Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, November 30, 1995 TAG: 9511300072
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: From Associated Press reports
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
King, 51, the longtime Blue Hills Golf Course head pro, shot a 68 on Wednesday after carding a 71 on Tuesday. His 139 is three strokes behind leader Bobby Stroble's 136.
The top eight finishers in the tournament earn a full exemption for the 1996 Senior PGA Tour. Finishers nine through 16 receive partial exemptions. After Wednesday's round, only eight golfers had better scores than King in the 72-hole tournament, which ends Friday.
The cut was 146.
In other golf:
Tom Kite is aiming to become the first player-captain in the Ryder Cup since Arnold Palmer in 1963.
``I plan on playing much better in '96 and '97 and actually playing on the team,'' Kite said after Tom Addis, the PGA of America president, introduced him as captain of the 1997 Ryder Cup team. Kite will take a team to Spain in 1997 that has won only two of the past six Ryder Cups.
NASCAR to visit Japan in 1996
With exhibitions, all-star events and a scattering of regular-season games being staged overseas by American sports, stock car racing's biggest show reportedly is next.
NASCAR will announce today it will run an exhibition race in Japan after concluding its 1996 schedule, USA Today reported. The newspaper said about 30 drivers are expected to compete at Suzuka, Japan, on Nov.24. NASCAR officials, en route to New York, where the announcement was to be made at the sport's annual year-end festivities, could not be reached for comment.
The newspaper, without citing its source, said the field would be a mixture of drivers from NASCAR's Winston Cup division and its Winston West series. American stock car racers competed several years ago in Australia, but an exhibition there was not sanctioned by NASCAR.
Keywords:
AUTO RACING
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