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Show c ji U REFLEX JOURNAL Winners Shoot BULLETIN June 17, 1982 LEADER Dave Wigham Par 29-Und- er Clipper Sports Bountiful Combo Wins Local Golf Tournament Dave Wlgham Professional Athletes Like Cattle the exact same 121, as the teams of Andy Beck and Clipper Sports Keith Tyner. of a stroke behind these teams were Only one-hathe teams of Mac Morrell and John Grismore who tied Ted Leslie and Scott Starkey. When the winning score of a BOUNTIFUL local golf tournament turns out to be 29 under par then talk immediately centers on the fact that those guys should be on the tour. lf ROUNDING out the top ten teams in order of finish, all four of them tied at 124, were Dennis Hepworth-Bruc- e Hori; Parry; Jack Suekawa-ToJeff Thurgood-Mar- k Domm, and Cliff Oram-Har- v THOSE BIG guns on the circuit are lucky to shoot anywhere near par in a big tournament. For someone in these parts to shoot that well is unheard of. Unless you're talking about a two man best ball tournament where 90 percent of the golfers handicap is given. Such was the case last weekend at the Bountiful and Davis golf courses. m Larson. This tournament was a quick fill in for the MDA three day affair that was cancelled at the last minute, noted Bountiful pro Scott Whittaker. The players really responded to this tournament. I honestly think they enjoy the net type of tournament with the best ball principal. I thought they would shoot lower scores at Davis but that really wasnt the case, he added. MEMBERS OF both associations, plus a few guests, were involved in a two man best ball event which was won by a couple of golfers who play out of the Bountiful city course. Steven Nelson and Greg Welling were the two men who between them shot 29 under par. That means that all but seven of the 36 holes were birdied by the two men. Keep in mind that its the best score of the two that counts, so if one shoots a six on one hole and the other a five, then the lower score is recorded. SCOTT WENT on to add that this type of event all handicaps, both low and high, compete. The results show that the middle and high did better than the ones with low ones, he lets hand-icappe- rs noted. Now the Bountiful mens association is gearing for their Chicago tournament to be held this Saturday. Under this format points are given for pars, birdies and boogies according to a persons handicap. This way a low handicap guy will receive less points for a par than a high handicapper. The one with the most points win the event. THE ASSOCIATION also sponsors a weekly twilight affair every Thursday. ON THE first day the golfers toured the Bountiful course with Welling and Nelson shooting a 55, which is 16 under par. On the second day the golfers went around the Davis Park course, this time our winners were 59 as a team. Their combined score of 1 14 easily beat out the sebtffK! place team of Danny Miller and Steve Poulson by five shots. Both Miller and Poulson play out of Bountiful, Poulson just completed playing for the U. of U. and reports are hes playing as well as anyone these days. IN THIRD place, just one shot behind, was the team of Fred Johnsen and Dave Jesperson who both play out of Davis. Fourth place was a tie with the teams of Mike Hazeldine and Rod Brown shooting Clark Mower was one of many golfers shooting for the 500 top prize money. No matter which way you look at it a professional athlete is for the most part nothing more than a piece of cattle. Some merchandise that can go as quick as it came. THE MAJORITY of professional athletes have no say in where they live or play. They are pawns in a big chess game played by the people in the front office. Sure there are some people who are somewhat secure in their place of employment but even those so called superstars are subject to change without notice. No one is immune. I REMEMBER years ago when George McGinnis was a great player and whichever team he played on wasnt about to let him go, but then age set in and he became expendable. Kareem Adul Jabar is probably the greatest to play the sport and the Lakers werent about to let him go, but all of a sudden the talk is that hes getting too old so his name is being dangled in front of everyone to see what takers there are. THE BIGGEST name nowadays seems to be a 25 Magic Johnson of the Lakers. The guy signed rich some if owner. guy But, year contract with the that and a arm they an leg, Lakers the was to offer wouldnt separate themselves from the Magic man. No one is expendable in the professional basketball world. The guys in the front office have so much power over the lives of young athletes that its almost scary . and raise a They can decide where a family lives the guy is much how determine money family. They worth paying. Then in a wink of an eye they can end the guys career and send him packing down the road. THE GUYS up front sit back and determine if a make it in college kid, about 22 years old or so, can click than little a like is more their league. The league else. anything Wkh-ot- ie vote this college guy can be in some h of what he could in foreign land making with guys during the season. the NBA. They toy in and a sign him to a ten-da- y player They bring .contract to see whaTfie can do. Who are they kid-- J ding, if the guy couldnt play why would they waste ten days to watch him ride the bench. I RECALL two years ago the big joke around contract town was to become a player with a ten-da- y ll five about for the Jazz. players came and not this of on twon arrangement type through one of them got to play more than two minutes in any game. Yet thats plenty of time for the guys in the frong office to tell them they arent good enough to play in their league. They pay the guy, but they really put him in a bind, because they just wasted ten days of his time. It seems the front office people do what they want to do and they tell everyone its for the good of the team. They want their players to be part of the community and to get people to like them, but they still have no hesitation about getting rid of them anywhere, anytime they want too if they feel ti helps the team. Ron Boone proved this fact. one-tent- McDonald Jr. Olympics More than 500 of the intermountain areas top swimmers shattered records and set new goals at the McDonalds Utah Jr. Olympic swim meet held The swimmers June 10-1- 2. hoped to qualify for the Cottonwood Heights Invitational and the Region 10 meet at the end of July. THIS WAS our best year ever, said Kerstin Severin, meet director. Weve run this meet for ten years, but this time we were able to put on the kind of meet these kids de-- . serve. Winning isnt the main objective at an event like this. It was a great show for the swimmers and coaches to see how much theyve accomplished, and where they want to go from here. The Cottonwood Heights swim team took first place honors with the Murray Aquatics, second, followed by the I Utah Valley Dolphins. All-in-a- THE MCDONALDS Utah Jr. Olympic swim meet is one of the 180 conducted by McDonald's this year. Sponsorship of the age group-juniOlympic programs and youth sports brings home McDonalds commitment to underwrite the constructions costs of the McDonalds swim stadium, the swimming and dior ving facility for the 1984 Olympic Games. Golfers Swing At Cancer Utah golfers helped fight cancer with just a swing of their golf club. The event was the annual Virginia Whitney Golf Contest held June 12 and the Ladies Day prior to that at Oakridge Country Club. GOLFERS WHO donated at least one dollar before teeing off on a designated hole were eligible. Any tee shot that landed inside a ten-fopar-thr- ot chalked circle around the hole won three new balls for every dollar donated. The grand prize for a was $300 credit towards the purchase of a set of irons. hole-in-o- MORE THAN 18,000 men and women have received free breast, uterine, and procto examinations in 56 Virginia Whitney cancer detection clinics since 1969. And for the past two years, funds from the Vir IM NOT down on the Jazz front office people anymore than the rest of the league, it just seems like the entire league asks for loyalty from their players; yet feel they owe their players nothing in return. Sure, they say its just a business like any other business, but in some cases thats not true. There arent many other jobs in the world like this one. Does a doctor read in the papers that he has just been transferred to another hospital for three nurses and an orderly to be named later. How about a plumber who hears on the six p.m. news that hes heading to New York in exchange for an accountant. ginia Whitney golf contest col- have supported a special orectal screening program using guaiac hemoccult slides. The Virginia Whitney Can- cer Detection Project was started in 1969 as a memorial to a courageous Utah woman who fought a losing battle against cancer. Mrs. F. Seator (Barbara) Prince initiated the Dr. project with the help of Charles R. Smart, Salt Lake MOST PEOPLE choose the city they want to live in, but professional athletes simply go where theyre told to go. I know its tough to feel sorry for a guy who makes all that money playing ball, but the bottom line is the players are human and deserve to be treated as such. People see them in the limelight, someone better off than you or I, but we have something they dont, freedom. We can choose which team to play for, which city to have our kids grow up in and we can choose when and if we want to move. The athletes cancer specialist. Womens Golf Tourney On June 9, 128 women gol- fers from various Utah clubs Incompeted in the Davis Park vitational Golf Tournament. The winners were: GROSS OF the field, Patty Price; Championship flight: Julia Porter, 1st gross; Gwen r, Adams, 2nd gross; Kim 3rd gross; Nell Allred 1st net; Dot Dempsey 2nd net; Vi Hepp 3rd net. First Flight: Charlotte Har-tl- e 1st gross; Shirley Mathew- He-ple- son 2nd gross; Sharon Royce 3rd gross; Meriene Nixon 1st net; Gloria Robertson 2nd net; Shawnie Hahn 3rd net. SECOND FLIGHT: Jeanne Morris 3rd net. Lynne Fullerton 2nd gross; Virginia Ho- Pug Fergeson 3rd gross; Hara-d- Young 1st gross; Lorraine ward 2nd gross; Ruth Nelson 3rd gross; Yvone Blydenstein 1st net; Marge Marsonelli 2nd net; Wanda Miller 3rd net. Third Flight: Jeannie Goddard 1st gross; LaVoyle Fors-ber- g 2nd gross; Nell Merrill 3rd gross; Nancy Deardon 1st net; M.L. Lindquist 2nd net; cant. FOURTH FLIGHT: Nira Vay Eikrem 1st gross; Addie a Kikuchi 1st net; Martha 2nd net; Chris Richardson 3rd net. Fifth Flight: Nadine Babcock 1st gross; Doris Beck 2nd gross; Afton Heck 3rd gross; Kim Carlos 1st net; June Van Fleet 2nd net; Inez Morley 3rd More than 300 of Utahs top young swimmers competed last weekend in Olympic Swim Tournament held at the Bountiful Recreation complex. Lisa Penrod is posed for a time event. McDonalds Utah Junior ALTHOUGH athletes do have a unique lifestyle, controlled by the people in the front office, we can only hope they are sensible to their feelings. The Jazz people are trying to bring a winner to Utah and they arent afraid to step on toes. There isnt a player in the league who can honestly say the following season he will be back in the same uniform. We can say that. net. i |