ROBINSON RANCH SOON WILL BECOME MORE CHALLENGING.Byline: Dave Shelburne Golf The most scenic new golf facility in the area soon will add bite to its beauty. Robinson Ranch in 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, , which opened its eye-pleasing, user- friendly Mountain course in February, plans to unveil its much-more- difficult Valley course on Memorial Day weekend. Head professional Rick Smith, who has worked at Industry Hills and Valencia Country Club - two famously tough tracks - expects Robinson's Valley course to be at least as hard as either of those layouts. Stretching more than 6,900 yards and featuring water, wind and severe rough, Valley's signature will likely be the back-nine stretch called ``Death Row.'' That four-hole run begins at No. 13 with a double-dogleg, 596-yard par-5 with a raised green guarded by a rocky creek bed. Next comes a 248- yard par-3, followed by a 414-yard par-4 that brings trees into play, then a 407-yard, dogleg dog·leg n. 1. a. Something that has a sharp bend, especially a road or route that bends abruptly. b. A sharp bend or turn: Make a dogleg at the fire station and continue south. par-4 flanked by two lakes and ending in a narrow green. ``Golfers want tough courses,'' Smith said. ``Why, 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. . They want to go out and beat themselves up.'' Valley, he said, will provide the appropriate venue. ``It's going to be as tough as the other two I worked at,'' he said. Especially because of the rough. ``Out here, you miss a fairway and it's a lost ball or unplayable lie,'' Smith said. ``There's no way to play out of there.'' --Well done, again: Congratulations to Pete Frey and Bob Ryan For the Washington, DC meteorologist, see . Robert P. Ryan (born February 21, 1946 in Trenton, New Jersey) is a longtime[1] columnist for the Boston Globe and a sports talk show host on the New England Sports Network. for organizing another successful 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. City Junior Championship. The 50th annual event, conducted last weekend at Griffith Park's Wilson and Harding courses and at the Encino and Balboa courses at Sepulveda Golf Complex, attracted 470 participants, aged 7-18. Frey, who coordinates golf operations for the city, and Ryan, the Hansen Dam Hansen Dam in Los Angeles County, California was built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District in 1939 and 1940. The project is located near the northern edge of the San Fernando Valley on Tujunga Wash, about one mile below the confluence of the Big Tujunga Wash men's club president who also is president of the Municipal Golf Association, had the help of more than 70 volunteers. Boys' and girls' champions Kevin Na of Western Hills Country Club and Anna Lee of California Country Club join a winners' list that includes some famous golf names, including Tiger Woods, the top-ranked professional golfer in the world, who won at Griffith Park in 1991. Other past men's champions include current professionals John Cook (1975) and Al Geiberger, who won the City Junior title in '54 and 23 years later became the first man to shoot 59 in a PGA Tour event. Past women's city champions include LGPA Tour great Amy Alcott, who won junior titles in 1971-72-73. The last local golfer to win the City Junior title was Westlake High star Ross Fulgentis, who won in 1994 and went on to play for 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 . Fulgentis gave the area back-to-back champions, following former Granada Hills High standout Darren Angel ('93), who also won three straight City Section high school titles before going to Arizona State. Na, the fourth player to win consecutive boys' titles, is hardly finished with City Junior competition. The Diamond Bar High talent is only a sophomore. --Remembering Marty: Marty Tregnan, the former Griffith Park men's club president who championed public and junior golf before his death two years ago, will continue to make an impact on the game he loved so much. The Marty Tregnan Golf Academy, conceived to help junior golfers, is scheduled to open this year on the site of the old Coolidge three-par course in Griffith Park. Anyone donating $100 or more to the academy can have a brick engraved en·grave tr.v. en·graved, en·grav·ing, en·graves 1. To carve, cut, or etch into a material: engraved the champion's name on the trophy. 2. with his or her name as part of the pathway at the academy. Information: (213) 473-7081. --More championships: The 77th Los Angeles City Women's Golf Championship will be May 15-17 at the Griffith Park Harding and Wilson courses. Entry fee is $80. Entry deadline is May 1. Information: (818) 344-1031 or (818) 896-1390. --One keystroke key·stroke n. A stroke of a key, as on a word processor. key  stroke , 10 shots: Garry Finneran, the former Cal State
Northridge golfer who is now the club professional at Porter Valley CC,
was listed here recently as having a share of the El Cariso GC course
record at 64. Make that record 54 for the par-62 executive course, where
Finneran shares the record with Ron Day.
--Names in the game: Lindsey Wright of Pepperdine shot 74-73-147 to win the West Coast Conference individual women's championship by five strokes last weekend at Windsor GC in Marin County, leading the No. 7-ranked Waves to a third straight conference team title. Fellow Australians Tamie Durdin (152) and Katherine Hull (154) finished 2-3 to help Pepperdine finish 24 strokes ahead of runner-up San Francisco. The Pepperdine men made it a sweep for the Waves, winning a second straight WCC WCC n abbr (= World Council of Churches) → COE m (Conseil œcuménique des Églises) WCC n abbr (= World Council of Churches) → Weltkirchenrat m title by a 21-stroke margin over San Francisco. Michael Beard, Jason Allred and Bobby Rodger of Pepperdine each shot 218 to tie for third, six strokes behind winner Fernando Gomez of San Francisco. Former Alemany star Matt Heyn of Loyola Marymount tied for seventh at 220. . . . Kyle Thurston of Moorpark shot 4-over-par 140 to win the age 13-14 division at the Future Collegians World Tour Northwestern Classic last weekend in Oregon. The tournament was held at Pumpkin Ridge. . . . Steve Sullivan, Pat Glynn, Scott Christianson and Scholl Canyon men's club champion Dave Dall shot 13 under par to win the Glendale-La Canada ReMax scramble tournament at par-60 Scholl Canyon. ON THE GREEN PGA TOUR Greater Greensboro Chrysler Classic at Greensboro, N.C. Course: Forest Oaks Country Club The Forest Oaks Country Club is located in Greensboro, NC. It is primarily known for its golf course and the PGA Tour Event held there the Wyndham Championship (formerly the Greater Greensboro Chrysler Classic (GGCC) and before that the Greater Greensboro Open (GGO)). (7,062 yards, par 72). Purse: $3 million, $540,000 to winner. TV: The Golf Channel and Fox Sports Net (Today-Friday, 12:30-3 p.m.) and CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. (Saturday, 1-4 p.m.; Sunday, noon-3 p.m.). SENIOR PGA TOUR Las Vegas Senior Classic The Las Vegas Senior Classic was a golf tournament on the Champions Tour from 1986 to 2001. It was played in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Desert Inn Country Club (1986-1993) and at the TPC at Summerlin (1994-2001). at Las Vegas Course: 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 at Summerlin (6,963 yards, par 72). Purse: $1.4 million, $210,000 to winner. TV: ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (Friday, noon-2 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday, 2:30-4 p.m.) LPGA LPGA abbr. Ladies Professional Golf Association TOUR Next event: Chick-fil-A Charity Championship, April 28-30, at Stockbridge, Ga. MONEY LEADERS 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. Tiger Woods $3,415,731 Hal Sutton $1,766,961 Vijay Singh $1,568,368 Tom Lehman $1,546,293 Phil Mickelson $1,364,773 LPGA Karrie Webb $611,629 Annika Sorenstam $279,653 Juli Inkster $275,530 Dottie Pepper $212,338 Laura Davies $205,356 SENIOR Bruce Fleisher $633,939 Doug Tewell $545,423 Dana Quigley $488,826 Larry Nelson $460,860 Allen Doyle $432,966 CAPTION(S): box Box: On the green (see text) |
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