Columnist Peter Benton: LVCC team wins interclub match

Peter Benton

Friday, July 6, 2001 | 11:24 a.m.

Peter Benton's golf column appears Wednesday.

The third interclub match of the season, featuring eight-man teams from area country clubs, was contested last week over Las Vegas Country Club.

Four men from each team played net Stableford, and three players along with their respective professional played gross Stableford, with the best seven of eight scores on each hole being counted.

It was a keenly contested tournament with the host team, led by LVCC's head professional John Creaney, winning narrowly with a score of 254. Amateur players were Bill Bolton, Pat Laverty, Charlie Pape, Mel Caplan, Wayne Corona, Ken Land and Paul Stutzman.

Sharing second place, a stroke back at 253, were the following teams: TPC Summerlin, headed by pro Jason Edmiston and consisting of amateurs Steve Fink, Greg Horodesky, Bryan Waters, Ed Cisneros, Bud Corson, Dorin Goudreau and Charlie Hall; and Brian McCallister's team from the Anthem Country Club which included Scott Eide, Scot Fairchild, Steve Hammond, Chris Anderson, Harry Campbell, Ron Gilmore and Ashton Reinecke.

Canyon Gate professional Steve Lind was low pro with 38 points. Amateur gross went to Bill Bolton (Las Vegas Country Club) with 41 points, followed by Chris Solari (Canyon Gate) with 38.

Fred Demarest (Southshore) with 47 points was high man in the net segment. He was followed by Charlie Hall (TPC) 42 points. Sharing third with 41s were Chris Anderson (Anthem), Don Dombrowski (Spanish Trail), John Thompson (Southshore), Paul Stutzman (LVCC) and Tom Harmon (Red Rock CC).

Lynn King and Karen Power, representing the Southern Nevada Business Women's Golf Association, captured the net division with a score of 124.

Sharing second at 125 were the pairings of Pat Lee and Beloris Nakucki, Peg Arnone and Katie Paulson, Lila Faye Berberet and Terry Mura, and Sandy Kautz and Carol Mitchell.

Lietzke has entered six other Senior Tour tournaments that will be played between July and September. (This is the guy whose playing schedule was the envy of many on the PGA Tour. He has never played more than 20 events in a season since 1989, and competed just nine times last year).

In his first 18 years on the PGA Tour (1975-1992), Lietzke finished in the top 10 on the money list four times and among the top 20 ten times, including six straight years from 1977-1982. His best season was 1981, when he won three titles and finished fourth on the money list with $343,446.

His biggest earnings year was 1992, when he won the Southwestern Bell Colonial and $703,805 to finish 16th on the money list. Lietzke's 13th PGA Tour win came at the 1994 Las Vegas Invitational.

Lietzke's teammates at the University of Houston, which he attended from 1970-73, included Tom Jenkins, John Mahaffey, Bill Rogers, Fuzzy Zoeller and local entity Bruce Ashworth. Lietzke is one of three exempt players who will join the Senior Tour this summer based on their position on the top 70 all-time money list. Don Pooley and Mark McCumber become eligible for the Senior Tour when they turn 50 on Aug. 27 and Sept. 7, respectively.