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under par, matched a $3,000 first-place
contribution to the United Way of
Atlanta for a total donation of 56,000 .
Second place, at net even par in a
match-of-cards tiebreaker, was claimed
by Marsh & McLennan, the 53 .5 billion
insurance <strong>and</strong> financial-services giant .
Ernie Thomasson, a calmly competitive
14-h<strong>and</strong>icapper, took low-net honors
at 3-under 32 <strong>and</strong> won a decorative
rosewoo¢ putter courtesy of Productivity
Rick Fireddington's all-around play helped
Coca-Cala caplure the top quaiifying spot
Point InternationaL Thomasson's tee
shot on the par-3 third hung out to the
right <strong>and</strong> caught the comer of a large,
undulating, Arthur Hills-designed green .
Despite coming up 8 feet short with his
approach putt, Thomasson easily rolled
in the finishing putt for a par .
That was all his partner, Andy Daniels,
needed to right a rickety boat <strong>and</strong> play
the next five official holes in 4 over,
Daniels, a UCLA a ad still fired up
about his alma mater's NCAA hoops
title, came out cold in the first quarter,
so to speak, <strong>and</strong> walked off the third
hole already 6 over. But making it to
a SkyTel national final only heightened
Daniels' sense of destiny . At the award=ceremonv,
he fantasized : "If Marsh
& McLennan ever made a big
marketing move into golf, I could be
the guy who plays the PGA tour <strong>and</strong>
wears our visor ."
Marsh & McLennan's other twosome
included Craig Perry, a G .C . of Georgia
member who plays to a 13 but didn't
quite do as well on this occasion .
Looal knowledge helped Perry to a net
1 .5-over score of 385 . His playing
partner, Rob Hunter, suffered through
a quadruple-bogey 8 on the relatively
easy eighth hole, but scrambled
to shoot even par net . On two
successive holes, Hunter wedged
his ball from difficult spots
to within tap-in range .
The Marsh & MeLennan
charity, Scottish Rite
Children's Hospital, will
receive $2,000 in SkyTel
purse money plus 52,000
in matching funds . Feeling
not only generous but feisty,
the Marsh & McLennan team
vowed to be competitive at
September's national finals
in W'iltiamsburg, Va . Said
Daniels, "What we need to
do now is get team uniforms .
At least shirts ."
As for the third-place
guys, Harris Corp ., regular readers
of this space don't need a lot of
background information . The Harris
foursome of Jack Hartley, Phil Fatmer,
Herb McCauley <strong>and</strong> Bob Fay has had
a consistent run of success throughout
SkyTei Southeast qualifying history .
Fay was all smiles coming off the 10th
because he <strong>and</strong> McCauley had put
together a string of net pars
on the previous four holes .
"Except," Fay reported,
"for my 6 on No . 6," where
he made the maximum
of twice-par gross . "But
it was a real 6,° he hastened
to add . 'All it took me was
six strokes ."
Farmer, a 9-h<strong>and</strong>icapper,
shot a neat 41, net 36 .5,
for his nine, <strong>and</strong> for a while
was the inside man on
closest-to-the-pin . Hartley,
his stylish playing partner,
rurned in a 46, net 39,5,
with a triple-bogey on
the difficult par-4 seventh, his only
bad hole . Harris' charity, The Haven,
received $1,000 from the purse, a sum
matched dollar-for-dollar by Harris .
Farmer's attempt at winning closestto-the-pin
was scuttled when George
Pace of Virginia-based food processor
Rocco Inc . hammered a full 7-iron
to 14 feet on the 138-yard third'nole
of the Lakeside course . But Pace's
shot was bettered by a yard in the
tournament's closing hour, as Gary
Gramkow of Maxfli snuck a 9-iron just
inside Pace's marker. Gramkow's shot
won him a deluxe Iaeger-LeCoultre
stainless steel watch . Pace did claim an
impressive overnight case by winning
the Lark Luggage Long Haul award,
which goes to the lowest-scoring
member of the foursome that traveled
the farthest to the tournament site .
Among the teams that failed to
qualify, Gulfstream Aerospace is most
likely to return next year . Gulfstream
was encouraged when three of its four
players won prizes in a drawing of
<strong>business</strong> cards . First Dick Whitaker
won a three-day car-rental prize from
National Car Rental . Next Bob Cooper
won four dozen Maxfli balls with the
Gulfstream logo to be imprinted on
them . Then along came Buzz Yates
to win the Cross Creek golf apparel
ensemble . Robert O'Leary of Cox
Communications stopped the Gulfstream
sweep when his name was called as the
winner of the Konica 710 home-office
fax machine . Could one's <strong>business</strong>
card be more important than one's
scorecard? Nah .
Proud winner of the Southeast Regional
is Coca-Cola .
L-R : 3fark O'Shaughnessy,
Tan Ludwick, SkyTeYs Jack Haney,
Jeff Dunn, Rick Weddington .
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