Senior PGA offers free clinic for junior golfers
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The Turtle Bay Championship Senior PGA event will provide a free clinic for junior golfers at about 2:30 p.m. tomorrow, following completion of the tournament's second round at Turtle Bay's Palmer Course.
The clinic will be conducted by Chi Chi Rodriguez and Hawai'i's Steve Veriato and Lance Suzuki.
Turtle Bay Championship
When: Today-Sunday, from approximately 7 a.m. today and 8 a.m. tomorrow and Sunday
Where: Palmer Course at Turtle Bay (Par 36-36i72, 7,088 yards)
Purse: $1.5 million ($225,000 first prize)
Field: 78 Senior PGA Tour players, including Hawai'i's Steve Veriato, Larry Stubblefield and Lance Suzuki
Admission: $10 daily beginning tomorrow, $20 three-day pass
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TV coverage (all times HST): Today, 1 p.m., PAX TV; tomorrow and Sunday, noon-2 p.m., CNBC
Veriato, who was born and raised in Hilo, is 33rd on this year's senior money list and scored his first pro tour victory on Aug. 19 at the Novell Utah Showdown.
Suzuki, a 1969 Kahuku High School graduate who lives in Hau'ula, is one of Hawai'i's premier golfers and also is competing in the Turtle Bay Championship. Suzuki remains actively involved in Kahuku's junior golf program.
"We want to get that message to kids that whether you're from Hilo or Kahuku or wherever, you can make it in big-time sports," said Dennis Rose, director of golf at Turtle Bay. "Just look at Steve and Lance."
The Senior PGA event tees off today with the tour's top three money leaders — Allen Doyle, Bruce Fleisher and Hale Irwin — in the 78-player field. All told, 13 of the top 25 senior money leaders are in the competition.
Besides Veriato and Suzuki, other Hawai'i golfers in the event are Kailua's Larry Stubblefield and former Maui resident Dick McClean. Walter Morgan, who once was stationed at Schofield Barracks and played in his first round of golf in Hawai'i, also is in the field.
Today's tee times
1st tee
7 a.m.—Mike McCullough, Bruce Summerhays, Hugh Baiocchi. 7:10—Bob Murphy, John Jacobs, Jim Ahern. 7:20—Chi Chi Rodriguez, Dana Quigley, Bob Dickson. 7:30—Gary Player, Steve Veriato, Fred Gibson. 7:40—Allen Doyle, Andy North, Graham Marsh. 7:50—Al Kelley, Tom Shaw, Walter Zembriski.
8 a.m.—Doug Sanders, Howard Twitty, Danny Edwards. 8:10—Bob Betley, DeWitt Weaver, Stewart Ginn. 8:20—Babe Hiskey, Rik Massengale, Jerry McGee. 8:30—Yoshitaka Yamamoto, Dick McClean, Harry Toscano. 8:40—Jesse Patino, Frank Conner, James Mason. 8:50—Bill Brask, Bill Holstead, Ed Brooks.
9 a.m.—Terry Mauney, Tony Peterson, Doug Johnson.
10th tee
7 a.m.—Tom Jenkins, Jim Albus, Ed Dougherty. 7:10—Hubert Green, Dave Eichelberger, Bobby Wadkins. 7:20—Hale Irwin, Vicente Fernandez, John Schroeder. 7:30—Jim Thorpe, Joe Inman, Walter Hall. 7:40—Bob Gilder, Tom McGinnis, George Archer. 7:50—Jay Sigel, Isao Aoki, Larry Ziegler.
8 a.m.—Rex Caldwell, George Burns, Bob Charles. 8:10—Walt Morgan, Bobby Mitchell, Rocky Thompson. 8:20—Lon Hinkle, Don Pooley, David Lundstrom. 8:30—Mark Hayes, Dick Lotz, Jay Overton. 8:40—Roy Vucinich, Kurt Cox, Larry Stubblefield. 8:50—Dick Mast, Ted Goin, Mike Smith.
9 a.m.—Jim Holtgrieve, Lance Suzuki, Bobby Walzel
