European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 26, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 26 the stars and stripes wednesday july 26, 1978 Usa eur Golf wide open Battle seen for 4-Day eve starting thursday at Heidelberg by Don Sal or staff write Heidelberg the Battle for the 1978 l Sarteur Golf championships will open Here thursday for a four Day stand and it looks like a wide open race for All three titles. None of the last year s winners will be Back to try for two m a Row. Though a number of those in the 1977 tourney Hel will be among the 51-Odd golfers expected to assemble at the Heidelberg Golf club when the starting Gong year s seniors Champion. Maurice to Winter of shape now part of the 21st support come is still in the com Mand. But because if duty commitments he was unable to participate in the qualify ing tournament in mid june. Winter who twice has played in the All army tournament and last year finished second then went on to fifth place in the interservice Competition requested that he. As defending Champion be permitted to Advance directly to the l Sarteur tournament but Usa eur turned Down his request. With shape now part of the 21st sup port come. There Are Only six major com mands. The breakdown of entries is 35 open players one less than maximum. 11 seniors also one under the limit and five women four from Vii corps which is the Only command with a full distaff team. Tops among the returnees who number eight in the open Competition Are a pair of third place finishers. Skip Haugen of Berlin and Chuck Graham from the seventh army training come they tied with 309 totals nine shots behind Champion Roger Wells of seventh at who has since , this year May be a different Story As the Heidelberg course is quite a different animal from the Garmisch layout where last year s tourney was played both play to a 36-35-72, but that s where the similarity ends. Whereas Garmisch is an almost completely Flat nine Hole course with an 18-Hole length two times around of 6370 Yards. Heidelberg is a full 18 holes of rolling Hills which goes very close to 7.000 Yards from the championship tees. Garmisch has mostly narrow tree lined fairways with ample and sometimes troublesome rough and comparatively Small greens. Heidelberg while having som out of Bounds trouble mostly on the left Side is by comparison relatively wide open. Players will in Many areas be Able to do a Good Deal of straying without being too severely penalized in some places they May hardly be penalized at All. Heidelberg s maintenance Crews have been cutting the rough and it would certainly have to be rated quite manageable. As Long As the player does t go in too deeply or hit into the wrong place. The exceptions Are the slopes left of the ninth. 10th and Lith fairways which definitely Bank left of the 13th Hole could also be troublesome and there Are out of Bounds to the left of the eighth. La and part of the a the fairways. The Only trouble on the right to speak of. Is out of Bounds on the Short fourth and the fifth holes which run parallel to the driving s greens Are considerably More Roomy than those at Garmisch. They had been slow but Host pro Bernard Ken Nedy says his Crews will be cutting them daily promising considerably faster sur faces for the l Sarteur linesmen. Feeling that it is not necessary to make the course Overly Tough As Many clubs do for the pros but rather to encourage Good scores especially in the Early stages of the tourney. Kennedy said that the pins at Heidelberg will be in the Middle portions of the greens on the first two Days. He indicated that they probably will be moved Tomore difficult positions on the third Day and tucked the final Day to provide a True lest of championship tees will be used through out starting in medium front positions the opening Day. Moving to medium Depths the second Day and be Well Back for the closing rounds said Kennedy who will determine the pin placements and tee positions. Some of the players have been getting in their licks unofficially since the beginning of the past weekend with an official prac Tice round scheduled for wednesday. Play player Ballesteros Owen Byman on hand Palmer drops out of German open Cologne Germany the Braun Tro Phy 1978 German open will have its Strong est Field Eyer. But american Arnold Palm l. Or will not be in the Field according to Golf european sponsors for the tournament which starts a five Day run Here wit wednesday s pro am. Palmer s withdrawal from the Field came tuesday after the pea would not re lease him from a commitment to play in ibis weekend s greater Hartford open at Hartford. Corm. According to Steven Jed Ucki of the tournament sponsors. Palmer called last night and told me that because the Field at Hartford was quite weak due to a number of name play ers deciding not to enter the pea would not release him from his commitment said Jedlicki. He went on to add that South Africa Gary player and defending German open Champion Severiano Ballesteros from Bremerhaven bad sibling Fulda win in Usa eur or. Boys baseball Vilseck. Germany Bremerhaven chalked up its second straight Victory with " a 6-5 win Over Grafe Vohr and bad sibling eliminated Wertheim. 27-7. In the usar " Ever Junior boys b division baseball Brun sum up tourney scheduled aug. 4-6 Brun sum. The Netherlands the women s softball league Here will Host their third annual invitational slow pitch softball tournament aug. 44. Which Fea Tures approximately 20 teams from four three Day event gets underway aug. 4 at c . And continues until i am. On the remaining two Days an games will Start at 8 . Teams from the United kingdom. Ger Many. Belgium and the Netherlands will participate. For further information Cal sgt Trott at accent Mil oc-s-3571 applications being accepted for Hahn karate tourney Hahn. Germany participants of All belts and styles May Register for the All amen can karate tournament aug 12 Here it s been announce for further inform a Tun write Hahn youth Center Issei. Apo oj109 or Jerry Steffenhagen. Box 4767. Apo 09109 championships Here tuesday. In a late tuesday game. Chuck Locklin hurled Fulda to a 6-2 Triumph Over Dei Heim to even their Mark at 1-1. It was Dex Heim s second loss. Hurter Tom Wright fanned 12 batters and Keith Jordon blasted a triple scoring Gene Melenski with the tying run in the eighth inning and then stole Home with the winning run in Bremerhaven s Lowery took the loss. In monday s opener. Bremerhaven edged bad sibling 7 bad sibling scored 19 runs in the second inning and went to rim India Wertheim. Which forfeited its first round game Mon Day to Grafen Wahr from the double elimination tournament. In other monday games. Erlanger whipped Fulda. 17-7. Behind Sieve Elsen Peter s 13 strikeouts and Goppinger blasted Derheim. 21-10. Vilseck Blanks bad Hersfeldt in Usa eur Bantam finals Grafe Wohr Germany _ Mike Hall who collected four hits mud dog a Homer hurled Vilseck to a 134 shutout Over bad Hersfeldt Here tuesday in the Usa fur Bantam boys baseball championships. In other tuesday games. Heron blanked Wurzburg. 6-0 Schwabish Hall trimmed a exhem. M. And bad Tou crushed Bremerhaven. 1j-10 Spain were among those already on hand at the ref Rath country club Here site of the 72-Hole tourney in addition to new Zea land s Simon Owen and Young american Star Bob by Man. Owen the 27-year old new zealand pea Champion created a sensation at the Brit ish open by leading As late As the 15lh Hole on the final round at St. Andrews before losing his stretch Battle to Jack Nicklaus to finish in a three Way tie for second place with americans Ray Floyd and Tom Kite. Byman who is fresh from winning last weekend s dutch open he won there last year top and the scandinavian open earlier in the year finished in a five Way tie for 17th place with Ballesteros among others at the British open. He is Only 22 years old and regarded As having a Bright future. Tickets for the German open Are still available through the Uso or local recreation services offices according to Jedlicki Junior senior Day softball finals open at Munich july 31 Schwet Zingen. Germany the 197s Usa eur dependent youth activities Junior senior softball championships will be held july 31-aug. 6 at Munich s Haria dring Field sports officials Ann Frt Here teams representing v corps in corps. 21st support come. Berlin brigade seventh army training command and setae will compete in the double elimination play which features both Junior u years and younger and senior 1 years and Young Eri divisions. Teams selected to compete in the Munich championships May be composed of All stars from one Day rosters will be limited to a maximum of i players one team coach and one assistant team coach or manager. Individual and team awards win be presented to the first and second place finish ers in Junior and senior division Plav participation awards jul be presented to individual members of All teams competing in this year s softball championships. Of the four rounds us. Will Start thursday and i on hand to supervise they for Usa eur a Fol Bej of sports. 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