The Associated Press

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - Ben Crenshaw has been linked with teacher Harvey Penick for as long as he has played golf. Crenshaw's induction into the World Golf Hall of Fame will be no different.

Penick first wrapped Crenshaw's hands around a golf club. He died a week before Crenshaw won the 1995 Masters, an emotional victory in which Crenshaw said he felt his teacher's hand on his shoulder, guiding him to the best golf of his life.

They will be together in spirit and name tonight at the World Golf Village, where Crenshaw and Penick are among six inductees to the Hall of Fame.

"It's extremely personal and sentimental to me," Crenshaw said. "We had a great man to learn the game from, a very humble teacher who wanted to help everyone, and it didn't make any difference what kind of player they were."

The other inductees are two-time Masters champion Bernhard Langer, U.S. Open champion Tommy Bolt, British Open and U.S. Open champion Tony Jacklin, and LPGA founder Marlene Hagge.

Crenshaw was voted in on the PGA Tour ballot, while Langer and Jacklin made it on the international ballot. Bolt and Hagge were selected through the Veteran's Category. Penick was chosen through the Lifetime Achievement Category.

The inductions will increase membership in the Hall to 96.

Crenshaw won 18 times on the PGA Tour, including two Masters. He also was captain of the 1999 Ryder Cup team, which staged the greatest comeback in history in Brookline, Mass.

The '95 Masters stands out.

Crenshaw, who began working with Penick as a small boy in Austin, Texas, got one final lesson from Penick's hospital room a week before he died.

Penick asked him to fetch a putter and said, "I want you to take two good practice strokes and then trust yourself, and don't let that club get past your hands."

Crenshaw took that tip to Augusta National. He had to leave during a practice round to be a pallbearer at Penick's funeral, then returned and went the entire tournament without a three-putt.

The finish was unforgettable. When Crenshaw tapped in his bogey putt for a one-stroke victory, he buckled over as the tears flowed.

"It was very obvious I had him in the back of my mind all week," Crenshaw said recently. "That I was able to win, on his memory, will give me a smile the rest of my life."

There are other reasons to smile.

Crenshaw's silky putting stroke carried him to three straight NCAA titles at the University of Texas, and he won the Texas Open in his first start as a PGA Tour member.

He won his first Masters in 1984, and his second green jacket was his final victory.

"I believe in fate," Crenshaw said after that '95 Masters victory.

That phrase showed up again as captain of the Ryder Cup. Even though his U.S. team trailed Europe 10-6 after the second day, Crenshaw winked and wagged his finger as he reminded a room of skeptical journalists that it wasn't over.

The Americans went on to win eight of the 12 matches, halving another, for an improbable victory at The Country Club.

Jacklin has much in common with Crenshaw - two major championships, special memories in the Ryder Cup. Along with his '69 British Open at Royal Lytham & St. Annes, the Englishman is the last European to win the U.S. Open, a wire-to-wire victory at Hazeltine in 1970.

Jacklin was captain when Europe ended years of frustration by winning the 1985 Ryder Cup for the first time in 38 years. He also was captain two years later when Europe won at Muirfield Village, its first victory in the United States.

He's also remembered for being a part of one of the most famous examples of sportsmanship in golf: He halved a match with Jack Nicklaus in 1969, when Nicklaus conceded a short par putt that allowed the Ryder Cup to end in a tie.

Bolt, meanwhile, the nickname "Terrible Tommy" for club-throwing that often overshadowed his shotmaking.

Despite his 1958 U.S. Open victory at Southern Hills and 14 other wins, Bolt has long been the poster boy for bad tempers.

"I threw a couple of clubs," Bolt said. "I'm human, like the other guys, but I always threw them at the most opportune time. I always had a camera on me."

Langer won two Masters, the second after curing a bad case of the putting yips. He went 16 straight seasons on the European tour with at least one victory, and two months ago played on his 10th Ryder Cup team.

Hagge was one of the founders of the LPGA Tour in 1950. She won 26 times, including the LPGA Championship in 1956.

PGA TOUR: The PGA Tour is returning to the Boston area for the first time in five years with a $5 million event that will end on Labor Day and feature Tiger Woods, whose foundation will get the charitable proceeds.

The tournament will be called the Deutsche Bank U.S. Championship and will be played at the TPC of Boston for at least the first two years of the four-year contract, the PGA Tour and IMG announced.

While Woods will not be the tournament host in the same fashion as Jack Nicklaus (Memorial Tournament) or Arnold Palmer (Bay Hill Invitational), the world's No. 1 player will be heavily involved through his foundation.

"We are confident the tournament will be well-received," PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem said.

The Associated Press first reported on the new Labor Day tournament four weeks ago as negotiations were ongoing with IMG and the TPC at Boston.

Most tournaments have four-year contracts with a golf course. Officials with IMG and the PGA Tour said they wanted to keep their options open, which could mean the West Coast is still a possibility, because it would put golf on prime-time television.

ABC Sports will broadcast the final two rounds on Sunday and Monday.

The PGA Tour was last in the Boston area in 1998, when the CVS Charity Classic, held at Pleasant Valley Country Club in Sutton, Mass., ended a 30-year run.

The Deutsche Bank U.S. Championship will cap off three straight weeks of high-profile tournaments on the calendar, following the PGA Championship and a World Golf Championship event.

The new tournament replaces the Air Canada Championship in Vancouver, British Columbia, which began in 1996 but was unable to find a title sponsor when Air Canada failed to renew.

Deutsche Bank already has a strong relationship with Woods. The Germany-based company is title sponsor of a European tour event that Woods has played in every year since 1999 and has won three times. Woods receives about $2 million in appearance money for playing in Germany.

"I am thrilled that Deutsche Bank has selected the Tiger Woods Foundation to be the beneficiary of this new PGA Tour event," Woods said in a statement.

Woods established his foundation in 1996 with hopes of making golf more accessible and affordable for children of various social and economic backgrounds.

For Deutsche Bank, the estimated $30 million investment as a title sponsor on the PGA Tour will help raise the profile of its brand in the United States.

Woods already has his own tournament, the Target World Challenge at Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, Calif. The unofficial event offers $1 million to the winner, and the 16-man field consists of 12 top players from the world rankings and four players selected by his foundation.

Woods said last month he would not be the host of an official PGA Tour event like Nicklaus, Palmer and Byron Nelson.

"As far as having my own event and running it like those guys do, I'm not interested in that," he said. "I know the politics that go on, how tough it is running my own tournament."

Still, his presence and the Labor Day time slot for television probably will make the Deutsche Bank U.S. Championship one of the top tournaments, once the major championships are over.

TCL CLASSIC: South Korea's Ted Oh shot a 5-under 67 to lead after the first day in Dongguan, China.

Oh had a bogey-free round to head a field that includes John Daly and Colin Montgomerie, who were both 2-under par.

"I had trouble on the greens and was allowing for too much break because of the slickness of the greens at Valderrama last week," Montgomerie said.

He won in Spain last Sunday, sharing the Volvo Masters title with Bernhard Langer.

WARBURG CUP: Nick Faldo has won more Ryder Cup points than any European in history. Now he gets another chance at team match play with a different set of teammates and a relaxed atmosphere.

Faldo will join 11 other players from the "Rest of the World" who will try to beat the Americans in the UBS Warburg Cup, a three-day competition that starts today in St.Simons Island, Ga.

"Something like this gets the old competitive juices flowing," Faldo said.

The UBS Warburg Cup is patterned after the Ryder Cup. Each team has six players from the 40-49 age group and six players who are 50-and-over.

Arnold Palmer and South Africa's Gary Player return as playing captains. A year ago, Palmer defeated Player as the United States went on to a 121/2-111/2 victory at Kiawah Island.

They are expected to play again in Sunday's singles. Curtis Strange and Sam Torrance, the Ryder Cup captains from The Belfry, are also expected to play each other.

While Faldo hasn't played in a Ryder Cup since 1997, he went 2-0-1 at the UBS Warburg Cup last year and is coming off a dramatic loss at the World Match Play Championship in England, losing a 43-hole match to Michael Campbell.

Even though the matches kick off golf's exhibition season, Faldo was grinding away on his putting after the pro-am at Sea Island.

"That's what held me back in the Match Play," he said. "You've got to make a higher percentage of putts from around the 15-foot range."