Fans may begin purchasing tickets for the...

Fans may begin purchasing tickets for the Toshiba Senior Classic,

scheduled March 14-20 at the Newport Beach Country Club.

Advance purchase tickets good for any day are $18. Season grounds

badges, which provide admission for practice rounds Monday and

Tuesday, pro-am rounds Wednesday and Thursday, and tournament rounds

Friday, Saturday and Sunday, are $50. Season clubhouse badges

providing admission to the grounds and clubhouse all seven days of

tournament week are $100.

To order tickets and to inquire about corporate ticket packages,

call (949) 660-1001.

The Monday qualifier for the Toshiba Senior Classic will be held

March 14 at Industry Hills Golf Club’s Ike Course in the City of

Industry. The Southern California PGA section office can mail entry

forms. Call (951) 845-4653, ext. 720.

Defending champion Tom Purtzer and major championship winners

Raymond Floyd, Hale Irwin, Curtis Strange, Tom Watson and Fuzzy

Zoeller are among the Champions Tour legends to file early entries

for the tournament, which offers $1.65 million in prize money and a

first-place check of $240,000.

Last year’s tournament raised $1,002,433 for Hoag Memorial

Hospital Presbyterian and other local Orange County organizations. In

its seven years of play, the Toshiba Senior Classic has raised more

than $6.7 million for charity, the most on the PGA Champions Tour.

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Junior golfers are gobbling up the monthly passes to play the Mesa

Linda course at Costa Mesa Golf & Country Club, said Art Perry, who

spearheaded the campaign for a discounted rate.

“Fourteen or 15 of my guys are playing almost every day,” Perry,

the girls and boys golf coach at Estancia High, said.

Costa Mesa residents ages 19 and younger can pay $40 for the pass,

which allows them unlimited playing privileges on Mesa Linda Mondays

through Thursdays after noon for a month from the time of purchase.

The timing of the pass has been especially beneficial with the

boys golf season on the horizon.

“Now my guys are coming over to [Costa Mesa Golf & Country Club]

instead of going home,” Perry said. “We were winning CIF

championships [during 1998-2001] the last time we had something like

this.”

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Bruce Brandenburg and Cynthia Stadelman each scored holes-in-one

two days apart last week at Newport Beach Country Club.

Brandenburg holed a 3-iron on the 210-yard, par-3 eighth hole for

his first ever ace on Jan. 16 while playing with Kathy and Ron

Hooven.

Stadelman’s 5-iron shot on No. 13 on Jan. 18 found the bottom of

the cup alongside witnesses Patty Lindsay and Marcia Jaeger.