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Show Price, Utah's professional golfer, Bob Droz, didn't win the top prize in the Superior Tire-Bridgestone Golf Classic in Vernal, Saturday and Sunday, but he still had a lot of fun out on the course. Unuaual things happen when Bob Droz is out on the course and one of the strangest items took place on he number four hole in the final round on Sunday. Droz took a few practice swings and just as he was about ready to blast the golf ball toward the number four green, a pheasant leaped out of the bushes. The disturbance by the bird forced Droz to step on the brakes on his swing. However, Droz took full advantage ad-vantage of the situation as he turned his club into a shotgun and pretended that it was pheasant hunting season. Droz remarked that he never misses at that distance. Another Droz incident occurred on the number one tee on Saturday. Droz was taking a few practice swings, but wasn't ready to strike the ball because there were still players on the green. A lady drove by Droz and then she noticed that the Carbon County golfer was swinging his club, and came to a complete stop. Droz started swinging his club at the lady and scared the daylights out of her. However, Droz was only joking. After the last golf ball had been slugged out on the course more than an hour ago, Droz was still around. He went from swinging a golf club to pushing a broom, as he insisted on helping clean up. His only problem was that he didn't have a dust pan. Droz remarked, "Just leave the dirt because that's what a golf course is made of if you dig down deep enough." A golfer can encounter bad luck on one hole and then can turn his luck good on the next hole. An example of this is Dinaland Golf Course pro, Jon Mauss. Mauss nabbed a double bogey five on the par three number one hole and then gained good luck when he acquired an eagle three on the par five number two hole. Of course, sometimes a hole is all bad for a golfer. Pros, Lynn Landgren, Salt Lake City, and Lanny Nielsen, Midway, have reasons for hatred of' hole number three. Landgren had a score of ten and Nielsen had a score of 8 on the par five number three hole. Strange and unusual things can take place out on the golf course. Ray Kier put two objects into orbit on the number one hole, Saturday. Kier blasted his golf, ball and the head of his iron followed the ball shortly after. The ball went over the fence and he had to use another iron for a second shot. The number one hole on the Dinaland Golf Course can make a golfer extremely ex-tremely upset because countless balls sail over the fence after being slugged from the tee. One golfer, after his ball went over the fence, became so upset that he kicked the ground, his club and then threw his iron on the grass, and then kicked it again once more. Bob Flagler, a professional from Provo, didn't have to do much work on the number eight and nine holes on Friday in the Utah Oil Capital Pro-Am . Owen Caldwell flipped in about 15 to 20 foot putt on the number eight hole and then another amateur golfer tossed in a putt for a birdie on the number nine hole. A closest-to-the-hole contest is held in the tournament and two golfef-s delivered close back-to-back shots. John Evans blasted the ball within 5 feet of the hole and the Jack Ridd's ball came within seven feet. However, Bob Droz wasn't about ready to be outclassed out-classed as he fired in an 8 to 10 foot putt for a birdie on number nine. Vance Christiansen, a pro from Colorado, encountered a difficult shot on the number seven fairway. His ball landed right behind a bush, but Christiansen didn't let that bother him as he stroked the ball onto the green. Another interesting item about Owen Caldwell's long putt for a birdie in the Utah Oil Capital Pro-Am concerned the shot before the putt. Caldwell blasted the ball to the edge of the green and when the ball hit the ground it rolled about 15 feet closer to the hole. Golfers from Utah, California, Wyoming, Colorado, as well as from' other states competed in the 9th annual Superior Tire-Bridgestone Golf Classic and the Utah Oil Capital Pro-Am. . . . -, ,. 1 -tW . 1 A if. . - - ' CEDAR CITY GOLFER, Kim Thompson, blasts out of a sand trap on hole number six. Thompson had the lead after the first day, but he encountered problems on Sunday. |