Wins pits Begay against Monty in World Match Play
Next up for Notah Begay III: A match with the most feared match-play player in the world Colin Montgomerie. "If you want to take on the biggest challenge you could, he's pretty much it," said Begay today after defeating a flu-stricken Jose Maria Olazabal 4 and 3 in the first round of the World Match Play in Wentworth, England. "(Montgomerie's) been the leading money winner in Europe the last six years, and his Ryder Cup record is...
Match play not for the timid Golfers can psyche out foes as well as outplay them in risky format
SPRINGFIELD, N.J. -- Match play is a mind game, a chess match on grass, a clash of psyches. ''Anybody can beat anybody,'' match-play master Tiger Woods says. ''That's the problem with match play. Then again, that's the beauty of it.'' As an amateur, Woods won three consecutive U.S. Junior Amateur and three consecutive U.S. Amateur championships -- each time coming from...
CROSS MATCH RIDES SECURITY BOOM
A decade ago, Palm Beach resident Ted Johnson founded Cross Match Technologies Inc. and began grooming it for the day when taking it public made sense.The transition toward an initial public offering has been accelerated by Cross Match's recent acquisition of German-based Smiths Heimann Biometrics in a stock deal for an undisclosed amount. Cross Match of Palm Beach Gardens is about twice the size of its European rival, and both companies compete in the securities biometrics...
A break with tradition
Competition points system replaces 30-match limit for wrestlers, gains favor with coaches
Coaches generally like a rule change that allows them to predetermine the number of matches their wrestlers may compete in during the season. Out is the traditional 30-match limit and in is a competition-points system. "I love it," Cañon City coach Duff Seaney said. "It's the smartest thing we've done." Under the old system, wrestlers could compete in no more than 30 matches heading into regionals,...
FLAME SLOWLY FIZZLING FOR WOOD MATCH
Here's a burning question: Is the common wooden match about to go the way of the buggy whip?The advent of the disposable lighter, the anti-smoking craze and new technologies such as gas ranges with electronic ignition have decimated the match industry during the past 20 years. Whereas there once were 15 to 20 major U.S. wooden match companies manufacturing billions of lights, there is now only one. Diamond Brands Inc., Cloquet, Minn., is the lone remaining U.S. manufacturer of...
