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Canada fields strong team
at world amateur golf meet

THE WORLD’S best men amateur golfers from over 50
countries begin play tomorrow at the Capilano Golf and
Country Club in West Vanccuver in national team play at
the 1992 World Amateur Golf Team Championships.

The championships take place
every two years and are hosted ia
the Western Hemisphere only once
every six years.

Given the international rotata-
tion, it will be many years before
Canada will again have the privi-
lege to host the world’s best ama-
teur, and tomorrow’s profes-
sional, golfers.

The Canadian team consists of
Michael Weir of Brights Grove,
Ont., Todd Fanning of Winnipeg,
Graham Cooke of Montreal and
Darren Richie of Hampton, N.B.
Doug Roxburgh of Vancouver is
the alternate member of the team
and is acting deputy captain.

Hugh Hallward, president of
the Royal Canadian Golf Assecia-
tion, is the non-playing captain of
the team.

The team was chosen at the
conclusion of the Canadian Ama-

By A.P. McCredie
Sports Reporter

teur Golf Championships held in
St. John, New Brunswick.

Richie won the world qualifier
with a low score of 282, with Weir
second, Fanning third and Cooke
fourth.

“It was a difficult task to pick
four players out of the many fine
amateur golfers in this country,”’
said Hallward. ‘‘But we feel we
have a strong team, with every

-member peaking at the right

time.”’
All four players compete daily
with the top three scores counting.
Practice at the Capilano course,
a sure challenge for the werld’s
best amatuers, concludes today,
with the first round of. the cham-

pionship teeing-off tomorrow.

“‘More than 50 countries will be
sending teams to Vancouver, mak-
ing this edition of the world ama-
teur by far the largest in history,”’
said Royal Canadian Golf
Association executive director
Stephen Ross.

“We have faced some signifi-
cant logistical challenges but with
the co-operation of Marine Drive
Golf Club and Capilano those
have now been resolved.’’

The Marine Drive course hosted
the women’s world championships
that ended on Sunday.

Spain’s three-member team beat
out Great Britain-Ireland by a
stroke to win Spain’s second
Espirito Santo Trophy, the world
championship award.

Ross attributed the record
amount of entries (53) on the
men’s side to a combination of
the locale and the anticipation
that golf will be accepted for in-
clusion in the 1996 Olympics. The
previous high was 39 countries
fielding teams.

Wednesday, September 20, 1992 - North Shore News ~ 18

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