Sentences with phrase «graeme turned pro»

Age when he turned pro: 14 Start - up capital: $ 80,000 of the co-founders» personal savings Total video - game sales: More than $ 1 billion through a licensing agreement with Activision

Steven Pressfield shares his own personal struggles in turning pro, escaping the work he was called to do, and how he returned to it.

The extraordinary growth of the business of golf these last 15 years, he argued, was almost entirely down to the hype around Woods (and to the incredible way he validated it, beginning with his first green jacket in 1997 just months after he turned pro, and continuing across more than a decade of dominance).

On Nov. 18, 1954, at 25, he turned pro and signed a contract with Wilson Sporting Goods.

«They're all different in their own way, but the fact that I came back in each one is something that has certainly given me a lot of confidence going forward and when I turned pro.»

He's ready to turn pro and needs an agent.

Turn the Pro Line ® Series Blender to the soup setting, and hit start.

He apparently was waiting to turn pro until after the Masters, though he missed the cut at Augusta.

Two years later she turned pro, and I caddied for her at Q school as she finished fifth and got her card.

The FBI's case revolves in large part around agents» efforts, with the help of other powerful people in the sport, to steer prospects to sign with them upon turning pro.

He turned pro in 2004, but a herniated disk jeopardized his career.

After quarterback Ron Powlus — one of those seniors — decided, in the spring of 1997, to return to school rather than turn pro, Notre Dame announced with fanfare that it would become a passing team.

He won the 2007 English Amateur, contributed three points for the British and Irish at the»07 Walker Cup and somehow wound up as the world's top - ranked amateur before turning pro in» 08.

In 1952 Liston was released on parole, and he turned pro on Sept. 2, 1953, leveling Don Smith in the first round in St. Louis.

Since turning pro in 2007, Castro has yet to pick up a PGA Tour win after a four - time All - America college career at Georgia Tech.

Arturo followed less than a year later, in 1991, and immediately turned pro.

Cholowski was supposed to be a three or four year project when he was drafted and after one year the Wings asked him to turn pro.

The personnel losses are even worse on defense, where 10 starters either exhausted their eligibility or turned pro early.

The contract begins in the 2017 - 18 season... 2016 - 17: Turned pro after completing a four - year career at the University of Minnesota - Duluth... Signed an ATO with Iowa on Apr. 13, 2017 - playing in three games.

In 1990 she bought a street bike to race and turned pro in» 96.

Ely Callaway reportedly has made Woods a $ 3 million offer to play the Great Big Bertha driver, and other club companies are said to be circling the Woods camp looking for a loophole in the multimillion - dollar oral agreement Titleist reached with Woods on the day he turned pro.

He wore the company's shoes in college and elected to stay with them after turning pro.

And they also have the channel through which to turn pro.

Since turning pro, he has stopped all but one of his opponents.

Hearn turned pro way back in 2001, but has yet to win on the top tour.

Turning Pro After watching the NCAA championship in April, I figured it was time to turnoff basketball until November, when college hoops starts up again.

Jones's reasoning was that if Olmedo and Company could beat Ashley Cooper and Mal Anderson, then rated the top amateurs of the world, as they did in Brisbane last December, then they should have little trouble with the second - stringers Captain Harry Hopman had assembled after Cooper and Anderson turned pro.

If they turn pro after 3 and have a degree, it's great.

But when I get to the point where I can shoot consistently in the low 70s, I'd like to turn pro.

After turning pro in September, he signed endorsement deals with Puma and Titleist, almost won the Frys.com Open (losing in a playoff) and earned $ 571,090 in only three starts.

Philly HS RB David Williams was told by #SouthCarolina that RB Marcus Lattimore will turn pro.

Rickie Fowler's bid to earn a card the Tiger Woods way — by leaving school (Oklahoma State) early, turning pro late in the season and then winning enough in a limited number of starts to crack the top 125 — fell just short.

And also, it's not like anyone is turning pro off your wrestling team (most likely there are no future Olympians on the mat), or off the boys basketball team, or even the girls basketball team.

Bell, who has visited Huston in Los Angeles and seen the bright side of professional skateboarding, would welcome the chance to turn pro, but takes the skater's c’est la vie attitude.

Similarly, more Kentucky games are broadcast nationally than any other programs, and many Kentucky fans believe that exposure helps translate into better endorsements deals when Wildcats turn pro.

Rankin, now a commentator for ABC golf telecasts, was a golf prodigy from St. Louis who turned pro at 17.

As soon as he turned pro, he could do as he pleased, like show up 40 minutes before the start of his round.

Smith's irritation was apparent last Tuesday when, during the league's weekly telephone press conference, he took a routine question about Reid's future at North Carolina — did Smith think Reid might skip his senior season to turn pro?

He dominated the 18 - and - under circuit and turned pro soon after winning the 1993 U.S. Open juniors title.

especially when you have several kids eyeing the door and announcing they are turning pro 15 minutes after a loss (Ayton and Trier).

The Carlsbad, Calif., native dominated the amateur snowboarding circuit for seven years before turning pro at 13.

Ifound Rick Reilly's advice to athletes who are about to turn pro right on the mark (THE LIFE OF REILLY, May 25).

Jeremy turned pro when the Olympics ended.

She has stated several times that she wants to go to Stanford — Tiger's alma mater — but as it becomes more obvious that many millions of dollars await her if she turns pro and especially if she begins competing in men's tournaments, it doesn't take a bachelor's degree to figure out that skipping college might be the smarter move.

In the data I looked at, the ACC has never had four QBs turn pro early in the same season.

As Flyers center Eric Lindros contemplates his future, it's becoming increasingly clear that his best course of action would be to take a full year off to clear his head after suffering four concussions last season and a total of six since he turned pro in 1992 - 93.

Pitt started recruiting him in the summer of 2008, when Wannstedt started to think LeSean McCoy might turn pro after two college seasons.

The Irishman (Northern division) has been known for his prodigious talent since before he turned pro, in 2007.

Two of basketball's best undergraduates turn pro, others may, and football is in trouble, too, following a court decision

Guy got dumped in the NHL as soon as he turned pro and was a nightly player — I don't think he was screwed up by the «if I mess up, I'll sit the next 3 + games» paranoia that we saddled Oleksiak, Nemeth, and now Honka with.