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Week of August 29Th NATIONWIDE TOUR STORYLINES – Week of August 29th MYLAN CLASSIC Sept. 1-4 Southpointe Country Club, Canonsburg (Pittsburgh), Pa. Purse: $600,000 First Prize: $108,000 2010 Champion: Kevin Kisner 156 players 19 th of 26 events Golf Channel will televise all four rounds ONE WEEK HIATUS – Thanks to a T8 finish in the News Sentinel Open presented by Pilot in Knoxville on Sunday, Aussie Mathew Goggin has returned to the top spot on the Nationwide Tour money list, which he relinquished to J.J. Killeen just last week after holding it down the previous 13 weeks. Goggin’s lead over Killeen is now $6,345. “JUICES FLOWING” – After his victory on Sunday, News Sentinel Open champion Kirk Triplett reflected on the competition in Knoxville: “I’ve played a lot of years on the PGA TOUR….but feeling those competitive juices down the stretch and seeing all these great young players made me feel a lot younger. The quality of these golfers over the last 15-20 years has gotten better and better and the game is in great hands.” Triplett is eligible for the Champions Tour March 29 th of next year. RINGING ENDORSEMENT – While discussing the contributions of the Nationwide Tour to the golf landscape with co-host Erik Kuselias during Golf Channel’s “Morning Drive” last Tuesday, Gary Williams made the following observation: “I absolutely believe it is one of the great decisions that was ever made. A lot of people didn’t think this thing (Nationwide Tour) could work. Deane Beman made it happen and Ben was right there in the beginning. He wanted his name associated with it… It is one of the greatest things that has happened to American golf in the last 50 years.” ARNIE ENCORE – Western Pennsylvania’s Arnold Palmer returns as honorary chairman of the 2nd Mylan Classic. Sam Saunders is in the field as was the case last year when Mr. Palmer went out to Southpointe Country Club on Friday afternoon to watch his grandson play. ROCCO MEDIATE AND JOHN DALY IN MYLAN FIELD – Two fan favorites, Rocco Mediate and John Daly , are among the 156 players entered in the Mylan Classic. Mediate is from nearby Greensburg, Pa. Last year, he was on the leader board after opening with 67-69. A third-round 78 derailed his run, which ended in a T32 finish. Daly is coming off a T32 finish himself in last week’s News Sentinel Open. The pair will conduct a nine-hole exhibition on Tuesday. MYLAN CLASSIC BUILDING ON FIRST-YEAR SUCCESS – The Mylan Classic got underway on Monday with the Taggart Global Celebrity Pro-Am. It featured an impressive roster of prominent Pittsburgh sports personalities, including former Steelers Robin Cole, L.C. Greenwood and Merrill Hoge , former Pirate stars Bill Mazeroski and Kent Tekulve , Penguins head coach Dan Bylsma and the Pen’s greatest player ever, Mario Lemieux. The Classic, which made a very successful debut last year, has a full slate of clinics, concerts and other activities planned throughout the week for golf fans and families alike. The Mylan Classic’s “TICKETS Fore CHARITY™ presented by ANSYS” program has seen a 76% increase in tickets sold this year - up from $234,000 last year to $411,000 this year – with one week to go. STEVE WHEATCROFT / FAMILIAR TURF – Steve Wheatcroft returns to Southpointe Country Club a Nationwide Tour winner this year, having captured the Melwood Prince George’s County (Md.) Open in record-breaking fashion in June (29-under-par 255 winning score and 12-shot victory). Wheatcroft was once a member of the Southpointe golf staff. He finished T3 in last year’s inaugural Mylan Classic. Currently ninth on the money list, the native of nearby Indiana, Pa. is seeking a return to the PGA TOUR where he played full time in 2007 and 2010. MARTIN FLORES / RISING IN THE RANKS – Former University of Oklahoma Sooner Martin Flores has quietly played his way into the 14 th spot on the money list. On Sunday in Knoxville, he posted his third top-seven finish (T5) of the summer to improve six spots. After a slow start to the year, the Forth Worth, Texas native has eight top-30 finishes in his last ten starts and hovered between 24 th and now 14 th in earnings. Flores and Anthony Kim were teammates at OU. “GETAWAY” PROMOTION ENTERS 5 th WEEK – Golf Channel’s “Nationwide Tour Hawaii Getaway” promotion enters its fifth week. One person will win a trip for two to the 2012 Sony Open in Hawaii where the Nationwide Tour class of 2011 will make its 2012 PGA TOUR debut. Fans may enter online by answering player trivia questions at www.golfchannel.com/the25trivia . DID YOU KNOW? – There has been just one playoff on the Nationwide Tour this year. The fewest playoffs in a single season came in 1997 when there were two. Last year there were five. The most playoffs in any one season was 13 in 1995. BIRTHDAY BOYS – For the first time all year, there are no player birthdays to celebrate this week. NEXT WEEK – The Tour is in the midst of a run of 15 tournaments in 16 weeks, leading to the conclusion of the 2011 season at Daniel Island in Charleston, South Carolina. Next week (Sept. 5-11) is the lone idle week during this stretch. # # # James Cramer Jeff Adams Joe Chemycz Adam Wallace 904-273-3293 904-273-3397 904-273-3305 904-543-7405 For the latest information, scores and updates on the Nationwide Tour visit www.pgatourmedia.com Media and fans can also follow the Tour on Twitter (http://twitter.com/nationwidetour ) and Facebook (www.Facebook.com/NationwideTour) .
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