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Show ' J ,wil in hi ii 1 it Pn IPJP.M'I mii " ' " 'I""' w i J Golfers will attack golf balls this weekend as the 10th annual Superior Tire-Bridgestone Golf Classic takes place on Friday, Saturday and Sunday . in Vernal at the Dinaland Golf Course. The first annual Golf Classic took place in 1971 and six golfers, who placed high in the 1971 tournament, Ernie Schneiter, Don Branca, Tommy Williams, Jon Mauss, Willie Barber and Jack Ridd,-will be taking part in the 1980 Superior Tire-Bridgestone Golf Classic. A portion of the story about the first ' ' Superior Tire Golf Classic follows as it was printed in the Vernal Express on July 22, 1971. "Montana professional, George Schneiter, ripped the Dinaland Country Club course apart as he won by a whopping six shots over an excellent field. Schneiter toured the tough Vernal layout Saturday in excellent weather to fashion a sparkling 69. Sunday, with in- termitent rain storms and explosive gusts plaguing the golfers. George remained re-mained composed to climax his rush to the title with a great two under par 70, the only player to break par for the two '5 day affair with a five under par 139 total. j George's cousin, Ernie, from Odgen Country Club, and Brigham City 's Tommy Tom-my Williams finished in a tie for second with 145 totals. The favored Jon Mauss finished in a tie with Tee Branca and Willie Barber for fifth place. The way the erratic Mauss stalked the ball in the deep woods on Sunday it was a wonder he didn't show up wearing a leopard Skin making Tar7un nnitoe Jack Ridd, the Magna phenomenon. " made an incredible comeback to snare the championship flight crown with a 146 total. Ridd, teeing off in the tricky winds, poled two tee shots out of bounds on the first hole scoring a horrendous five over par on the testing par 3 hole. He followed this up with a bogey on the 1 easy par five number 2 and then caught fire playing the following 16 holes in Iwo under, covering the last nine with a sparkling three under par 33. Ridd edged edg-ed the Salt Lake Country Club dandy. Don Branca, by one stroke and Tennessee's Ten-nessee's Dave Bingham by two. Salt I.kp; rinnnrt Ul-w.t-l u . '..ui,v 3Wl-JJ Hit field in the A flight for a three stroke victory over George Levkuhch and Harold Short who finished with 159 totals. Honest Vic Waite, the winter book t favorite, spent too much lime reading this press" clippings and go! clipped himself as his rubbery legs turned to plastic in the Sunday altenioon cold spell. It appeared that gorgeous Gale Anderson left his powerful game in the makeup room as his challenge l.nled to materialize. The B flight struggle looked more like a game of Russian Roulette than goll as leader after leader took turns blowing shots in the two-day battle. First Vernal Ver-nal 's lire bug. Darrell Wardle, alter playing a great round on Saturday evidently left his regular clubs in the trunk of his car and plaved the last round with a set ol tinker tovs as his game suddenly took on the aspects ol the powderputf derby. Then it was reckless Ronald Wilson's turn as he charged down the stretch an apparent winner on Sunday but his rambling express was derailed w hen Input In-put his tee shot int0 the heavy brush bordering the number 17 fairwav From there he must have used a quirt to strike the ball as four blows later he was still up there plavmg with the .snakes. Then it was the crap shooters choice volatile Jay Burraston and gentle frank Godina who came on the scene w,lh J cham-e to take ,t all hut thev would hardly have been a threat to the likes of Little Orphan Annie as thev played the closing holes like thev were performing in the Mule Creek Ballet. Tense Terry Anderson, one of ,u. leaders the first day. choked ., sputtered like a 1923 mxiel T t0 fall from contention on the final day Velvetv smooth Earl "Black" Hatch took dead ;'''" the leaders but fired blanks the last wo holes to blow ,t by one. The eventual winner was Salt Lake's Keith C hlsoi, who plays an entirely diffe,-e Kame than brother-in-law DoVlellube ns he won with an excellent .score. ' The Cfhglu winner was Vernal s ow n f.nancal whiz. Gene' Hall, les royed Ll,,vd Wetekamp in sudden dclh he fust ex.ra hole. Wh U ""Re gallery urging (, ,,,, ""seular Hall boomed a 3(H) y, I . shot down the middle of ,. , ..,. . J;;way,hi.al,,,lewedge.o,,ie e e H'K- een and ,1 was the Blue Jack -foi I he powerful F.ugcnc." |