Toshiba Senior Classic: Kite, Wadkins commit

Richard Dunn

NEWPORT BEACH - Tom Kite and Lanny Wadkins, 2000 Senior PGA Tour

newcomers, are among the early player commitments for the Toshiba Senior

Classic March 3-5 at Newport Beach Country Club.

Kite, the 1992 U.S. Open champion and two-time leading money winner on

the PGA Tour, and Wadkins, who won the ’77 PGA Championship and 20 other

PGA Tour titles, will join crowd favorites Lee Trevino and Chi Chi

Rodriguez in the sixth Toshiba Classic.

Bob Murphy, the ’97 Toshiba champion, will not play because of a

television commitment with NBC. Jeff Purser, tournament director, said

there’s a “good possibility” Arnold Palmer, 70, will make his Toshiba

debut this year.