CALIFORNIA AMATEURS READY FOR THEIR SHOW.Byline: DAVE A file sharing program from Thursby Software Systems, Inc., Arlington, TX (www.thursby.com) that allows a Macintosh to share files with a PC. Designed specifically for and needing installation only on the Mac, DAVE works with Microsoft's native SMB/CIFS file sharing protocols and uses SHELBURNE Golf The 102nd U.S. Open, which starts today at Bethpage Black GC on New York's Long Island, will understandably get most of the nation's golf attention this week. But for area players Craig Steinberg of Oak Park, Jeff Freedman of Simi Valley, Scott Harrell of Burbank and Don Baker of Winnetka, next week also will be plenty big. They will be among the 93 participants in the 91st California Amateur Championship, being held again at scenic Pebble Beach Golf Links Pebble Beach Golf Links is one of several well known courses in Pebble Beach, California and probably the most famous golf course in the Western United States. Four of the courses in the coastal community of Pebble Beach, including Pebble Beach Golf Links,[1] , site of three memorable U.S. Opens and also Jack Nicklaus' second U.S. Amateur Championship. Pebble Beach has been good to area players in the past, most recently Tim Hogarth of Northridge, who won in a playoff in 1999, two years after breaking Ken Venturi's 44-year-old medalist record of 139 for the tournament's first two rounds of stroke play. Hogarth shot 138 for medalist honors in 1997, and although he failed to reach the championship match that year, another area player - Jason Gore of Valencia - won the '97 championship. Steinberg, a longtime successful amateur who has won four Southern California Golf Association championships, was state medalist in 1998. Former Cal State Northridge star Jeff Sanday won the state amateur in 1995, following area champions Charlie Wi of Westlake (1990) and Duffy Waldorf, the former Taft High of Woodland Hills and UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX standout who won the 1984 state amateur after taking medalist honors in that tournament. David Berganio Jr. of Sylmar reached the match-play final in 1992 and is one of many eventual PGA Tour players to come out of the California Amateur, including U.S. Open champions-to-be Venturi venturi a tube with a decrease in the inside diameter that is used to increase the flow velocity of the fluid and thereby cause a pressure drop; used to measure the flow velocity (a venturimeter) or to draw another fluid into the stream. and Johnny Miller, plus Waldorf, Bobby Clampett and Mark O'Meara. This year's state play starts Monday at Pebble Beach and Spanish Bay GC with the first of two rounds of stroke play that will reduce the field to 64. The format switches to match play Wednesday through Saturday's 36-round final. Darryl Donovan is defending champion, which has seldom been an advantage in a tournament that has produced only three back-to-back winners and none since USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. dental-school alumnus Dr. Frank ``Bud'' Taylor repeated his title in 1955. --All in the family: Sisters Hana and Ina Kim of Encino, recent high school standouts at Brentwood and Harvard-Westlake of Studio City, respectively, have both qualified for the U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links The U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links Championship, often referred to as the Public Links or the Publinx, is a women's amateur golf tournament, one of 10 individual amateur championships organized by the USGA. The USGA typically calls the event the U.S. Championship. Hana was medalist in a sectional qualifier at Kemper Lakes GC near Chicago with a score of 73, eight shots better than her closest competition. Ina, who won the CIF/SCGA girls' championship two years ago as a Harvard-Westlake senior, shot 81 at Kemper Lakes to join her sister in next week's national Publinks championship at Oregon's Sunriver Resort. --You the mountain man! Greg Ross of Pine Mountain Club successfully defended his title in the sixth annual Glendale City Championship, finishing 3-under-par 57 at Scholl Canyon GC to edge Scholl Canyon's Phil Ditmer, who included a hole-in-one in a 58 that earned him low net honors. --Names in the game: Pepperdine senior Jason Allred has been named winner of the first Byron Nelson Award, presented to the college golfer who displays excellence on the course, in the classroom and in the community. Allred, a three-time All-Academic West Coast Conference selection, had six top-10 finishes this season. ... Oliver Rheinfurth of Toluca Lake was medalist at 3-under-par 69 in a Tuesday qualifier at Arroyo Grande's Cypress Ridge GC for the July 12-14 SCGA SCGA Southern California Golf Association SCGA Software Carrier Group Alarm Amateur Championship at 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. CC in Tarzana. ... Kevin Stadler of USC was named to the second-team All-American team selected by the Golf Coaches Association of America. Pepperdine's Allred (third team) and Michael Beard (honorable mention) also were selected. Stadler, son of former USC star and 1982 Masters champion Craig Stadler, was the Pacific-10 Conference Golfer of the Year. Allred, a former U.S. Junior Amateur champion, was runner-up in this year's West Coast Conference to Beard, who finished eighth in the NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association championship. ... Louisiana native Carl Warden was a big reason the Kaye-Eras Golf & Tennis Classic raised more than $400,000 in its tournament last week at Riviera CC. Warden contributed $10,000 and paid out $23,000 in closest-to-the pin competition and other games at Riviera's famed No. 6 hole. The event benefited the Culver City-based Kayne-Eras Center's work with learning, developmental, emotional and medical disabilities. ON THE GREEN PGA TOUR U.S. Open at Farmingdale, N.Y. Course: Bethpage State Park Bethpage State Park is a 1,476-acre New York state park in Nassau County (and partially in Suffolk County) on Long Island. While much of the park and its five golf courses are located within the presently designated census districts of the hamlets of Bethpage and Old Bethpage, the , Black Course (7,214 yards, par 70) Schedule: Today through Sunday Purse: $5.5 million, $1 million to winner TV: Ch. 4 (Today-Friday, noon-2 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sunday 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m.; Monday, if necessary, 11 a.m.-conclusion); ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (Today-Friday, 8 a.m.-noon, 2 p.m.-4 p.m.; Monday, if necessary, 9-11 a.m.) LPGA LPGA abbr. Ladies Professional Golf Association TOUR Evian Masters at Evian, France Course: Evian Masters Golf Club (6,091 yards, par 72) Schedule: Wednesday through Saturday Purse: $2.1 million, $315,000 to winner TV: The Golf Channel (Today-Saturday, 6-9 a.m.) SENIOR PGA TOUR BellSouth Senior Classic at Nashville Course: Springhouse spring·house n. A small storehouse constructed over a spring and used to keep food cool. Golf Club (6,783 yards, par 72) Schedule: Friday through Sunday Purse: $1.6 million, $240,000 to winner TV: PAX (Friday, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.); CNBC CNBC Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (artificial intelligence) CNBC Consumer News and Business Channel CNBC Congress of National Black Churches, Inc. (Saturday-Sunday, 5-7 p.m.) MONEY LIST PGA (1) (Professional Graphics Adapter) An early IBM PC display standard for 3D processing with 640x480x256 resolution. It was not widely used. (2) (Programmable Gate Array) See gate array and FPGA. 1 Tiger Woods $3,055,100 2 Phil Mickelson $2,348,426 3 David Toms $1,879,527 4 Jose Maria Olazabal $1,788,433 SENIOR PGA 1 Hale Irwin $1,369,100 2 John Jacobs $981,035 3 Dana Quigley $945,118 4 Doug Tewell $882,582 LPGA 1 Annika Sorenstam $1,039,054 2 Se Ri Pak Se Ri Pak (born September 28 1977 in Daejeon) is a South Korean professional golfer, playing on the LPGA Tour. She will be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in November 2007. Career overview Pak turned professional in 1996. $526,866 3 Laura Diaz $476,649 4 Juli Inkster $416,615 SPOTLIGHT: TIGER WOODS Tiger Woods will attempt to become the first player to win the Masters and the U.S. Open in the same year since Jack Nicklaus did it in 1972. Woods hasn't won a major as a pro on a par-70 course. He won the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach in 2000 - the first of four consecutive victories in a major - by a major-record 15 strokes. Woods, 26, has won seven majors and six of the past 10. CAPTION(S): box Box: ON THE GREEN (see text) |
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