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where they recorded a pair of pars .
Dick Corp .'s chosen charity, the
Epilepsy Foundation, will thanic them
for the S 1,000 SkyTel donation that
comes with third place . Neediess to
say, Roger Peters also won closest-tothe-pin
honors on the designated 17th,
which brings with it a Jaeger-LeCoultre
watch he will never tire of looking at .
The foursome from Citicorp/CGIN
didn't score any aces, but was
anchored skillfully by Sal Chiat-monte
<strong>and</strong> Alex Burbatsky, a combative pair
of I 7-h<strong>and</strong>icappers who shot net
scores of 74 <strong>and</strong> 71, respectively .
Chiarmonte is the team's organizer,
a slashing lefth<strong>and</strong>er who supervised
pre-round practice for the team's
less-experienced twosome, Dean
DelVecchio <strong>and</strong> Angelo DeGenaro .
On the troublesome par-5 seventh
hole . Chiannonte chewed himself out
for pull-hooking a 4-iron approach far
right of the green . His lie, on the brow
of a bunker, was so awkward that it
would make a straight shot difficult for
any golfer . Burbatsky, meanwhile, was
roping two Gne, long wood shots to
a spot iust 80 yards from the hole .
His bid to get up <strong>and</strong> down for birdie
fell just short, however, <strong>and</strong> Burbatsky
settled for par.
Chiarmonte recovered for a 6, net
5, but as they walked off the greep he
checked his SkyTel pager message to
lean that Burbatsky's closest-to-the-pin
effort on No . 17 had been bettered by
2 feet bY Peters'
hole-in-one .
Burbatsky, ever the
optimist, said, "At
least, maybe, my
longest-drive shot
will st<strong>and</strong> up ." Alas,
Jeff Heinicka of
Florida Progress,
who also made a
natural eagle 2 on
the 12th, would
soon step up to the
tee a : `o . 18 <strong>and</strong>
rifle the day's
longest drive .
Heinicka's big blast
earned him a prize
catch of Taylor
Made Burner Bubble woods <strong>and</strong> irons .
So no individual loot ior Burbatsky,
but with help from a holed bunker shot
by DelVecchio, he
will bring his team
to the national finals
in September. The
Citicorp/CGIN charity,
St . Jean-Baptiste High
School, will accept a
charitable contribution
Sizing un the situation :
Sal Chiannonte of Citicorp/CG/N
with a Creek Club caddie .
of $3,000 <strong>and</strong> await
whatever the team can
bring home from
Williamsburg, Va .
Second-place
finishers in the Northeast were the
golfers from Emerson Electric, who
hopscotched from St . Louis with a team
that had participated in two previous
SkyTel regionals <strong>and</strong> in fact made it to
last year's finals in Vail, Colo . Once
again, the Emerson team was paced
by Gerry Monken, who took low-gross
honors at The Creek just as he had
in 1994 at the Midwest qualifier .
Monken's medal score this time was
76, including a natural birdie at the
difficult par-3 eighth hole <strong>and</strong> a
snappy par on the backbreaking sixth,
rated the most difficult hole at The
Creek . Monken's reward this time
was a pair of plane tickets to take
him wherever America West tlies .
Teaming with
Monken was Bob
C x, who played
as a 15 <strong>and</strong> came in
with 94, net 79 . Cox
endured back-to-back
8s on the 13th <strong>and</strong>
- 14th holes, a pair
of twin doglegs
that wrap around
marshl<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> can
ruin many a fine
round . The other
Emerson pairing,
George Tamke <strong>and</strong>
Ike Evans, called
upon their SkyTel
expetience to produce
a combined net of
only seven strokes over par. Tamke
would have been exactly par-70 net if he
hadn't missed a ridiculously short putt
of about 15 inches on No . 12 . Evans
also grimaced coming cff No . 12 : After
his terrific iron shot left him with a
First place was in die batik for Cificorp/CGL's' .
C-R : Sal Chiarmonre, A1ex Burbatsky,
SkyTe1's jack Han-ey, Dean DelYecchio
<strong>and</strong> Angelo DeGenaro .
12-footer for birdie, he was unable
to get it within a yard of the hole .
But he made his par <strong>and</strong> helped make
possible a $2,000 SkyTel gift for
the Diabetes Association .
Low-net shooter on this sensationally
sunny day was Stan Sauerhaft of
Burson-Marsteller, who carded a net
67 <strong>and</strong> went home with a rosewood
putter from Productivity Point
Intemational . Alex Burbatsky won the
drawing for 31,000 in travel vouchers
from Carlson Wagonlit, <strong>and</strong> Ed
Burtner, representing the Virginia
Department of Economic Developmcnt,
had his card drawn for a Konica
phone/fax machine . When the sun
set over The Creek Club, the SkyTeL
national finals were set <strong>and</strong> the Sweet
15 were all chosen . Good luck to all,
<strong>and</strong> play well .
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