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Melinda Daniels, who won the
Futures Tour event at the Country Club of Salisbury June 24-25, has moved up to second
place on the tour’s money list with $24,278.
Grace Park, who finished one
stroke behind Daniels in Salisbury, has surged into third place after winning the Carolina
National Futures Classic in Bolivia (eastern N.C.) June 30-July 2 and the SmartSpikes
Futures Classic in Killington, Vt., July 22-24. Park has won $24,163 and three tournaments
in six events.
The top three Futures money
winners earn automatic berths on the LPGA Tour for 1999. Eunice Choi still leads at
$26,055.
The Fleet Loretto Futures Golf
Classic was scheduled to wind up today in East Syracuse, N.Y. There are three more tour
stops in York, Pa., Morgantown, W.Va., and Lakeland, Fla., site of the Futures Tour
Championship.
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FINALSTODAY: Thad Sprinkle and
Richard Cobb are scheduled to go after their third straight title in the Grady B.
McCanless Four-Ball Tournament at McCanless Golf Club at 1 p.m. today.
A semifinal match between Ronnie
Eidson-Richard Peeler and Ja Davis-Joe Yochim was delayed and rescheduled for this
morning.
Sprinkle and Cobb, who won in
1995, 1997 and 1998, have won 11 straight matches over three years and 18 of 19 over five
years. Their only loss was to Joey Boley and Chad Clayton in the 1996 finals.
It was incorrectly reported last
week that Eidson lost with Henry Morgan in last year’s finals. Morgan teamed with
Roger Frick in the 1998 tournament, but he will be playing with Eidson in the upcoming
Goode Crowder Dorsett Invitational at the Country Club of Salisbury.
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BLISTERING THE WARRIOR: Kem Rogers
of Mooresville eagled the par-5 No. 1 hole at the new Warrior Golf Club on Wednesday and
went on to shoot a course-record, 9-under-par 62 from the blue tees.
Rogers, who has played on pro
satellite tours, made birdies on Nos. 4, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 17 and 18 while shooting a 31
on each side. His only bogey came after a three-putt green on No. 8.
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ACES GALORE: The first hole in one
ever at the Warrior was made on Monday, amazingly coming on the course’s most
difficult par-3 hole, No. 16, which measures 223 from the black tees and 203 from the
blues.
The first ace, however, came from
the 167-yard white tees when Bryant Hager Jr. of Mooresville knocked a 6-iron into the
cup. He was playing with Jamie Burke and Shane Rollings.
Three days later, two more hole in
ones were scored at the Warrior on the same day. First, Gary Johnson aced the par-3,
151-yard No. 6 hole with an 8-iron while playing the blue tees. Johnson was playing with
his father, Ray, and Harold Sloop and Dave Ballard. The Johnsons are part-owners. Stan
Honeycutt, playing the white tees later in the day, aced the par-3, 154-yard No. 8 hole
with an 8-iron. He was playing with Jim Kemper, Scott Croft and Steve Schoch.
A second hole in one was made on
No. 16, this time from the 203-yard blue tees, on Friday. Corey Basinger used a 3-iron to
score his second ace. He was playing with Addison Smith and Tom Kiger.
Then, on Saturday, Alan Barefoot
aced the No. 6 hole, this time from the black tees, a distance of 75 yards. He used a
6-iron. His playing partners were Larry Roseman, Shawn Benfield and George Benfield.
The Crescent Golf Club reported a
hole in one on the par-3, 160-yard No. 10 hole. It was made by Brian Hallman with an
8-iron. Dan Dagenhart, John Black and Jim Honeycutt were witnesses.
Another ace last week came by
Salisbury’s 12-year-old Alex Earnhardt, who was playing with his grandmother,
Rosemary Spain, at the Country Club of Salisbury.
Earnhardt, practicing on Monday
for the Chuck Collier Jr. Invitational the next two days, used a 5-wood to ace the par-3,
149-yard No. 6 hole from the white tees.
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PARENT-CHILD SET: The Country
Club’s summer junior program will wind up at 2 p.m. today, when a nine-hole
parent-child tournament will be played. A cookout is scheduled following the tourney.
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CAROLINAS TOURNEY: Left-hander
Steven Harvey, who has dominated local junior golf the last two years, will be playing
this week in the Carolinas Junior Championship at Birkdale Golf Club in Huntersville.
Harvey, paired with William
Bagwell of Spartanburg, S.C., and John Eades of Charlotte the first two rounds, tees off
on No. 1 at 1:06 p.m. Tuesday and 9:54 a.m. Wednesday. The final round is scheduled
Thursday.
Salisbury’s Mark Van
Wagenberg is also entered. He will tee off on No. 10 at 8:38 a.m. each day. His playing
partners will be Bryant Ware of Raleigh and Patrick Rada of Stanley. Rada won the
11-&-under title here Wednesday, while Van Wagenberg finished third.
The defending Carolinas Junior
champion, Brent Delahoussaye of Greer, S.C., has withdrawn because of a conflict with
another junior tourney.
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LUTHERAN TOURNEY: The St.
Peter’s Lutheran Men in Mission will sponsor a captain’s-choice golf tournament
at 1 p.m. next Sunday at McCanless.
The entry fee of $30 per person
includes a cookout following the tourney at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church.
First-place trophies and other
prizes will be awarded.
The deadline for entry is today.
For more information, contact Marty Puckett at 279-3756 or Charles Everson at 637-0384.
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CANCER EVENT: The Rowan County
American Cancer Society’s captain’s-choice tournament will be played Friday at
McCanless. Registration begins at 12:30 p.m. with the tourney starting at 1:30.
The theme of the tourney will be
the “Pink Ribbon Classic,” with a main focus on Breast Cancer Awareness. Winners
will be eligible to advance at a regional level.
Proceeds will provide funding for
cancer research, education, advocacy and patient/family services.
For more information on reserving
a team or about sponsorships, contact Christy Tarlton at 639-0303 or the local American
Cancer Society at 636-3151.
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MULLIGAN AT CORBIN: Corbin Hills
Golf Club will hold its summer two-man mulligan tournament on Saturday and Sunday,
starting with an 8:30 a.m. shotgun start each day.
The first 64 paid teams will be
accepted in the 36-hole stroke play event. Teams will be flighted after the first round.
The entry fee of $60 per team for
Corbin Hills members and $90 for non-members includes cart and green fee on Saturday and
Sunday.
Prizes will be awarded to first
and second place in each flight with ties being played off on scorecards.
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Senior sports writer Ed Dupree
covers golf for the Post. |
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