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Show The Salt Lake Tribune GOLF Wednesday, September 30, 1998 B6 Dam Bursts as Utahns Are Swamped in Annual Golf Shootout With Arizona BY JAY DREW THE SALT L ARE TRIBUNE PAGE, Ariz. — Lake Powell National Golf Course sits on a bluff overlooking Glen Canyon dam, and the beautiful Lake Powell recreation area. The dam match. “We were behind from the beginning in almost every match. and it probably hurt our confi- dence.” Poulson, the Mid-Amateur champ, beat Scott Ogorek 2-1. but only after making a long putt on No. 18. “It feels like that dam over there imploded on us.” said Utah's Jeff Jolley. Arizona’s win keeps alive a streak of the host state winning every Shootout: the series, tied 44. now swings back to Utah, but Arizona has possession of the and nearly every Utahn reported that his or her opponent played around par or below. “Obviously, they came to compete and we didn't.” said Hitch- onthe first tee. After nine holes. only Poulson was ahead for Utah, collecting Perhaps the Utahns should in for birdie on No. 18 win the players are putting this on their schedules,” said captain Rayl E ans, hinting that in earlier years back nine andtie for the 18. Watts’ van ran out of gas 30 miles before they got to Page. A beehive-shaped sandstone formation high school champion from Alta were left in the collective ruins. bring its top people Utah's women, usuallya strength, 17 holes to beat Brent Tidwell 3-0. cock. “I can’t give you a reason for the Utahns, walloped 48-24 by this annual amateur golf series couldn't have knownthey were in trouble were swept3-0, including both seniors and BYUassistant golf coach Sue Nyhus. State Women’s Amateur champ Lachell Poffenberger salvaged one point, but and more notoriety, to the point annual Utah-Arizona shootout It was the Pounding at Powell. Burial at the Border and Disaster in the Desert all rolled into onein Utahns competing in the eighth 12 coin flips to determine honors argument now where manyof our Arizona traveling trophy. “Every event has gotten more certainly felt that way to the 12 that towers over the dam was a positive sign — butUtahlost 10 of That one point. Nothing changed on the back nine, although Poffenberger, Haslam, Barker and Jason Wight rallied to get points. Kevin Haslam and Todd Barker tied their matches. but six Utahns didn't burst on Tuesday, but it be Smith was 7-under-par through made Tuesday. Arizonasenior Ed the Grand Canyon State didn't why.” when UGAexecutive Director Joe Haslam wonNo. 17 and chipped confident. We talked about beat- ing them at the hotel last night Guys were saying that if we were ever going to beat them ontheir hometurf, this was the time.” Artes 66, Unk 26 Sadie Watches — ‘Rew Monspiacr A de Lachell Petfenberger Maywood A dt See Nae38 ae: DeBerm 38 BES aabeet 8 Avtacge Papers ig Reaoner A det Jel Joe 0. 25-5 Tam Bea “It has got to be a mental thing.” said Jolley. a 1989 state High. “We might have been over- the host team It was a damn breakdown by the dam.” said Utah captain Ron Hitchcock Arizona stretched the 20-16 lead it held after Monday's foursomes and four-ball and with an overwhelming performance in Tuesday's individual matches. The Arizonans won 28-8 The margin of vic- TIOak on Tuesday. tory is the largest in the series surpassing Utah's 44-28 win in 1995 at Willow Creek Country Club. It was depressing.” said Steve Poulson. the only Utahn to win a Furyk Boosts His Squad At ‘Challenge’ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ‘yk TOWN, Bermuda knocked a 3-iron 10 feet from the hole in a sudden- death closest to the pin three-way playoff, lifting his team to victory in the $1.8 million Gillette Tour Challenge Championship on Tuesday After using a 5-wood duringhis round and rolling the ball to the back of the green, Furyk switched clubs before the playoff at the par-3, 203-yard 17th hole at the Mid Ocean Club. “Earlier I was caught up be- tween 3-iron and 5-wood.” said Furyk, who is winless this year on the PGA Tour. “I figured this time I would go in with a hard 3iron and | liked it right afterit left the club.” After checking with Tour officials. Furyk went into the locker room and took out his old 3-iron to replace the new3-iron he had been carrying 1 knew exactly how it would fly.” Furyk said of whyhe got his old club. “I wasn’t sure what the new3-iron would do.” Fu Lee Trevino and Michelle McGann finished at 11-under 60 on the hilly, oceanfront MINUTES TOR $39.95 A MONTH. layout The winning team split the $450,000 first-place prize in the unusual one-dayevent that teams one player from the PGA and Se- nior PGA Tours and one from the LPGA playing a best-ball format Payne Stewart was nextclosest on the playoff. putting his shot to about 13 feet of the hole. Stewart, Jay Sigel and Annika Sorenstam tied with Robert Gamez, Gil Morgan and Chris Johnson for second. Each team split 9) ra 5 5 83 3 $262,500. Clutch birdie putts by McGann and Johnson at the par-4 18th forced the playoff. Johnson rolled in her fourth birdie of the round with a 7-footTr Weall knewthat we needed to make birdie and I figured that I would just make a good run atit. said Johnson. who also had birdies at the third. fourth and fifth holes. McGann'sfifth birdie of the (Qualcomm QCP/820 digital phone shown actualsize.) round was a tricky 18-20 footer across the sloping 18th green. “I had a good roll on it and it went right in the center,” McGann said Johnson, Christensen Advance in Match Play Matt Johnson,last year's runnerup in the Utah Section PGA Match Play Championship, will meet Roy Christensen in one of today’s top matches at Wingpointe Golf Getting 600 AirTouch Digital minutes for just $39.95 a monthis goingto get a lot of people talking. Because this chat-friendly plan gives you an incredible 300 weekday and 300 evening/weekend digital minutes to use. And they're not just ordinary digital minutes. They're AirTouch Digital minutes with enormous AirTouch coverage. 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