PGATOUR.COM: San Mateo native Allen adds to Harding history with 61

By Art Spander
Special to PGATOUR.com

SAN FRANCISCO -- The gods of sport can be whimsical, especially in golf. Strange things happen on a course. Wonderful things happen. As Bobby Jones wrote, we become the dogged victims of an inexorable fate. And isn't that part of challenge?

Michael Allen left TPC Harding Park on Friday afternoon after a double bogey on the final hole, the sort of finish which might stay with a man.

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PGATOUR.com: Cook channels TPC Harding Park spirit in fine first round

By Art Spander
Special to PGATOUR.com

SAN FRANCISCO -- If there is a mystical quality to TPC Harding Park, that historic muni so much a part of San Francisco golfing history, John Cook understands. The man who mentored him in the game grew up playing here.

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SF Examiner: Homegrown Allen has game on track

By Art Spander
Special to The Examiner

SAN FRANCISCO — He has come home, if not a hero, then a success. For Michael Allen, there are old friends and old memories and a new perspective. His is potential finally realized.

Allen shot a 2-under-par 69 Thursday at the Schwab Cup Championship at Harding Park, putting him roughly in the middle of the most elite field in senior golf, and five shots back of John Cook.

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SF Examiner: Couples caught up in Giants fever

By Art Spander
Special to The Examiner

He’s a Dodger fan. Or was, because in truth Fred Couples was a Joe Torre fan, and for three years, Torre managed the Dodgers. But most of all, Couples is a baseball fan, a sports fan, and like so many others, he was mesmerized by the Giants.

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