Hawaii Beat






By Star-Bulletin Staff

Thursday, July 3, 1997

Grand Slam tickets on sale

Tickets for the MasterCard PGA Grand Slam featuring Masters champion Tiger Woods, U.S. Open champion Ernie Els and the British Open and PGA Championship winners go on sale by telephone Monday.

The gallery for the Nov. 18-19 event at the Poipu Bay Resort Golf Course on Kauai will be limited to 6,000 spectators a day.

To order, call 1-800-742-8258. Season tickets are $40 (admission to Monday's pro-am and the first and second rounds Tuesday and Wednesday). Also available will be competition tickets at $20 a day for the first and second rounds. Pro-am tickets are $10. Only 12 tickets can be purchased per call.

Junior any-day tickets for youngsters 18 and under are $5 and can be purchased daily, on site only, with the accompaniment of a ticket-bearing adult.

The $1 million, 36-hole event will be televised live on TBS, starting at 2:05 p.m. Hawaii time.

RAINBOW PEP RALLY: The University of Hawaii athletic department is hosting a pep rally at the Ala Moana Center stage tomorrow at noon with the UH band and cheerleaders performing. Free posters, schedule cards, T-shirts and other prizes will be given out.

CHO 13 STROKES BACK: At Las Vegas, Kathy Cho shot an 80 yesterday in the second round of the Las Vegas Founders' Legacy Junior golf tournament for a two-day total of 157.

She is in a three-way tie for 10th place, 13 strokes behind the leader, Stephanie Keever of Las Vegas.

TRANSPAC'SSECONDWAVE: The 56-foot Medicine Man from Long Beach led the second wave of 11 boats off the San Pedro, Calif., starting line in the 39th Transpacific yacht race to Hawaii yesterday.

Close behind Bob Lane's Medicine Man in the 2,225 nautical mile race was the 52-foot Persuasion, piloted by Steve Travis of Seattle.

Sixteen bigger boats will start Saturday, followed by three large multihulls Monday.

Already at sea, Fred Frye's Salsipuedes stretched its lead to 97 miles and was about a third of the way to Hawaii after four days.

The Inquisitor, a 37-footer sailed by John Black of Newport Beach, was well back in second among the cruising class boats that started last Saturday.



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