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for a net 81, falling short of his fine
showing last year at Sherwood C .C .
The fourth Countrywider, Tom
Banks, did repeat his performance
of last year by shooting exactly net par .
Banks, a 15-h<strong>and</strong>icap, was a demon
on the par-3s, playing the quartet
in 1-under gross, 4-under net .
Countrywide's team
net of 8-over 292
was good for a second
consecutive first-place
finish in the SkyTel
West Regional . Their
selected charity was,
as always, the San
Gabriel Valley Boy
Scouts . The $3,000
from this year's
qualifier brings the
troop's all-time SkyTelgenerated
funding
to over 510,000 .
Second <strong>and</strong> third
place were secured by
two teams scoring net
296 : Amdahl Corp .
<strong>and</strong> Toyota Motor
Sales . On a match of
cards, Amdahl's team
of Chuck Fonner, Ollie Nutt, Dave
Anderson <strong>and</strong> Dave Chambers claimed
second, allowing the team to donate a
SkyTel check for S2,000 to the Second
Harvest Food Bank.
Amdahl arrived early <strong>and</strong> warmed
up with jumbo baskets of range balls .
Newcomer Anderson, an engaging,
buoyant man who takes a huge rip
at every ball, put in a solid rookie
performance that resulted in an 8-over
net 79 . His playing partner, Dave
Chambers, "played 11 holes before
hitting a fairway," but kept the wheels
from falling off. On No, 1, Chambers
recovered from an awful lie 2 feet
in bounds to make a round-the-rim
10-footer. On the long, par-3 fourth,
Chambers drove weakly into the deep,
half-acre bunker fronting the green,
leaving himself 55 yards from the hole .
He nipped a hellacious s<strong>and</strong> wedge
to 20 inches, then tapped in for par .
These two were paired with Novell
Corporation's David Bradford <strong>and</strong> Jan
Newman, who may have helped them
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An hour-!ong team warmup session
paid dividends for Chuck Fonner
(above) <strong>and</strong> his Amdahl mates,
stav focused. Bradford ground around
Riviera with the same intensity he
showed last year at Sherwood . For
his efforts, he won the Lark Luggage
Longest Haul award as the player with
the lowest score net
score (75) from the
most distant team
(Novell is based
in Orem, Utah) .
The other Amdahl
twosome of Fonner
<strong>and</strong> Ollie Nutt played
well tee-to-green <strong>and</strong>
did their scoring on
holes where the short
games were working .
For Nutt, whose
Gnishing kick had
him 3-over gross on
his last six holes, poor
chipping ruined a
birdie opportunity on
No . I <strong>and</strong> produced
a double-bogey on the
par-3 fourth . Fonner,
despite skillfully
h<strong>and</strong>ling a long, downhill chip on that
hole, missed his 7-footer <strong>and</strong> made
bogey. An 8-h<strong>and</strong>icap with a tight,
efficient swing, Fonner carded a gross
score higher than bogey on only one
hole : the second, Riviera's most difficult .
Toyota's team was paced by the
unflappable twosome of Irv
Miller <strong>and</strong> Bob Romero .
Starting on 5o . 17 proved
to be a disadvantage for the
6-foot 5-inch Miller, who can
crush it 300-plus <strong>and</strong> was
expected to win the Taylor
Made Long Drive contest .
Instead, Millers first shot
found the trees on the left
side, <strong>and</strong>-Jim Baker of Wyse
Technologies captured the
prize . Miller <strong>and</strong> Romero
each started bogey, doublebogey,
then Miller threw in a
triple-bogey before the twosome found
their stride en route to a combined net
score of 1-under. On the difficult nar-4
12th, Miller chipped in from 40 feet
for a birdie 3, then Romero sank a 15-
foot birdie putt, making the twosome a
combined 4-under net on that hole .
The other Toyota twosome came
ready to play as well . Dave Danzer,
who bogeyed No . 6, his opening hole,
faced a longish putt on the next hole
just to save another bogey. The putt
made a 270-degree loop around the
cup before dropping . "Right in the
center," gasped Danzer, who came
out I-under net on his next six holes .
Mike Rocco had a similar streak on the
following six holes before suffering the
dreaded twice-par maximum on
Riviera's historic 18th . He finished
with a net 79 to Danzer's net 76 . The
proceeds of the Toyota effort went
to the Desert Jc Golf Association .
Taylor Made distinguished itself as
Mark King eamed America West Low
Gross honors at 77 <strong>and</strong> Chuck Yash,
who hit his tee shot to within 2 feet
on No . 16, won a Jaeger-LeCoultre
Reverso watch as the golfer closest to
the pin . Ric Lebrecht of Unocal, with
an adjusted score of 4-under 67, was
the winner of the Productivity Point
International Low Net prize . No golfer
won a Cadillac by scoring an ace on
the designated par-3 hole, the 14th,
but many participants who took
a pre-round Cadillac test drive were
treated to interesting glimpses of the
old L .A . estates off Sunset . Then it
was time to remove the shades <strong>and</strong>
play some golf .
First place went to four experienced SkyTei golfers
from Countrywide Funding .
L-R: Tom Banks, Richard De(eo, SkyTei's
Bob Vncent <strong>and</strong> Lisa Hatf~eid, :4larshaf! Gates
<strong>and</strong> Eric Sieracki.
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