HOMMEL TO THE LYNX AFTER DROPPING COLLEGE ELIGIBILITY

          LPGA golfer Michelle McGann did not visit the booth of
     her equipment sponsor, Lynx, at the PGA International Golf
     Show in Las Vegas, another sign of her "acrimonious
     relationship" with the company, according to GOLFWEEK's
     Henning, Achenbach & Seanor.  But "if she had, she would
     have seen a large poster of 20-year-old Kristen Hommel," the
     girlfriend and caddie of Steve Scott, who lost to Tiger
     Woods in the '96 U.S. Amateur.  Hommel, a junior at the
     Univ. of FL, "has vacated her collegiate golf eligibility
     and amateur status to replace McGann as the female
     figurehead for Lynx."  Hommel will be a consultant to the
     junior and women's markets (GOLFWEEK, 9/20 issue).
          CALLAWAY AT PEBBLE BEACH: Callaway Golf Co. has
     acquired sponsorship of the Pebble Beach Invitational,
     November 20-23.  Callaway will be joined by presenting
     sponsor Merrill Lynch to create the Callaway Golf Pebble
     Beach Invitational presented by Merrill Lynch (Callaway).