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The event started out just to be a gathering of a dozen or so teams, getting together to remember Louisville Golf founder Elmore Just, but has turned into so much more. This year we have 33 teams, raising several thousand dollars for the Elmore Just Scholarship Fund at Bellarmine Universtiy. Elmore played golf there, with his brother Mike who is now the Louisville Golf president. His widow, Lawren Just, played basketball there, so did Marketing Director Josh Fischer. It is a cause dear to us all, and so is the day. We play hole number 7 in silence to honor Elmore, who is buried off the #7 green adjacent to the unique putting surface that was designer Art Hill’s favorite. We also have a hickory-shafted long nose driver long drive contest. Held at Persimmon Ridge, founded by Elmore and Jack Ridge, the tourney is attended by players from all over the country including Seattle, Michigan, Ohio and Minnesota. Billy Mac, from Seattle, sings and plays at the event every year. CLICK HERE to see more information, and check back with the Persimmon bLog to see highlights from this year’s event. E-mail tournament director Josh Fischer about the 2008 event: josh@louisvillegolf.com Elmore passed away in 2001 at the age of 53 of a heart attack after playing 18 holes of golf on Persimmon Ridge. This is the 6th annual memorial tournament.

The Masters have come and gone, and thanks to Masters.org, we barely missed a beat. This has to be the coolest website ever presented online, full of content and multimedia access. This access allowed us to see Amen Corner virtually all four days, and what we saw is that with these new drivers golfers are finding it hard to work the ball. Bobby Clampett alluded to this, that shaping a driver around #13, for a right handed player a draw, is becoming a displaced skill. Hitting the fairway is also evidently. Tiger Woods attributed his coming up short for his 5th Green Jacket not to the putts he missed on Sunday, but the fairways he missed on Saturday and Friday. Perhaps he should use the driver we made for him three years ago?

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We would just like to see it once - for one tournament, a player use Persimmon, and not with a steel shaft, a 44 inch graphite shaft, fit to the player’s game and launch. I think we would see better scores, because players would be hitting form the fairway more.