For the week of July 4 - July 10, 2001

88 golfers remember Chuck Gates

At Elkhorn scramble Saturday

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What a turnout for the fourth annual Chuck "C" Gates Memorial golf tournament!

Eighty-eight golfers toured Elkhorn Golf Course’s 18 holes Saturday to raise money for The Sagebrush and Equine Center for the Handicapped.

Roger Roland, who organized this year’s tournament with Gile Williams, said, "Chuck Gates was just a great guy—the "CNN" of the valley, the glue that kept us all together. He was so into golf the last four or five years of his life that we decided to have a golf tournament to remember him."

Gates, one of seven founders of the "Idaho Mountain Express" newspaper, died Dec. 6, 1997 in Nevada at the age of 51. He also started Ketchum’s first radio station, KRMR, and ran the Macho Taco stand across from the Ketchum Post Office in the early 1980s.

The scramble was divided into the "A Flight" and "B Flight." Top golfers were:

"A Flight" winners: 

1—Roger Roland, Mike Pirzynski, Travis Davis and James Young 53. 2—Rick Filkins, Joel Subotnick, Ben Bellet and Stuart Siderman 53. 3—Mark Brown, Gary Grimes, Bruce Miller and Mike Hanley 54.

Other "A" teams in the 10-team field were:

Dave Timmons, Joel Graff, Charlie Foss and Tom Monge 54; Paul Spitzer, Tony Acone, Bill Gehrke and Rory Mitchell 54; Dennis Wheeler, Brent Cooper, Bruce Byerly and James Osburn 56; Jack Fairfield, Segi Lussi, Don Cashen and Kathy Cashen 57;

Karen Shorts, Norm Shorts, Genie Cashen and Grant Cashen 58; Happy Hawn, Marsha Rankin, Jolie Dunn and Jennifer Harper 58; Judith Hinds, Alan Hinds, Joe Bergl and Lou Hansell 59.

"B Flight" winners: 

1—Jill Roland, Annie McElveen, Jim McElveen and Charlie Wister 50. 2—Tom Gates, Bob Reniers, Chip MacIntosh and Karen Cashen 52. 3—Greg Cashen, Christine Cashen, Eric Fairfield and Lisa Fairfield 52.

Other "B" teams in the 12-team field:

Sheral Evan, George Iliff, Richard Hess and Chuck McNary 54; Gile Williams, Vickey Williams, John Heinrich and Barry Peterson 54; Tucker Gates, Nick Osborne, Wyatt Weisel and Toni Allen 54;

Jeff Huber, Tom Hickey, Bobby Carter and King Lambert 58; Chuck Claflin, Glen Stevens, Bill Burnham and John Besteman 58; Tom Ziegler, James Hopkins, Doug McElmurry and Gary Goodenough 59;

Becky Smith, Stephanie Gould, Tim Harris and Lynne Harris 60; Scott Karterman, Andrew Broderson, Walker Monroe and Skip Dees 60; Charlie Lockhart, Barbara Gehrke, Bob Dreyer and Jim Taft 60.

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