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Tuesday, October 09, 2007

California Blind Golf Classic

Valley Country Club, Lompoc, California

B 1 Division

First Place Phil Blackwell

Runner Up Brian MacLeod

B 1 USBGA

Phil Blackwell

Day 1 Front 52 Back 53 Total 105

Day 2 Front 53 Back 58 Total 111

Two Day Total 216

B 1 USBGA

Brad Eaton WD

B 1 USBGA

Howard Shaw

Day 1 Front 76 Back 68 Total 144

Day 2 Front 77 Back 74 Total 151

Two Day Total 295

B 1 USBGA

Scott Quinlan NS

B 1 Canada

Brian Macleod

Day 1 Front 57 Back 59 Total 116

Day 2 Front 56 Back 54 Total 110

Two Day Total 226

B 1 Canada

Bob Comba

Day 1 Front 74 Back 72 Total 146

Day 2 Front 63 Back 75 Total 138

Two Day Total 284

B 1 Canada

Gerry Nelson

Day1 Front 64 Back 64 Total 128

Day 2 WD

Ladies B1 Division

First Place Angela O'Rourke

Runner Up Adel Ortega

B 1 USBGA

Adel Ortega

Day 1 Front 69 Back 73 Total 142

Day 2 Front 62 Back 67 Total 129

Two Day Total 271

B 1 Canada

Angela O’Rourke

Day 1 Front 56 Back 61 Total 117

Day 2 Front 57 Back 69 Total 126

Two Day Total 243

B 1 Canada

Mary Blair

Day 1 Front 72 Back 71 Total 143

Day 2 Front 67 Back 67 Total 134

Two Day Total 277

B2 Division

First Place Bruce Hooper

Runner Up Bill Davis

B 2 USBGA

Bruce Hooper

Day 1 Front 45 Back 40 Total 85

Day 2 Front 40 Back 47 Total 87

Two Day Total 172

B 2 USBGA

Bill Davis

Day 1 Front 58 Back 51 Total 109

Day 2 Front 56 Back 68 Total 125

Two Day Total 234

B 2 USBGA

Dennis Smith

Day 1 Front 57 Back 65 Total 122

Day 2 Front 61 Back 69 Total 130

Two Day Total 252

B 2 USBGA

Bob Spencer

Front 49 WD

B 2 Canada

Bruce Rupp

Day 1 Front 69 Back 71 Total 140

Day 2 Front 64 Back 68 Total 132

Two Day Total 272

B3 Division

First Place Bruce Peterson

Runner Up Charles Adams

Senior Division B3

First Place George Jones

B 3 USBGA

Bruce Peterson

Day 1 Front 46 Back 47 Total 93

Day 2 Front 44 Back 49 Total 93

Two Day Total 186

B 3 USBGA

Charles Adams

Day 1 Front 44 Back 46 Total 90

Day 2 Front 46 Back 55 Total 101

Two Day Total 191

B 3 USBGA

Jim Durand

Day 1 Front 56 Back 53 Total 109

Day 2 Front 51 Back 58 Total 109

Two Day Total 218

B 3 USBGA

George & Elaine Jones

Day 1 Front 60 Back 54 Total 114

Day 2 Front 56 Back 57 Total 113

Two Day Total 227

B 3 USBGA

George Pentland

Day 1 Front 74 WD

B 3 USBGA

Ron Plath

Knee Surgery WD

B3 Canada

Doug Stoutley

Day 1 Front 49 Back 57 Total 106

Day 2 Front 52 Back 55 Total 107

Two Day Total 213

The tournament was played at the Village Country Club in Lompoc. The Village CC is a terrific, blind-friendly, golf course. It was designed by Ted Robinson, world famous golf course architect. One interesting thing about the course is that all the doglegs except one go right. All you slicers would love this course. While we were there, the Santa Maria strawberries were ripe. This strawberry is the size of your fist. It looks like an egg-shaped apple. There are the sweetest strawberries you have ever eaten. Angela O'Rourke's coach, Mary Braun, bought everyone a small basket and put it in their golf carts on the first day! I thought I was going to get a rash from eating so many strawberries.

The 9th California Golf Classic had 20 players, 15 from the U.S. and 5 from Canada. The course was in great shape. The staff at the club and the Santa Maria community treated us like stars. We had great publicity thanks to John McReynolds, sports writer for the Santa Maria Times newspaper. John not only got the blind golf tournament in the local newspaper but we also got mentioned in the Los Angeles Times. As I said, the weather was uncharacteristic; and the 40 mph winds drove the scores up. The winners in each category were Phil Blackwell B -1 with scores of 105 and 111, 216; Bruce Hooper B-2, 85 and 87, 172; and a new member, Bruce Peterson from Santa Barbara B-3, 93 and 93, 186; George Jones had one of his best tournaments. He competed in the senior division and won. Angela O'Rourke also played some fine golf and won the Women's division.

The USBGA thanks Howard Shaw and his committee for a wonderful week in cold and windy California.

SCOTTSDALE - Imagine playing 18 holes with your eyes closed, trying to make par in total darkness.

Blind golfers play that way every time they hit the links. Some have no sense of the location of the ball or the distance. Others can see shadows or glimmers of light, but still need extra help. So they play with coaches who can line up their shots and tell them how much torque to put on a swing.

"All it takes is to hit the sweet spot once in 200 times at it's worth it," said Angela O'Rourke, one of 10 blind golfers who played Friday as part of this week's Heather Farr Leader Dogs Classic at Starfire Golf Club in Scottsdale.

The 17th-annual tournament was expected to raise nearly $50,000 to buy a guide dog for a blind person and send them to a Michigan training center to get acquainted with their new companion.

O'Rourke, whose dog Faith joined her for this week's tournament, went blind after a near-fatal car accident in 1991. The retired Army colonel, who lives part-time in Mesa, is considered one of the top blind golfers in the U.S. O'Rourke said she started golfing after she lost her sight after suffering head trauma and a number of other serious injuries in a collision with a truck. Every round of golf is a gift, but blind golfers still have their fears.

Tournaments, like the one named after the local LPGA golfer Heather Farr - who died in 1993 at age 28, after a struggle with breast cancer - give them a chance to network and share ideas on how to solve the many daily problems that come with visual impairment.

"When I get to the 13th or 14th hole, I'm fighting mentally to quit," said O'Rourke, who holds doctorates in education and counseling. "There's not a blind golfer out there who's not a champion."

This week's tournament was co-sponsored by Leader Dogs for the Blind, a Rochester, Mich.-based non-profit group. Through golf, the organization has trained more than 14,000 guide dogs for the blind. This year's tournament included former NBA player Scott Williams, who played in a charity event Friday, along with dozens of local golfers.

Phil Hubbard, 40, traveled from Deland, Fla. to compete. Hubbard, a high school teacher who lost most of his sight to a hereditary disorder when he was 19 years old, said he enjoys golfing despite not being able to see the course. But just like any golfer, Hubbard - a member of the United States Blind Golfers Association - tries to smile through the divots and sliced shots that come with playing the game. "When it becomes a chore, it's time to quit," he said. "Especially for us, since we have to work so hard at it anyway."

Player	Front	Back	Total
Brian MacLeod	50	50	100
Brad Eaton	65	62	127
Walter Dietz	72	69	141
Dan Schaller	79	70	149
Ron Murner	74	77	151
Joan Dietz	71	81	152
Earl Vermillion	*	*	DNF

Player	Front	Back	Total
Bruce Hooper	45	39	84
Mark Arnold	44	45	89
Kevin Edwards	50	49	99
Joe Hojnicki	53	59	112
Dennis Smith	68	54	122