Storylines: Man with a Sharpie, hometown charity

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Keith Nolan / "The man with a Sharpie"
Last year's ironman on the Nationwide Tour was Keith Nolan, who teed it up in all 31 regular-season events. A recent PGATOUR.COM feature revealed the Irishman's love of people and kids in particular. The former Walker Cup team member and current resident of Knoxville, Tenn., is never too busy to sign an autograph, sometimes even during play. And as is so often the case, Nolan's personality was shaped around personal experience.

Dave Lagarde's feature retold of the day that Nolan, 37, and his mother attended the Irish Open. Despite persistent attempts to secure the autograph of one of his favorite players both before and after a tournament round, he was repeatedly rebuffed. His mother took matters into her own hands, following the player into the clubhouse and emerging within a few minutes with the autograph in hand. "I can't repeat what my mother said," Nolan said, "but she did come back with an autograph." The episode stays with Nolan to this day and clearly played a role in making him "very caring, very affable and a credit to his sport."

BMW Event's junior golf day to feature Greenville's Haas, Warren and Thompson
Three TOUR players who live at the host Thornblade Club in Greenville, S.C. will headline the kick-off event to the 2008 BMW Charity Pro-Am on Monday, May 12. Jay Haas of the Champions Tour and Charles Warren and Kyle Thompson of the PGA TOUR will help conduct the "Mike Creery First Tee Love for the Game Junior Golf Day" from 4-5 p.m. Deaf golfer and Nationwide Tour competitor Kevin Hall will join them in the clinic that will focus on short-game shots.