On Tuesday night, Richard Zokol got an honour to relocate when it officially became a member in the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame. In front of 200 guests in the home course of Marine drive from Zoke, as his friends call him, everything was feted with speeches by Lorne Rubenstein and Mike Weir. Both eloquent and funny, honest and humourous. The mentioned how Zokol were much more than one player, said Rubenstein, a person "out-of-the-box" golf. There were some light-hearted jabs in the days of Disco Dick when to wear headphones between two shots to cut out distractions and some revelations in recent days as a roommate of Bobby Clampett at Brigham Young, a group made as a walk-on and eventually crossed a NCAA title. Zoke, of course, has a long and distinguished career plays titled NCCA, a Crown Canadian amateur, a Canadian PGA and two PGA Tour victories and 26 occurrences in the Canadian open. But he has done a lot more including some development player, TV with World Golf's Acura and the construction of long road to Sagebursh. And to top it all off, celebrated the 25th anniversary of marriage with the beautiful wife Joanie last night as well. * * * * * * Defending champion Carl Pettersson was in the press room on Tuesday evening, recalling its performance a year ago in St George when he was fired that miracle 60 Saturday. There was a funny exchange between himself and local writer who had obviously done some research in history, but they did not believe the part about Pettersson drinking seven beers while waiting to see if he made the cut. Q. is the comment you made about having enough time to have seven beers waiting to learn is not a joke?
CARL PETTERSSON: No. (laughter.) big guy really had the seven beers and had to be the caddie disk home. The next morning came back and shot 60. He added that the PGA Tour in his career, he has shot the number each in the 60s. As for the current year, Pettersson Shaughnessy called one of the best courses the tour has played all year and was a great raw which will be a factor. He said that he had the feeling of a US open and he expects to try to repeat.
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