Bryce AldertonMike Carpenter shot a 3-over-par 291...

Bryce Alderton

Mike Carpenter shot a 3-over-par 291 in four rounds to win his first

Big Canyon Country Club men’s club championship Sept. 12.

Carpenter edged two-time defending club champion Will Tipton by

four strokes while Don DuBois came in third on the par-72 layout.

Carpenter and DuBois entered the final round tied at 218.

The win is Carpenter’s first in Big Canyon’s men’s club

championship stroke-play format. Big Canyon also has a match-play

men’s club championship.

Danny Bibb, a six-time men’s club champion at Big Canyon Country

Club, won his first senior club championship following a 4-over 220

in the three-round format.

Warren Caves (228) finished second to Bibb, winner of a

Newport-Mesa record 11 men’s club titles.

With the victories, both Carpenter and Bibb are eligible to

compete for Team Big Canyon in next summer’s Jones Cup, reformatted

this year to include foursomes -- combining the men’s, women’s and

senior club champion with a golf professional -- from each of the

four private clubs in Newport-Mesa in a best-ball format.

* George Hanold, a 21-year-old Costa Mesa resident, used a 6-iron

to ace the 130-yard, par-3 sixth hole at Costa Mesa Golf & Country

Club’s Mesa Linda course Aug. 12. Hanold, a Newport Harbor High

graduate, said the ball landed behind the hole and rolled back,

though he didn’t actually see the ball roll in due to a mound on the

front of the green that blocked his view. Jake Allanach, a teammate

of Hanold’s on Newport Harbor High’s 2000 boys golf team that won the

CIF South Coast Region title, was among four witnesses to Hanold’s

feat.

* Colleen Smoot’s 6-iron found the bottom of the cup for a

hole-in-one on Newport Beach Country Club’s par-3 fourth hole Aug.

19.

Smoot decided to use one more club than usual on the 100-yard

hole.

Judi Osbourne and Karen Scagliotti witnessed the feat.

* Sunday’s Atlantic City Commemorative, a pro-am that features 18

past, present and future Champions Tour players, in Northfield, N.J.,

kicks off a year-long celebration celebrating the tour’s 25-year

existence.

Newport Beach Country Club hosts the Toshiba Senior Classic,

annually the most philanthropic stop on the tour for players 50 and

older, every March.

The 2005 Champions Tour season begins in January at the MasterCard

Championship in Hawaii. More details on 25th anniversary plans will

be announced at a later date.