-motion strobe photography to break down the complete arc of a golfer’s swing. He documented the swings of more Mr. Kamsler became the first to end in stop-motion exposures camera to record slow-motion than 400 pro golfers. (Leonard Kamsler/Popperfoto, via Getty Images) recipient of the organization’s — from address to backswing to studies of rocket launches. Lifetime Achievement Award in contact to follow-through — each Mr. Kamsler’s primary instru- for PBS. in Miami with the actor Jack Photojournalism. position of the hands, arms, ment was a hulking Hulcher high- Mr. Kamsler’s strobe-light- Nicholson, Mr. Kamsler reached Practically half of that lifetime feet, legs, torso, head and club speed 35-millimeter camera, orig- ing work also reached beyond over to push up the bill of Mr. was spent on the golf course, contained in a single sequential inally designed to shoot at some golf. He devised one complex Nicholson’s hat because it was 70 frames per second. He was strobe system to capture the first hiding his eyes. “Nobody touch- able to push the limit to 100, and attempt at a quintuple somer- es Jake’s hat!,” Mr. Nicholson then 200, frames per second — sault by the Flying Cranes aerial barked. meaning that in less than three troupe of the Moscow Circus. Leonard Macon Kamsler seconds of lightning-fast expo- The picture ran in The New York was born on Oct. 18, 1935, in sures he could dissect an entire Times Magazine on Dec. 30, Raleigh, N.C., to Morton and golf swing. 1990, with a cover article about Helen (Strother) Kamsler. His Mr. Kamsler’s first sequential the troupe. father owned a retail store, and stop-motion study, of Arnold A circus aficionado, he also his mother was a homemaker. Palmer’s technique and clubhead photographed performances of His father gave Leonard his first dynamics, “created a sensation,” the Ringling Bros. and Barnum camera at age 12. He grad- Mr. Peper said, adding that as & Bailey Circus, the animal uated from Broughton High a teaching tool “it was posted trainer Gunther Gebel-Williams School in Raleigh and then from on every golf instructor’s wall in and the magicians Siegfried & Duke University, in 1957. Mov- America.” Roy’s stage act using tigers. ing to Manhattan, he became Howard Hanna • 2x5 • 061520 • JT Mr. Kamsler documented As a PGA Tour fixture, Mr. a $32-a-week assistant to the more than 400 golf-swing se- Kamsler could hardly be ignored. celebrity photographer Milton Expositor-Ledger Newspapers quences of other champion golf- For years he arrived at events in H. Greene. One of his first as- Rochester Golf Week • The Jewish Ledgerers, including Sam Snead, Jack his candy-apple-red, tail-finned signments was to photograph 2535 Brighton-Henrietta Town Line Road, Rochester, NY 14623 Nicklaus, Kathy Whitworth and Cadillac Eldorado convertible, Marilyn Monroe.