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Whittier's Irwin Leads by Two.


Sports Editors/Golf Writers

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif.--(BW SportsWire)--July 19, 2000

Whittier Whittier, city (1990 pop. 77,671), Los Angeles co., S Calif.; in a fruit and oil area; inc. 1898. Mainly residential, it has plants that manufacture such diversified goods as potato chips; automobile, aircraft, and missile parts; oil pumps; and clay and steel  physician Bob Irwin Bob Irwin (born c. 1939/1940 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), is an Australian naturalist, animal conservationist, and a pioneering herpetologist who is also famous for his conservation and husbandry work with apex predators and other reptiles.  will celebrate his 61st birthday Thursday Thursday: see week.  by teeing off in the second round of the California California (kăl'ĭfôr`nyə), most populous state in the United States, located in the Far West; bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada and, across the Colorado River, Arizona (E), Mexico (S), and the Pacific Ocean (W).  Golf Association (State) Senior Amateur Championship with a two-stroke two-stroke
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 lead at Poppy Hills Golf Course The Poppy Hills Golf Course is a golf course in Pebble Beach, California, on the Monterey Peninsula just outside of Monterey, California. It was designed by Robert Trent Jones, Jr. and it opened in 1986. .

Irwin, playing in the fourth group of the day on the 6,237-yard, par-72 layout, carded five birdies and two bogeys in his 2-under-par 70. Another 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,  contestant, Rancho ran·cho  
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2. A ranch.
 Santa Fe's George Beebe, checked in with a par-72.

Irwin's birdies came on Nos. 1, 5, 10, 14 and 16. He made bogeys at the sixth, eighth and 18th holes.

Two more players from the south, Seal Beach's Mike Blum and San Diego's Mike Riley

For other people named Mike Riley, see Mike Riley (disambiguation).
Mike Riley (b. 1952 Wallace, Idaho) is the current head coach of the Oregon State University Beavers football program.
, fired 1-over-par 73s. In fact, players representing the Southern California Golf Association grabbed the first eight spots.

Diablo's Jim McMurtrey, a three-time winner of this event, and 1997 winner Cliff Davis from Suisun carded 3-over-par 75s to lead the Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern  Golf Association to a one-stroke lead in team play that will end with Thursday's second round. Antioch's Bob Heaton (76) and Brentwood's Bob Olds (78) also played for the NCGA (National Computer Graphics Association) A Fairfax, Virginia-based organization dedicated to developing and promoting the computer graphics industry. It maintained a clearinghouse for industry information. NCGA closed its doors in 1996. . The best three scores of four will count each day.

Defending champion defending champion n (SPORT) → defensor/a m/f del título

defending champion n (Sport) → champion(ne) en titre

 Tom Eastlack from Menifee struggled to an 81. He, Riley and teammates Joe Byrom of San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay.  and Ted Lyford of Redlands, both with 77, made up the SCGA SCGA Southern California Golf Association
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 team that check in one stroke behind the NCGA contingent in the annual team matches.

The original field of 72 will be trimmed to the low 24 and ties for Friday's final round.


      Following are first-round results:

 Robert Irwin, Whittier                        36-34--70
 George Beebe, Rancho Santa Fe                 36-36--72
 Mike Blum, Seal Beach                         35-38--73
 Mike Riley, San Diego                         37-36--73
 Ron Ramsey, San Diego                         35-39--74
 Spencer Beard, Westchester                    36-38--74
 Conrad Lopes, Huntington Beach                39-35--74
 Marty Temple, Anaheim                         35-39--74
 Michael Davis, El Dorado Hills                35-40--75
 Jack Essex, Riverside                         38-37--75
 James McMurtrey, Danville                     40-35--75
 Clifford Davis, Suisun                        38-37--75
 Richard Nordlund, Santa Barbara               37-39--76
 Gary Pietila, La Jolla                        41-35--76
 James Myers, Oceanside                        40-36--76
 Paul Ladin, Westlake Village                  37-39--76
 Tom Lingham, Santa Ynez                       36-40--76
 Jack Koski, Modesto                           38-38--76
 Robert Heaton, Antioch                        39-37--76
 Barry Weatherbee, La Verne                    40-37--77
 Steve Whitman, Martinez                       38-39--77
 Gene Ackerman, Elk Grove                      39-38--77
 Larry Hampsten, Laguna Niguel                 39-38--77
 Joe Byrom, San Diego                          39-38--77
 Ted Lyford, Redlands                          37-40--77
 Bob Rowland, Danville                         37-41--78
 Jerry Hutton, Long Beach                      39-39--78
 Frank Abbott, Napa                            39-39--78
 John Sixt, San Diego                          39-39--78
 Earl Stewart, Fairfax                         38-40--78
 Peter Daley, Newport Beach                    41-37--78
 Charles Weil Jr., Pebble Beach                39-39--78
 Robert Olds, Brentwood                        41-37--78
 Peter Ross, Fair Oaks                         41-38--79
 Paul Kay, Encino                              39-40--79
 Robert Kovash, San Francisco                  42-37--79
 James Clarke, Cambria                         38-41--79
 Larry Carr, Bakersfield                       39-40--79
 John Cranston, Los Altos Hills                41-38--79
 Dick Yokota, Santa Cruz                       41-39--80
 Steve Miraglia, Moraga                        40-40--80
 Ron Johnson, Indian Wells                     42-38--80
 Tom McCutcheon, Los Alamitos                  38-42--80
 R.F. Martin, Yuba City                        40-41--81
 Art Arns, Rancho Santa Fe                     39-42--81
 Michael Marcus, Dana Point                    41-40--81
 R.K. Bailey, Antioch                          43-38--81
 Tom Eastlack, Menifee                         42-39--81
 David Ellis, Roseville                        39-43--82
 Dick Dallagiacomo, Anderson                   42-40--82
 Frank Merhar, La Jolla                        42-40--82
 Bill Clemo, Santa Barbara                     42-40--82
 Ray Celaya, San Jose                          43-39--82
 Michael Flanagan, San Marino                  41-41--82
 Carl Franklin, Auburn                         46-37--83
 Robert Wernick, Rancho Mirage                 45-39--84
 James Ullakko, Kentfield                      42-42--84
 Jeff Newkirk, Santa Cruz                      42-42--84
 William Paulson, Monterey                     38-47--85
 Joe Rhodes, Antioch                           44-41--85
 Bob Cook, San Diego                           43-42--85
 Tony Reboton, Fremont                         41-45--86
 Jim Miller, Carlsbad                          45-41--86
 Ed Anderson, Chico                            41-45--86
 Justin English, Sacramento                    44-42--86
 Jerry Millerick, Sabastopol                   44-43--87
 Chuck Arnold, Modesto                         46-41--87
 Thomas Smith, San Francisco                   42-46--88
 Joe Dudley, San Jose                          45-44--89
 Donald Wise, Hacienda Heights                 NC
 Preston Davis, Manhattan Beach                WD
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