ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1995, Roanoke Times
DATE: Saturday, December 2, 1995 TAG: 9512030020
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-4 EDITION: METRO
TYPE: IN THE REGION
SOURCE: FROM STAFf REPORTS
If Roanoke golfer Billy King wants to make a living on the PGA Senior Tour, he will have to try again next year.
King soared to an 8-over-par 78 Friday and finished 44th in the tour's Final Qualifying School at the Westin Mission Hills Resort course in Rancho Mirage, Calif.
King finished with a 72-hole total of 289, 19 shots behind winner Masaru Amano of Japan.
Former Roanoker Gary Strickfaden also failed to make the low 16. The low eight players won full exemptions for 1996, while finishers nine-16 earned partial playing rights.
In other news:
Richmond's David Partridge, who won his second State Amateur title in three years, has been named the Virginia State Golf Association's 1995 Golfer of the Year.
Partridge, 40, who also won the Richmond Amateur, Kenridge Invitational and Fox-Puss Invitational, captured the VSGA's Thomas J. Lennon Trophy, signifying the state's best player, for the fourth time.
Bob Moyers, 60, of New Market was selected as the state's Senior Golfer of the Year. Moyers captured the State Senior Stroke Play, The Virginian Senior and teamed with Jim Kite for the State Senior Four-Ball title.
Cameron Yancey, 16, of Blackstone was picked as the state's Junior Golfer of the Year. Yancey won the State Junior, the Bobby Bowers Memorial and the Stonehenge Junior titles.
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