Columnist Peter Benton: Child Seekers fee actually only $175

Peter Benton

Wednesday, July 1, 1998 | 11:20 a.m.

PETER BENTON is a local golfer. His column appears Wednesdays.

OOPS. IN LAST WEEK'S column, it was reported entry fee for the July 27 Nevada Child Seekers Bob Dickinson Memorial Golf Tournament at Las Vegas Country Club is $275 instead of $175.

Included in the entrance fee is breakfast, "eye-openers," cart and green fees, tee gifts, awards luncheon, and raffle and hole-in-one prizes.

The charity and beneficiary of all monies derived from this tournament, the Nevada Child Seekers, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to locating missing, abducted and runaway children. Child Seekers annually fingerprints thousands of youngsters and provides their parents with free Child Identification Kits.

For more tournament information, call 878-0311.

TPC praised

The Tournament Players Club at The Canyons in Summerlin has been designated a "Certified Audobon Co-operative Sanctuary" by the Audobon Co-operative Sanctuary System, the educational division of Audobon International.

With the addition of the canyons course, the Tournament Players Club Network now has 11 clubs that have fulfilled the stringent guidelines of the program.

Only 140 courses worldwide have received this honor.

Member-guest

A men's Member/Guest played at the Las Vegas Country Club saw the pairing of Frank Larsen and Marty Barrett win top honors in the Simpson Flight with 11 points.

Vic Cohen and Richard Morris placed second with three points, while Tim Powers and Mike Lauden took third with one.

The Chris Birkin/Larry Davidson duo won the Casper Flight with eight points, followed by Glenn Raynes and Mike Alexander with two.

Jeff Harmon and John Toman ham-and-egged it to perfection in winning the Fleck Flight, totaling 14 points. Breathing down their necks with 11 points were Lynn Weidman and Paul Martinez. Third (one point) was the Milt Honek/Jim Bradshaw team.

The Hogan Flight victors with three points were Tony Gordao and Stan Wasserkrug, who edged Mike Corrigan and Paul Beechen (two points).