Jetter qualifies
For the second time in his golf career, Rick Jetter of Los Gatos qualified for the British Senior Open, held in late July at the Royal Portrush Golf Course in Northern Ireland, .
Jetter is the Northern California Professional Golfers' Assocication Director of Golf at Spring Valley Golf Course in Milpitas.
Long Drive Contest
The big hitters will be on the tees at the Pin High Family Golf Center in San Jose for the Long Drive District Finals on Aug. 24, 10 a.m. Drives of more than 350 yards were needed to make the district finals, and the San Jose winner will advance to the national finals in Las Vegas Sept. 6-11 to vie for a $150,000 purse.
Spectators are welcome. The Pin High Family Golf Center is located at 4701 N. First St. For more information, call 934-1111.
Bicycle Tours
The Clean Air Bicycle Challenge, co-sponsored by the Los Gatos Kiwanis Club and the American Lung Association, will be held Sept. 14 with tours starting from Los Gatos High School.
Tours feature loops of 20-miles, 50-kilometers, 100-kilometers and 100-miles. The registration fee runs from $10-$20, and families are welcome.
For more information, call 998-5864.
Youth Ice Hockey
The Santa Clara Valley Hockey Association will hold tryouts for players ages 6-17 beginning Sept. 3.
The league is holding ice hockey skills clinics on Sundays through the end of August at Iceoplex in Fremont.
Mites and squirts are on the ice from 10:40-11:40 a.m. with the pee wees, bantams and midgets in action from 11:50 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
Hockey scrimmages for mites through midgets are held Saturdays, 7:30-9 a.m., at Eastridge Ice Arena in San Jose and Thursdays, 7:45-9 p.m., at Iceoplex.
For more information, call 450-2888.
This article appeared in the Los Gatos Weekly-Times, August 21, 1996.
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