The Charlotte Observer from Charlotte, North Carolina • 31

pupam iTiar mm ye THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Sun June 6 1976 5B turnee and Jimmy Martin a first-timer now an assistant at Cedar Rock GC in Lenoir Coif Richard Sink fKj this week (not Including Kemper Open schedule) Southern Amateur Putter Playoffs Today at noon at Putt Putt Woodlawn Road 72 Players including National Amateur Puttino champion Duke Wellman of Gastonia competing for three soots in quarterfinals of World Putting Tournament June 17 In Columbus Ohio Shrine Celebrity Pro Am today at Lan-Yair CC Spartanburg SC several tourinq pros Including Arnold Palmer and Sam Snead and pro basketball football and NASCAR stare participating tor $4 000 purse $7 admission If you follow golf this is your week Besides the seven days of activity around the Kemper Open here Wake Forest pursues its third successive NCAA title at Albuquerque An incredibly talent-loaded 139 man field seeks 54 berths in the 36-hole US Open Final Qualifying at Myers Park and Charlotte Country Clubs David Strawn returns for another attempt the PGA Tour Qualifying School at North Myrtle Beach Just for good measure President Ford is tentatively scheduled for Lee Celebrity Pro-Am next weekend at Clemmons Arnold Palmer heads the cast for the Shrine Celebrity Pro-Am today at Spartanburg SC and the annual Carolinas Left-Handers tournament runs Thursday through Saturday at Hilton Head Whew! All Americas Curtis Strange Jay Haas Bob Byman and David Thore who have played on both of national championship teams will be joined by their third different No 5 NCAA member in three years junior Bill Chapman of Charlotte Chapman earned his ticket after a victory in the Big Four (with Strange and Haas absent) and a co-championship shared with Haas in the Furman Intercollegiate But maybe most importantly Chapman tied for second with Strange the fall Tucker Memorial over the University of New Mexico course site of the NCAA Wednesday through Saturday This week almost definitely will mark the amateur swan songs for Haas and Strange the most recent NCAA champs Collegiate Golfers unbeaten and rated first in the Golf World poll ahead of No 2 Biigham Young and NCAA runnel -lip Oklahoma State Charlotte amateur Johny Liam is paired in Tuesday's Open qualifying here with Leonard Thompson and Gil Morgan two successful tour players The grouping indicates the strength of the field which is the largest of the 13 Open sectional qualifyings slated Monday and Tuesday One threesome has Roger Maltbie and Gary Koch tour winners in the past two months Mark Hayes Bob Gilder Snead and Don January all also tour winners this year are having to qualify too Also among the 134 pros here are former US Open champions Tony Jackhn (1970) Julius Boros (1952-63) and Ed Furgol (1954) Top touring pros are Sam Snead Bobby Nichols Dave Stockton 1 anny Wadkins Jerry Heard Miller Bather Jim Colbert Charles Coody larry Hinson Gay Brewer David Graham Mike Morley Vic Regalado Bruce Devlin Bobby Mitchell Jerry Pate Mac McLendon Rod Funseth Jim Simons Jim Dent Don Bies and George Burns Only 27 players are exempt from Open qualifying under nine US Golf Association-specified qualifications They include Kemper Open and Masters champ Raymond Floyd and Wake Forest products Palmer Eddie Pearce and Joe Inman for finishing in the top 15 of the previous US Open Strawn US Amateur runner-up in 1973 is back for his fourth crack at a tour playing card in the 108-hole qualifying school tournament Tuesday to Sunday at Bay Tree Green and Gold Courses joined by Charlotte natives Doug London another re Open Final Qualifyinq Tuesday at Myers Park and Charlotte CCs 139 players yvinq over 18 boles at each club for 54 berths In Open June 17 20 at Atlanta Sprlnq PGA Tour Qualifyinq School Tuesday through Sunday at Bay Tree Plantation Green and Gold Courses North Myrtle Beach SC 280 pros trying for tour olavinq cards 108 holes of the Year and Wake Forest Arnold Palmer Athlete of the Year Award winners Together they were terrors individually Strange only a junior will leave behind a collegiate record perhaps unmatched He has never finished worse than ninth in 25 college events and 21 times been in the top five Included are nine individual titles and the youngest winner ever Entering the past two the Deacs have been ranked second behind Florida but this time NCAA Wednesday through Saturday at University of New Mexico GC Albuouergue Wake Forest seeking third straight national team title and Wake senior Jay Haas defending Individual championship Carolinas Left Handers Thursday through Saturday at Hilton Head (S GC Elder Celebrity Pro Am Saturday through Monday June 14 at Tanglewood GC Clemnons snorts entertainment and political fiaures competing among 120 amateurs first two days with 53 touring pros Including Gary Player and Hubert Green loinma last round Sears SAVE 25-35 Save 25 Adventurer tires for vans pickups campers on the steel belted tire used Chitwood! 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