BY ANDREW MCCREDIE
Sports Editor

AFTER A three-decade
absence, the world's best
golfers returned to the
Lower Mainland last year
to play in the inaugural
West Coast Classic.

Sixty of the Professional
Golf Association's (PGA) best
~— including legendary long-
baller John Daly -— showed
up, last sutimer to battle for
their share of a US$500,000
purse at the beautiful Swan-e-

Set Bay Resort and Country
Club: in Pitt Meadows. The

Coast Classic set to tee-of

last ime the pros congregated
in B.C. was for the 1966
Canadian Open atthe
Shaughnessy Golf Club,

Living up to its billing, last
year's West Coust Classic was
aclissic, as Scott Hoch took
top honors following a four-
hole playoff against Scott
Verplank.

This year the West Coast
Classic pro tournament. will
take on a different format as
six two-man wams will play
an exciticg (%-hole team
shoot-out with a US$350,000
purse up for grabs.

The format of six hoies of
scramble, six holes of alter-
nating shots and six holes of

Kelowna ... Sanahene

best-balis is based on Greg
Norman's highly successful
(and highly lucrative) Shark
Shootout,

And considering the teams
the West Coast Classic orga-
nizers have assembled. it
should make for one highly
entertaining round of golf.
John Daly and Craig Stadler.
Roger Malthie and Brett Ogte.
Scott Verplank and Bob Tway,
David) Frost) and Brandel
Chamblee. Scutt Hoch and
Gury Hallberg. And the
Canadian duo of Dave Barr
and Richard Zokol.

“We've brought together
an outstanding group of
golfers.” says tournament

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executive director Douglas
Smith. “John is back, along
with The Two Scatts —- Scatt
Hoch and Scott Verplank, our
champion and runner-up hast
year.
Smith added that the pair-
ing of Daly and Stadler will
provide golf fans with a
unigue Opportunity,

The pro team) shoot-out
tournament will take pkice on
Victoria Day (Monday, May
20), A Celebrity Challenge
tournament tees-off on Sunday,
May 19 and the 1996 West
Coast Classic Pro Am is set for
Tuesday, May 21. Eight PGA
tour pros will join the 12 tour-
nament players in the Pro Am.

Tickets for the West Coast
Classic are available by call-
ing 669-8612.

Swan-e-set Bay Resort and
Country Club is located at
16651 Rennie Road, Pitt
Meadows.

If you can‘t make it oui to
Pitt Meadows to watch the
action, TSN will broadcast the
‘96 Classic on Wed... May 22
at 4:30 pam.

West Coast Classic
Sunday, May 19

8 a.m.: Gates open

10 am.: Brian Mogg Golf
Clinic

Noon - 6 p.m. West Coast

Classic Celebrity-Am. Shot-.

gun start.

Monday, May 20

8 a.m.: Gates open

10 ams Professional
Player Revue hosted by Roger

Maltbie, PGA tour profes-

sional @ practice range

Noon: West Coast Classic ©

begins @ [st Tee

4:30 p.m.: Awards presen.

tation @ 18th Green,

‘Tuesday, May 21
7 a.m.: Gates open™

8 am.-1 p.m: West Coast:
Shotgun .

Classic “Pro-Am.
start,

Classic will benefit locals

LOWER MAINLAND PGA
fans won't be the only ones
who benefit from — this
month's West Coast Classic
Tournament.

Not only will the May 19-
21 tournament at the Swan-e-
set Bay Resort & Country
Club bring top-flight goif to
the area, it will also leave a

charitable legacy behind once

the players have jetted off to
the next stop on the PGA
tour,

The North Shore
Disability Foundation
Resource Centre Association
is one such group that will
get support from tournament
organizers.

The association was
established in 1975° by a
group of. concerned: parents,

‘professionals and advocates ~

who were determined’ to

address the need for respite-.

care, community-based tesi-
dential services and social-

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young people wi
disabilities...

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20 years ago, the Foundation
today supports over 200 chil
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The, association's logan
“Working for a community.o!
all,” mirrors: the. ‘spirit?
which the West Coast Classic
tournament is held.’

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