ANGELES NATIONAL MODIFIES COURSE.Byline: Dave Shelburne Staff Writer Vic Castro, director of marketing, tournaments and special events at Angeles National Golf Club, went into the new year celebrating the club's selection as a first-stage qualifying site for the 2005 U.S. Open The term U.S. Open is applied to "open" United States national championships in a particular sport, in which anybody, amateur or professional, American or non-American may compete. These include:
This week, Castro went into scramble mode as rains washed out the 17th green and 18th teebox of the eight-month-old Nicklaus-designed course in Sunland. ``We're going to play nine holes twice the next couple of days,'' Castro said Tuesday of the plan to limit play to the front nine through the weekend. ``And we hope to be open with a modified 18-hole course by Monday or Tuesday.'' The modified layout will incorporate an existing extra green, enabling the reshaped course - which would play host to the first-stage qualifying May 23 - to finish with a par-3 hole over a barranca bar·ran·ca also bar·ran·co n. pl. bar·ran·cas also bar·ran·cos Southwestern U.S. 1. A deep ravine or gorge. 2. A bluff. . ``It will be a par-70 with no temporary greens,'' said Castro, whose next task will be rebuilding the old 17th green and 18th teebox. ``I don't want to throw out a date,'' he said of completion of the rain- damage repair work, ``but obviously it's my goal to keep that (U.S. Open qualifier). We're excited about getting it.'' --National qualifiers: Other area courses scheduled to host qualifying tournaments for national championships this year are TPC (Transaction Processing Performance Council, San Francisco, CA, www.tpc.org) An organization devoted to benchmarking transaction processing systems. In order to derive the number of transactions that can be processed in a given time frame, TPC benchmarks measure the total performance of of Valencia (first-stage U.S. Open qualifier, May 16), El Caballero cab·al·le·ro n. pl. cab·al·le·ros 1. A Spanish gentleman; a cavalier. 2. A man who is skilled in riding and managing horses; a horseman. Country Club in Tarzana (U.S. Open Sectional qualifier, June 6) and Crystalaire Country Club in Llano lla·no n. pl. lla·nos A large, grassy, almost treeless plain, especially one in Latin America. [Spanish, plain, from Latin pl (U.S. Amateur Sectional qualifier, July 26). --Wie tries again: Hawaiian high school sophomore Michelle Wie makes another try at making the cut in a PGA Tour event this week, when she is entered as a sponsor's exemption in the Sony Open at Honolulu's Waialae Country Club Waialae Country Club is a private country club in Honolulu, Hawaii. Founded in 1927 and designed by Seth Raynor, it features a 7,125 yard 18-hole course. It annually hosts the Sony Open in Hawaii, though the event has had several corporate sponsors. . The 15-year-old phenom, who made the cut in seven LPGA LPGA abbr. Ladies Professional Golf Association Tour events last year, has twice finished in the top 10 of an LPGA major and won the U.S. Women's Public Links title before she started high school, nearly qualified for weekend play at last year's Sony Open. Her Thursday-Friday total of even-par 140, spiced by a second-round 68 that was the best ever by a female in a PGA Tour event, left her one shot shy of making the cut. |
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