How business, doctors and journalists prey on your food anxieties I
How business, doctors and journalists prey on your food anxieties I
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Riviera Country Club, Pacijc Palisades, Caiifornia, April 17, 1995<br />
BY A SLIM MARGIN, IT'S COUNTRYWIDE<br />
For some FORBES 900s corporate officers, peeling off<br />
the pinstripes <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> d<strong>on</strong>ning golf clothes means bottling the<br />
competitive juices . Even at the SkyTel U .S . Corporate Golf<br />
Champi<strong>on</strong>ship cegi<strong>on</strong>aLs, there are<br />
those who turn out for the quality<br />
Stellar after a shaky start :<br />
Im Miller of<br />
Tovota Motor Sales .<br />
of the course <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> the fellowship<br />
of their peers-the leader board be<br />
damned . But this year's West Regi<strong>on</strong>al<br />
was at Riviera, baby. With the Nissan<br />
L .A . Open just c<strong>on</strong>cluded <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> . ahem,<br />
a PGA Champi<strong>on</strong>ship so<strong>on</strong> to be staged .<br />
golfers like Marshall Gates, David<br />
Bradford, Ollie Nutt . Irv Miller <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> Eric<br />
Sieracki pulled the laces <strong>on</strong> their spikes<br />
a bit tighter .<br />
Here was the West qualitler; definitive<br />
sequence : Countrywide Funding Corp .'s<br />
Sieracki, worn down by raw Pacific<br />
winds <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> Riviera's hard-to-figure greens, shook off the chill<br />
of a triple-bogey 8 <strong>on</strong> the 1 I th hole <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g>, quietly humming<br />
the Countrywide anthem, vowed he would par the 367-yard,<br />
dogleg-left 12th . His drive strayed a few yards into the right<br />
rough, where his lie was uneven <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> shaggy .<br />
On his way to the ball, he veered off the cart path toward<br />
his linebacker-shaped teammate, Marshall Gates . The two<br />
SkyTel veterans told each other they had met the enemy <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
the enemy was these tiny Riviera greens <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> massive eucalyptus<br />
trees . They quickly agreed they had nothing to fear but<br />
choking itself . And damned if they both didn't make par .<br />
Sieracki . to make his, had to paste a 3-wood out of his<br />
gunchy lie, chip his ball off a big hump <strong>on</strong> the right side of<br />
the green to 5 feet, then make the 5-footer . Gates, excuse the<br />
pun, had merely to keep swinging . His fr<strong>on</strong>t-nine score had<br />
been a stellar 5-over-par 40, pacing the 15-h<str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g>icapper to an<br />
84 gross, 69 net . Gates's splendidly dressed playing partner,<br />
Rich Deleo, carded gross 48s <strong>on</strong> both the fr<strong>on</strong>t <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> the back<br />
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