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AUSTIN — The tournament
that touched off the lucrative
boom in seniors’ golf celebrates
its seventh anniversary begin
ning today.
Defending champion Rod
Funselh will be celebrating as
well, which is something he
does every day. He is simply cel
ebrating the fact he is still alive.
Doctors told Funseth last au
tumn that he had developed
lung cancer and had only a few
months to live.
A few months have come and
gone and Funseth is not only al-
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ive but is still playing golf on the
seniors’ circuit.
The tour for players who
have reached their 50th birth
day is a collection of events that
sprang into being as a result of
the success of the Legends — a
team-format tournament that is
a combination of nostalgia and
big-money golf.
Twenty-six teams will start
the 72-hole, best-ball event
Thursday over the beautifully
conditioned Onion Creek Club
course. The winning team will
receive $100,000 from the total
prize money of $500,000.
A year ago Funseth was a
last-minute replacement entry.
Funseth, who had a decent
but not overwhelming career on
the regular PGA tour, was
paired with international vet
eran Roberto de Vicenzo.
The $50,000 Funseth took
home from the Legends was
easily the largest single check he
had ever won playing golf and
he will team with de Vicenzo
again in hopes of becoming the
tournament’s first repeat cham
pions.
The popularity of seniors’
golf has been a surprising gold
mine to many players who not
many years assumed their ca
reers were through.
Orville Moody, for instance,
became eligible for seniors play
this year having reached the age
of 50.
Legendary seniors compete
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HOUSTON — Defending
champion David Graham heads
the list of participants in the
Houston Open, which begins
today at The Woodlands Coun
try Club.
The par-71 West course used
in the tournament will be some
what different in appearance
this year, owing to a remodeling
job done by Hurricane Alicia
last summer.
cialion,
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said the
coming so soon
Also joining the field in the
$500,000 tournament are 1984
tour slop winners John Mahal-
fey, Gary Koch, Hale Irwin,
Jack Renner, Bruce Lietzke and
Bob Eastwood. But many top
tour professionals will miss the
tournement.
Hal Sutton, the leading
money winner and player of the
year in 1983, was a late entry in
the tournament. After earning
$420,008 on the tour last year,
Sutton has earned only $00,752
so far this year to rank No. 35
on the money list.
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Tournament in Austin-i
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Graham survived a quadru
ple bogey nine on the 37lh hole
of last year’s tournament to
score a 275 and win by five
strokes.
But the tournament is more
distinguished by the number of
leading golfers who will not be
playing in it.
hey are going to
the four majors, plustktij
tournaments which ha '
quired more prestige.'
Duke Butler, executive direc
tor of the Houston Golf Asso-
Hogs sign hoop recruit
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Ar
kansas completed its 1984 bas
ketball recruiting year Wednes
day by signing one of the state’s
top prospects, 6-2 guard Allie
Freeman, who led his Hall High
Warriors to three straight state
championships.
Freeman declined to com
ment on what he called the “de
termining factor” in his decision
to choose Arkansas. He also
said he was pleased with the in
terest shown in him by a num
ber of NCAA schools that tried
to get his signature.
Coach Eddie Sutton was in
Little Rock Wednesday, but was
not present at the signing. I le
declined comment later on
Freeman, saying he wanted to
completely abide by NCAA re
cruiting regulations.
On the court last season,
Freeman paced Little Rock Hall
with an average of 21 points.
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a game. Off the court, he was an
honor student, maintaining a
3.5 grade average and serving
as student body president.
Freeman had narrowed his
choices for college to Arkansas,
Stanford and Vanderbilt before
announcing his decision at his
home in Little Rock Wednes
day. A two-time all-state selec
tion in Arkansas’ top classifica
tion, Freeman was a three-year
starter for coach Oliver Elders
at Hall, which twice during his
career won the slate overall
championship. Hall’s record
during Freeman’s career was
78-11.
Freeman’s signing ended
what some consider to be one of
Arkansas’ best recruiting years
ever.
Three of the five high school
seniors to sign with the Razor-
backs were in-slate players. The
others are 6-1 1 center Andrew
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6-4 guard Bvron Inin of ,
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