Professional Golfers Association

• Herbert C. Deesen, Appellant, v. the Professional Golfers' Association of America, an Unincorporated Association, Et Al., Appellees., 358 F.2d 165 (9th Cir. 1966)

Arthur H. Tibbits, San Francisco, Cal., Burt S. Hofmann, of Allen, Poggi & Hofmann, Oakland, Cal., for appellant. Thurman Arnold, John D. Hawke, Jr....

• Federal Circuits

• U.S. Women's Open Makes Good Internship for Uccs Students

The best way to learn how to do something right? Learn it firsthand. Four Colorado-Colorado Springs students will take advantage of their chance to work at The Broadmoor during the U.S. Women's Open to learn how the best in their future field - Professional Golfers' Association of America golf management professionals - run a major championship.

• Gazette, The; Colorado Springs, Colo.
• June 22, 2011

• Professional Golfers Association of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Bankers Life & Casualty Company, Defendant-Appellant., 514 F.2d 665 (5th Cir. 1975)

Alan Meltzer, Lake Park, Fla., William T. Kirby, Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellant. William J. Dunaj, Miami, Fla., Stephen M. Sacks, William D. ...

• Federal Circuits

• Photo Face-Off

[...] to obtain credentials for this year's college football bowl games, reporters had to sign a contract barring news organizations from selling photo reprints and saying they can use photographs of the game only for news coverage and reprints of news pages. In 1997, a federal appeals court in New York (2nd Cir.) overturned a lower court ruling that sports score reporting violated the National Basketball Association's right to control information, saying a company could offer a service that provides special pagers with updates of professional basketball scores. [...] a federal appellate court in Atlanta (11th Cir.) ruled in 2004 that the Professional Golfers' Association can force media companies to pay a licensing fee to sell real-time golf scores, legally backing press restrictions...

• News Media and the Law
• Vol. 31 Nbr. 2, April 2007

• Retaining current vs. attracting new golfers: practices among the Class A Carolinas Professional Golf Association membership.

Abstract: Golf rounds declined in the U.S. from 2001 to 2004. The southeast region of the country has started to show increases in golf rounds. A po...

• The Sport Journal
• Vol. 10 Nbr. 4, September 2007

• Greenbrier Braces for Golf Event: ; Resort Officials Estimate 200,000 People Will Swarm Tiny Resort Town for the Upcoming Pga Tournament

The Greenbrier Classic - the July 26 to Aug. 1 Professional Golfers' Association Tournament at The Greenbrier Resort - is expected to draw many of the world's top golfers, up to 100 media representatives and 200,000 spectators. All of this will unfold at the resort in White Sulphur Springs, population: 2,000.

• Charleston Daily Mail
• April 22, 2010

• Duke triples annual pay, returns to PGA tour.

Golf - Professional Golfers' Association - Ken Duke

• Arkansas Business
• March 19, 2007

• Tulsa Hospitality Sector Gears Up for Growth

By almost every yardstick, Tulsa's hospitality sector presents an image of strength. Fueled by last year's Professional Golfers Association Championship, the 13,000-room market enjoyed a 3-point increase in occupancies through the first 11 months of 2007, to 61 percent, while charting a record 10.6-percent jump in room rates.

• The Journal Record
• February 15, 2008

• Sponsors Step Up for Tournament: ; the Greenbrier Reports Brisk Sales for Next Summer's Professional Golf Event

More than half of the sponsorships for next summer's Greenbrier Classic golf tournament already have been spoken for, Tournament Director Tim McNeely said. The Professional Golfers' Association Tour event started with an inventory of sponsorships and tickets valued at about $24 million. "We've got 60 to 70 percent of our entire inventory of sponsorships committed to," McNeely said this week.

• Charleston Daily Mail
• December 31, 2009

• On Course: Lewiston Couple Volunteer for Pga Championship Playoff

For golf fans everywhere, the coveted place at a golf tournament is inside the ropes, that sacred territory where the mere mortals dare not tread. For Don and Diane Doyon of Lewiston, it is a place of honor and respect. For the past three years, the Doyons have volunteered as marshals at the Professional Golfers Association Deutsche Bank Championship Playoff at the TPC Boston in Norton, Mass. At this event, the top 100 PGA Tour golfers play in New England's "premier event.

• Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
• August 26, 2010