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m-rrrr Tuesday, July 18, 1995 The Clarion-Ledger 3C Pride From 1C "1 played with Chris DiMarco, Green leads qualifying By Rusty Hampton Clarion-Ledger Stan Writer MADISON Former Auburn golfer Jimmy Green has won one golf tournament in Mississippi, the 1991 Southeastern Conference championships at Old Waverly Golf Club in West Point. Now Green gets a shot at another title the Deposit Guaranty Golf Classic at Annandale Golf Club. Green's 6-under-par 66 Monday led the qualifying at Castlewoods Country Club for the four open qualifying spots for the DGGC. Green, a regular on the Hooters Tour, was 8-un-der after 12 holes. His round included nine birdies and three bogeys.

The other three open spots went to Mike Tschet- ter (68), Joey Davis (69) and Chris Popp (71). Popp won his spot in a three-hole playoff against Todd Baker and Wes McNulty. Patron Pro-Am: The team led by pro Bill Porter shot a net score of 18-under 54 to win Monday's Coca-Cola Patron Pro-Am by one stroke. Porter's amateur partners included Phil Poston, Gary Tucker, Steve Pitzer and Mike Leech. Three teams shot 55, and the tie was broken by a scorecard playoff.

Steve Pate's team finished second, thanks to a net eagle on the par-4 13th. His amateur partners were Robert Watson, Ed Spencer, Bill White and Eric Biedenharn. Mark Wurtz's team was third, with a birdie on the par-3 15th. His amateurs included Ray Nor-cum, Larry Harris, Terry Peters and Mark And Mac O'Grady's team finished fourth. He was joined by amateurs Ed Harris, Will Cocke, Boh Mills and Jim Kennedy.

TV: The Golf Channel will televise all four rounds of the DGGC live, beginning at 2 p.m. The Golf Channel is a pay-per-view channel not available on Jackson-area cable systems. It is available on most satellite systems. Subscribers to Capitol and American Cablevi-sion in the metro area can receive tournament updates beginning at 7 a.m. Wednesday on Channel 42., A continuous scoreboard will air, listing leaders and course statistics.

and I remember him telling me, 'If all those lip-outs lip in, you'd have played Pride said. The second round was different. Pride stayed hot with his irons and zeroed in his putter. He made a snake from 30 feet for birdie at No. 1, his 10th hole, and two-putted for bird at the par-5 fifth.

In between, he birdied No. 4 from 6 feet, after drilling a 2-iron from 213 yards. By the time he birdied the par-3 eighth hole to go 8-under, Pride had attracted a large gallery. His 40-footer on No. 9 to go 9-under lipped out, but he was more than happy with shooting 64 on his 25th birthday.

Pride, who turned 26 last Saturday, would like to recapture the feeling that led to that 64. He has struggled most of this year, making seven of 20 cuts, and his $50,000 in earnings doesn't crack 150 on the money list. At times, Pride said, he's tried too hard to shoot more 64s. "It's like you want it so badly, you kind of get in your own way," he said. "Sometimes you've got to just sit back and say, 'This is all I've got, let's go play golf and see what A former Alabama player, Pride first played Annandale during the Southeastern Conference championships in 1990.

He loves the layout, and not just because his name is next to the course record. "I think Annandale's definitely in my top 10 and maybe in my top five of the courses we play," Pride said. "I just think the overall design is very nice. You don't hit the same shots all the time. "Some courses we play, all you do is hit driver and 5-, 6- or 7-iron.

This has a very unique variety of different shots, and that makes it fun for me. Henninger and Mike Sullivan were 9-under for 36 holes last year. Pride declined to offer a winning score for 72 holes, but did make one prediction. "I'd be surprised," he said, "if that 64 holds up." Is 1968 B.R. McLendon worked overtime to win the inaugural DGGC, which was known then as the Magnolia Classic.

McLendon shot 1 1 -under 269 for 72 holes, then beat Pete Fleming on the ninth hole of a sudden death playoff. 1969 The tournament moved to the week of the Masters, and Larry Mowry played the final three rounds in 9-under to win by a stroke. Orville Moody, who later in the summer won the U.S. Open, missed the cut in the Magnolia. 1970 Chris Blocker got up and down out of a bunker on the final hole for 9-under total and a one-shot victory.

Among six tied for 1 1th was a youngster named Johnny Miller. 1971 Roy Pace birdied five of the final nine holes for a 5-under 65 that put him at 10-under for the tournament and gave him a one-shot victory over Jack Lewis. Hubert Green tied for 26th. 1972 Mike Morley shot four rounds under 70 and won by three shots with an 1 1 -under total of 269. John Mahaffey tied for third and Tom Watson tied for 1 1th.

1973 A second-round 63 helped Dwight Nevil shoot a then tournament-record 12-under 268 and win by three shots over Mississippian Bert Greene and five over Tom Watson. 1974 Nevil opened with rounds of 64 and 69, then watched as a foot of rain washed out the final two rounds and made him the winner. Gary McCord tied for 38th. 1975 Rain forced 36 holes on the final day, and Bob Wynn shot 64-71 on Sunday for a two-shot victory. Fuzzy Zoeller tied for 43rd, and Hattiesburg Country club picked up a nickname, thanks to Rocky Thompson, who dubbed it, "Ricochet Country Club." 1976 Four days of sunshine helped Dennis Meyer shoot 9-under 271 and win by two.

Andy Bean tied for fourth. 1977 Two weeks after finishing second in the Tournament Players Championship, Mike McCullough shot 1 1-under 269 to win in Hattiesburg. Orville Moody tied for second and Calvin Peete and Craig Stadler tied for ninth. 1978 A final-round 63 gave Craig Stadler a 12-under 268 total and his first Tour victory. 1979 Bobby Walzel, who barely survived the cut, shot 67-65 for a 272 total, then beat Buddy Gardner on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff.

Bob Charles tied for 19th. 1980 Roger Maltbie opened with a 5-under 65, which turned out to be the winning score after three days of thunderstorms drenched Hattiesburg and left the course unplayable. 1981 Tom Jones beat Mike Smith on the second playoff hole for the Magnolia's biggest payday to date They tied at 12-under 268. Nick Faldo and Peter Oosterhuis tied for 24th. 1982 Payne Stewart shot 10-under 270 for a three shot victory.

The $13,500 first prize helped him win nearly $100,000 during the season, his second on the PGA Tour. Mark Calcavachia and Paul Azinger tied for seventh. 1983 The tournament became part of the Tournament Player Series, was reduced to 54 holes and once again was hampered by rain. The final round was played on Monday, and left-hander Russ Cochran, seven shots back when the day began, shot 63 for a two-stroke vitory. 1984 Lance Ten Broeck and Mike Smith tied at 9-under 201, then Ten Broeck parred the first playoff hole to hand Smith his second playoff loss in this tournament in four years.

Randy Watkins of Jackson shared the first-round lead with a 65 and finished tied for 12th. 1985 Jim Gallagher who now resides in Greenwood, beat Azinger with a birdie on the first playoff hole for his first pro win. Rain reduced the event to 36 holes. 1986 The tournament name was changed to reflect its new title sponsor, Deposit Guaranty National Bank. It also became a PGA Tour event and returned to its 72-hole format.

Canadian Dan Halldorson opened with a 6-under 64 and shot a tournament record 17-under 263 to beat Azinger and win $36,000. 1987 A final-round 64 helped David Ogrin come from 14th place and win with a 13-under total of 267. Nick Faldo shot 67 each day and finished second; three months later he won the British Open. 1988 Frank Conner shot 63 on the final day for a 267 total and run-away, five-shot victory. 1989 Rain canceled Sunday's final round, and Jim Booros and Mike Donald, who were tied for the third-round lead at 7-under 199, had a playoff to determine the winner.

Booros prevailed on the fourth hole of sudden death! 1990 Gene Sauers took a three-shot lead into the final round and shot 68 to coast to a two-shot victory and $54,000. Lee Janzen finished fifth. 1991 Larry Silveira was five shots off the lead when the final round began, but when Sunday ended he was the tournament champion. He and Russ Cochran both shot 7-under 63 to catch leader Mike Nico-lette, then Silveira beat the two with a birdie on the first playoff hole. 1992 Bouyed by a tournament record-tying 62 on the second day, Mike Donald took a two-shot lead into Sunday's final round, but couldn't hold it.

Canandian Richard Zokol fired a final-round 67 for a 13-under total and a one-shot victory over Donald and three others. 1993 A 10-footer for par on the 72nd hole gave Greg Kraft a final-round 68, a 13-under 267 total and his first Tour victory. 1994 The tournament moved to Madison but couldn't escape what had become an almost regular feature in Hattiesburg rain. Thunderstorms that destroyed sky-box tents and dropped more than 12 inches on the course during the week shortened the event from 72 to 36 holes. Brian Henninger and Mike Sullivan each shot Sounder 135, then Henninger won with a birdie on the first playoff hole Sunday morning.

The rest of the course was unplayable. ihi r. if r.r' nil ini IUI 'f T. if il IUI tr i I fi IPl ft IM wm v-m m- in MM' Hi V-Hiy, JM Jill! 'r Jimmy TrewsThe Associated Press Framed by the St. Andrews' clubhouse, Nick Faldo practices for the upcoming British Open.

abroad Trata Eyres Amarfs By Dave Sheinln Knlght-Rldder News Service would be to win the Open Championship at the home of golf. "When you drive up the road to St. Andrews, the atmosphere hits you like a brick wall. You just know something special is going to happen there." Floyd can remember when only a handful of Americans went overseas for the British Open. "My first British Open was in 1969, and in those days there were only five or six of us going oven Arnie, Jack, Tom Weiskopf and a couple others," Floyd recalled.

"But you realized it was a fun thing to play. It's The Open the original. Soon, anyone who prided themselves on being a good player went over." Many younger American golfers say it's too expensive just to go try to qualify. But the often unspoken reason is that Americans are used to "target golf hitting the ball high and firing at pins and are scared to look bad playing Scottish style, which favors a more ground-based game. Floyd admits he used to think that way.

"You have to land the ball 40 feet in front of the green to get it to stop on the green," Floyd said. "And you're thinking, 'Hey, this isn't the way golf is supposed to But then you realize, 'Yes, this is the way it's supposed to be. They're the ones who invented More American golfers than ever are heading overseas for the British Open this year, even ones who have to try their luck at open qualifying. A cynic would say the influx of Americans is a result of the PGA Tour's decision to count British Open earnings as official on the money list this year. But perhaps that is too harsh.

Perhaps the younger generation of American golfers is finding out what guys like Arnold Palmer, Raymond Floyd, Jack Nicklaus and Peter Ja-cobsen have known all along there is nothing like playing the game at its ancestral home. "I love it," said Jacobsen, 41, who had to qualify last year but is exempt this year. "I love the tradition. I love everything about it." When a golfer steps to the first tee Thursday at the Old Course at St. Andrews, Scotland, the site of this year's Open Championship, he is stepping to The First Tee.

The romance and mysticism have always drawn the older generation of golfers to the rolling linkslands of Scotland. But the younger generation, perhaps having grown lazy by the sameness of American courses, has been skipping the British Open lately, especially those who aren't exempt from the grueling 36- hole qualifier. In the past 11 years, the British Open has crowned just one American champion Mark Calcavecchia in 1989. But this year, at least 89 Americans including 27 who have to qualify are making the pilgrimage. And once they get there, they just might fall in love as so many more before them have.

"The first time I ever played the Old Course I was 17 years old, and I was coming from the sunshine in Zimbabwe," said Nick Price, who won last year's Open at Turnberry. "When I got to Scotland, it was 30 degrees and raining. I couldn't even see the golf course. The first time I played, I couldn't understand why people made such a fuss over this course. "Butovertheyears, it didn't take longto see what a wonderful course it is.

I've probably played it 150 times now, and there are bunkers I'm still finding. It's something that grows on you." Price's first British Open as a professional was in 1978, the year Nicklaus won at the Old Course. "I remember standing on the clubhouse steps watching Jack, and there were tears in his eyes," Price said. "I couldn't figure out why a guy of his stature would get so emotional But I realized over the years how special it Year Winner Score Earnings 1968 B.R. McLendon 65-69-69-68269 $2,800 1969 Lary Mowry 71-67-66-68 272 $5,000 1970 Chris Blocker 69-65-69-68271 $5,000 1971 Roy Pace (i: 67-70-68-65271 $5,000 1972 Mike Morley 67-67-66-69269 $7,000 1973 Dwight Nevil 68-63-71-66 268 $7,000 1974 Dwight Nevil 64-69133 $3,500 1975 Bob Wynn 67-68-64-71 270 $7,000 1976 Dennis Meyer 67-68-69-67 271 $7,000 1977 Mike McCullough 67-68-68-66269 $7,000 1978 Craig Stadler 67-66-72-63268 $7,000 1979 Bobby Walzel 72-68-67-65272 $9,000 1980 Roger Maltbie 65 65 $4,500 1981 Tom Jones 68-70-64-66 268 $13,500 1982 Payne Stewart 65-67-71-67 270 $13,500 1983 Russ Cochran 70-70-63203 $27,000 1984 Lance Ten Broeck 66-70-65201 $27,000 1985 Jim Gallagher Jr.

65-66131 $27,000 1986 Dan Halldorson 64-67-66-66263 $36,000 1987 David Ogrin 66-68-69-64267 $36,000 1988 Frank Conner 65-70-69-63267 $36,000 1989 Jim Booros 64-69-66199 $36,000 1990 Gene Sauers 67-65-68-68 268 $54,000 1991 Larry Silveira 66-66-71-63266 $54,000 1992 Richard Zokol 67-67-66-67267 $54,000 1993 Greg Kraft 65-70-64-68267 $54,000 1994 Brian Henninger 67-68135 $126,000 Jarrett hopes victory attracts sponsors' attention By Don Coble Gannett New Service LONG POND, Pa. Minutes after driving '6J -VflJ. he will start his own team next year. If not, he will seek employment with another team. His deal with Yates was for this season.

It's expected that Irvan will return fulltime in 1996. Television commentator and two-time Winston Cup Champion Ned Jarrett will be a partner on the new team. Said Yates: "This team still had a lot of hope, but I've felt so much for Dale Jarrett this year. He's the nicest guy on the earth. We knew his talents were better than we'd shown.

And of course, he was taking the rap for the whole deal. We hope his stock is on the way back up." ter Irvan suffered near-fatal injuries in a crash 11 months ago. "This win relieves a lot of pressure more than what I envisioned," Jarrett said. "It was the most fun I've had in a longtime. What this means, I don't know.

I'm working the hardest getting my own team for next year." When Jarrett joined Yates, they had an agreement that Yates would provide Jarrett with engines for two years if Jarrett started his own team. Yates also promised to help him find a sponsor. Jarrett said he is talking with two different sponsors. If one commits in the next month, XT FREE i admission WfifTUml WITH THIS AD AND YOUR about a quarter mile from the finish line. But he lightly tapped the throttle and was able to get the sputtering car to the checkered flag before Gordon could pass.

The car ran dry at the finish line and rolled to a stop on the cooldown lap, a mile away from victory lane. The win lifted an enormous emotional burden from Jarrett, who had not won for car owner Robert Yates and had failed to finish on the lead lap in six of the first 16 races. He had been hired to replace Ernie Irvan af to victory lane for the Miller Genuine Draft 500 at the Pocono International Raceway, Dale Jarrett said he hoped his effort was good enough to impress sponsors that might join with him next year on a new team. "If those sponsors were watching, they saw they can get a driver who can win," he said after beating Jeff Gordon's Chevrolet by three car lengths. His Havoline Ford Thunderbird started to run out of gas in the last turn of the last lap With Talladega next, Chevy cries foul By Don Coble Gannett News Service -f Winston Select 500 there last April in a Ford.

NASCAR allowed Fords and Pontiac Grand Prixs to increase their rear spoilers to 6.3 inches high for the race, while the new Monte Carlo remained at 5.75 inches. The sanctioning body for the third time added to the Ford and Pontiac rear spoiler to offset gains by Chevrolet in the modifications in the rear window and trunk deck areas. Chevrolet still has won 13 of the first 17 races. Jarrett's victory snapped a five-race winning streak for Chevrolet. Ford has won three times and Pontiac once.

Hendrick-owned cars have triumphed seven times this year five by Gordon and two by Labonte. "We need some spoiler," Hendrick said. "There'll be 300,000 people up there (at the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis) wanting to see a great race. If they're going to let us come (to the race), give us a chance." Ford clearly dominated the race at Pocono. But the top Chevrolet cars were victims of their own problems, not Ford's speed.

Gordon finished second, although Jarrett's carwas out of gas at the finish line. If the race had gone 500 extra yards, he would have won the race. Labonte and Dale Earnhardt bent their Chevrolets when they bumped going into the second turn. Labonte's car suffered damage to the rear suspension, Earnhardt had damage to the front nose and rear suspension. Darrell Waltrip and Schrader blew engines; Bobby Labonte hit the wall, and Sterling Marlin had the shocks freeze on his Monte Carlo.

"The Fords just drove off and left us," Marlin said. LONG POND, Pa. Ford's winning streak on the NASCAR Winston Cup Series is just one race, and already car owners and drivers loyal to Chevrolet are screaming the rules are unfair. Following Dale Jarrett's victory Sunday in the Miller Genuine Draft 500 at Pocono International, the Chevrolet camp said concessions made to Ford have gone too far. "This was the ultimate wind tunnel here," said Rick Hendrick, who owns Chevrolet Monte Carlos driven by Jeff Gordon, Terry Labonte and Ken Schrader.

"This was the fastest, slickest, flattest, hottest place. So we giveth, now it's time to take away." The next race is Sunday, the Die-Hard 500 at Talladega (Ala.) Super-speedway. Mark Martin won the ft a-m-aiuiiUM- IWT -n alla-a1 I i ir Audi fujaAnnfiti rY.iiV.fitf'jJa: A Jt4VIL Ir'- ffini'ii1inttfciilffiMi.