THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc. DATE: Wednesday, November 9, 1994 TAG: 9411080114 SECTION: VIRGINIA BEACH BEACON PAGE: 17 EDITION: FINAL TYPE: Sports SOURCE: BY GARY EDWARDS, CORRESPONDENT LENGTH: Medium: 63 lines
UNDER CLEAR BLUE skies and 70-degree weather at Bow Creek Municipal Golf Course on Oct. 28, 240 Virginia Beach city employees teed off in the 23rd installment of the golf tournament named for them.
``I was able to make the event into two tournaments,'' said Shannon Cox, an athletics supervisor in the Parks and Recreation Department and organizer of the tournament throughout its 12 1/2-year history.
The city workers play a spring, as well as fall, tournament.
``I had a shotgun start at 7:30 and one at 12:30, so we could spread the awards and prizes around,'' Cox said.
And spread them around he did. Cox dispensed 88 trophies and 12 dozen golf balls to the municipal contestants at the completion of the day's golf.
Playing under a Florida best-ball format, the foursome of Harry Diezel, Walt Kraemer, Randy Blow and Steve Emmert blistered the par-70 course with a score of 56 to take the overall title.
The 14-under par score of 56 was tied by a city police foursome of Mike Minichiello, Mark Del Duca, Michael Felts and Chris Molleen, but they lost a hardest-hole, lowest-score tie-breaker.
No arrests are planned.
A foursome of Bill Tillman, Rich Dunford, Richard Lester and Harry Smithson Jr. took early morning honors with a score 60.
Eight mixed foursomes tackled the course. Pam Fisher, Sue Gesling, Ken Reckner and Butch Girard shot a 61 to win that title.
``Some of these people have been with me for every tournament,'' said Cox, stopping his cart to chat with one such group.
Public works employees Bill Bidlack, Bill Brite, Chuck Fullerton and Jim Huntington appeared to enjoy the beautiful day for golf, if not their golfing itself. The four finished at 1-over par 71.
Sheriff Frank Drew was nailing his one-liners as well as his tee shots. As one of his partners, Jim Brazier, stepped up to tee off, Drew quipped: ``That guy drives the ball 275 yards. Of course, he used to hit it 300 before he started playing with me.''
City firemen Mark Maples, Stan Morse, Pat Ehle and Bob Myers combined for a 58 in the afternoon round.
And how did the Parks and Recreation foursome on which Cox himself played do?
Speaking of and for his partners, Jay Smith, Rich Sauls and Bill Boyce, Cox said: ``We shot a 66, 4-under, not so bad considering we had two bad knees, a bad hip and an insomniac in our foursome.''
Cox identified only the insomniac:
``I didn't sleep a wink last night, thinking about this.'' ILLUSTRATION: Photos by GARY EDWARDS
City employees Bill Barnes, left, Jim Brazier, Paul Lanteigne and
Sheriff Frank Drew fired off tee shots and one-liners in the
23rd-annual tournament.
Firefighters Stan Morse, left, Mark Maples, Pat Ehle and Bob Myers
combined for a 58 in the Florida best-ball format.
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