Printers' Pastimes -- Outside the Lines, II

Not a low handicapper by any means, Padgett has, nevertheless, competed in a number of hickory contests nationally, including four of the five National Hickory Championships conducted annually at Oakhurst Links in White Sulphur Springs, WV.

He has also competed on the last two victorious United States teams competing against a European contingent (11 British players and one Swedish player) for the Hickory Grail, a Ryder Cup-format event with hickory equipment, conducted in 2000 and 2001 at Kilspindie Links near Edinburgh, Scotland, and to be conducted in 2003 at Saint Andrew's Golf Club in Yonkers, NY.