ECU Men's Pirate Golfers
Claim Booty after PZ Clinic
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Oct. 2005 GREENVILLE, N.C. - The East Carolina golfing duo of
Robin Smith and Chris Ault helped the Pirates claim their first
tournament title of the 2005 season at the Pirate
Fall Intercollegiate on Tuesday. The tournament was being
played at the par-72, 7,145-yard Bradford Creek Golf Course.
Smith
(Goldsboro, N.C.) and Ault (Levittown, Pa.) each posted tournament
scores of 211 and finished tied for first place. Fellow golfer
Andre Thorsen (Stavanger, Norway) finished tied for tenth with
a 54-hole score of 219, while Markus Leandersson (Hvalstad, Norway)
finished tied for 32nd and David Smith (Hamilton, Bermuda) finished
tied for 44th.
The Pirates (28-28-1) took the team title by nine strokes over
Campbell (874) and 13 over third place Charleston Southern (878).
"This was a big win for our team," said Assistant Coach Call Andren.
"Heading into the last tournament of the fall, our team is playing
well, especially Robin (Smith) and Chris (Ault)."
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Pirate
Head Coach Kevin Williams had Geoff Mangum present day-long clinics
to the men's and women's teams at the end of August 2005.
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Geoff
Mangum is widely recognized as the most knowledgeable and effective
putting coach in golf for professional players and elite amateurs.
His popular website, The PuttingZone.com, attracts over 75,000
visits monthly from golf's top players and industry insiders and
is the top-ranked website in the world for putting. His first
PGA Tour student, Shaun Micheel, went from 160th in putting on
Tour to winning the 2003 PGA Championship on the strength of his
putting within two months of working with Mangum. His first developmental
tour pro, Blake Adams, fired a personal-best, course-record, event-record,
tour-record 62 the very next morning after a lesson with Geoff
and won his event running away from the field. Veteran golf instructors
have hailed him as a genius in golf instruction who knows more
about putting than anyone on the planet.
In
the US, Mangum operates his elite putting academy at Country Club
of Whispering Pines in the Pinehurst area and teaches lessons
and clinics in Pinehurst (at Whispering Pines and at Foxfire Resort),
Asheboro (Tot Hill Farm GC), Hickory (Hampton Heights GC), Charlotte
(Renaissance Park GC), Burlington / Graham (The Challenge GC),
Greensboro (Bryan Park), and outside Winston-Salem in Wallburg
(Meadowlands GC). He also travels extensively within the US. His
International PuttingZone Academies are now opening in Europe,
with the first two in Yorkshire, England, and in Hamburg, Germany.
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For
more information, visit Geoff Mangum's PuttingZone.com, http://puttingzone.com,
email him at geoff@puttingzone.com,
or call him directly at 336.340.9079.
Golf's most advanced
and comprehensive putting instruction.
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