Sentences with phrase «turned pro last»

Since Tiger Woods turned pro last year, the golf world has been feeling the financial impact — and laughing all the way to the bank.

«I think every African - American has been inspired by them,» says Jenkins, who turned pro last April.

Not exact matches

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).

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.

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?

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.

We literally have 4 guys on the team who are 30 or over and should be major contributors next year (Norman, Scandrick, Davis and Nsekhe) Then only 3 other guys who will turn 30 this year (McPhee, RyKer, and TW) two of which were pro Bowlers last year, so you don't get rid of those guys.

For comparison, with Woods on the sidelines last year, TV ratings plunged to their lowest number since 1993, which was three years before Tiger turned pro.

There were horse races for everybody at the world's famous resorts last week, but none could equal the feature at the track they call The Spa, where a young colt turned in an old - pro performance

Instead of turning pro after high school, Park opted for Arizona State and last year helped the Sun Devils win the NCAA title.

Cameron Oliver, a former three - star prospect from Sacramento who initially signed with Oregon State, earned Mountain West freshman of the year honors in Musselman's first season at Nevada and rated out as one of the league's top defenders last season before turning pro.

Height: 6» 3» Weight: 185 Age: 19 Last: 44 Stats: 10.3 PPG, 5.6 APG, 1.5 SPG Duval was in a tricky spot after an underwhelming freshman year, but made the right call to turn pro rather than return and lose playing time to Duke's incoming recruits.

When Stephanie Hex Bendixsen was weighing up the pros and cons of a move from the ABC to commercial TV last year, she says she turned.

The truck's larger size compared to midsize trucks of the last generation turned out to be a pro rather than a con, always feeling more nimble and user - friendly than the full - size competitors.

I feel you on that I don't like the Iphone personally and I truly dislike anything Apple but i must admit the Iphone Is better than 99.9 % of the Android phones I've used and I've had a lot, Now I turned to The Dell Venue Pro and for the last 5 months I've had no issues with my phone for the first time in a long time... I don't have restart my phone and it does nt freeze all the time... It's refreshing to know your phone is dependable and thats one thing 90 % of IOS users will say their phone is dependable android ain't.

Lastly, all of this probably means that if you want to become an expert on a given field (and therefore a more sought - after, less generic, lawyer or law student) you need to declare yourself an expert in that field, a little bit like when Steven Pressfield writes about «turning pro» (that's the last self - help book reference I promise).

You can do a number of things here, like have the button launch the Task Manager or other system menus, dismiss all notifications, perform various media - related tasks, open the last app, turn on the flashlight, take a screenshot (Pro), launch a tasker task (Pro), and a lot more.

Keeping the lights on is a small 100mAh battery that Huawei says can last up to 21 days on a single charge, thought the Band 2 Pro will only last around 3.5 hours with the GPS turned on.

Nevertheless, NPU says that if the tip it received turns out to be accurate, the Nokia 8 Pro will have a penta - lens camera module, as well as the rotating zoom camera technology Zeiss patented last year.

As we noted last weekend, Microsoft's Surface Pro lineup recently turned five years old.

«After spending the last year tripling the number of properties managed in Rental Home Pros, I'm excited to turn our attention to improving the speed, stability and usability of the web site,» commented Jeff Grobaski, Chief Operating Officer.