Three Turn s a Week As defended their league championship (Continued from page 01) an 8-4 opening round win. Next up for the A's were the Kitchener Reps whom the A's had met and defeated in the pre liminary round. Both teams started strong but the boys from Kitchener gained the advantage quick ly. The A's came back and eventually took a 4-3 lead in the fourth inning. Oakville held Kitchener off the score sheet until the sixth when the Reps pounded out four runs to take a 7-4 lead into the final frame. Kitchener added one more run in the top of the seventh and shut the A's out in the final end to win the game by a score of 8-4. Oakville then moved on to face the Tecumseh Rangers in what turned out to be a lopsided match-up as the A's defeated the Rangers by a score of 16-6. Four teams had now been elimi nated and the final four moved on to the champi onship round. A draw was held to determine the pairings for the semifinal game and Oakville drew the Mississauga Tigers. The A's had won both regu lar reason matches against the Tigers, but they knew that the Tigers would be formidable oppo nents. The game was a very tight contest with nei ther team allowing many hits or base runners. The difference in the game was the Tigers' stonewall defence which effectively shut down the A's hitting and running game as the Tigers won by a score of 6-2. Playing in the final four of the provincial championships was one of the highlights in a spectacular season for the Oakville A's. The boys became back-to-back champions as they captured their second consecutive league championship title. Building on last year's strengths, the boys repeated their first place finish with a league leading 17-3 record. In addition, they captured no less than three tournament championship titles (Mississauga, Barrie and Brampton) and one consolation round championship (Burlington). Their overall record in tournament play, including the provincial championships, was an impressive 28-7. Thanks to the players, coaches, parents, and the corporate sponsors Covertech, Pattinson-Ide Electrical and Dick's Grille & Vine for making it such an enjoyable and exciting season. NEWS & SPORTS Wednesday, September 8, 1999 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER F i n a l l y ... a Canadian golf starThe 1999 Bell Canadian Open fieldThe folkwing is an up to date money list heading into this weekend's Bell Canadian Open. In boldface are golfers who are confirmed for the By Norm Nelson BEAVER SPORTS EDITOR Mike Weir didn't fly back first class from his electrifying win at the Air Canada Championship in Surrey, British Columbia this past weekend. Heck, he did one better, flying back in the cockpit of his Air Canada flight. "I steered the plane in," he quipped, following his practice round at Glen Abbey Golf Club on Tuesday in prepa ration for this week's Bell Canadian Open. Incidentally, he said the practice round went "so-so." Still a little tired, he said he was hitting the balls short. The course, on the other hand, was in fine shape. "It's the best shape I've ever seen it," he said. 'The rough is very deep." Add some rain to that rough, and he said it will be very tough to get out of. "The player who drives it well will be there Sunday, but you have to drive it on the fairway." Weir had so many media requests that the personable 29-year-old resident of Bright's Grove, Ontario decided to just handle them all at once at a press conference on Tuesday afternoon at Glen Abbey. And that had already been arranged before Sunday's breakthrough win in B.C. With his two-shot win, Weir became the first Canuck to win a PGA-Tour event since Richard Zokol won the Greater Milwaukee Open in 1992. You could see it building all year for Weir who vaulted up to a lofty 22nd on the official PGA-Tour money list with more than $1.1 million. Having his best year and having long since wrapped up next year's Tour play ing privileges, he opened some eyes this past summer in the United States when he achieved some final Sunday pairings with Tiger Woods at the Motorola Western Open and then at the PGA Championship, one of golf's four majors. While he actually had a better round by one shot than Tiger at the Motorola Western Open (although Tiger still went on to win it), Weir, with the now famous (in Canada, at least) half swing waggle, ballooned to a final round 80 at the PGA championship. He reiterated to reporters at Glen Abbey that he didn't beat himself up over it. Yes, he revisited it, but he didn't dwell upon it. He took the lessons that it offered and continued on with his mis- Mike Weir hopes solid play will continue at Bell Canadian Open sion which is to continually improve his golf game. If he can do that, than everything else will come. One lesson, he said, was to remain patient and not try to force things. A lot of things went right on Sunday, he said. At the PGA championship, he explained, "I was striking the ball great, but I wasn't putting that well." In B.C., he said "I was striking and putting well." Immediately following the win, Weir said it hadn't sunk in. On Tuesday, at Glen Abbey, howev er, he related that "yeah, it has." The incredible fan support, the thrill of putting Canada back on the golfing map and doing it on home soil, and even the Monday reception at Pearson Airport with the media and a host of well wishers has all been "something special." Coming off such a high, he conced ed that "this week might be a little diffi cult." On the other hand, he said that while he's only on his second year on the PGA-Tour, he has been a professional golfer for many years and is confident he can handle the bad as well as the good times that the sport can dish out. He said he was actually grateful to have a late tee-off time (1:05 p.m.) for the first round this Thursday to give him that much more time "to get off Mountain time." "I expect to be ready to go," he said. To say the Bell Canadian Open has not been kind to Weir before is an understatement. He has not even made the cut in eight previous tries (with seven of the eight having been held at Glen Abbey). On the other hand, his game is defi nitely at a new level, these days. Physically, he's confident with the way he's striking the ball, and "you have to drive well here," he reiterated. "Mentally ... hopefully I'll continue on what I did last week. I feel like I'm going to have a good tournament." Junior tourney kicks off Thursday at Ice Sports The Ontario Hockey Association is hosting it's 4th annual junior hockey tournament from Thursday, September 9th to Sunday September 12th. It's being billed as the world's largest junior hockey tournament with 56 teams. The Oakville Blades provincial junior A hockey team is not only par ticipating, but their home base at Ice Sports Oakville is one of the seven host sites. The others are Huntsville, Bramalea, Welland, Fort Erie and St. Catharines. The Burlington Cougars won the 1998 Golden Horseshoe Tournament by defeating Rayside-Balfour. More than 10,000 fans attended the tourna ment last year. This year that number will grow with the increase in par ticipating teams. The tournament is sponsored by CCM and the Source For Sports Dealers of Ontario. Most Valuable Players will be selected every game and will receive CCM hockey sticks. The Blades host their games Thursday and Friday at 8 p.m. and Saturday at 7 p.m. and they play, respectively, Richmond Hill Stars, New Jersey Jr. Devils and Staten Island Sabres. The top two teams face off Sunday at 10 a.m. The Oakville division champion will then hit the road to take on the Bramalea division winner at 3 p.m. Many NHL and OHL scouts and executives as well as NCAA recruiters will attend the games. This year there will be teams from Northern Ontario junior A, Provincial Jr. A, Mid West Junior B, Golden Horseshoe Junior B, and many U.S. Junior teams. In addition, a team from Russia will attend this year's tournament. Moscow Dynamo, with some top 1983 and 1984 Russian bom players,will be participating in the Huntsville regional division. Bell Canadian Open * Player Events Money 1 Tiger Woods 18 $4,266,585 2 David Duval 19 $3,471,206 3 Payne Stewart 19 $2,077,950 4 Vijay Singh 25 $1,961,750 5 Jett Maggert 20 $1,861,112 6 Davis Love III 20 $1,771,728 7 Carlos Franco 19 $1,732,884 8 Justin Leonard 23 $1,622,634 9 Chris Perry 25 $1,602,540 10 Steve Pate 23 $1,590,631 11 Phil Mickelson 19 $1,558,031 12 Hal Sutton 20 $1,456,511 13 David Toms 26 $1,377,290 14 Ernie Els 15 $1,325,506 15 Nick Price 16 $1,304,736 16 Jeff Sluman 24 $1,286,509 17 Tom Lehman 19 $1,285,239 18 Tim Herron 23 $1,282,709 19 John Huston 20 $1,210,887 20 Ted Tryba 25 $1,179,232 21 Jim Furyk 20 $1,159,605 22 MIKE WEIR (Cdn) 23 $1,120,914 23 Fred Funk 27 $1,119,139 24 Bob Estes 22 $1,101,967 25 Loren Roberts 19 $1,073,717 26 Stuart Appleby 25 $1,044,574 27 Brent Geiberger 23 $1,013,276 28 Jesper Pamevik 17 $979,718 29 Scott Hoch 23 $962,899 30 Steve Elkington 17 $947,126 31 Stewart Cink 22 $946,890 32 Skip Kendall 25 $920,728 33 Craig Parry 18 $909,576 34 Gabriel Hjertstedt 25 $898,528 35 Dennis Paulson 22 $877,551 36 Rocco Mediate 21 $876,985 37 Jose Maria Olazabal 12 $865,167 38 Glen Day 22 $864,005 39 Scott Gump 24 $835,996 40 Mark O'Meara 17 $828,796 41 Olin Browne 21 $810,159 42 Frank Lickliter 24 $808,613 43 Bill Glasson 18 $798,547 44 Kirk Triplett 21 $787,899 45 Sergio Garcia 8 $784,917 46 Andrew Magee 21 $777,224 47 Greg Kraft 22 $737,711 48 Duffy Waldorf 20 $718,313 49 Fred Couples 15 $706,692 50 Tommy Armour III 23 $700,935 «« Here is the rest o t the Bell Canadian Open fie ld : Fulton Allem, STEPHEN AMES BILLY ANDRADE, Ty Armstrong, Woody A ustii, PAUL AZINGER. Briny Baird. Craig Barlow, DAVE BARR. Doug Barron. Ben Bates. C lip Beck, Cameron Beckman. NOTAH BEGAY, HI, Phil Blackmar, Jay Don Blake, Eric Booker, Michael Bradley, Alan Bratton, Jeff Brehaat, Danny Briggs, Mark Brooks, Bob Burns, Tc^n Byrum. MARK CALCAVECCHIA, Greg Chalmers. Brandel Chamblee, BalYy Cheesman, A sh ley C hinner, JOHN COO}<, Chris Couch. JOHN DALY, Robert Damron, Jay Delsing, Clark Dennis, Chris DiMarco, Trevbr Dodds. Ken Duke. Doug Dunakey. Scott Dunlap. Joe Durant, R.W. Eaks, John Elliott, Brad Fabel. NICK FALDO, Brad Faxon, Rich Fehr, D6n Forsman, Ray Freeman. Robin Freeman, Bob Friend. Jeff Gallagher. Jim Gallagher Jr.. Brifcn Gay, Kelly Gibson, Wayne Grady, Jimmy Green, Chris Greenwood, D arren G riff, DUDLEY HART, J.P. Hayes, Wes H effe rnan, Bruce Heuchan. P.H. Horgan III. Bradley Hughes, Mike Hulbert, LEE JANZEN, Brandt Jobe. Kdnt Jones, STEVE JONES, Pete Jordan. Steve Jurgensen, Robert Karlsson. Jonathan Kaye. ARDEN KN O LL. Hank Kuehne. Neal Lancaster, Frankon Langham, Han Lee, Ipn Leggatt. Tim Loustalot, Steve Lowry, Sandy Lyle. John Maginnes, Doug Martin, C raig M atthew , Len Mattiace, BILLY MAYFAIp. SCOTT MCARRON, Katsumass Miyamoto, R obert Moore, Dave M orland IV. Perry Moss. Sean Murphy, FRANK NOBILO, Joe Ogilvie, David Ogrin, Dean Pappas, COREY PAVIN, Scott Petersen, Lee Porter, Ted Purdy, Tom Purtzer, Brett Quigley, Charles Raulerson, Larry Rinker, Clarence Rose, Rory Sabbatini, T<)m Scherrer, David Seawell, Joey Sindelar. Geoffrey Sisk, Chris Smith, Mike Sposa. Mike Springer, Paul Stankowski, Kenneth Statpn, Ray S tew art, Dave Stockton Jr., STEVE STRICKER, David Sutherland, KeVin Sutherland, Phil Tataurangi, Serge Th iv ie rge , Rick Todd. Esteban Toledo. Tommy Tolies, BOB TWAY, Bo Van Pelt, SCOTT VERPLANK, Grant Waite, Charles Warren, MARK WIEBE. Jay Williamson. FUZZY ZOELLER and RICHARD ZOKOL Boldface are Canadians; italics are ama teurs; capped are prominent names ... The 1999 Tour winners Canucks Jan 7-10 ... Mercedes Championships ... David Duval (266)* Jan 14-17 ... Sony Open ... Jeff Sluman (271) Jan 20-24 ... Bob Hope Chrysler ... David Duval (334) 2 Jan 28-31 ... Phoenix Open ... Rocco Mediate (273) Feb 4-7 ... AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am ... Payne Stewart (206)# Febll-14 ... Buick Invitational... Tiger Woods (266) Feb 18-21 ... Nissan Open ... Ernie Els (270) Feb 24-28 ... Match Play Championship ... Jeff Maggert Feb 24-28 ... Touchstone Energy Tucson Open ... Gabriel Hjertstedt (276) P Mar4-7 ... Doral-Ryder Open ... Steve Elkington (275) Marl 1-14 ... Honda Classic ... Vijay Singh (277) Mar 18-21 ... Bay Hill Invitational ...Tim Herron (274) P Mar25-28 ... THE PLAYERS championship ... David Duval (285) 3 March 29-April 4 ... BellSouth Classic ... David Duval (270) 4 Apr 8-11 ... ' Masters Tournament at Augusta ... Jose Maria Olazabal (280) Apr 15-18 ... MCI Classic ... Glen Day (274) P Apr22-25 ... Greater Greensboro Chrysler Classic ... Jesper Pamevik (265)* Apr29-May 2 ... Shell Houston Open ... S tuart Appleby (279) May5-9 ... Compaq Classic of New Orleans ... Carlos Franco (269) May 13-16 ... GTE Byron Nelson Classic ... Loren Roberts (262)* P May20-23 ... MasterCard Colonial... Olin Browne (272) May27-30 ... Kemper Open ... Rich Beem (274) Jun3-6 ... Memorial Tournament... Tiger Woods (273) 2 Junl0-13 ... FedEx Classic St. Jude Classic ... Ted Tryba (265) Jun 17-20 ...*U.S. Open ... Payne Stewart (279) 2 Jun24-27 ... Buick Classic ... Duffy Waldorf (276) P Jull-4 ... Motorola Western Open ... Tiger Woods (273) 3 Jul8-11 ... Greater Milwaukee ... Carlos Franco (264) 2 * Jul 15-18 ... ^British Open ... Paul Lawrie (290) Jul22-25 ... John Deere Classic ... J.L. Lewis (261) P Jul29-Augl ... Canon Greater Hartford Open ... Brent Geiberger (262) Aug5-8 ... Buick Open ... Tom Pemice Jr. (270) Aug 12-15 ... *PGA Championship ... Tiger Woods 4 Aug 19-22 ... Sprint International... David Toms (47 Points) Aug26-29 ... World Golf Championships/NEC Invitational... Tiger Woods 5 Aug26-29 ... Reno-Tahoe Open ... Notah Bengay III Sep2-5 ... Air Canada Championship, Surrey B.C. MIKE WEIR * course record ... # weather shortened ... P winner of playoff... boldfaced players are coming to Bell Canadian Open. UPCOMING OFFICIAL PGA TOUR STOPS Sep9-12 ... Bell Canadian Open, Glen Abbey GC Oakville, Ontario Sep 16-19 ... B.C. Open, En-Joie Golf Club, Endicott, NY Sep23-26 ... Westin Texas Open Sep23-26 ... *Ryder Cup, The Country Club Brookline, MA Sep31-Oct3 ... Buick Challenge, Pine Mountain, GA Oct7-10 ... Michelob Championship, Williamsburg, VA Oct 13-17 ... Las Vegas Invitational Oct21-24 ... National Car Rental Golf Classic at Walt Disney Resort (Florida) Oct25-31 ... THE TOUR Championship, Houston Champions Golf Club Oct25-31 ... Southern Farm Bureau Classic, Annandale Golf Club, Nov4-7 ... World Golf Championships/Spain * Not PGA TOUR co-sponsored (Cont. from page D1) round out the Canadian contingent. Scott Petersen of Evergreen, Colo, earned the final spot into this week's cham pionship on the first hole of a playoff with Duane Bock of Morganton, N.C. Both shot 70 over 18 holes. Here's the entire Canuck contingent... Dave Barr (Richmond, B.C.), Ashley Chinner (Scarborough), Darren Griff (Nanaimo, B.C.), Wes Heffernan (Calgary), Bruce Heuchan (Kelowna), Arden Knoll (Yorkton, Sask), Ian Leggatt (Cambridge), Craig Matthew (Point Claire, Que), Robert Moore (Cambridge), David Morland IV (Aurora), Ray Stewart (Abbotsford, B.C.), Serge Thivierge (Laval, Que), Rick Todd (Scarborough), Mike Weir (Bright's Grove), Richard Zokol, (Richmond, B.C.). P** The Canadian Thunderbirds Baseball Club is h o ld in g a n o p e n try o u t c a m p fo r e lite c a lib e r p la y e rs a g e s 17 to 18 . SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 9am to 4pm at Glen Abbey Park, Oakville The Canadian Thunderbirds Baseball Club is committed to playing at the highest level of international competition Last season over 70% of our eligible players received quality scholarship placements. For more information please contact: Mel Oswald Mike Chapelle Gary Stasila (905)574-1173 (905)847-3500 (905)821-0567 Hamilton Oakville Mississauga NEWS & SPORTS The 1999 Bell Canadian Open field The 1999 Tour winners Canucks P** The Canadian Thunderbirds Baseball Club