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Saturday, June 2, 2007

Lovemark Wins ARNOLD PALMER AWARD Presented by CALLAWAY GOLF

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. ?

Jamie Lovemark of Southern California claimed the ARNOLD PALMER AWARD presented by CALLAWAY GOLF. The Palmer Award is presented annually to the national championship individual medalists.

Also named the Jack Nicklaus Award presented by Dillard?s Inc./Hartmarx Corp. as national player of the year and the Phil Mickelson Award as the nation?s outstanding freshmen, Lovemark burst onto the scene with

four wins during his first season at USC. He won the NCAA Division I Championships, Pac-10 Championship, Big Ten/Pac-10 Challenge and the Oregon Duck Invitational. Lovemark also finished runner-up at both the NCAA West Regional and USC Collegiate Invitational and third at the Inverness Intercollegiate Invitational and the CordeValle Collegiate. He was also a semifinalist for The Ben Hogan Award.

Notable past recipients of the award include Phil Mickelson (1992), Justin Leonard (1994), Tiger Woods (1996), Charles

Howell (2000) and Ryan Moore (2005).