Golf / Shav Glick : Women’s Municipal Event Is This Week

Two of Los Angeles’ oldest municipal tournaments, the 63rd women’s championship and the 68th men’s championship, will take over the local scene during the next two weeks.

The women will play Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the Rancho Park course, and the men will play two weekends, June 7-8 and June 14-15, at four city courses.

Last year, Bobby Lasken, 19, of Whittier, and Pearl Sinn, 17, of Bellflower were the winners. Lasken, now attending UCLA, set a 72-hole tournament record of 275, 11 under par, when he finished six strokes ahead of Tom Stankowski.

The men’s championship field is limited to the first 144 entries. The deadline to enter is Friday.

Play will be on the Encino and Rancho Park courses the first weekend and on the Griffith Park courses, Wilson and Harding, the next Saturday and Sunday.

Both tournaments are sponsored by the L.A. City Recreation and Parks Dept. and will be conducted by the Municipal Golf Assn.

Also in June, the 11 Los Angeles city-operated courses will be hosting a program to raise funds for camperships for disadvantaged youths and to assist the city’s junior golf program.

Each city course player, on given days, will be asked to donate $1 for each tee shot on a par-3 hole. New balls will be given players whose shot lands within a 30-foot circle.

The program, scheduled for June 21-22 and June 28-29, raised $3,644 last year.

Golf Notes

USC’s Sam Randolph and Brian Henninger were named to the All-Pacific 10 team along with conference champion Don Walsworth and Carl Wagner of Stanford and Rich Bietz and Bill Mayfair of Arizona State. Two Trojan coaches, Randy Lein and Cathy Bright, were named coaches of the year after their men’s and women’s teams won conference championships. . . . When the senior pros tackle Wood Ranch next year, they may find the Simi Valley course more than they can handle. During the 72-hole Pac-10 tournament there were only three of 240 rounds under par. . . . Red Hill CC will hold its 17th Champagne tournament next weekend.

Art Berman, 64, of Encino, had never made a hole in one before he hit a 5-iron shot into the cup on the 150-yard No. 16 at MountainGate CC. The next day, on the same hole, playing with the same group, he used a 4-iron and hit it into the cup again. Berman, an 18-handicap golfer, said he didn’t feel as strong the second day. . . . Eric Woods shot 287 to win the Pasadena Amateur by eight strokes over Perry Parker and Alton Duhon. . . . William Clemo and Tom Givens of Saticoy CC thwarted the home club bid of Mark and Robert Schowe of San Gabriel CC to win the 62nd Cravens Cup scotch play tournament. The Schowe brothers, who were medalists with a 10-under-par 61 in the unusual event in which partners hit alternate shots with the same ball, lost in the finals, 3 and 2.

The 12th annual Billy Casper Invitational will be June 9 at Industry Hills. Deadline for entries is June 2. . . . The Western American Golf Assn. will hold its annual couples championship June 2-3 at River Island CC in Porterville. . . . Group Fore, the women’s pro mini-tour, will play 54-hole tournaments Thursday through Saturday at del Safari CC in Palm Desert and June 2-4 at Spring Valley Lake CC in Victorville. . . . The Greater Ojai Valley pro-am will be played June 1-2 at Soule Park GC.

Verbum Dei High School will hold its fifth annual fund raiser tournament June 9 at Riviera. . . . Bernice Stoneman shot 252 to win the Industry Hills women’s club championship by 16 strokes over Mie Yashiro. . . . The Vince Ferragamo Special Olympics charity tournament is June 3 at Los Coyotes CC with most foursomes featuring pro football players. . . . George Strugar will host the SoCal Confectionary Industry championship June 5 at Los Serranos CC in Chino.

Silband Sports, formerly California Golf Centers, has taken over operation of three public courses: Whittier Narrows in South San Gabriel, Ocean Meadows GC in Goleta and Bellflower GC. . . . The American Junior Golf Assn. will hold the fifth of its 20 tournaments on Friday and Saturday at Mission Hills CC. Favorites include O.D. Vincent of Palm Desert, Amy Fruhwirth of Cypress and Cathy Mockett of Newport Beach.

Entries close June 4 for the 61st U.S. Public Links championship. Local qualifying will be June 16 at Shandin Hills CC in San Bernardino and Singing Hills CC in El Cajon. Any player who does not belong to a private club is eligible. The finals are July 14-19 at Tanglewood Park in Clemmons, N.C. . . . The AMC Cancer Research will hold its national shootout June 1-16 with players shooting at scores posted by Gene Littler and Hollis Stacy at participating courses.

Chuck Drinkworth, former golf and football coach at Indio High and College of the Desert, has joined the PGA West staff as an assistant professional. Also joining the teaching staff is Hank Haney, who gained recognition as the man who remodeled Mark O’Meara’s swing.