NO SMALL FEAT FOR VALENCIA'S WHITE.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 littlest Viking was easy to find Friday at Diamond Bar Golf Club in Diamond Bar. She was the one with the biggest smile. Tracy White Tracy Donnel White (born April 14, 1981 in Charleston, South Carolina) is an American football player who is on the Green Bay Packers. He attended Timberland High School in St. Stephen, South Carolina. He played linebacker and kicker on the football team. , grown all the way to 5-foot-1 and 100 pounds as a junior after taking up golf as a 4-foot-11 1/2 freshman, was trying, between giggles, to explain the finest day of her Valencia High golf career. ``I'm at the top of my game,'' she beamed after shooting 7-over-par 80 at long and difficult Diamond Bar in the Southern Section individual championship. Section commissioner Jim Staunton put it best that afternoon, when he addressed the field of 89 players at the end of competition and said, ``All of you who shot 80 or better, congratulate yourself. You're moving on to regional play.'' That would be Monday's Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, Regional at SCGA SCGA Southern California Golf Association SCGA Software Carrier Group Alarm Members Club in Murrieta, where White will be the lone individual qualifier for a 32-2 Valencia team that is ranked No. 1 by the Daily News. The top six individuals and top three teams at the regional advance to the Nov. 16 state championship at 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. of Southern California Golf Club in Beaumont. It's an exciting prospect for White, who needed to shoot a then-career-best high school round of 83 two weeks ago just to earn the fourth and final Foothill League berth in the section final. ``I was just happy being here,'' she said at Diamond Bar, where she was making her first postseason appearance as an individual high school player. White made the most of it, outscoring 62 players to tie for the final non-playoff qualifying score for the regional. In the process, she outshot teammates Stevy Loy, the league MVP (Multimedia Video Processor) A high-speed DSP chip from Texas Instruments, introduced in 1994. Officially introduced as the TMS320C80, it combines RISC technology with the functionality of four DSPs on one chip. who is sifting through several NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I golf scholarship offers, and Michelle Mannix, the league tournament champion who has verbally accepted a Division I scholarship offer from UC Riverside. ``Who would have expected it?'' said Valencia coach Andy Raevouri, who was still celebrating White's accomplishment in the league tournament - where she passed six players in her final round to qualify for the section championship. ``We felt, gosh, she made it in, and this is going to be a really good experience for her,'' Raevouri said. ``And the experience continues. This is just a happy moment, I tell you. I'm just ecstatic for her.'' Almost as happy as White, who is a textbook example of how hard work can be such a difference-maker in golf. ``I only could drive the ball about 190 at first,'' she said of her freshman season. ``So I kinda Adv. 1. kinda - to some (great or small) extent; "it was rather cold"; "the party was rather nice"; "the knife is rather dull"; "I rather regret that I cannot attend"; "He's rather good at playing the cello"; "he is kind of shy" kind of, sort of, rather worked out, and now I can drive it about 210 or 220.'' Her improvement, aided by work with longtime Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, area instructor Lee Breckenridge, is not limited to longer or even more-accurate shots. ``My whole knowledge of golf is better,'' said White, who practices six days a week, every week of the year. ``The physics of my swing, a lot more smart golf - I'm a lot more knowledgeable about the game and stuff as opposed to just being able to hit it far and get it into the hole.'' Raevouri said White's progress started to show in junior golf tournaments before she started this high school season. ``It's not a total surprise,'' he said of her late-season charge, ``because she won (a Southern California PGA junior tournament) at Redhawk, and I think that's got the highest slope rating The slope rating of a golf course, typically in the US, is a measure of its difficulty for bogey golfers. The term comes from the fact that when playing on more difficult courses, players' scores will rise more quickly than their handicaps would predict. in all of Southern California. ``So we were kind of wondering, as the season went along, where did Tracy go? What happened to her? She was reasonable, but it wasn't up to what we thought she might do. Then, here she comes at the end - look out, here comes Tracy.'' White, who said the best part of her game is her short-game play, was sharp in that area at Diamond Bar, which played to 6,014 yards for the section final and further challenged the field with quick greens. ``I had a lot of really good putts,'' she said. ``I don't think I had any three-putts, and my chipping has been really awesome lately.'' ``She's just a classic underdog,'' said Breckenridge, who has been working with White and four other Valencia starters for the three years. ``She was a little bitty thing in the ninth grade and she worked her butt off and played in a lot of tournaments. This is big for her.'' That was easy to see when the scores were posted at Diamond Bar, and the littlest Viking temporarily disappeared in a team hug. CAPTION(S): photo, box Photo: Bart Bryant Barton Holan Bryant (born November 18, 1962) is an American professional golfer. Bryant was born in Gatesville, Texas. His career has been hampered by injury and he didn't win on the PGA Tour until the 2004 Valero Texas Open. watches a tee shot during the final round of the PGA Tour The PGA Tour is an organization that operates the USA's main professional golf tours. It is headquartered in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, USA. Its name is officially rendered in all caps as “PGA TOUR". Championship. Streeter Lecka/Associated Press Box: ON THE GREEN BY DAVE SHELBURNE |
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