Chip Beck News

We know it's difficult to find time to practice during the week. When a Saturday or Sunday tee time rolls around, you're hoping to find some spark or productive swing thought that will help you break 100, 90, 80 or whatever your scoring goal may be.

Oct. 11 1890 - The first 100-yard dash under 10 seconds is run by John Owens at 9.8 in an AAU track and field meet in Washington.

Matthew Stang, of White Bear Lake, Minn., has been named recipient of the 2009 PGA of America Chip Beck Evans Scholarship.

Former Georgia all-American Chip Beck, a three-time participant in the Ryder Cup, will serve as the honorary chairman of the Athens Classic at UGA next year.

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il has been prominent in the news this week because former President Clinton went to Pyongyang to arrange for the release of two American reporters that were captured on their border and sentenced to 12 years in a labor camp.

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il has been prominent in the news this week because former President Clinton went to Pyongyang to arrange for the release of two American reporters that were captured on their border and sentenced to 12 years in a labor camp.

The golf course for this week's U.S. Senior Open, Crooked Stick in Carmel, Ind., is best known as the site of John Daly's 1991 PGA Championship.

Tom Watson celebrates after sinking a birdie putt on the 18th hole during the second round of the British Open.

Let's adopt Tom Watson as a native son. That would be legal even if he's 2 months short of his 60th birthday, right? Seriously, with Watson threatening to win another British Open this afternoon, it's as good a time as any to at least proclaim him an honorary Chicagoan.

Zach Johnson holds his own place in PGA Tour history. "I feel very lucky, I guess," Johnson said.

That special number, every golfer's elusive dream, worked its way into Steve Stricker's brain Saturday at the John Deere Classic "Twice," Stricker admitted.

THIS morning, Easter Sunday, Bernhard Langer will be attending church. Same as last year.

Kenny Perry shot a course record-equalling 61 at TPC River Highlands to take the lead in the Travelers Championship at the end of the first round in Connecticut last night.

Pamela Friedman of Palm Desert aced the 104-yard par-3 sixth hole at Desert Falls Country Club in Palm Desert on May 21.

June 15 1901 - Willie Anderson edges Alex Smith by one stroke in a playoff to take the U.S. Open.

Chip Beck walked to the green to mark his ball. Then he heard yelling. One of his pro-am partners lay on the concrete cart path from the tee of the seventh hole to the bridge across Hurst Creek.