SHARK SHOOTOUT NOTEBOOK: ELKINGTON: OPENER KEY.Byline: Dave Shelburne Daily News Staff Writer Steve Elkington Stephen John Elkington (born December 8, 1962) is an Australian golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He was born in Inverell, Australia and grew up in Wagga Wagga.[1] , who has won the Shark Shootout Shootout Venture capital jargon. Refers to two or more venture capital firms fighting for the startup. twice, said playing well in the first round - difficult because the alternate-stroke format disrupts rhythm - is the key to having any chance of winning. ``You've got to have a good round today,'' he said Friday, ``and be in the last group on Sunday because it's so hard to make up strokes (in final-round scramble format).'' ``Almost impossible'' might better describe the challenge for players trying to gain ground Sunday. Last year, then-defending champions Jay Haas Jay Dean Haas (born December 2, 1953) is an American golfer. Haas was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He attended Wake Forest University and was a member of the NCAA Championship team of the middle 1970s with Curtis Strange and Bob Byman that Golf World and Tom Kite Thomas Oliver Kite, Jr. (born December 9, 1949) is an American professional golfer. Kite was born in McKinney, Texas. He began playing golf at age 6 and won his first tournament at age 11. combined to shoot 16 under par in the final round - and finished sixth. Descending champs Twelve months ago, Bruce Lietzke 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 alumnus ALUMNUS, civil law. A child which one has nursed; a foster child. Dig. 40, 2, 14. Scott McCarron were taking bows as the ninth championship team in Shark Shootout history. Inflation and three bogeys took their toll on that pair Friday, when the defending champs opened the three-round event at even-par 72 to place 11th in a field expanded to 12 teams. That placement would have left them off the board in last year's 10-team field, which the Lietzke/McCarron team won with a 30-under, three-round total of 186. They opened with a 68 in alternate-stroke format, then 59 in both best-ball and scramble to edge David Duval and Scott Hoch by two strokes. Pro-am champs: Tournament host Greg Norman may have yet to win his own tournament, but he and fellow pro Costantino Rocca helped the amateur team of Peter Jones, James Bradford, Bob Dineen and Michael Price place first in this week's two-day pro-am tournament. The group was fifth with Norman at 52.9 after the first round of the handicap-based competition and posted a tournament-leading 54 with Rocca in the second round to finish more than three strokes ahead of the field at 106.9. |
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