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Show '84 Jeremy Shootout offers biggest purse on Senior Tour Billy Casper, Sam Snead, Julius Boros, Tommy Bolt, Dan Sikes and Bob Toski are among the 37 members of the PGA Senior Tour who have signed commitments to compete com-pete in the 1984 Shootout at Jeremy Ranch Aug. 20-26 at the Jeremy Ranch Golf Club near Park City. The third annual Shootout at Jeremy Ranch will, for the second consecutive year, bring together members of the regular PGA Tour and PGA Senior Tour for a 72-hole two-man best ball format on the course designed design-ed by Arnold Palmer and Ed Seay. Members of the PGA senior circuit who have signed commitments to play in the 1984 Shootout are already busily looking for partners from the regular PGA Tour. Defending champions Bob Goalby and Mike Reid, who overtook Billy Casper and partner Jim Nelford on the final day to gain a dramatic one-stroke victory in the 1983 Shootout, will operate as a team again in 1984 if Reid fails to qualify for the World Series of Golf in Akron, Ohio, which runs simultaneously to the 1984 Shootout. Sam Snead, who owns more PGA Tour victories than any other professional golfer, has indicated indi-cated he will again team with nephew J.C. Snead after the Snead tandem fared well in 1983. Other early teams which have been solidified include the partnership of Dan Halldorson-Al Balding, Dale Douglas and Billy Johnston, and Bob Toski and Willie Wood. The 1984 Shootout will offer an increased purse of $450,000, making it the richest stop on the Senior Tour in 1984. Miller Barber, who teamed with two-time U.S. Open champion Lee Trevino to fire a 13-under-par 59 on the final day of the 1983 Shootout, will return to Jeremy Ranch in 1984. Trevino is expected to serve as Barber's partner if the Merry Mex doesn't qualify for the World Series of Golf. Course designer Arnold Palmer Pal-mer is also expected. Several former U.S. Open champions will compete in the 1984 Shootout, including two-time Open winner Casper, Cas-per, 1955 U.S. Open champion cham-pion Jack Fleck, 1952 and 1963 Open titlist Julius Boros, 1958 Open winner Tommy Bolt, and 1957 Open champion Dick Mayer. |