PGA veteran Scott Piercy of Las Vegas fired a 6-under 65 to pull within three shots of the lead Saturday in the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open at TPC Summerlin.
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Five-year-old Tommy Morrissey recently shot 1-over-37 on a regulation golf course designed by Tom Fazio. Missing most of his right arm, he has made a hole-in-one, has holed out from 90 yards and can recite the winners of golf’s major tournaments.
Western High grad and Golf Channel reporter Jerry Foltz hopes reinstating golf will grow the game, and that 150-pound rodents will stay off the fairways in Brazil.
When he won the 1954 state amateur, the woods were made of wood, and he was “Bobby Pratt, the par-busting schoolboy” according to the yellow newspaper clippings..
“I think you could make the point this was as good a week for UNLV golf as anybody can remember,” said Jack Sheehan, a longtime observer of the Las Vegas golf scene. “In ‘98 they won the (men’s) national championship, but I don’t think they even had a women’s program then. And then Hoffman shakes off the demons …”