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Golf Channel
to televise skins game
featuring WieShe will be joined
by Daly, Kuehne and LPGA
Hall of Fame member Nancy Lopez
The Golf Channel will televise an exhibition featuring 13-year-old Michelle Wie, former PGA champion John Daly and LPGA Hall of Famer Nancy Lopez on Sept. 15 in Boise, Idaho.
Wie and Daly will compete against the team of PGA Tour golfer Hank Kuehne and Lopez in a "skins game" three days before the start of the Nationwide Tour's Boise Open.
The exhibition will feature two of the longest drivers on the men's tour and Wie, whose 281-yard driving average led the field at the U.S. Women's Open this month.
Daly, who won the 1991 PGA Championship and 1995 British Open, has led the U.S. PGA Tour in driving distance the past eight years.
This year, he trails Kuehne's 318-yard driving average by eight yards.
Comcast Corp.'s Golf Channel will show the exhibition from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Eastern time, promoter Jeff Sanders said in a press release.
The cable network also will televise the Boise Open, an event on the second-tier men's tour.
Proceeds from the skins game, where teams compete for money on each hole, will be donated to the golf programs at Boise State University and the University of Idaho.
Sorenstam has a goal: For someone who is so good at her game that she has even played against the top men in golf, Annika Sorenstam hasn't much else to achieve.
She has won 25 tournaments in three years, including three majors and made the cut at the Colonial tournament in May.
So what else is in the Swede's sights?
How about completing a career Grand Slam at the Women's British Open on Sunday?
"I'll do anything for it to happen, I would love for it to happen," Sorenstam said yesterday. "But I can't force it."
Major Watson: Tom Watson has a chance to set a record by playing the most majors in one year -- nine.
Watson received an invitation to play in the PGA Championship. He already has played in the Masters (missed cut), U.S. Open (T28) and British Open (T18).
He will play in five majors on the Champions Tour this year.
Better with age: Jim Colbert and Jim Fleck did something that not even Tiger Woods has.
Colbert shot his age in the second round of the Senior British Open at Turnberry, a 62 that also tied the lowest score for a senior major.
Fleck shot his age -- 81 -- in the first round at Turnberry.
The Bloomberg News and Associated Press contributed to this report
