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Don’t miss chamber’s golf tourney

The Williams-Grand Canyon Chamber of Commerce’s annual golf tournament will be Sunday with the shotgun start set for 8 a.m.

This is one of the biggest golf tournament’s of the season and will kickoff a summerlong slate of events out at Elephant Rocks.

This particular tournament will be a four-person scramble with two drives allowed per player. The handicap will be figured as the player’s handicap total divided by eight.

It’s the first year the tournament will be played under the four-person scramble format. In past years, it’s usually been a threesome, except for 1998 when it was a two-person format with men’s and couples divisions.

The $65 entry fee includes entry in the tournament and a barbecued steak lunch donated by Max & Thelma’s. Buy-ins, skins and mulligans are optional.

Trophies and merchandise will be up for grabs for the winners. There will also be other various prizes, such as closest to the pin, straightest drive and for a hole-in-one.

Connie Hiemenz, this year’s tournament chairperson, said there’s no limit on the number of teams, especially since the course expanded to 18 holes. She said the chamber is still accepting hole sponsors. Call her at 635-4426 if your business is interested.

Proceeds from the tournament will go to a good cause.

“It goes to a student interested in having a career in business,” Hiemenz said. “This year, we gave $1,000 to Leah Pixley.”

The scholarship is awarded annually to a Williams High School student involved in Future Business Leaders of America.

The course seems to be in pretty good shape, golf pro John McCahan said last week. McCahan said the course is still not using fresh water since the 18-hole course opened, except for one day late last year.

“We used fresh water one day in September,” McCahan said. “We’re not getting enough for what would be ideal but we’re still 100 percent effluent.”

McCahan said his staff tries to water less at night and hits the hot spots during the day.

“The hot weather and wind has not been helping,” he added.

Past winners of the chamber tournament in recent years include:

• 1999 — Norm Johnson, Dave Leavitt, John Dillon.

• 1998 — Rick Shipley & Brandon Evans (men’s); Jim and Jane Ross (couples).

• 1997 — Clay Grover, Glen Olson and Amy Graham.

• 1996 — Roger Short, Chris Dennison, Jim Cox.

• 1995 — Aaron Lowry, Tim Garcia, Tasha Schmieteknop.

(Brad Fuqua is sports editor of the Williams-Grand Canyon News).


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