EVENT:215 HEADLINE:STARDUST WRITER:MATTHEWS ERT: 12 DATE:09/20/96 REP:GAFFEY CONTACT#1:-- PHONE#1:-- PHO:CUTSHALL CONTACT#2:-- PHONE#2:-- TAPE#:B-254B KEYWORDS:-- TRT:1:30 FMT:PKG TYPE:LOCAL GRAPHICS:SS -DYAM #SS THE PADRES-DODGERS SERIES IS NOT THE ONLY BIG SPORTS STORY IN MISSION VALLEY TONIGHT. THERE'S A 50-YEAR- OLD LANDMARK ABOUT TO BE BULLDOZED. NEWS 8'S PAT GAFFEY REPORTS THEY CLOSED THE STARDUST GOLF COURSE TODAY. ((TAKE PKG ((1:38)) >IN THE HEART OF MISSION VALLEY, >STARDUST COUNTRY CLUB HAD A >REPUTATION IN THE WORLD OF GOLF. ((:7 AT 253-300 >""The greens here were the best in >the state. Nobody could match 'em. >You could go to San Francisco and >people would tell you about the >greens at Stardust."" = ~`2`4`5^R_DON SPARKS ~_STARDUST GOLFER = >ON THE FINAL DAY FOR STARDUST, THE >FATHER OF PRO GOLFER PHIL >MICKELSON WAS GETTING IN HIS LAST >LICKS. ((:7 TAPE 1 AT 330-337 >""Our whole family has grown up >here and I just hate to see it go, >but you can't really stop >progress."" = ~`2`4`5^R_PHIL MICKELSON ~_FATHER OF P" "HIL MICKELSON = >IN THE 1960s, YOU COULD SEE PRO >TOURNAMENTS AT STARDUST. OLDTIMERS >REMEMBER ARNOLD PALMER, GARY >PLAYER, AND BILLY CASPER WINNING >THE SAN DIEGO OPEN HERE. = ~`2`4`6^R_1961 SAN DIEGO OPEN = ((:10 TAPE 1 AT 608-618 >""Littler shot a 62 here at that >time and this is a true story, and >some lady says you gotta be >kidding, did they put him in >jail?"" = ~`2`4`5^R_JACK GOODMAN ~_STARDUST MEMBER SINCE 1954 = >STARDUST WAS A PRIVATE CLUB FROM >1954 TIL 1995, WHEN THE COURSE >CHANGED HANDS. THEN THE TROLLEY >TRACKS CAME THROUGH, AND NOW THE >LANDOWNERS ARE GOING TO BUILD 27 >NEW HOLES HERE. ((:16 STANDUP AT 628-644 >""Since going public last year, >Stardust has been a buy - $25 for >a round of golf with cart. But >when the new course opens, that >price, too, will be history."" = ~`1`0`6^R = ((:8 TAPE 1 AT 823-831 >""I don't know that that's really >been decid

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