Calcavecchia to be fined
NZPA-AAP Sydney The British Open golf champion, Mark Calcavecchia, will be fined at least sAustlooo for withdrawing from this week’s sAustl million Johnnie Walker Classic at Royal Melbourne, the P.G.A. tour operations manager, Graeme Nightingale, said yesterday. Calcavecchia told tournament organisers on Monday morning that he intended to return home to the United
States — less than three days before the start of the Classic. Mr Nightingale said Calcavecchia had a deadline of 5 p.m. last Friday to pull out of the tournament or be fined for a breach of contract by the P.G.A. tour operations. “It is a clear case of a breach of the P.G.A. laws and he will be fined accordingly,” he said. “A player of his stature cannot be allowed to renege..
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Press, 6 December 1989, Page 84
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