Gilder, Green join Turtle Bay tourney
Advertiser Staff
Bob Gilder and Hubert Green are the latest to commit to play in the Senior PGA Tour's Turtle Bay Championship, Oct. 4-6 at the resort's Palmer Course.
Gilder is third on the money list this week behind Hale Irwin, Turtle Bay's defending champion, and Doug Tewell. Gilder has won four times in his two years on the Senior PGA Tour, including last year's Senior Tour Championship.
Late in his PGA Tour career, Gilder was a familiar face on Maui, where he won close to $400,000 at the Lincoln-Mercury Kapalua International.
Green is 11th on the money list with just less than $1 million. He has won four senior events after capturing 19, including the 1978 and '79 Hawaiian Opens, on the regular tour.
Dana Quigley, who has played in the last 177 senior events, has also committed to play at Turtle Bay.
Carll to defend
Kevin Carll, an assistant pro at Pearl Country Club, will defend his title at the 2002 Aloha Section PGA Assistant Professional Championship at Ko Olina Golf Club. The tournament is sponsored by Taylor Made/Adidas and starts at 11:30 a.m. Monday.
The field for the two-day tournament also includes Waikele's Scotty Kaneko, Hapuna's Matthew Hall, O'ahu Country Club's Shane Abe and Brad Buck, Kapolei's Tommy Hines and Hilo Muni's Lance Taketa.
The tournament has a $9,000 purse, with the winner earning $2,000, plus a round-trip ticket on Delta and $500 expense money for the national assistant professional tournament.
Hawai'i ninth
Northern California won the Eddie Hogan Cup last week at Riverside Golf Country Club in Portland, with Hawai'i finishing ninth.
The tournament annually brings together some of the best juniors from the Western States and Canada to face one another in a team format. It is named in honor of Eddie Hogan, long-time golf pro at Riverside who was the victim of a drowning accident in 1968. Tiger Woods, Robert Gamez and Peter Jacobsen are past participants.
Manoa Cup champion Travis Toyama led the Hawai'i team with scores of 76-74—150. He tied for eighth individually, six shots behind champion Joe Panzeri of Idaho.
Northern California's team total was 222-222-444. Hawai'i shot 228-232-460.
Other Hawai'i scores: Pomaikai Shishido 75-79—154; Moses Kahalekulu 77-79—156; and Burt Bonk 81-80—161.
Seniors cash in
Former Hawai'i residents Susie Maxwell Berning and Lenore Muraoka Rittenhouse finished in the Top 40 at last week's Copps Great Lakes Classic. The Women's Senior Golf Tour event was in Green Bay, Wis.
Berning, who lived in Kona for many years, finished 36th with scores of 78-80-74—232. That was 24 shots behind winner Patty Sheehan. Berning, a three-time U.S. Women's Open champion who now lives in Palm Springs, won $3,358.
Rittenhouse, MVP of the University of Hawai'i Rainbow Wahine golf team in 1978, tied for 40th with scores of 81-78-79—238. She won $3,058.
Ma to Michigan
Iolani graduate Matthew Ma will tee off in the 102nd U.S. Amateur Monday at Oakland Hills Country Club.
Ma is heading to the University of Oregon this fall. He captured Hawai'i's qualifying spot in a two-hole playoff with Berry Hanson, a UC-San Diego golfer.
Ben "Bubba" Dickerson rallied from a 5-down deficit to win last year's Amateur. Tiger Woods won the U.S. Amateur championship in 1994, '95 and '96.
