Welcome to Sawgrass

Just arrived at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., which hosts The Players Championship for the PGA Tour at the Players Stadium Course and thought I’d make my blog debut ... and see if I could break the hyperlink button.

We put out a news release last week about this being Sawgrass GCSAA Class A superintendent Fred Klauk's last dance, since he's retiring after this. It includes links to the Tour’s release about his retirement, Terry Ostmeyer’s Inside Your Game feature about Klauk in this month’s GCM, and Garry Smits’ column from the Florida Times-Union about Klauk. It was picked up by World Golf News, Golf Business Wire, Cybergolf, Bunkershot, GCM NewsWeekly and GCSAA’s member-only newsletter This Week. Maggie Fitzroy from the Florida Times-Union wrote about Klauk’s preparations for the event and about his retirement plans. Smits wrote a follow-up column over the weekend on Klauk’s career and featured him again in yesterday’s tournament notes. PGATour.com posted a Q&A with Klauk and mentioned him in tournament preview stories “The Players from A-to-Z” and Dave Shedloski’s weekly “Insider” column as well.

He did a live interview Monday night with Ian Davies of “The Leaderboard” on ESPN Radio 1080 Orlando and 1060 The Space Coast, and he did another live one with Peter Kessler of “Making the Turn” on XM Satellite Radio’s PGA Tour Channel this morning. Klauk will tape an interview with XM Radio’s on-site crew that will air during “PGA Tour Live” on the PGA Tour Channel. We’ll also get him scheduled to appear on the Golf Channel at some point this week.