From: ear@sei.cmu.edu (Eugene Rindels)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.golf
Subject: Golf News
Date: 6 Nov 92 12:41:22 GMT
Organization: Software Engineering Institute


It just snowed yesterday.........Time to dig out the old "Masters" tapes,
throw a log on the fire and dream about Augusta.  


	ACAPULCO, Mexico (UPI) -- Golf could be only a swing away from joining
the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
	The Atlanta organizers asked the International Olympic Committee
three weeks ago to add golf to the 25-sport program. The tournament
would be played at the Augusta National Golf Club, home of the Masters
and 85 miles outside Atlanta.
	Billy Payne, president of the Atlanta organizers, will be pitching
the proposal at this week's meetings of the IOC executive board and
various Olympic committees.
	No decision is likely before next June's IOC meeting at Lausanne,
Switzerland. But there are positive signs for golf despite the IOC's
intent to limit the Olympics to 10,000 athletes and 5,000 officials.
	Shortly after Payne's announcement, IOC President Juan Antonio
Samaranch said golf is ``certainly a sport we would like to see in the
Olympics.'' But he sounded a more cautious note Tuesday, saying he wants
to see a written proposal.
	``At this moment, I don't know if golf fits inside the Olympic Games,
'' he said.
	Gilbert Felli, the IOC sports director, says the IOC is willing to
bend the rules of the Olympic Charter to pave the way for golf, a
women's event at the 1900 Olympics and a men's event in 1904, when it
last appeared in the Games.
	``In principle there is nothing against adding a new sport,'' he
said. ``To add a sport just three years before the Games is not possible
according to the Olympic Charter. But this is to prevent sports being
added by the IOC -- asking something of the organizing committee they
cannot do. But if the request comes from the organizing committee, we
can say the rules can be bent.''
	Felli said golf meets Olympic criteria, being played in at least 75
countries and on four continents. He agreed the prospect of adding golf
appears to contradict IOC efforts to streamline the Olympics.
	``In some countries in the world it is played by everybody,'' he
said. ``In my country (Switzerland) it is only for the elite. But if
golf is played by many people it deserves to be in the Olympic Games.''
	Felli said it was possible golf would just be accepted for Atlanta.
	``After every Olympics, the program commission looks at the Games and
this will happen next month when they will analyze the Barcelona
program,'' he said. ``We believe that we should enhance the program
because some sports deserve to be in the Olympic program and some sports
don't deserve to be in the program anymore.''
	Leroy Walker, recently elected president of the U.S. Olympic
Committee, said there was a reason why the Atlanta organizers ignored
protocol by making an announcement before submitting a written request
to the IOC.
	``We had been talking with the different golf people and the news
would have leaked out,'' he said. ``There is a general thought that we
were ahead of the gun, but I know that Billy Payne had spoken to
president Samaranch and members before he let us go as far as we have.''
	Walker said there is strong backing among various golf organizations
to bring the sport to the Olympics.
	``The golf community is a wide community ... pros, amateurs, LPGA,''
he said. ``The support is there. This is a first step, only a first
step.''
	Augusta, one of the most exclusive clubs in the United States,
grudgingly admitted its first black member only a few years ago, amid a
public outcry over racism at golf clubs. Still, Walker, a black, says
the venue is good for the Olympics.
	``What better place for golf than Augusta National -- the site of the
Masters,'' he said. ``This could open up all kinds of doors ... it gives
equity for women, which for the IOC is very important.''

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	MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (UPI) -- Howard Twitty shot an 8-under-par 64
Thursday to take a one-stroke lead after the opening round of the $760,
000 Amoco-Centel Championship.
	Morris Hatalsky, Don Pooley and Mark McCumber each were at 65 in this
tournament designed for golfers between the ages of 40 and 49. Hatalsky
was at 9-under with two holes to play, but finished with consecutive
bogeys.
	``This course wasn't too hard today,'' the 43-year-old Twitty said
after shooting 31 on the back nine of the par-72, 6,871-yard Dunes West
Golf Club. ``It's a nice course, but it wasn't intended to be a monster.
You would really have to hit a wild drive to get in trouble.''
	Twitty has earned nearly $2 million during his career which started
in 1975, including just over $264,000 in 1992, when he placed 57th on
the earnings list.
	``The reason the guys will shoot low out here is because the course
is in such good shape,'' said Twitty, who did not have a bogey. ``It's
fun to play out here with these guys, and this tournament is much more
fun and relaxing than the ones on Tour, but you are still going to have
to shoot low out here for all four rounds in order to win. That's why we
play the game.''
	Bruce Fleisher and Bruce Lietzke were tied for sixth place at 66.
Three-time U.S. Open champion Hale Irwin managed only a 74, tying him
for 31st place in the field of 33.
	To be eligible for this tournament, along with the age qualification,
a man must have won a major tournament, the Players Championship or the
World Series of Golf, or been among the first 12 players available from
the career money list. There also were five sponsor exemptions.
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 Twitty takes lead in Amoco-Centel
	MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (UPI) -- Howard Twitty shot an 8-under-par 64
Thursday to take a one-stroke lead after the opening round of the $760,
000 Amoco-Centel Championship.
	Morris Hatalsky, Don Pooley and Mark McCumber each were at 65 in this
tournament designed for golfers between the ages of 40 and 49. Hatalsky
was at 9-under with two holes to play, but finished with consecutive
bogeys.
	``This course wasn't too hard today,'' the 43-year-old Twitty said
after shooting 31 on the back nine of the par-72, 6,871-yard Dunes West
Golf Club. ``It's a nice course, but it wasn't intended to be a monster.
You would realy have to hit a wild drive to get in trouble.''
	Twitty has earned nearly $2 million in his career which started in
1975, including just over $264,000 in 1992, when he placed 57th on the
earnings list.
	``The reason the guys will shoot low out here is because the course
is in such good shape,'' said Twitty, who did not have a bogey. ``It's
fun to play out here with these guys, and this tournament is much more
fun and relaxing than the ones on Tour, but you are still going to have
to shoot low out here for all four rounds in order to win. That's why we
play the game.''
	Bruce Fleisher and Bruce Lietzke were tied for sixth place at 66.
Three-time U.S. Open champion Hale Irwin managed only a 74, tying him
for 31st place in the field of 33.
	To be eligible for this tournament, along with the age qualification,
a man must have won a major tournament, the Players Championship or the
World Series of Golf, or been among the first 12 players available from
the career money list. There also were five sponsor exemptions.

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Also,
 
Fred Couples shot a 6-under-par 66 to tie for the lead and help the United
States take the opening round advantage in the $1.1 million World Cup of Golf
at Madrid, Spain. Davis Love III posted a 68 for a combined score of
10-under-par 134 and a two-shot lead over runnerup Spain. 

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Eugene A. Rindels        ear@sei.cmu.edu        Former SSgt  USMC "Semper Fi"
Real-Time Systems Program
Software Engineering Institute
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA
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