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In the News (Thu 16 Feb 12)

  
  Australian Von Nida dies at age 93 - Boston.com
Norman Von Nida, one of Australia's pioneer professional golfers, died on Sunday aged 93, Australian media reported.
Von Nida had been ill for some time and passed away peacefully at a nursing home, his family told Australian Associated Press.
Von Nida also forged a successful career as a coach, guiding the likes of five-times British Open winner Peter Thomson and influencing former world number one Greg Norman.
www.boston.com /sports/golf/articles/2007/05/20/australian_von_nida_dies_at_age_93   (333 words)

  
 Open fiasco humiliated Australian golf: Shark - theage.com.au   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Norman pointed out it was not the first time an Open had been marred by controversy over the course, having been at the heart of the 1987 Royal Melbourne farce when the players walked off over the state of one putting green.
The new tour will be known as the Von Nida Tour in honour of the octogenarian elder statesman of Australian golf, Norman Von Nida, winner of three Australian Opens and four Australian PGA championships in the 1940s and 1950s.
Von Nida said he was honoured by the decision to use his name.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/11/26/1038274303934.html   (569 words)

  
 News | Norman Von Nida: 1914-2007 | iseekgolf.com
Von Nida took him up on the offer and after borrowing his stake from a friend, went on to beat the champ and began to realise what great potential he had.
Von Nida started to play professional tournaments in New South Wales as it was where the money and the competition was in that particular era of Australian golf.
The Von Nida Tour was implemented to provide an important ‘athlete pathway’ for players to gain experience and competition to prepare them for their careers as professional golfers.
www.iseekgolf.com /news/6173-norman-von-nida-1914-2007   (1095 words)

  
 MGA Online
Norman uses all these great players' swings as examples when persuading youngsters to utilise their natural talents to develop their natural swings, which he feels will help them to endure pressure during a tournament.
Norman believes that one cannot design a golf course unless he walks the terrain, analyses and assesses it, and utilises all the natural landscape.
Norman Von Nida has certainly proved by his achievements that he is a legend among the world's great golfers.
www.mgaonline.com.my /articledetail.asp?id=1055   (1833 words)

  
 Von Nida awarded PGA life membership - Breaking News - Sport - Breaking News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The Von, as he is affectionately known, turns 92 in February next year and although he is now legally blind he still plays golf using iridescent yellow paint on top of his clubs and iridescent yellow balls.
Norman Von Nida won the Australian Open three times and was runner up six times between 1938 and 1955.
Von Nida also won four Australian PGA Championships amongst more than 80 victories in Australia and worldwide and in 1948 he won seven tournaments on the European Tour and five in Australia, a feat never equaled.
www.theage.com.au /news/Sport/Von-Nida-awarded-PGA-life-membership/2005/12/22/1135032125035.html   (444 words)

  
 Golf icon Norman Von Nida dies aged 93 - Breaking News - Sport - Breaking News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The Von, as he was affectionately known, had been suffering ill health of late, especially over the last two months, and he passed away peacefully with family members present.
Von Nida was born in Sydney and grew up in Brisbane, turning professional in 1933, after attracting attention by winning the Queensland Amateur at the age of 18.
Von Nida was presented with a life membership of the Australasian PGA Tour in December 2005 and Australia's second-tier circuit for up and coming players is named in his honour.
www.theage.com.au /news/Sport/Golf-icon-Norman-Von-Nida-dies-aged-93/2007/05/20/1179601235225.html   (328 words)

  
 Australian PGA Honors Norman
It was approved by unanimous acclamation and puts Norman in company with legendary players such as Peter Thomson, Kel Nagle and Norman Von Nida.
Norman, 50, was last week voted Australia's golfer of the century in a poll of PGA members.
Norman spoke of his pride in being a member of the Australian PGA and paid tribute to his first coach.
www.shark.com /sharkwatch/news/120105.php   (389 words)

  
 Australian golf great Norman Von Nida dies at age 93 - USATODAY.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
"The Von," as he was known to his friends, family and those in the golfing fraternity, had been suffering from ill health the past two months and died at a Gold Coast nursing home, his family said.
Von Nida was renowned for his short temper.
Von Nida is survived by his daughter, Keiri, her husband and four grandchildren.
www.usatoday.com /sports/golf/2007-05-20-3149113599_x.htm   (232 words)

  
 NameTraq | Last Name: Nida   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
After being rejected by NIDA in her teens - "I didn't even get a call back, but I think my audition was probably crap" - she enjoyed a spark of recognition in...
It was an empty niche in the town's cultural ecology; NIDA's Parade was scarcely a gleam.
NIDA was embroiled in controversy earlier this year after the plug was pulled on a playwrighting competition.
www.nametraq.org /Jan04/N/Nida.shtml   (1285 words)

  
 Von Nida offers advice to up-and-coming Baddeley - PGATOUR.COM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Von Nida, who is legally blind and plays with the aid of fluorescent clubs and balls, favourably compared Baddeley with
Von Nida now relies on his acute sense of sound to iron out players' problems.
Von Nida won three Australian Open titles in the 1950s as well as 16 tournaments in Europe.
www.pgatour.com /u/ce/multi/0,1977,3543661,00.html   (469 words)

  
 Australasian PGA Tour schedule - latest news   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Late last week the legendary Australian golfer Norman Von Nida urged Baddeley to stop listening to the people around him, to dump David Leadbetter as coach and to trust his own swing.
Von Nida fears that too many people, including Baddeley's parents, are telling the 20 year-old Victorian what to do.
Von Nida, who predicted big things for Baddeley after watching him as a 17-year-old at Jack Newton's pro-am, said he was a very, very good player.
www.ausgolf.com.au /pgatour4.htm   (620 words)

  
 News | Norman Von Nida turns 90 | iseekgolf.com
Norman Von Nida who blazed the trail for Australian golfers internationally when he left by boat for Britain in 1946, turned 90 on Saturday February 14th.
Norman moved from his Scarborough home of many years two months ago in order to settle in accommodation more in keeping with his current needs.
Von Nida not only headed the trail of Australians to follow him to Europe but he also traveled to the Philippines in 1938 where he won the Philippines Islands Open and repeated the dose the next year.
www.iseekgolf.com /news/1970-norman-von-nida-turns-90   (424 words)

  
 PGA PGA, Greg Norman, Golf - CBS SportsLine.com
On Monday, 88-year-old Norman von Nida, who won the title a record seven times between 1935 and 1961, was struck by a car while crossing a road near his home at Scarborough, north of Brisbane.
Von Nida, who is blind, was at first given little chance of survival, but his friend and veteran Royal
Von Nida, patron of the Australian Golf Writers Association, sent a message that he would attend the AGWA annual dinner at Victoria Golf Club during the Australia Open in Melbourne later this month.
www.sportsline.com /golf/story/5859869   (874 words)

  
 MGA Online
Von Nida was club professional at the Royal Selangor Golf Club from May 1976 to September 1979 and during this time he coached the Malaysian team to victory in two Putra Cups and almost to victory in the Asian Amateur Team Championship at Kuala Lumpur in 1977.
In his prime Von Nida captured three Australian Opens (1950-1952 1953), four Australian P.G.A. titles and dominated the British golf circuit in the late forties and early fifties.
Von Nida is a good friend of MGA President, Tommy Lee and it was a phone call from Tommy Lee to him which resulted in the Von's most welcome return.
www.mgaonline.com.my /articledetail.asp?id=1010   (220 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The great Norman Von Nida will be attending the Centenary Australian Open pending approval from his Doctor.
Von Nida's record is imposing winning in 1950, '51 and '53 and finishing second on six occasions.
The 90-year-old legend, known worldwide as "The Von", was a trailblazer for Australian golf during the middle of last century.
www.australianopengolf.com /Content.aspx?ID=568   (853 words)

  
 NIDA - A Summary of Peripheral Blockers as Treatments for Substance Abuse and Dependence
Charles R. Schuster, former Director of NIDA and now at Wayne State University School of Medicine, delivered an introductory lecture in which he reviewed his work in developing an efficacious vaccine against heroin in the 1970's.
Andrew Norman has produced a monoclonal antibody that abolished cocaine self-administration at low unit doses and dose-dependently increased the unit-dose of cocaine required to initiate self-administration.
The potential for any of the blockers presented at this meeting to be overcome by the administration of large quantities of abused drugs was vigorously discussed.
www.nida.nih.gov /MeetSum/Peripheral/peripheral.html   (2011 words)

  
 World Golf News - 2004 Von Nida Tour resumes
In just its second year, the Von Nida Tour has proven to be an important vehicle in the growth of young golfers, by giving them the opportunity to gain experience and opportunities to play against the top players and ultimately move up into the elite ranks of the PGA Tour.
He won the Greg Norman Holden International in February of 2000, but the confidence, experience and tournament preparation he was afforded as a result of his two Queensland PGA wins in those years, played a key role in eventually winning the co-sanctioned event in Sydney.
The final event on the Von Nida Tour is the NSW Open, to be held at the Liverpool Golf Club from November 18-21.
www.worldgolf.com /newswire/browse/617-2--4-Von-Nida-Tour-resumes   (1465 words)

  
 World Golf News - Bowditch, Senior headline Victorian PGA Championship
The Victorian PGA Championship is the second Von Nida Tour event on the 2005 Australasian Tour calendar, with the Victorian Open, won by NSW Kurt Barnes, the first event that was played back in January.
The Von Nida Tour is a joint initiative between the Australian PGA and the Australasian PGA Tour to provide an important "athlete pathway" for members of both organisations to gain much needed experience and competition to prepare them for their careers as professional golfers.
The structure of the Von Nida Tour will guarantee that a player has every chance to progress through each stage of his development to the ultimate goal of playing in the elite events that make up the Australasian Tour.
www.worldgolf.com /newswire/browse/1721-bowditch--senior-headline-victorian-pga-championship   (705 words)

  
 norman
Norman, playing his first 72-hole tournament since coming back from shoulder surgery, shot a 10-over-par 82 yesterday while Couples, who clinched the trophy for the United States in a win over Vijay Singh in the last Presidents Cup two years ago, shot a second consecutive 76.
Norman and Couples, who will both play at Royal Melbourne in the Presidents Cup starting next week, finished with two-round totals of 152 -- right on the eight-over cut.
Norman said his shoulder did not bother him.
www.dispatch.co.za /1998/12/05/sport/NORMAN.HTM   (328 words)

  
 SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On National Institute on Drug Abuse
Nida Qureshi was selected from 1,500 nominations to become a member of the "All USA Academic First Team." She was one of 20 students honored and pictured recently in USA Today...
Nida Qureshi proclaimed in her closing remarks, "Education is not a preparation for life.
Nida Samona, chairwoman of the Michigan Liquor Control Commission, told the Associated Press on Monday that she intends to urge lawmakers to do just that, despite potential harm to the more than 40 Michigan wineries.
news.surfwax.com /gov/files/National_Institute_on_Drug_Abuse.html   (4552 words)

  
 Greg Norman Articles Archive from 4NEWZ.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
NEWS: Greg Norman is emerging as the leading candidate to captain the Internationals at the 2005 Presidents Cup in Virginia.
Greg Norman bestrode Australian golf for 15 years, but it is only now that the people who run the game in this country have truly grasped what he meant to them...
Phillips was, of course, referring to Greg Norman who has not played the open since 2000 but has continued to support the Australian PGA and Heineken Classic...
www.4newz.net /sports/Greg_Norman.html   (6268 words)

  
 Star search: Look no further than von Nida - PGATOUR.COM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
As the club's No. 1 caddie, von Nida was entitled to carry for Hagen but he was hardly taller than the bag and did not think the visiting American star would be impressed.
He handed in a card for 69, but von Nida later saw his name on the leaderboard with a 68 and queried it with the scorer.
Although his playing career is in the distant past, the Von is very much attuned to the present, playing once a week with clubs painted in florescent colors that show the ball in contrast at address, and keeping track of events large and small in golf around the world.
www.golfweb.com /u/ce/multi/0,1977,3112722,00.html   (1486 words)

  
 Moe and Von: A tribute to two great unknowns - PGATOUR.COM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
A flamboyantly dressed, 5-foot-5 wisp of a man, history is in danger of forgetting Australia’s Norman Von Nida, who dominated golf in his native land in the years following the Second World War and proved a formidable opponent to some of the game’s elite players.
After Von Nida’s competitive streak began to wane in the early 1950s, and long before another Australian named Greg arrived on the scene, there was another Norman, one whose ball-striking abilities might have made him an international superstar had fate only dealt him a better hand of cards.
So badly chewed up were his hands that a broken-hearted Norman was forced to withdraw halfway through the third round under the disapproving glares of his fellow players.
www.golfweb.com /u/ce/multi/0,1977,2339411,00.html   (1372 words)

  
 OPENGOLF - History - Past Opens
Daly had a poor third round, ending with a score of 78, which allowed the rest of the field to catch up.
He was the joint leader, along with Arthur Lees, Norman Von Nida and Henry Cotton on 221.
The American amateur, Frank Stranahan, was a single shot behind, whilst Reg Horne, Reg Whitcombe, Ayton and Alf Perry were two shots back and another four players were three strokes off the pace.
www.opengolf.com /history/past_opens.sps?PartNo=76   (434 words)

  
 The Virtual FormGuide - Barnes Photography - Kingston Town - Profile of the Cox Plate King - 27/10/02
There he met Norman von Nida who had an interest in racing and bloodlines.
The foal was Kingston Bid who went on to win 8 races and this encouraged David Hains to invest further into the industry.
Norman von Nida was a fan of Frederico Tesio who is best known for breeding Nearco and Ribot.
www.virtualformguide.com /cgi-bin/tvf/displaynewsitem.pl?20021027ktown1.txt   (664 words)

  
 AugustaSports.Com: The Augusta Chronicle's Sports Coverage: Gow leads while Norman, Couples fall back 12/05/98
English golfer Nick Faldo in center talks with Australian golfing legend, 84-year-old Norman Von Nida at the Australian Open Golf Championship at Adelaide, Friday, Dec. 4, 1998.
Von Nida gave Faldo a lesson after his first round of 77 and following the lesson had a 69 in his second round.
Greg Norman, playing his first 72-hole tournament since coming back from shoulder surgery, shot a 10-over-par 82 while Couples shot his second consecutive 76.
augustasports.com /stories/120598/oth_124-1220.shtml   (315 words)

  
 About Us
The Von Nida Tour is a joint initiative between the PGA TOUR and the PGA of Australia.
The Von Nida Tour is a series of four round stroke-play events played for a minimum prize money of $100,000 under PGA TOUR tournament conditions.
Norman was inducted as a Life Member of the PGA TOUR in 2005.
www.pgatour.com.au /default.asp?s=aboutus   (1900 words)

  
 GN Online: It was like playing at midnight: Els
The Australian star who turned professional in 1992 is a protege of Norman Von Nida.
In 1947 Norman Von Nida had set up a record with seven victories on the European Tour.
However, Green's role model is Greg Norman, whom he watched as a youth.
www.gulf-news.com /Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=43584   (649 words)

  
 - Golf - Sport - smh.com.au   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Golfing icon Greg Norman has agreed to a $US100-million ($A118.2 million) divorce settlement with wife Laura.
The new father has learnt from his parents, writes Dave Anderson.
Greg Norman will tomorrow launch the development of the first golf course he has designed in South Australia, the state where he won his first professional tournament in 1976.
www.smh.com.au /sport/golf/index.html   (682 words)

  
 Craig Parry Articles Archive from 4NEWZ.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Norman is well aware of the void he has left.
Open trophy boasts names like Norman von Nida, Jim Ferrier, Kel Nagle, Frank Phillips, Peter Thomson, Ted Ball, Greg Norman, Ian Baker-Finch and Craig Parry as...
Norman would go on to capture six crowns, Craig Parry has three while defending champion Peter Lonard, Peter Senior and Bradley Hughes have two each.
www.4newz.net /sports/Craig_Parry.html   (1626 words)

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