Jacobsen Reloads For Monday’s Golf Exhibition
Peter Jacobsen might bring more than just his engaging personality, skewed sense of humor and hilarious trove of swing impersonations to this year’s 8th Junior League of Spokane Golf Exhibition, which will be staged Monday at Spokane Country Club.
The Portland native, who has won almost $5 million on the PGA Tour, might have his “A” game with him as well when he tees it up at 1:30 p.m. with Annika Sorenstam, Tom Lehman and Dan Forsman in an 18-hole exhibition that will highlight this year’s daylong event.
Jacobsen, after struggling with his swing earlier in the year, has put himself in contention in the $1.2 million CVS Charity Classic, which concludes today at Pleasant Valley Country Club in Sutton, Mass. His third-round score of 1-under-par 70 on Saturday left him tied for fourth, three shots behind leader Bill Glasson.
In addition, Sorenstam should come in either at or near the top of her game. A two-time U.S. Women’s Open champion and four-time winner on the LPGA Tour this year, she enters today’s final round of the $550,000 Safeco Classic in Kent, Wash., 12 strokes under par and tied for second, two shots behind leader Karrie Webb.
Lehman, last year’s PGA Player of the Year, and Forsman, a four-time winner on the PGA Tour, took the weekend off from the rigors of the Tour schedule and should come into the exhibition well-rested.
Gates open for sponsors and patrons at 9 a.m., and a news conference featuring the four participants is scheduled for 9:45. The clinic starts at 11 on the driving range. Gates for gallery-only ticket holders will open at noon.
The exhibition starts at 1:30 p.m. There will be no parking available on the Spokane Country Club grounds for gallery-only ticket holders, but the Junior League will provide parking at the Fairwood Shopping Center at the intersection of Hastings and Mill roads, along with a continuous shuttle service from the shopping center to the golf course and back.
Plenty of tickets - priced at $75 for the exhibition only and $155 for the clinic and exhibition - remain and can be purchased up until an hour before the start of the clinic at any of the five Hamer’s clothing store outlets in the Spokane-Coeur d’Alene area.
The clinic will be limited to 800 spectators and the gallery to 3,300. No tickets will be available at the event.
The Junior League’s seven previous golf exhibitions, featuring such famous names as Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Greg Norman and Nancy Lopez, have raised more than $1 million for charitable causes.
, DataTimes