Lubbock Avalanche-Journal from Lubbock, Texas • Page 127

Evening, June 17, 1976 More Than Golf An Ogre Atlanta Athletic IT rr rrrr Ml ll 3560 4 14 13 15 Ml 3 41 35 11 In 112. hi IS 1 il hi Jll (Jll 215 4 fer 4 hr 5 4 i '4 13 Wednesday's Scorecard national baseball congress Lubbock 10. WolHorth 0 LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL Southwttt Vance Scoggin 8, Trailer Cotton 7 LASCO 8, Dunlap'i I Southwest Minors Bowman Lumber 19. Skibells 14 Norttwast Majors Tigers 2S, Indians 1 Angels 8, Yankees 1 Soutfwm Modern Manor Barber Shop 20, Furrs 8 Southern Minors Anderson Plumbing 18, Texas Forwarding 17 Southern Pony Texans 9, Bulls 3 Midwest Williamson Maytag 9, Fowler Automotive 2 Furr's 9, peps! Cola 1 WEDNESDAY'S HIGHLIGHTS TENNIS EASTBOURNE, England Chris Evert routed Greer Stevens of South Africa 6-0, 6-1 to move on to the quarter finals of the Eastbourne women's grass tournament. NOTTINGHAM.

England Jimmy Connors defeated Mike Estep of Dalles 6-2, 6-1 to advance to the quarter finals of the Roger Taylor Tounament. BOWLING SEATTLE Paul Colwell brought his over-all average to 229, taking the third round lead in the 185,000 Professional Bowlers Association National Championship. CHICAGO Cheryl Robinson of Los Angeles lead all qualifiers going into the finals of the Professional Women Bowlers Association Greater Chicago Classic. HORSE RACING NEW YORK Drama Critic won the Fashion Stakes at Belmont Park by 2 lengths over Sly Grin. PHILADELPHIA Chris' Venture, J7 60, capture the Keysone feature over Light Charger.

BOSTON Troll By. $4 60, capture the Suffolk Downs headliner by a length over Bennino. CHICAGO Old Goat, S5 20. took the 129,500 Cinderella Stakes at Arlington Park by three lengths over Sunny Romance. BALTIMORE Maui Princess, 17 40.

took Pimlico's feature by three- quarters of a length over Oiaws. WEDNESDAY'S FIGHTS SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Canary Islands Roland France, and Ramon Garcia, Spain, lightweights, drew, 15; Cnzeaux retained his European junior lightweight boxing crown. TRANSACTIONS BASEBALL CALIFORNIA ANGELS Dan Briggs, first baseman-outfieider, recalled from Salt Lake City of the Pacific Coast League FOOTBALL NEW ORLEANS SAINTS Johnny Fuller, safety, traded to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for Jim Kearney, safety. HOCKEY PHILADLEPHIA FLYERS Mark Suzor, defenseman; Drew Callander, center; Craig Hanmer, defenseman, and Hynek, left wing, signed. COACHES COLLIDE Coaches from the Southern Little League baseball teams will play each other Sunday at 2 p.m.

in a benefit game for the league. The game will be played at the Southern Leage park. 42nd and Ave. U. Nicklaus Draws Much Attention (From Page One) drew most of the spectators on the hot, muggy afternoon.

It promoted a little friendly jabbing during a post-practice interview. and Weiskopf are putting better than they ever said Palmer, smiling. are playing better than they ever Irwin decided to chime in. you're lying better than vou ever he grinned. Despite his concern about some aspects of his play Wednesday, Irwin said he plan to practice.

He wanted to think. mental preparation is sometimes better than the he said. He finished lower than 18th this season, one in which he already has won twice. He also lost one playoff. Still, the man most will be watching is Nicklaus, acclaimed the game's greatest player today even though he having a good year.

Nicklaus complained about play on the eve of the tournament, but also said, in pretty good shape. I don't see any reason why I play well. But, again, I know." Lou Graham is the defending champion, but he has been virtually ignored in pre-tourney hoopla. The same can be said for Bert Green, the only three-time winner on this year's tour and the leading money winner. Irwin, Miller and Ben Crenshaw are the only two-time winners competing.

Floyd, the Masters champion, is ready to bid for another major title. South African Gary Player is thirsting for another U. S. Open title which would give him two or more triumphs in each of the four major one, the PGA, the Masters and the British Open. Three of the aging veterans also hope to whip the course and strength-sapping heat and Casper, Don January and Gene Littler.

The most prominent player not in the field is Lee Trevino, the 1971 U.S. Open winner who was forced to withdraw last week because of a back ailment. Larry Ziegler pulled out Wednesday because of a pulled shoulder muscle. WT Linder Way ODESSA (Special) Jetf Mitchell will defend his title here beginning today at the 48th Annual West Tefcas medal play golf tournament. Mitchell, the former Texas Tech golfer, captured the championship last year at the Lubbock Country Club.

He will lead the fight for 32 championship flight berths in first 18-hole round. While the championship flight begins its first 18 of the 72-hole tourney, the remaining players will qualify today for the other flights. The remaining flights will play three rounds (Friday. Saturday and Sunday). Mitchell teed off with 66 other hopefuls on the 6.644-yard par-72 Odessa Country Club course for championship flight honors.

The low 32 scores and ties will enter the championship flight while the others compete in the consolation flight. Jon Farquhar. 1971 and 1972 champion, from Lubbock, started in the final group today at 1 11 COACH NEEDED OLTON is looking for an assistant football coach who can teach social studies, too. Those interested should contact Supt. Joe Turner at 285-2641 (school) or 2852320 (home) or athletic director Ed Miller 285-2844 (home).

By WILL GRIMSLEY DULUTH, Ga. (AP) Gene Sarazen once called it Two Ben Hogan, finally conquering an Open course that had repulsed him for three days, chortled, am happy I brought the monster to its Walter Hagen said, win one Open, you have to be lucky: to win two you have to be Bobby Jones and Byron Nelson always got so nervous they lost their breakfast before going to the first tee. Jack Nicklaus thinks about the Open and breaks out in fever blisters. The U. S.

Open Golf Championship. starting today at the Atlanta Athletic Club, is more than just another golf tournament. It is an ogre. It makes strong knees shake. It paralyzes nerves of iron.

no doubt about it, there is an among all the said Johnny Miller, whose dossier of laurels includes an historic Open victory at Oakmont, in 1973. remember on the last round. I started with four straight birdies and suddenly realized I might win the Open. I really got jazzed. On the next three holes I hit some of the worst shots you ever saw.

Open pressure got Miller calmed his emotions for a record 63 to take the championship. doubt about agreed the veteran Bob Rosburg. now a golf commentator on television can count eight Opens in which I have had the lead at one stage or another. Almost inevitably I was stricken with the thought. God.

I can win the And every time I blew Rosburg. acknowledging that the Open is a different breed of beast, said its frightening characteristics could be attributed to 75 per cent toughness of the course. 25 per cent added pressure because of the prestige. A poll of the 150 players in the 1976 and old. amateur and produce an almost unanimous agreement that the Open, while not representative necessarily of the strongest possible field, is the toughest of all to win.

a tournament that has broken the spirit of such a great natural shotmaker as Sam Snead. Sam. 64. spent a frustrating career battling the Although he won 84 tournaments, more than any other player, he never won the Open There were other golfing greats of their period who saw the biggest prize escape Harry Cooper. MacDonald Smith and Jimmy Demaret.

have played in 13 said Masters champion Ray Floyd, I only remember one course where you didn't get lost. That was Winged Foot two years ago and even then there were complaints that the greens offered too small and too hard a target for the necessary long iron approaches. Open courses are tricked up. Take the course here this week. It is long and narrow.

The rough is heavy Bermuda and high. The sand is new. If you get in a trap, your ball is automatically buried. So you can eliminate good sand play as a determining The site of the Open is awarded by the U.S. Golf Association three and four years in advance.

During that period, men in somber gray jackets and striped ties scheme to thwart golfing skills that have required decades in refining. They narrow the fairways. They let the rough grow in some places to ankle and calf- length heights. They install new traps and dig new channels for meandering creeks. They mow the greens to a slick hardness, making them so fast like putting down a marble stairway and stopping the ball on the furth step.

This done, they send special units onto the course in the early dawn before every round to hide the pins in the most fiendish positions. Plavers call these official operators masochists. The USGA considers it an affront if the Open is won by less than 280 strokes. It took 53 1946 at that barrier to be broken. Even with the emergence of Miller, Palmer and has been beaten only five times since.

As recently as 1963. the Open has been won by a score above 290. Julius Boros winning a playoff at 293 at The Country Club in Brookline. Mass. The last two winning scores were 287.

Open puts a great mental strain on said Ben Crenshaw, the young lion out of Texas. get inhibited. You realize that if you miss the fairway and land in the rough you reach the green on the next shot. You can't be dent. You go out and let it fly as in other Open are long and have narrow fairways and high said former Masters champion Charles Coody, the reason I never do well in the Open.

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