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Page 6 SPORTS NORTHWEST HERALD Wednesday, July 22, 1987 FROM PAGE 1 GOLF On. -(continued from page 1) ilfcA7cll Oil- Turnberry event a smash hit "Salva- tion 'Army, Salvation HaCKin with Hulk at Turnberry. Great job on your day off. And you volunteers take a bow too. Food for thought here would be: How does on play his best in an event like this and not go out and embarrass the family name? Tense, nervous, anxious, quick, flippy, imbalanced, and choke-hold.

These are the seven dwarfs of tournament golf that hang around and haunt many an amateur. Let's face it, a lot of you probably don't play golf on a monthly basis, let alone hone the game for a week or two prior to playing in a big pro-am. Maybe you'll make the biggest mistake and take a lesson from vour nrn the Hnv (continued from page 1) Home, would be staying in Los Angeles to film a fast food commercial (Taco Bell) before returning to Chicago. McMahon underwent shoulder surgery in Los Angeles Dec. 12.

Bears' coach Mike Ditka, who has said McMahon is still the club's No. 1 quarterback among the five the on the roster, had wanted McMahon to work out at the Bears' Lake Forest training facility during the rehabilitation. But he said a letter from Health Plus Network where McMahon had been working out indicated the quarterback had been throwing for distance and velocity three times a week. Ditka said the distance sessions involve 200 throws a week ranging up to 50 yards or more. "I think he'll play and I think he'll be healthy," Ditka said.

"That's my gut feeling." McMahon did throw during the Bears' mini-camp in the spring Army, put a nickel on the Put your hands together for Jim Schwarz and Romeo Mura, the two men responsible for coordinating Monday's big Salva Stove Hulka "I never won a match, but it was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed it," Orr said. "But I knew eventually that my main goal was to play wheelchair basketball. All I had ever heard of was the Wheelchair Basketball League and the Chicago Sidewinders. So I set a goal to someday play with them." By Jiis sophomore year, Orr was playing with the Sidewinders in the 195-team league.

Ojss is currently keeping in shapeNither lifting weights or doing road work, 18-20 miles a day, every day. There are many road races ahead this year, all leading up to his trip to Seoul in 1988. But with all he's accomplished in just the past year, there's a more important goal he's ready to achieve. "I want to be a kind of role model," Orr said. "I don't want to scare people and.

tell them you can become sick and die if you don't exercise, but it's true. "Because you're In a wheelchair you have to sit around as it is, but the way I lookat it, a wheel-hair-lsaaTfobilityTnbr confinement. A lot of people will say things like you're confined to a wheelchair. That's not how I look at things. In my classes we try to stay away from words like confine and cripple.

"We try to teach that you're not confined when you're in a wheelchair. "Hopefully, I've helped proved that point even better." fourth in the 400 to eibn a spot on the U.S.' Team for next year's International Games for the Disabled in Seoul, Korea. Each handicapped athlete competes in a class according to the severity of his or her disability. Classes 1A, IB and 1C are for quadriplegics while paraplegics are classified at four levels, 2, 3, 4 and 5, with five being the least disabled and two the most extreme. Orr competed on level four.

"My major down at of I is therapeutic recreation and I don't believe someone should just sit around, bumming around, being a couch potato," Orr said. "They should be doing something. "If you look at the percentages, disabled people get sicker than the non-disabled. But those who stay in shape will stay healthy longer." Orr gives credit to Brad He-drick the University of Illinois wheelchair basketball "coach and head of recreation and athletics as the person that really opened his eyes tcrwhatOrr could -do. But it was Orr's accomplishments in junior high and high school that started him off.

Upon his entrance at Jacobs High School; he dabbled in football, basketball, racing, tennis, racquetball and shooting. One of. his biggest accomplishments was making the Goldei Eagle varsity wrestling team as apreshman and again as a sophomore. O'Brien I .7 before. Oh boy, the last thing you firm Armv i phntv Prn-Am nut.

That's where you must not allow anxiety and tight hands around the club create a "hit to the ball only" attempt. You end up swinging faster on the way down rather than accelerating through. Remember an adage of Ho-gan's when you go out to the range next time to work on your rhythm: 'You never can turn your hips too fast." The slower, smoother you turn it back from the ball, the better the leverage your bigger jnuscles will provide on the downswing: Your legs, hips and torso. They're the key to hitting solidly without swinging hard. We'll investigate this in depth next week.

Listen, I realize the company you work for or own probably took care of that pro-am entry. But I still think deep down you wish the game could come easier even if you don't play that often. It never is easy. But you'll find fyoUWockuToTyourTnind the" inevitable bad shots that come every round and just concentrate on making your best effort on the next shot, you may be surprised at how much you'll contribute to the team score. No one cares what you shoot for 18 holes that day (unless you made 16 Nassau best with your buddies), so please: pick it up ifV your out of the hole.

If we have to count a nine for a seven on the card, we're in trouble anyway! jggg tryjng l0 swat a anve ig on the land they call Turnberry. I've caddied in bundles of Pro- Ams, played in a bunch more and I cannot remember having a bet- but did so in private, tossing the ter time spending six and a half ball to Caito an indoor facility. hours nut Festival- your pro standing next to you with six iriore thoughts about grip, stance and swing. Relax! Golf was never meant to JLayedithJjniteorcedalk. out kill smash hits.

Golf is a timing game that, believe me, I know, is played more enjoyable and proficiently with a relaxed stance that's centered over the golf ball, where the takeway starts slowly and low away from the ball, gradually accelerating to a full, tummy-at-fhe-target finish. How often are we all too guilty of ruining a good backswing with the urge to swing down before the club has had a chance to set (pause slightly) at the top? (continued from page 1) Bring in this ad for first-time event, to get 36 five-somes around, entertained, fed and prized it was first class all the way. The only thing that burned me was the winner, Gary Pinns, who shot 66 and blitzed the pros field by five shots, couldn't find it in his schedule to stay for dinner and go up and receive his $800 first place check. Not too cool, Gary, considering we were all playing for second anyway with you in the tournament. Where's your gratitude young man? Like no sour grapes should that sound, because this columnist shot himself a 73, my best competitive round of the year.

And to be paid $100 to show up and get paired with Jim Gra-bowski? You wonder not why this culotte salesman loves his profession. There just aren't enough golf tournaments like this to benefit all the worthwhile organizations that can use the $42,000 they raised on Monday. I just hope I'm on their list to come back and hopefully contribute to another rousing success of a pro-am. Hats off to Ralph Backe, Steve Thompson, Jerry Collins, Jim Evans and the staff (continued from page 1) the North, 1-2, in a rematch. The North won a tie-breaker against the other two 1-2 teams to earn a finals berth.

The South downed the North 75-66 Sunday. "The North beat us a couple of times during the scrimmages," said South Coach Eddie Sutton of Kentucky. "But we've got 12 wonderful people and we want to win the gold. I don't think we'll be complacent." Elsewhere: Jay Barrs of Mesa, shot 83 90 at 90 meters to win the gold medal in men's archery. Anne Wilkinson scored on a deflection to give the South women's field hockey team a 1-0 victory over the North.

Tommy Hoang, born in Vietnam, was scheduled to fly from Los Angeles to 'North Carolina after becoming a U.S. citizen Monday. The 20-year-old from Westlake Village, plays midfield on the South field hockey team. He missed his team's first two games because he was not yet a citizen. pET) Lru Exhaust Installation from the converter back.

Some restrictions apply Offer not good with other discounts. Exriireft fl15ft7 dreams. Now I'm back into golf." The past eight years were not all just hunting and fishing, as he owned some subdivision land and some businesses. O'Brien describes himself as a "good statesman." "I have a pretty good stick on the state level," said O'Brien. "I hope to play a little more and get a little better before the summer is over." And, it looks like there will be a third generation of O'Brien golfers as Mike, 16, finished eighth in the Big I Regional tournament.

He will be a junior at Crystal Lake South this fall. course pro, that 1 better look north. "He said that in the north, the jobs are better and the people treat you better. He said the best place to be a course pro is in the Chicago area." Twenty years ago, he was an assistant at a club in Evanston and followed it up by working in Indiana where he won state play-er-of-the-year honors. "Then I retired at the age of 35," said O'Brien.

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