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    Lots of things happening on Amelia Island with every course situation in some form of turmoil:

    • The city is preparing to dump the golf course and has Request For Proposals out. They previously leased the marina to a private company and we hear the airport is next. Jacksonville Beach architect Bobby Weed appears to be the frontrunner but pro Scott Womble also is bidding.

    • Amelia River, originally built as Royal Amelia, had been run by the Amelia Island Plantation ownership group but they put it back on the Bank of South Carolina. Now, Davis Love’s organization is running it, and it’s strictly a public course. Good move: retaining pro Barry Richardson.

    • The Plantation sale is getting close and the next big date is August 23, when the court has an auction. The probable buyer — pending an agreement with the property owners’ association — is an Atlanta-based company. There hasn’t been much positive news on the island golf scene for some time but residents see some light now.

    • Long Point will be managed by The Heritage Group, a California company that owns and operates courses, mostly in the Southeast.

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Murray makes USGA team

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Tommy Murray of Orange Park will be on the 3-man team that will represent Florida in the 8th USGA Men’s State Team Championship to be held at The Country Club of St. Albans in St. Albans, Missouri on September 23-25.

Murray, the Florida Open champion, will be joined by Tim Hume of Tampa and David Johnson of palm Bay.

Murray is currently ranked first on the Two-Year Points List and first on the 2009 Player-of-the-Year Points. Murray qualified for the 2009 United States Public Links Championship and recently advanced to the quarterfinals of the 2009 FSGA Amateur Match Play and finished second in the FSGA Public Links Championship.

The USGA State Team Championship began in 1995 to celebrate the USGA’s Centennial celebration.

It was such a success that the USGA now conducts the event every two years.

Fifty-two teams, from all 50 states and Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, are invited to send three non-college amateur players and can choose their teams by any method.

Teams compete in three, 18-hole stroke play rounds; the two lowest scores by players from each team constitute the team score for each round. The 54-hole total is the team’s score for the championship.

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