Members returned to tee off at Newport...

Members returned to tee off at Newport Beach Country Club Tuesday

while crews continued the takedown and cleanup process from the

Toshiba Senior Classic, which concluded Sunday.

Tournament crews have removed all bleachers and will shift their

efforts to dismantling skyboxes and tents for storage, along with

repairing parking lots and areas of the golf course, Marc Sorgatz,

tournament operations manager said.

They hurriedly removed trailers from the volunteer village and

took down remaining leaderboards before the rains hit Tuesday

afternoon.

“It’s about a two-week removal process,” Sorgatz, who averaged

14-hour days for the last two weeks, said. “It’s a mad rush, like a

circus. It takes a lot longer to put up than take down.”

Sorgatz said a major task will be removing flooring from tents and

other structures that have rested on the course for the past several

weeks.

Grass in those areas has gone dormant, so allowing it to grow

again is a high priority, Sorgatz said.

Sorgatz said cleanup shouldn’t be affected by the rain.

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Big Canyon Country Club members Mike Carpenter and Warren Caves

finished tied for 15th in the third annual Southern California Golf

Association’s Foursomes Championship that concluded Tuesday at Red

Hill Country Club in Rancho Cucamonga.

Carpenter and Caves shot 9-over-par 153 (80-73) in the two-day

event that began Monday.

The duo tallied three birdies en route to a 2-over 34 on the front

nine Tuesday.

Tom McGreevy, from Mesa Verde Country Club, and partner William

Coleman tied for 28th after shooting 12-over 156 (77-79).

Tim Hogarth and John Pate shot 1-over (72-73 -- 145) to win by one

stroke.