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Golf notebook: Kim, Woods go head-to-head this weekend
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MATCHUP LOOMING: Two of the best young golfers in Arizona, Queen Creek’s Kimberly Kim, below, and Xavier’s Cheyenne Woods, above, will battle this weekend at the ReBath/Heather Farr Classic at Longbow Golf Club in Mesa.
Ralph Freso, Tribune
The biggest showdown in girls junior golf this year — Kimberly Kim vs. Cheyenne Woods — takes place this weekend when the 10th annual ReBath/Heather Farr Classic unfolds at Longbow Golf Club in Mesa.
Read Bill Huffman's golf blog, 'Backspin'
Kim is the Queen Creek teenager who stunned the golf world two years ago by winning the U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship at the record age of 14. She is currently No. 1 in the American Junior Golf Association rankings, and is the defending champ.
Woods is the niece of the No. 1 player in the world, Tiger Woods. The Wake Forest-bound Woods shattered all kinds of records last fall for Phoenix Xavier in the Arizona 5A-I state girls golf tournament. Besides great genes, Woods has one win and five other top-five finishes on the AJGA. She is ranked No. 51.
MOURNING A LOSS
The Safeway International lost one of its greatest supporters March 11 when Barbara Ann Gordon, 50, died at her home in Phoenix.
Gordon, who along with Tournament Golf Foundation president Tom Maletis had helped to secure Safeway as the LPGA tournament’s title sponsor for the past six years, had fought a lengthy battle against cancer.
In the end, she never knew that Safeway was leaving as tournament sponsor, which was announced last Friday.
WHITWORTH SELECTED
LPGA Hall of Famer Kathy Whitworth has been selected by the Banner Health Golf Council to receive the Linda Vollstedt Award for service and leadership in women’s sports. Whitworth will be honored Sunday at the ReBath/ Heather Farr Classic.
Whitworth has won more titles (88) than any other female golfer.
OFFICERS ELECTED
The Junior Golf Association of Arizona has announced its officers for 2008, and they include Barbara Douglas, who continues in the role of president, Jeff Reich, who assumes the duties of vice president/treasurer and Mary Pomroy, who also will be a vice president and handle the duties of secretary.
For more information about these officers and more, visit www.jgaa.org/.
FINAL THOUGHT
When the board of the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic decided to remove George Lopez as its tournament host recently, it made a “classic” mistake.
All the Hope really is these days is a bunch of Lopez’s sometimes rowdy Hollywood friends and a field that looked like the Nationwide Tour. Now it’s just the latter.
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