Nick Watney was the nephew of a former PGA Tour pro, who coached him at Fresno State.
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In many ways the Champions Tour pro-ams can be even better, since they often contain more big names, have a more festive atmosphere, and are cheaper.
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Manning an equipment van at every event on every major pro tour costs big bucks.
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There are 12 Scots in the field, which includes the Scottish amateur champion Callum MacAulay in is his first year on the tour as a pro.
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He explained that he wasn't one of the best junior players, and that his parents weren't happy to hear that he wanted to pass up college for the pro tour.
Looking for his first victory on the Tour since turning pro in 2008, the 25-year-old Wood has the trio of compatriot Simon Khan, Swede Alexander and New Zealander Michael Campbell as his closest challengers going into Saturday's final round.
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TaylorMade has long been the number one driver on the pro tour and has constantly ratcheted up innovation, most memorably with the R Series, which introduced the adjustable face angle so that players could customize the clubs to suit their games in terms of hook and slice.
But to have a presence on the pro tour, and role models for its teenage hopefuls, the country has had to take a more aggressive approach: It has lured players like Shvedova away from their native countries with promises of coaches, training, travel expenses and even salaries and bonuses.
While he intends to focus on economics and math, he also has aspirations of joining the pro tennis tour.
She started her pro tennis tour in January 2003 and by the end of that year, she had moved into the world's top 100.
He also turned to motor racing, competing in the Paris to Dakar car rally, before he came out of retirement for one season only, winning the 1973 U.S. pro ski tour.
By contrast, Tour de France-caliber pro cyclists are subject to testing before, after and between races, regardless of if they ever win.
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You will swap the tube for the trail on the one-day Food Safari tour, led by foraging pro Nick Saltmarsh, one-time supplier to famous London restaurant Le Gavroche.
At 10:00 a.m. on a cool Monday morning I walk up to the tee of my first hole at the PGA Tour's Waste Management Phoenix Open pro-am.
At 10:00 a.m. on a cool Monday morning I walk up to the tee of my first hole at the PGA Tour's Waste Management Phoenix Open pro-am in Arizona.
But it's the first time I've missed the cut in a regular European Tour event since I've been a pro.
"Robert and I, going back and forth, we really enjoyed that, " Wilson told the PGA Tour's official website after winning the pro-am event formerly known as the Bob Hope Classic.
This weekend's event will be McIlroy's final major competition as an amateur before he turns pro and attempts to win a European Tour card later this year.
"People don't like change, but the fact is that you can get used to anything, " says league commissioner Ilana Kloss, a former pro who has played both on the tour and in the WTT.
This is the case of Zhou Xunshu, a 35-year-old pro golfer Washburn befriended during his first China Tour assignment, who grew up in a mountain village in the country's impoverished southwest.
So it's good for the game, and I think that she's not going to find the type of resentment that Tiger Woods got in his early years when he turned pro by some of the players on the tour.
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However, he can still boast one PGA Tour victory this season -- at the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am back in February.
Bruyneel, the team director for all seven of Armstrong's Tour de France victories, was a mid-level overachieving pro cyclist himself in the 1980s and 1990s.
Se Ri Pak of South Korea turned pro at 19, in 1996, and took the LPGA Tour by storm, winning 22 times.
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In an interesting twist last year, Jim Furyk was disqualified from the Barclays (the first event) after missing the pro-am event, but went on to win the TOUR Championship event and the FedEx Cup anyway.
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