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YOU ever notice how those who favor turning the Ala Wai Golf Course into a park are calling golfers selfish because they want to keep the popular facility the way it is. GOLF WATCH
Ala Wai golfers don’t
want to lose courseBut, come on. It is a golf course, isn't it? So why get on the case of golfers, who naturally want it to remain as such.
Nobody calls tennis players selfish for wanting to keep their courts at Kapiolani Park or Ala Moana Park.
Dog parks are starting to take up expensive real estate as well, but you don't see golfers complaining about it.
The city spent millions of dollars -- some of the money earmarked for improvements at the Ted Makalena Golf Course just up the road -- to build a beautiful soccer complex at the Waipio Peninsula.
Did golfers complain? Especially those who play at Makalena where the grass can hardly grow? Of course not. Even if the city can't maintain the course halfway decently.
All I know is that if the PGA Tour ever held a tournament at Makalena, they'd have to circle the entire golf course with a white chalk mark.
(For the edification of nongolfers, any ball within the circle entitles the golfer with a free drop because of repair).
TIGER WATCH: Tiger Woods has decided to give Hawaii golf fans a break by showing up a day earlier than planned for the $1 million PGA Grand Slam of Golf Nov. 21-22 at the Poipu Bay Resort Course on Kauai.
He'll now arrive in time to play in the pro-am Nov. 20 and participate in a news conference that same day. He changed his original plans, which were to arrive later that night from Thailand, where he'll be playing in the Johnnie Walker Classic.
Woods, who won three majors this year, will be joined by Masters champion Vijay Singh and alternates Paul Azinger and Tom Lehman. The latter is subbing for Ernie Els, who had to bypass the Grand Slam because of a scheduling conflict.
This year's format calls for 36 holes of stroke play. Woods won the last two Grand Slams when it was match play.
JOE'S IN, MAN: When Joe Inman won the SBC Senior Classic in Los Angeles last Sunday, he became only the fifth player in Senior PGA Tour history to win the same event three straight years. And it's the only senior tournament he has ever won.
Inman, however, bogeyed the fourth hole in the opening round to see his bogey-free streak end at 94 holes, three short of the senior tour record set by the late Jack Kiefer in 1994. Inman had finished second to Hale Irwin with a bogey-free tournament the week before in the 54-hole EMC Kaanapali Classic.
VIVE LA FRANCE: If the first-ever French Festival golf tournament is any indication, look for it to be a rousing success in future years.
The team of Frank Chow, Haagen Dazs' Don Kim and his son, Tommy, were the first-ever winners with a 12-under-par 60 in a three-person scramble format at the Ko Olina Golf Club yesterday.
It helped having the younger Kim on the team. He's the state's long-drive champion, who had drives of 366 and 361 yards in the recent World Long Drive Championship in Mesquite, Nev.
GOLF HAWAII PREMIERE: Mark Rolfing will host the premiere of the Golf Hawaii show on the Golf Channel Sunday at 12:30 p.m.
The half-hour television show will feature an interview with Fred Couples and a visit to the Princeville Resort on Kauai. Princeville head pro Larry Lee Jr. will discuss basic cart etiquette.
