January 26, 2011 • Vol. 09, No. 11
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Phoenix Open brings top notch golfers, festivities to North Valley MARC BUCKHOUT MANAGING EDITOR
The 2011 Waste Management Phoenix Open will get under way Monday at the TPC Scottsdale. Annually the top drawing event on the PGA Tour the event, especially famous for the atmosphere around the par-3 16th hole, drew a record 538,356 people during the course of the week in 2008, including a record 170,802 people for the third round. Following a number of ProAmateur events early in the week with various celebrities participating the tournament, known as the “Greatest Show
on Grass”, will get under way with the opening round on Feb. 3. Play continues Feb. 4 and Feb. 5 with the final round set for Feb. 6. Golf begins at 7:30 a.m. for the first two rounds and then moves back to 9:30 a.m. for the third and fourth rounds. 2010 tournament champion Hunter Mahan returns to defend his crown against a host of former event champions including: Phil Mickelson (1996, 2005), Mark Calcavecchia (1989, 1992, 2001), J.B. Holmes (2006, 2008) and Tom Lehman (2000). Golf fans will have a new venue to view the tournament from with the addition of the 19th Hole on the Water. Located
across the lake from the 18th fairway and open to the public the venue will be a place to watch golf, grab a beverage and get some food from Fry’s Food and Garcia’s Mexican Restaurants. The new location includes bleacher seating facing the 17th green and 18th tee. It also will include an interactive golf fun zone complete with golf ball hitting stations, putting greens and professional instruction from Southwest Section PGA professionals. Tickets to the tournament are $25 for adults. Ages 17 and under are free when accompanied by an Phoenix Open
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The Waste Management Phoenix Open brings a week’s worth of events to the TPC of Scottsdale. The tournament gets under way at 7:30 a.m. Feb. 3 with the opening round and continues through Feb. 6. Tickets to the tournament are $25 per day.
Dixie Swim Club debuts in Scottsdale MARC BUCKHOUT MANAGING EDITOR
While some people float in and out of each other’s lives other relationships stand the test of time. Desert Foothills Theater’s production of “Dixie Swim Club,” which debuts Feb. 4, tells the story of five Southern women who maintain a lifetime friendship spawned as teammates on their college swim team by reuniting on an annual basis. “It’s a look at relationships that have been built for years,” director Lori Vander Maten said. “These women built a bond 20 years ago when they worked
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together to become champions. They’re very different characters, but they have that special connection. In the water there was equality and they needed each other. That sense of team has maintained throughout their lives and their friendships grow deeper through the years.” Vander Maten, who has worked with Desert Foothills Theater for the last three years, said the Dixie Swim Club, which was written in 2006, was a show she was thrilled to get the opportunity to produce. “It’s a heartfelt story,” she said. “The script is really funny. All the characters have a bunch of good lines. It’s just well written all the way around.” The story, written by
playwrights/screenwriters Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten, whose screen credits include The Golden Girls and Kingdom Come, takes place at the beach cottage where the women meet each summer. Cave Creek resident Kaydee Wilson was drawn by the story as well as Vander Maten’s encouragement to make just her second theater performance in the last 12 years. The 13-year Cave Creek resident said that while her experience has generally been in musicals she couldn’t pass up the opportunity to play Jeri Neale. “I am the teammate that became a nun after college,”
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The Dixie Swim Club, which details a lifetime friendship between five women that competed on a college swim team together, debuts at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 4 at Cactus Shadows Fine Arts Center. For information on the show go to desertfoothillstheater.com.
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