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Fields recently won the Carolinas Open and is a former Carolinas Amateur champion.
Another player to watch is North Carolina Sports Hall of Famer Paul Simson, of Raleigh, who has won this championship a record four times, the last coming in 2004.

A total of 472 golfers with handicap indexes of 5.4 or less submitted entries this year. The starting field of approximately 144 will come from players who earned exemptions based on past performance and those who survived 18-hole qualifying tests that were held at six sites around the state during late May and early June.

The field will be cut to the low 60 and ties after 36 holes.
Greensboro CC’s Farm Course, which opened in 1963, was designed by Ellis Maples and renovated by Donald Steele in 2010. The par-72 layout will play at 7,223 yards for the Amateur.

Tin Whistles: The team of Charlie Eichhorn, Tom Race, Bob Kinelski and Fred Nuenighoff posted a score of 97 to win the one best ball on par 3s and 5s and two best balls on par-4 holes event held on Pinehurst Country Club’s No. 3 Course.

Finishing second with 100 were John Reglar, Ed Guidice, Jerry Lefton and Murray Stern. Third place with 104 went to Luther Hutchinson, Rich Warters, Don Lynch and Kirk Lynch.
Eichorn, Race and Kinelski were winners again in the two best balls of four event held on the No. 8 Course, teaming with Ed Renner for a 126 total.

Second place was taken by Joe Raguso, Murray Stern, Bruce Weir and Bill Noggle with 130. Third at 131 were Tom McPherson, Tim Dwyer, Tom Skidmore and Stu White, who edged Bob Hepner, Alan Quirion, Jay Clatworthy and Bob Sponzo in a card playoff.