Page B4 Winston-Salem Chronicle Thursday, September 9, 1993
Local Men Lead Flight in Golf
Mike Kite of Winston-Salem
leads Flight 2 after the third round
of the 10th annual Dupont World
Amateur Handicap Championship
in Myrtle Beach. S.C.
nient. Golfers representing 47
states, the District of Columbia and
16 foreign countries are panicipat-
ing in the tournament.
pionship round that will include the
winners from 39 flights will be
played.
Flight 2 has a field of 95
golfers with handicaps ranging
from 5.2 to 6.4.
Kite shot a gross 222 and a net
204 over three days to move into
the lead.
More than 3.500 golfers from
around the world signed up to play
in the DuPont World Amateur, the
world's largest on-site aolf touma-
Ken Hester of Clemmons is
also among the list of golfers lead
ing in the DuPont. He is tied for
first in his flight. The tie will be
resolved during a play-off round for
the 39 flight winners.
Since the first DuPont World
Amateur in 1984 with 680 players,
participation in the tournament has
grown steadily.
The tournament is a four-day,
72-hole tournament that is played
on 50 courses along the Grand
Strand area of coastal North and
South Carolina. An 18-hole cham-
This year's field of 3,512
includes 636 senior men, 343 Super
Seniors (65 and over) and a record
field of 336 women.
More than 160 players from
foreign countries are also participat
ing.
'Old Bones' Knows His Way to the Bank
Call him "Old Bones." Call
him anything you want. But cal!
him a winner.
'When the SI.5 million Vantage
Championship tees off at Tangle-
wood Sept. 2 through Oct. 3, Don
January will be seeking his fourth
consecutive Vantage Classics
crown, the 36-hole "tournament-
within-a-tournament" for players 60
and above.
whether January could compete
with the "kids," it was answered in
the second round of the Vantage
Championship last year when he
played the front nine in 30 shots, six
under par.
But don't think for a minute
that the 63-year-old. raw boned
Texan is only picking on the old
folks. He finished in last year's rain-
shortened tournament, which added
$81,000 to the coffers that included
$30,000 for his Vantage Classics
triumph.
"I don't know what happened,"
he said. "Someone else must have
been playing the shots. A 30 — I
can't even count that low.
"I could have walked on water
at the sixth hold. But I've played
enough not to disturb it."
molasses flows, nobody was dis
counting his ability to turn it on
during a round. He demonstrated
that ability in last year's second
round of the Vantage, when he tied
a Senior Tour record with four
birdies and an eagle during a five-
hole stretch that began on No. 2.
January doesn't disturb much
of anything. He ambles along at his
own pace. "It's called being con
sciously lazy," he said.
The January way has worked
for years. He twice won the Vardon
trophy on the PGA Tour, emblem
atic of the lowest stroke average.
The last time was in 1976, when he
was 46. Four years later, he was one
of the founding fathers of the Senior
Tour. He was to become the cir
cuit's first Million Dollar Man.
January has been one of the
staples of the Senior PGA Tour
since its inception. He was a 10-
time winner on the regular PGA
Tour, which he joined in 1956,
including the 1967 PGA Champi-
omship.
"It's kind of acquired. I learned
when I was a young kid that if I'd
go at the pace I wanted to go at, I
had trouble lighting. I was like a
fly. I was very jumpy, jerky, and it
didn't do my golf game any good.
He has won 22 times since
1980 in the over-50 circuit, the last
being in 1987. Twice he was the
laading money winner, in 1983 and
again the next year. He won six
titles that year.
If there was any question
"I've learned to slow every
thing down and take it nice and
easy. It gave me time to think a lit
tle better and also calm my nerves a
little bit. The last 35 or 40 years.
I've worked at it consciously. Now
it's second nature to me. I don't ever
get in a hurry now."
Still, life hasn't always been
kind. In 1988, January was almost
killed in a car wreck. A man run
ning a red light broadsided Janu
ary's car. The collision broke four
ribs and he believes the injuries
affected his breathing and promoted
congestive heart failure, which he
suffered a year later.
During his recovery, January
slowed down even more. He
regained his form. He won nine
Vantage Classics titles in 1991.
But if January plays the way
It may take longer than ever,
but he still knows his way to the
bank.
Local Athlete
from page B1
in the "World Cup Tournament,"
Segers said.
"We have a good team and a lot
of good athletes, but we need to
learn to understand what the other
guy is going to do and support each
other better. That is an assist to any
team.
"I like football because I grew
up with it. It's a contact sport which
involves strategies, but I like mgby
for the opposite reason. It's not on a
level of politics, and your level is
reached on what you know, not
who.
"For instance if Joe Montana
got injured for a year and came
back, he would go right back to his
same spot. It's what the fans want to
see, and that's politics. Where Mel
Maninga is as famous at rugby as
Joe is at his sport, but if Mel got
injured he would have to work his
way back to his position and not
walk right back into it," Segers
added.
Now at 6'3" and 265 pounds,
Segers plans to play mgby and see
where it goes as far as a pro contract
in Austria or Africa and seems to
have lost his interest in the NFL.
Fortunately for Segers, if things
don't work out on the pro scene, he
plans to enter into the field of indus
trial distribution in which he has a
four year degree.
Segers is the son of Lonnie and
Sandra Segers and the grandson of
Dessie Oliver.
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