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News Release

For Immediate Release: August 8, 2002

 The Massachusetts Golf Association (MGA) today announced that Ryder Cup European Team Vice-Captain and former Masters Champion Ian Woosnam will hold a ForeKids clinic at the newly opened Hopkinton Country Club on Tuesday, August 13.

Woosnam, Hopkinton's Touring Professional, will be on location to provide golf tips and introduce the clinic participants to career opportunities in golf.

Schedule of Events:
8:00 AM - Shot Gun Start to Member-Guest tournament.
1:00PM -2:00PM - ForeKids Golf Clinic
2:00PM - 2:30PM - Check presentation to ForeKids Program

More About Woosnam:
In addition to being the European team's Vice-Captain for the 2002 Ryder Cup Matches in September, Woosnam has become the fifth all-time leading money winner on the European Tour since turning pro in 1976. He finished in the top twelve of the European Order of Merit for thirteen consecutive years (1982-1994), including a first-place ranking in 1987 and 1990. Woosnam is a former Masters Champion (1991) and 8-time European Ryder Cup team member. Most recently, he won the 2001 Cisco World Match Play Championship and finished third in the 2001 British Open.

More About the ForeKids Golf Program:
The MGA ForeKids Golf Clinics have been nationally recognized as one of golf's most successful programs in introducing urban children to the game. The clinics were first created back in 1993, by the MGA for Boston-area children. PGA Tour star Tiger Woods initially conducted a one-day instructional clinic for the children while he was here competing in the USGA Junior Amateur Championship at Wollaston Golf Club. Due to the clinics overwhelming success, the MGA expanded the clinic to a week-long experience.

Since 1994, the MGA has extended its reach to other cities including, Brockton, Lowell, Maynard, Springfield and Worcester. Each week-long clinic provides golf course facility access, lunch, junior sized equipment and expert instruction from New England PGA and Connecticut Section PGA professionals - all at no cost to the participants. Since the clinics' inception, over 12,000 children have been introduced to the game of golf.