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3C New Spanish Wells course to be swanky Fort Myers News-Press, Wednesday. July 19, 1978 Lopez not alone as Open favorite Vince Smith -i -s 'It'll be a first-class facility all the way. They're not going to move a trailer in there and operate it as a temporary pro shop. There's a good clubhouse planned. They're talking about $27000 lots along the fairways in there, so you know it's gonna be pretty Jim DeLozier Seven o'clock in the morning is a bad enouqh time to be up and about when you're a dew-sweeper in the Tony Lema Memorial at Marco Island.

It also is a ghastly hour to be unciogging the cobwebs in your mind as you try to discuss a new golf course with its consulting engineer. But Fort Myers engineer Jim DeLozier has a new project in the hopper Spanish Wells Country Club and the only time he could squeeze me into his heavy schedule was 7 a.m. Tuesday. Spanish Wells is a large resort-type community to be constructed in Bonita Springs. Situated between Old 41 and New U.S.

41, south of Bonita Beach Road, the complex encompasses 435 acres which will be highlighted by a par-72 championship golf course. The tract of land contains 50 acres of lakes and retention areas, will contain tennis courts, mostly single-family houses and is being developed by Ed McArdle of Chicago. W. R. King of Chicago designed the golf course's route plan and the layout is being built by Bill Maddox, also of Chicago, wbo recently completed the Bonita Springs Golf Racquet Club.

Spade-work on the Spanish Wells golfing area began about three months ago, according to DeLozier, and the course is expected to be finished in the fall of 1979. Unlike several of Southwest Florida's newer courses, Spanish Wells will not be built nine holes at a time. "We're going to be working on all 18 holes almost simultaneously," the engineer said. "So when it's opened next fall, all 18 holes will be ready for play." Spanish Wells will be limited to residents of the development and an estimated 500 homesites eventually will be offered for sale. "It'll be a first-class facility all the way," DeLozier said.

"They're not gonna just move a trailer in there and operate it as a temporary pro shop. There's a good clubhouse planned. "They're talking about $27,000 lots along the fairways in there, so you know it's gonna be pretty swanky," he said. The design calls for all three tee-boxes on each water will be coming into play frequently and they're leaving in as many trees as they possibly can," DeLozier said. The extreme length of the course is quickly noted by the distance of the par-4 holes.

Nine of these are 400 yards or longer. The shortest par-4 is No. 16, which will be 385 yards, and the lengthiest are No. 9 and 14 which will play at 445 yards. The par-5s will be relatively short 510, 520, 515 and 555 yards.

Par-3 distances are 200, 180, 210 and 190, just a little longer than the average area course. One fairway will run underneath a Florida Power Light Co. transmission line. "You get a free second shot if you hit the power line," DeLozier laughed. "It's an automatic Mulligan." Spanish Wells is still going through the long series of permit approval from a number of governmental agencies.

"You could say project approval is in the process stage," DeLozier said. "But it has been approved by the Lee County Zoning Board that was the first step." Bonita Springs real estate man Roy Evans handled the nearly $2 million transaction when McArdle purchased the property some time back. DeLozier, a native of Miami, at one time considered himself a fairly capable golfer. "I've played from a 5-handicap up to a 15 where it is now'" he said. "But I just don't have time to play like I used to." And how anyone whose working day begins at 7 a.m.

can be expected to play to a low handicap, I just don't know. But these days, DeLozier enjoys the game as an observer he already has another mid-county championship-length course on the drawing boards. Eastwood Golf Club's second summer series of junior clinics for boys and girls 18-and-under starts Saturday at 9 a.m. The one-hour sessions will be conducted for five consecutive Saturdays. Cost for the series is $10 and further information can be obtained by calling the Eastwood pro shop at 332-2327.

Professionals Rich Lamb and Bob Burgess will be in charge of the sessions and they'll be aided by veteran teaching pro Tom Case Sr. hole blue championship, men's white and ladies' red to be individual and separate hitting areas. "This is to effect a more northern-type golf course'" DeLozier said. "The land already has quite a bit of relief. There are hills and valleys and knolls in their natural state and they're even gonna add to that.

"Several holes are going to be really built up. "We might even have to have stairs going up to some of the tees. If you've ever been to Miami Lakes, they've got a couple of tees are very high and that's something like the effect we want to create here" he said. The average elevation of tee-boxes and greens will run between 20 and 30 feet and DeLozier expects the finished product will be every bit as distinctive as the back nine at Burnt Store Country Club in Punta Gorda. "We have one par-3 that's 190 yards from the white tees where the markers can be repositioned every day to make it play like an entirely different hole," he said.

"Then there's another area where there's an L-shaped blue tee-box where the pros will be hitting off two different from the same tee." Spanish Wells will be one of Southwest Florida's longest courses. From the blue markers, the layout stretches out to nearly 7,200 yards. "It'll have its share of dogleg holes, all that By GORDON S. WHITE JR. New York Times Service NEW YORK Nancy Lopez has attracted so much attention in the last four months that many of those who have just discovered women's golf are taking for granted that she will win the United States Golf Association's 26th annual women's open championship, which starts Thursday at the Country Club of Indianapolis.

"Nancy's Navy," as her faithful, if new, followers are called, have become like the old members of Arnie's Army, who simply assumed that their hero, Arnold Palmer, would win every time he teed up back in the 60s. But there are several veteran women golfers who are conceding nothing to this 21-year-old rookie, who burst on the professional golfing scene by winning two straight Ladies Professional Golf Association tournaments last winter and a record fi straight LPGA tourneys from May 12 through June 18 and who has already set a record for money earnings by a rookie golfer man or woman. Among the more than 100 women who will tee up Thursday and make Lopez prove she can beat them all for the open title are players such as JoAnne Carner, winner of two United States open titles (1971 and 1976); Hollis Stacy, the lively defending champion, who won the open title at Hazeltine, outside Minneapolis, last year; Jane Blalock, a once controversial figure on the LPGA Tour, who has gone on a streak of her own by winning her last two tournaments; and Amy Alcott, the 1975 Rookie of the Year, who is just 11 months older than Lopez and is No. 6 on this year's LPGA money-winning list. Others who are given a good chance to win the women's open title include Penny Pulz, Sandra Post, Pat Bradley, Jan Stephenson and Sally Little, who are among the top 10 money winners this year.

Also there is Donna Caponi Young, winner of two straight opens, 1969 and 1970; Sandra Palmer, who won the 1975 open and finished second a year later; and Judy Rankin, who has been among the top 10 money earners since 1970 and who, in 1976, became the first woman golfer to win more than a $100,000 in prize money in a single season. Carner, however, stands out as the strongest contender at this time because of her abilities and a recent surge that has put her in third place on the 1978 LPGA money list. The longest hitter on the tour, Carner has the strength to get out of the high rough the USGA always grows alongside its fairways in an open. Carner, 39, is the only golfer man or woman to have won a USGA junior title (one), a USGA amateur title (five) and a USGA NANCY LOPEZ seeks major title open championship (two). As JoAnne Gunderson, a native of Kirkland, she dominated the women's amateur field for years before marrying Don Carner.

She was a member of four Curtis Cup teams, the biannual competition between the United States and Great Britain In women's amateur golf. She won the first of her five U.S. Amateur titles In 1957, the year Lopez was born. Nancy Lopez has said, "JoAnne Carner was my idol when I started playing golf." Carner turned professional rather late in life by comparison with Lopez, Alcott and Stacy. Carner has been playing in USGA national title tournaments so long that she has a pattern of preparation for a championship, such as this week's open.

"I work on my wedges for two months before the open," Carner said. "I normally hit the ball quite high. But I want to get those wedge shots to drop the ball up on those greens, that are usually set high on the courses picked for the open." Carner does not believe It is her strength that gets her out of open rough. "Getting out of that deep rough is a technique, not strength. Not enough girls work on the technique of a rough shot.

I do." Carner suffered from a lingering attack of flu most of the last winter and spring. But once she overcame that in warmer weather, she began playing up to her usual form and, after two straight seconds during Lopez's streak, she won the LPGA Tourney in Toronto last month. She is ready for the open. The 1978 United States open will obviously be a test to see whether Lopez, the most heralded young woman golfer in the history of the sport, can win. Obviously, millions of persons accross the nation, many of whom never followed golf before, will be rooting for the charming young woman from Roswell, N.M.

McGee sees record Philadelphia Open score al Valley Bank, an eastern Pennsylvania banking institution. "I look for the scores to really be low," McGee said. "The greens and the fairways are both better. It will take better than the 12 under I shot last year to win. I realize that means a tournament record, and I think it will be broken.

McGee, who played 20 of the first 25 weeks this year, is 26th on the money-winning list for 1978 with earnings of $63,972. He hasn't won this year. And this was the first year he took a month off. He plans to play the rest of the tour except for Sutton, Mass. Jack Nicklaus, who won his 15th career major title last week in the British Open, leads a field that includes U.S.

Open Champion Andy North, Ben Crenshaw, Ray Floyd, Mark Hayes, Tom Kite, Graham Marsh, Andy Bean, Tom Weiskopf, Bill Rogers, Tom Watson, Miller Barber, Jay Haas, Jerry Pate, Lee Trevino and Hale Irwin. PHILADELPHIA (AP) Defending champion Jerry McGee, back to the golf wars after a month of fishing and resting an aching back, predicted Tuesday it will take a record 72-hole score to win this week's $250,000 Philadelphia Golf Classic. McGee, who will be 35 years old Friday, won this tournament over the Whitemarsh Valley Country Club course last year with a 12-under-par 272. He prevailed by four strokes over Bob Shearer and John Lister. The record for the 16-year-old tournament is 271 by Hubert Green in 1974.

Green, however, won't venture a guess on what it will take to win the $50,000 first prize on the par 36-35-71 course. a "I don't predict or prognosticate," said Green. "I leave that to weathermen and sports announcers," added Green, who last week finished 10 strokes off the pace in the British Open. McGee's prediction apparently is based on the fact that the Philadelphia Classic is a designated tournament. All of the tour's top 37 top players must tee off in Thursday's first round, which includes 156.

The only exception is Gary Player, the South African, winner this year of the Masters and two PGA tournaments, who was excused when he pleaded exhaustion. Someone asked McGee if he planned a joint (birthday) party with Gene Littler who will be 48 Friday, McGee replied: "Joint party? Professionals don't mess with joints." McGee said of his back problem that it was spasms. 1 "It just comes and goes," he explained. "The only thing that worries me is that I never know when it's coming or when it's going to quit." McGee has won just two tournaments since he turned pro in 1966, the '75 Pensacola Open and the Philadelphia Classic, sponsored by Industri Muzzleloaders will need permit; Dove, duck seasons set fw 1 1 if I Outdoors With Bill Miller Outdoors Editor parents, LaDonne and Jim Schreck, caught and RELEASED his first tarpon, estimated at 112 pounds, while baiting with a catfish off Four-Mile Point. Mrs.

Schreck RELEASED a 101-pounder caught in the same area the next day. Bill Billeb, a new member of the club, also caught his first fish while fishing with Dan Hardin, club president. It was estimated at 110 pounds, and RELEASED. Then Hardin RELEASED a fish of the same size on another trip to but no fish were weighed in following the 15-hour fishing period. Club spokeswoman LaDonne Schreck said there were a few fish jumped, but none were brought to gaff.

1 On other occasions, the tarpon hunters have been more successful, and the Four-Mile Point area of the Caloosahatchee (about halfway between the New Caloosahatchee and Cape Coral Bridges) has been one of the more productive spots for big tarpon of late. Don Schreck, fishing with his Several years ago, the archers of Florida approached the Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission with a proposal. In exchange for a special fee permjt, they wanted to be able to pursue their sport at a time' when they would not be competing with hunters using modern firearms. Bowhunters, by necessity, must be able to get closer to their targets in order to prevent crippling, whether they stalk their game or shoot from blinds or tree stands. This is most difficult to do when the woods are full of gun hunters, especially in those places where deer are hunted with dogs, or from half-tracks.

Since then, archers have paid an additional $5 fee for a permit to hunt during any special archery-only season. This system has proven so successful that recently the muzzleloaders, those who use black-powder, single-shot came to the commission with a similar proposal. Beginning this fall, archers and those who use the primitive arms wishing to hunt during any special The waterfowl season will be a split season, with the first phase beginning on Nov. 22 (the day before Thanksgiving) and ending Dec. 9.

The second phase will open Dec. 20 and run through Jan. 20. The new chairman of the game commission is R. Bernard Parrish a Tallahassee businessman who served as vice-chairman for the past year.

He succeeded Dr. Donald Rhodes, a West Eau Gallie dentist. In other action the commission: Removed wild hogs from the game animal list in a portion of the Fisheating Creek Refuge. Established wild hogs as game animals and closed the hunting season for deer and wild hogs in certain portions of Escambia and Santa Roaa counties, along the Escambia River. Endorsed a drawdown of Everglades Conservation Area 2A for three years upon the recommendation of the South Florida Water Man gement District.

There was a big turnout for Saturday's hunt held by the Cape Coral Tarpon Hunters Club club members boats were scattered from a couple of miles off the Gulf beaches to downtown Fort Myers, mm Exchange Ban! The Exchange National Bank of Lee County congratulates BEHIC EDWARDS of Fort Myers St. Marks, Florida 32355. Applications will be received until Aug. 11. A drawing will then be held at the refuge headquarters on Aug.

14 to determine who will be among the 800 hunter quota set for the archery hunt and the 400 for the muzzleloader hunt. All applicants will be notified as to their success. The 1978-79 hunting seasons for mourning dove and waterfowl were set by the Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission in a meeting in Punta Gorda, Friday. The commission also adopted a program which will allow alligator farmers in Florida to sell their hides under a special tagging program; set a registration fee for all unlicensed vehicles used on the states public lands, and named a new chairman for the commission. The dove season again will be di-.

vided into three phases. This plan stretches the hunting over a longer period within a federally designated time framework, allowing Florida hunters to harvest native birds as well as the late-arriving migrators. The three shooting phases are Oct. 7 through Nov. Nov.

11 through Nov. 26, and Dec. 16 through Jan. 7. muzzleloader, archery, or black-powder hunt will be required to purchase a $5 archery or muzzle-loader permit.

"Statewide, this means the permit is required for the archery season Sept. 9 through Oct. 1, and the primitive weapons-only season in the Northwest Region (Panhandle) Jan. 27 through Feb. 11," said Fred director of the Division of Wildlife.

"On any wildlife management area which has special archery, muzzleloader or primitive weapons hunts, an archery or muzzleloader permit, wildlife management stamp and current hunting license will be required," Stanberry said. According to a list in the 1978-79 Florida Hunting Handbook, there are 34 wildlife management areas open for special pre-season archery hunts; nine with special muzzle-loading gun seasons, and 11 with special primitive weapons hunts. Primitive weapons include both bows and arrow and muzzleloading arms. Special permits apply to these hunts. During the general hunting season for native game birds and animals, which begins Nov.

11, any sportsman wishing to hunt on a wildlife management area with a primitive weapon would not have to possess the special primitive weapons permits. SPORTSMAN'S DIGEST BUILD CONFIDENCE IN TYRO SHOOTERS 1171 LA. TliMt Synd. on winning the Nation- al Pitch, Hit and Run championship in the 9- year old division. Com- i peting before 30,000 1 spectators at the Allj Star game in San' Diego on July 11, Berk won the national crown with his base running, hitting and pitching.

mm. AKE SHOOTING PRACTICE A LOT OF FUN1. 2 PLAYERS ELECTRIC CART If' Have beginners shoot at easy targets first-tin cans placed in front of a On Southwast Florida's Flnoif 1 8 Hoi Champlonthlp Caurae Lochmoor Country Club The St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge announced Tuesday that a primitive weapons hunt will be conducted on parts of the Refuge this fall. Species to be taken include white-tailed deer and feral hogs.

Legal methods of taking game will be by bow and arrow and muzzle-loader rifles. The archery hunt will be held Oct. 27 through Oct. 29 -the black-powder rifle hunt will be Nov. 17 through Nov.

19. Applications and information sheets for these hunts are now available by writing: St. Marks National Yldlife Refuge, P.O. Box 68, DIRT BANK SO BULLETS PONT RICOCHET ARE I PEAL TARGETS. LIMIT THE RANGE TO 10 OR tS FEET UNTIL THE BEGINNER IS SCORING HITS REGULARLY.

THEN LENGTHEN RANGE GRADUALLY AS SKILL IMPROVESNEVER EXTENDING RANGE UNTIL THE SHOOTER IS REApy FOR IT. IN A REMARKABLy SHORT TIME, THE BEGINNER ACQUIRES CONFIDENCE AND CAN SCORE HITS AT LONGER RANGES EASILY For his accomplishment, Berk's name will be enshrined in baseball's Hall of Fame, Cooper-stown, N.Y. MIKT DBtCFNT COUPON FOR THIS SPECIAL GOOD JULY 17; JULY 19; JULY 21 391 1 Urongi brooi a. n. n.

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