HE'LL TAKE GOLF, SIGHT UNSEEN.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 Tom Sullivan Tom Sullivan may refer to:
Sullivan cherishes the good and the bad equally in golf. It's a perspective he came upon not so much because he took up the game late in life but because he is able to play it at all - considering he has been blind since birth. Sightlessness, however, has never come close to stopping Sullivan, 53, from achieving a life so full of satisfaction that his ability to shoot regularly in the mid-90s - and as low as 84 from the blue tees at Riviera Country Club The Riviera Country Club is a country club with a championship golf course. It is located in Pacific Palisades, California, within the city limits of Los Angeles, California. The country club opened in 1926, with George C. Thomas, Jr. as the course architect. in the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. neighborhood of Pacific Palisades Palisades, cliffs along the west bank of the Hudson River, NE N.J. and SE N.Y., extending from N of Jersey City, N.J., to the vicinity of Piermont, N.Y., with a general altitude of from 350 ft to 550 ft (107–168 m). - is merely a part of his success story. He has traveled the world as a musician, recorded five albums, written six books, worked as a network-television correspondent, is paid to do corporate lectures and even won a national wrestling championship - competing against sighted wrestlers - before entering Harvard. Not surprisingly, his accomplishments contributed to interest in making a movie of his life: ``If You Could See What I Hear,'' released in 1982. But it has been golf that has made the upbeat Palos Verdes Palos Verdes is often used to refer to a group of coastal cities on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in the Los Angeles/South Bay area of California. This affluent bedroom community is known for its dramatic views, good schools [1] extensive horse trails [2] Country Club member complete. The game has afforded him not only a regular, renewable communion with nature but also a midlife mid·life n. See middle age. adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of middle age. opportunity to help other sightless people through his annual tournament - the Tom Sullivan Blind Children's Center Celebrity Golf Classic, which is May 7 at Riviera. ``Sports and music have been my ticket out of the darkness,'' Sullivan said. Music allowed him to communicate with and be accepted by his age peers growing up in Connecticut. Sports, from wrestling to track to crew to triathlons, ``gave me the competitive area to feel good about myself.'' Then, at age 35, came golf, the latest athletic endeavor for a man who has refused to allow a limitation strip him of his good attitude or humor: ``Tennis was gonna suck,'' he said. ``I knew that game wasn't going to happen.'' Golf intrigued him. ``It provided a way for me to share in the community.'' And nature. ``When I'm on a golf course,'' Sullivan said, ``I'm plugged into every sensuous thing - the wind in the trees, the sound a shot makes going through the air, the feel of the grass, the smells ... the joy of everything. I can read putts with my feet better than most people do with their eyes.'' Those kinds of feelings, he said, are the same reasons many blind golfers became hooked on this only slightly altered version of the ancient game - a version begun after World War II for returning injured veterans. With the help of a spotter, or coach - who squares the club face to the ball, adjusts stance and alignment, then stands aside and relates distance, wind conditions and trouble areas - the sightless golfer has his anxiety reduced to the one worry that plagues golfers everywhere: trying to make a good swing. ``I go through the same problems every player goes through,'' said Sullivan, who sounded like a lot of everyday golfers recently, following a round and some postgame rehashing with three sighted playing partners at Palos Verdes, where he plays to a 24 handicap. ``By any standard, I'm very long,'' he said. ``But I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. where it goes. I hit the ball hard, but I have an over-the-top move and pull a lot.'' Sounds normal enough and so is Sullivan's response when Bill Goodale or Luke Manthe, who split time as his coach, deliver the news of another pull. ``I say, so let's aim right,'' the right-handed golfer said. ``But coach's deal is to hit it straighter.'' Some blind golfers manage that better than most, and six of them - all members of the U.S. Blind Golfers Association - will participate in Sullivan's third fund-raising event at Riviera. Jim Baker has finished second in the USBG USBG United States Bartenders Guild USBG United States Botanic Gardens championship; Keith Melick has won four USBG titles; former USBG champion David Meador has three holes-in-one; Phil Blackwell and Bob Andrews - president of the USBG Association - have won world blind championships. And 67-year-old Pat W. Browne Jr., a 22-time USBG champion, shot 85 at St. Andrews and had consecutive rounds of 75-74-79-75 at Mission Hills in Palm Springs. ``These guys are incredible,'' Sullivan said, ``but that's just the tip of the iceberg tip of the iceberg n. pl. tips of the iceberg A small evident part or aspect of something largely hidden: afraid that these few reported cases of the disease might only be the tip of the iceberg. . The real story is what golf has meant to them.'' He can relate to that. ``I've competed in celebrity events, got to play in the Dinah Shore, played a round with Mr. Palmer and Mr. Nicklaus. ... How can I possibly feel slighted? ON THE GREEN PGA TOUR Greater Greensboro Chrysler Classic at Greensboro, N.C. Course: Forest Oaks CC (7,062 yards, par 72) Schedule: Today through Sunday Purse: $3.5 million, $630,000 to winner TV: The Golf Channel and Fox Sports Net (today and Friday, 12:30-3 p.m.); CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. (1-3 p.m. Saturday, noon-3 p.m. Sunday) LPGA LPGA abbr. Ladies Professional Golf Association TOUR Kathy Ireland Championship at Austin, Texas Course: Onion Creek Club (6,101, par 70) Schedule: Today through Sunday Purse: $900,000, $135,000 to winner TV: ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network 2 (10 a.m.-noon Friday; 12:30-2:30 p.m. Saturday-Sunday) SENIOR PGA TOUR BellBruno's Memorial Classic at Hoover, Ala. Course: Greystone Golf and Country Club, Founder's Course (6,992 yards, par 72) Schedule: Friday through Sunday Purse: $1.4 million, $210,000 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, 3-5 p.m.) TOTAL BIRDIES 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 Joe Durant 187 2 Vijay Singh 185 3 David Toms 181 4 Skip Kendall 174 T5 Frank Lickliter II 172 T5 Chris Smith 172 LPGA 1 Pat Hurst 132 2 Nancy Scranton 121 T3 Laura Diaz 114 T3 Michele Redman 114 5 Sophie Gustafson 113 PGA SENIOR 1 Larry Nelson 134 2 Dana Quigley 116 3 Ed Dougherty 115 4 J.M. Canizares 113 5 Mike McCullough 110 SPOTLIGHT: SAM SNEAD The 88-year-old Hall of Famer stirs memories this week with the latest resumption of the Greater Greensboro Open in North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. . Snead won this event a record eight times, the last time at age 52 in 1965 to become the oldest winner on the PGA Tour. He set another tour record as oldest to make the cut, at 67 in 1979 - the same year he had rounds of 66 and 67 at the Quad Cities Open. Snead won a record 81 tour events, had a record 358 top-10 finishes, shot 60 at the 1957 Dallas Open and won 11 times in 1950. CAPTION(S): box Box: ON THE GREEN (see text) |
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