Lanny Wadkins News

JON M. FLETCHER/The Times-Union The stage glows green with shamrocks as Christy O'Connor of Ireland is inducted in the World Golf Hall of Fame in the Veterans category on Monday night.

CBSSports.com staffer Steve Elling and Augusta Chronicle sports writer and columnist Scott Michaux take a scattershot look at another unusually newsy week in the world of golf.

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Once asked why he continued to practice so hard after establishing himself as the world's best golfer, Ben Hogan matter-of-factly explained: "There's no reason why a man can't birdie every hole." That about sums it up.

When I go to the Masters to call the tournament for CBS, I feel a sense of mortality.

One man will enter the World Golf Hall of Fame Monday in St. Augustine. The other will present a new Hall member.

STEVE NESIUS/Associated PressWorld Golf Hall of Fame inductee Lanny Wadkins won 21 times on the PGA Tour.

In August, Mark Cubbedge, the chief artifact finder for the World Golf Hall of Fame, invaded the Dallas home of new inductee Lanny Wadkins to gather items to exhibit at the Hall.

Special displays recounting the careers of the 2009 World Golf Hall of Fame inductees will open Monday at World Golf Village.

With 14 majors, 71 career victories, the most recent FedEx Cup and a 10th Player of the Year title coming his way, Tiger Woods still considers his first victory, in the 1996 Las Vegas Invitational, one of his greatest accomplishments.

Recently inducted World Golf Hall of Famer Lanny Wadkins, a Dallas resident, is among several players with Texas ties who have committed to playing in next week's $1.7 million AT&T Championship at Oak Hills Country Club.

Presidents Cup Venue: Harding Park Golf Course, San Francisco Dates: 8-11 October Coverage: Reports on BBC Radio 5 live and on the BBC Sport website.

Tiger Woods and Steve Stricker were perfect as Presidents Cup partners, and they got enough help from everyone else Saturday to put the Americans in position to stay perfect on home soil.

The banter started during a pre-round media conference. Vinny Giles, Lanny Wadkins, Bobby Wadkins, Curtis Strange and Robert Wrenn, billed as Virginia's Legends of Golf for a Skins Game exhibition, gathered in the Peery Room at Independence Golf Club.

Harding Park is the site of the Presidents Cup this week. It's a municipal course in San Francisco that underwent extensive renovations several years back in order to host a WGC tournament.

Vinny Giles, who made a living as a sports representative, couldn't have given the Virginia Legends of Golf fundraiser today and tomorrow at Independence Golf Club a better boost than with his recent victory in the U.S. Senior Amateur.

Five of the best golfers in state history will take part in the Virginia Legends of Golf, a fund-raiser and skins-game exhibition Sunday and Monday at Independence Golf Club in Midlothian.

Jordan Spieth, the reigning U.S. Junior Amateur champion, said he began hoping more than a year ago that he'd be invited to be part of the U.S. team for the Spirit International Amateur Championship.

Chapman Herwood of Tyler will be taking part in the TylerPaper.com Tour Championship this weekend at Hollytree Country Club.

Lee Trevino can still draw the applause from appreciative fans. Trevino, 70, only plays occasionally on the Champions Tour but is playing this week at Rock Barn.