DATE: Wednesday, October 22, 1997           TAG: 9710210490
SECTION: SPORTS                  PAGE: C8   EDITION: FINAL 

TYPE: Golfer of the Week 

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GOLFER OF THE WEEK: BRENT FRYE/VIRGINIA BEACH

Most Fridays, Frye volunteers at Red Wing Golf Course in Virginia Beach - working on golf carts, picking up range balls, whatever. His reward is a couple free rounds of play.

Age: 42

Occupation: Home improvement specialist.

Handicap: 9

Favorite course: Sleepy Hole. It's usually in good shape year round, never very crowded, reasonable week-day rates to walk, and a shot-maker's golf course.

Lowest score: 74 at Red Wing. Had 13 one-putts and four birdies.

Clubs: Ping Zing 3 wood; Ping Zing irons; Wilson sand wedge; Ray Cook Blue Goose putter.

Shot I dread the most: 30- to 80-yard bunker shot over trouble.

My dream foursome: Greg Norman, Lee Trevino, Nick Price and me.

Biggest golf gripe: People who move their ball off the fairway. This is probably 75 percent of all people who play golf. You can probably add anywhere from three to 10 strokes to what these people think they shot.

Most memorable shot: Probably my first hole-in-one (I've had three) on No. 9 at Suffolk City Course on Easter Sunday, 1981. I still shot 47 on the front.

Funniest thing I ever saw on the course: Many years ago I was playing with two gentlemen I met on the first tee at Lake Wright. On the ninth tee one of them hit a big slice up over the trees into the parking lot (this was before they put up the net that is there now). The ball landed on the asphalt, bounced off the Lake Wright Dinner Theater, bounced back on the asphalt and came back in bounds by the green. The other gentleman wasn't even surprised, saying his buddy hits shots like that all the time. ILLUSTRATION: Color photo by Richard L. Dunston

Brent Frye

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