The golf notebook …Catawba
College and Pfeiffer University are both using golf tournaments to raise funds for
athletics during the next few weeks.
The fourth annual Catawba College
Athletics Golf Marathon Tournament is scheduled Monday morning at McCanless Golf Club.
Twenty-two golfers are scheduled
to tee off at 7:30 a.m. and continue until near dark while trying to play 100 or more
holes. The golfers have been working to obtain sponsors for various amounts of money per
hole. The fund-raiser benefits the Catawba athletic program, which includes 17
intercollegiate sports.
Catawba athletic director Dennis
Davidson said he still has room for a few more golfers who wish to sponsor themselves or
who can obtain sponsors.
Anyone wishing to sponsor a golfer
should contact the Catawba athletic department.
I’ll be playing for the third
time in four years. I got in 129 holes the first year, then Dan Wales and I played eight
complete rounds, 144 holes, in 1997. We’ll claim that as the local record for playing
one ball each hole.
There is an added incentive for
golfers this year. F&M Bank has offered to donate $1,000 to Catawba in the name of the
golfer whose shot is closest to the pin on the par-3 No. 13 hole. In addition, a hole in
one on any of the par-3 holes will net another $1,000 for Catawba.
The Pfeiffer Falcon Club Golf
Tournament is scheduled at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 2, at Stanly County Country Club in
Badin.
Pfeiffer athletic director Jeff
Childress said there are still openings for golfers at an entry fee of $75. He’s also
looking for as many hole sponsors as he can find.
The entry fee includes golf plus
Bud’s Bodacious Barbecue after the tourney.
All proceeds will go to help
support Pfeiffer athletics.
Anyone interested in playing
should contact Childers.
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RASH OF ACES: There have been at
least four hole in ones at local courses recently, including two at Crescent Golf Club.
First, Jim Burton of Salisbury
aced the par-3, 135-yard No. 5 hole with a 9-iron from the gold tees while playing with
Bobby Whitesides, Velt Penley, Tom Seamon and Eddie Myers. It was Burton’s second
hole in one.
Later Wednesday it was Dean
Raettig’s turn on the par-3, 164-yard 10th hole from the white tees. The China Grove
golfer, who used an 8-iron, was playing with Jim Tolton, Myron Barbee and Jamie Lowman.
Robert Davis of Kannapolis made
his ace on the par-3, 151-yard No. 8 hole at Warrior Golf Club with an 8-iron from the
blue tees. His playing partners were Mitchell Cox, Dennis Furr and Lainie Isenhour.
Henry Morgan of Salisbury got his
ace with a 3-iron from the blue tees on the par-3, 195-yard 15th hole at McCanless. He was
playing with Barth Tesh, Jim Sechler, Jerry Chipman Sr. and Jerry Chipman Jr.
It was the third ace of
Morgan’s long career.
Sechler and Morgan had both
witnessed the eagle on the par-4 10th hole’s temporary green by Don Peterson the day
before.
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NEW GREEN COMING: Pro Brian Hughes
at McCanless says new superintendent Joe Almond hopes to have the new No. 10 green ready
in a couple of weeks.
Almond, of Kannapolis, took over
at McCanless after long-time superintendent Lynn Dagenhart left the course. Almond
previously was an assistant superintendent at Cabarrus Country Club and Kannapolis Country
Club.
McCanless has had to use a
temporary green on the No. 2 hole after the new green lost its grass. It has been reseeded
and probably won’t be ready for play until next spring.
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ANOTHER RECORD: Salisbury’s
Elliot Gealy took time out from pro golf to shoot a course-record 64 from the black (back)
tees at the Warrior last week.
Gealy birdied Nos. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9,
12, 15 and 17 and saved bogey on the par-5 No. 4 hole when he ran in a putt of about 30
feet.
Gealy was playing with Ronnie
Hooper Jr., Todd Johnson, Rick Houston and Dickie Starnes.
Hooper held the old record of 65,
and Johnson’s 67 was the record before Hooper’s round.
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KANNAPOLIS TOURNEY: The 10th
annual Hooters Hugo Four-Ball classic will be held at the Kannapolis Country Club Sept.
18-19.
The entry fee for Kannapolis
members if $75 per person and $145 for non-members. The fee includes 36 holes of golf,
including cart and green fees, plus an 18-hole practice round, food and beverages.
The format is two-player, better
ball, with teams flighted after the first round.
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OAK VALLEY EVENT: Oak Valley Golf
Club in Advance will host the second annual Caddy’s Tourn on Tuesday, Sept. 28.
The Caddy’s Tourn, a Vantage
Championship event, began last year in an effort to promote Davie County to Vantage
visitors.
Six-person teams, made up of five
amateurs and one PGA Senior Tour caddy, will play a “caddy’s choice” style
tournament with a 1 p.m. shotgun start.
Joan Carter, executive director of
the sponsoring Davie County Chamber of Commerce, said, “We wanted the tournament to
benefit a valuable community agency, and Hospice (of Davie County) reflects the strong
volunteer efforts so vital in our county. “We are pleased to support the untiring
efforts of such a wonderful community agency.”
For more information, contact the
Davie County Chamber of Commerce, 107 N. Salisbury St., Mocksville (phone 336-751-3304).
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GARS GAME: The Golf Association of
Rowan Seniors will play at Rolling Hills Golf Club on Wednesday.
Golfers will pay $10 for cart and
green fees, and course owner Bobby Kepley will donate the fees to the Rufty-Holmes Senior
Center.
Golfers should sign in by
foursomes at 7:30 a.m. A shotgun start is planned at 8 for GARS members and their guests.
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Local ladies win: The Salisbury
Country Club Ladies Golf Association topped defending champion Pinewood of Asheboro and
the Old North State Club at Uwharrie Point Thursday in the annual Interclub Championship.
The match was held Thursday at Salisbury Country Club.
Thirty players from the Salisbury
association teamed together, with the top four net and gross scores from each of the three
teams deciding the champion.
Patti Glassgow directed the event.
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Senior sports writer Ed Dupree
covers golf for the Post. |
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