OUR 1610 TH ISSUE Vol. 31, No. 50 R O C H E S T E R Monday, January 13, 2020 Fans Select Inbee Park Cameron Smith Wins Sony Open As Player of the Decade In Another Hawaii Comeback BY DOUG FERGUSON HONOLULU (AP) — Two weeks in Hawaii brought rain, unusually strong wind, playoffs and two players who thought victory was out of reach until the winner’s lei was draped around their necks. Cameron Smith was the latest Sunday at the Sony Open. He might have been even more surprised than Justin Thomas, who got a second chance when he won a playoff BY AMY ROGERS votes were cast over the LPGA’s at Kapalua. With 53 percent of the fan social platforms to lift the LPGA “Two or three holes left, I re- vote received, No. 1 Inbee Park Tour Hall of Famer ahead of No. ally didn’t think there was much Cameron Smith holds the champions trophy after the final round of the was selected as the LPGA Player 14 Brooke Henderson, who had of a shot,” Smith said after his Sony Open PGA Tour golf event, Sunday, Jan. 12 at Waialae Country of the Decade. Nearly 12,000 Park — PAGE 3 Sony Open — PAGE 3 Club in Honolulu. (AP Photo/Matt York) Timeline of African-American Pete Dye, ‘Picasso’ of Golf Achievements in Golf Course Design, Is Dead at 94 BY RICHARD GOLDSTEIN “His courses built for tourna- ments are hard,” Tiger Woods once said, “but there’s a good reason for everything.” Pete Dye, who designed many of America’s most famous golf courses and became known as the mad scientist of golf archi- tecture for his imaginative and supremely challenging layouts, died on Thursday in the Domin- ican Republic, the site of several Pete Dye and his wife, Alice, at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Dye family courses. He was 94. Fla., while it was under construction in 1980. The course has been the Tiger Woods speaks with Charlie Sifford, the first African American in- Pete Dye — PAGE 6 annual home of the Players Championship. (PGA Tour Archive, via Getty Images) ducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame, during a practice round of the 2009 WGC Bridgestone Invitational. (Stuart Franklin/Getty Images) TOUR Players Beef Up Australian Bushfire Relief BY BOB DENNEY, PGA where he worked as a caddie, HISTORIAN at the age of 17. Some of the BY BEN EVERILL Davis and Cameron Percy, plus a birdie on the 72nd hole and From John Shippen to Tiger professional players threat- HONOLULU — Maybe it was American Parker McLachlin, earlier, Leishman holed out for Woods and Renee Powell to en to boycott the event when some sort of cosmic karma that all pledged funds per birdie and an eagle on Sunday from 130 Charlie Sifford, African-Amer- they discover his race, but back helped Cameron Smith win the eagle made during the tourna- yards to boost the cause. icans have played a significant down when USGA President Sony Open in Hawaii. ment to the ongoing fire crisis Leishman’s Begin Again role in the growth of golf, both Theodore Havemayer defends Australian PGA TOUR players down under. Foundation has over $9,000 of on and off the course. Here is Shippen and another entrant, in the Sony Open field — with Together, they raised over straight donations to add plus a timeline marking some of the Shinnecock Indian Oscar Bunn. help from some friends — added $30,000, despite difficult con- their pledge to match $5,000 many memorable moments in Shippen ties for sixth and wins over $175,000 to help boost ditions with high winds and rain of those contributions. Personal the history of African-Americans $10. He goes on to play in five bushfire relief efforts in their throughout the week at Waialae sponsors and friends of the four- in golf. more U.S. Opens. home country, taking the current Country Club. And the figure time TOUR winner also added to 1896: John Shippen, whose 1899: George Grant, a dentist total from the TOUR community will continue to rise as further his birdie/eagle pledge, which father was African-American in Boston, invents the modern to well over a $250,000. matches are added. takes things up at least another and whose mother was Shinne- wooden golf tee. The six Australians in the field Karma seemed part of the $6,000. cock Indian, plays in the second 1922: Joseph Bartholomew in Marc Leishman, Smith, Matt narrative as Smith came from The Presidents Cup, which U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills, Timeline — PAGE 10 Jones, Rhein Gibson, Cameron behind to force a playoff with Relief — PAGE 7 Golf Week is Golf News 52 Weeks a Year To Advertise, call 427-2434 GolfWeekRochester.com Far View Golf Course • 2x3 • 102819 • JT Email: [email protected] Expositor-Ledger Newspapers Rochester Golf Week • The Jewish Ledger 2535 Brighton-Henrietta Town Line Road, Rochester, NY 14623 (585) 427-2468 • FAX (585) 427-8521 IMPORTANT… We want YOUR AD to be perfect… Your ad will run as it appears here unless we hear from you immediately. Please review this ad carefully. n Check spelling and punctuation n Check addresses and phone numbers, as well as e-mail addresses and web sites. n Check dates and times of all events listed. If there are any corrections, please call us immediately at 427-2468. Page 02 • Rochester GOLF WEEK • Friday,Monday, Date, January Year 13, 2020 TWO YEAR Local Golfers & Clubs Prepared for MEMBERSHIPS through end of 2021 season New World Handicap System ‘Cutover’ UNLIMITED GOLF The concept of one worldwide, consistency and integrity in every 3. Net Double Bogey will re- universal golf handicap system — number,” said a recent email place ESC Mon–Fri $329* one that any player in any country from the RDGA to its members. 4. You will have a more respon- Mon–Sun $429* can take with them to wherever “Between January 1-5 the sive Handicap Index updates SPACES LIMITED they play golf and have it applied USGA migrated all previous 5. Safeguards have been added SPECIAL ENDS FEBRUARY 1ST in just the same way they use it Handicap data to the new tech- to protect your handicap Visit farviewgc.com for application Oneor email Hip [email protected] Chic + at their home course — has been nology. 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