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*~! The affable Frost came literally *half way around the world from *South Africa to help plug Oakville‘s prestigious annual event. The visit ‘~fmust surely have brought back some ‘pleasant memories of last year‘s final hole dramatics where an amazâ€" "ing 225â€"yard fiveâ€"wood shot onto the «*green helped him finish with a birdie a one shot victory over Fred :Couples who was already in the *ubhouse. "_* Bill Paul, the Oakvilleâ€"based «"director of championships for the "Royal Canadian Golf Association *(RCGA), termed it as his most memâ€" ‘«orable moment at the Canadian *«Open. *«* "I remember looking in his eyes + when he grabbed the wood, and I Â¥ sald ‘he‘s going to be our winner‘." «* On Tuesday, the defending Bell Canadian Open champion was conâ€" ‘tent to just bang a few balls off the practice tee and to "check out the new multiâ€"million dolâ€" Tar clubhouse renovation job. + An early Frost hit Glen Abbey Golf Course on Tuesday. The five â€" Phil Mickelson, Loren Roberts, Tom Lehman, Mark Brooks @nd Mark McCumber â€" will join previously announced players Nick (Price, Craig Stadler, Lee Janzen, Curtis Strange and Richard Zokol at the ‘$1.8 million event which runs September 5â€"11. ‘~* The winner receives $324,000. .: With Roberts and Lehman joining British Open champion Nick Price, *the Bell Canadian Open field features three of the top five players on the PGA tour money list. *« Quipped Frost: "I wish you «would have told me." «_ The funny thing is that Frost said wasn‘t hitting particularly well and had survived "the first three â€"rounds by putting." Early Frost hits Glen Abbey By NORMAN NELSON Beaver Sports Editor *~ But the real damage won‘t be ‘apparent until early September when uth Africa‘s Dave Frost comes ‘back to play for keeps. « Then on Saturday night he said he "took the wife and kids to see Niagara «Falls and on the way back he ©â€" Third on the list is Tom Lehman who won the Memorial Tournament in ‘May and finished second in the Masters. ** Fourth on the list is Rogers, runner up in the U.S. Open, and enjoying «* _Five winners on the PGA tour this year have decided to try and add the ~Bell Canadian Open to their list. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1994 PAGE 16 + Price, currenily second on the list, leads the PGA tour during the 1990s with 11 wins. * Oakville‘s Julia Farell comes triunii)hantly across the finish line in the senior women‘s race. Three of top five money winners booked Dave Frost is cofiling back to defend his Canadian Open title He fell into a groove which stood him well throughout Sunday‘s final round. "stopped to hit some balls." The win, he said, was "definitely one of the highlights of my career", and he‘s pleased to come back to _ SPORTS defend his title. Competing in the Bell Canadian Open, he explained, is satisfying because it‘s a national championship and because he‘s parâ€" tial to Jack Nicklausâ€"designed coursâ€" es. the best year of his 13â€"year PGA tour career. He scored his first tour victory last March at the Nestle Invitational. It was the 16â€"year tour veteran‘s first win in five years. During his career, McCumber has won eight events, including the 1988 Players chamâ€" pionship. Phil Mickelson, winner of the Mercedes Classic in January, is continuâ€" ing his comeback after breaking a leg skiing in late February. Despite missâ€" ing March, April and most of May, he has won more than $430,000 in 11 tour events. Mark Brooks earned his fourth PGA tour victory in June, capturing the Kemper Open. Brooks‘ best year was 1991 when he won the Kmart Greater Greensboro Open and the Greater Milwaukee Open. Mark McCumber‘s 1994 season is highlighted by his victory at the Anheuserâ€"Busch Golf Classic in July. If he does defend his title, he For tickets and tournament information, call 1â€"800â€"571â€"OPEN. Sunday‘s first annual Lakeshore Criterium went extremely well, with the crowd growing to more than 1,000 people as the afternoon wore on, said race chairâ€" man Jim Adams. First annual Lakeshore Criterium draws more than 1,000 onlookers He just happens to wear two hats, as a merchant member of the Downtown BIA and a racer with the Oakville Cycling Club. _ The two organizations joined forces to kick off the annual event, and attracted a numerous list of sponsors including American Express which gave away a $500 shopping spree and the Oakville Beaver which gave away a mountain bike. The throng of people had plenty to cheer about with Oakville cleaning up in both the senior and junior women‘s race, won by Julia Farell and Leigh Hargrove, Close to 300 cyclists participated in the first annual Lakeshore Criterium would be the first backâ€"toâ€"back winâ€" ner in nearly 50 years. Winner of the Greater Hartford Open in June, Frost is the 26th difâ€" ferent winner in 29 PGA tour events this year. The parity among golfers, he said, has made it "a fine line between winâ€" ning and making the cut." A golfer, these days, can "barely make the cut, then put together two great rounds â€" and win." "The main thing is to keep getting the opportunity to win. The more times you are there, the less nervous you are and the better you can hanâ€" dle pressure â€" these are a lot of the things that count when you come to the last hole." And this year, who knows, he just might run into Fred Couples again. Fittingly, while Frost was helping to plug the event, organizers were also announcing that Couples, who is slowly coming back after an injury, has confirmed his entry. A topâ€"10 money winner the past four seasons, Couples has played only seven tour events this year because of back problems. The 13â€"year tour veteran will be looking to make the Bell Canadian Open his first victory of 1994, although he does boast a pair of secâ€" ondâ€"place victories and more than $300,000 in prize money. Frost‘s biggest career win was the 1989 NEC World Series of Golf when he defeated Ben Crenshaw with a par on the second extra hole at Firestone. Other victories include the 1988 Southern Open, 1990 USFG Classic, 1992 Buick Classic; 1994 Greater Hartford Open. Sports Digest _ Stars galOre at Little League event A threeâ€"time athlete of the year at St. Thomas Aquinas Secondary School has signed a letter of intent to play basketball at Fresno Pacific College. _ Karolina Zmirak, who maintained a steady 90â€"plus average, has been a Halton high school allâ€"star for several seasons and also a member of the powerful Toronto Metro Raiders, a top provincial club team. On hand to take on a team of local Little League players between 9 and 12 years of age in a fourâ€"inning game will be such sport celebrities as: past and preâ€" sent Blue Jays Bob Bailor and Rob Butler; past and present Argos Dan Ferrone (now head of the players association) and Mike ‘Pinball‘ Clemons; former Leafâ€" turnedâ€"sportscaster Jim McKenny; Blue Jay playâ€"byâ€"play man Tom Cheek; and a host of other special guests. The afternoon, which gets underway at Trafalgar Park (133 Rebecca Street, behind Oakville Arena) at 12:30 p.m., is all in support of the Oakville Little League Foundation and Special Olympics. Some Special Olympians will be on hand to shore up the celebrity team. She was the captain of her school team which made it to the Halton high school semiâ€"finals this year. She averaged 23 points and 10 assists a game. â€" Oakville Mayor Ann Mulvale hopes she has bigger fish to catch. As the winner of last year‘s inaugural Tom Big Canoe Memorial, she will host the second annual event on Sat., Aug. 6. The purpose of the event, organized by the Ontario Sportfishing Guides Association, is to draw attention to the tremendous resource of the recreational fishery in the western basin of Lake Ontario and to remember one of the local charâ€" ter boat operators who died suddenly three years ago. Oakville Little League is hosting its second annual sports celebrity exhibition baseball game on Saturday (Aug. 6). Admission is free and there will be refreshments, autograph signing and raffle prizes. Scholarship for Aquinas Bâ€"ball star She was also the captain of her volleyball team and played mixed doubles in badminton, ending up third in Halton. With the assistance of College Prospects of America, Zmirak was contacted by 95 colleges and universities throughout North America. In addition to the Fresno Pacific offer, she was offered scholarship assistance from King‘s College in New York, Notre Dame College in New Hampshire, Graceland College in lowa and St. Mary‘s in Minnesota. Zmirak, who will be entering a preâ€"med program at Fresno in September, will leave for California in August. Bigger fish to catch for the Mayor Invitations have been sent out to the mayors of numerous lakefront communiâ€" ties, including Burlington, Hamilton, Stoney Creek, Grimsby, St. Catharines and Niagara On The Lake. _ Milton Mayor Gord Krantz has also been invited to represent the community where the Big Canoe family still resides. . The boats (courtesy of Canadian Fishing Adventures) will leave from Sharkey‘s dock in Oakville Harbour at 8 a.m. and return by 12:30 p.m. Each competing team will consist of four representatives from each community. The winning team, who will host the 1995 challenge, will be determined by the combined length of all the fish caught. Undefeated Longhorns open playoffs The Oakville Longhorns capped off an undefeated season Saturday with a conâ€" vincing 59â€"0 victory over the basement dwelling Toronto Eagles. . And just how important will that undefeated season be going into this Saturday‘s home playoff date against the Brampton Bears? "It means nothiné now," said coach Tony Molnar. "It‘s over we‘re into our second season." While many an undefeated team in many a sport has been rudely awakened with a surprise upset in the playoffs, Molnar expects his talented charges to keep firing on all cylinders as they have during the last two games. ""I'hey're well prepared, their attitude is great and there‘s a lot of enthusiasm in the dressing room," he said. Ironicalli, the biggest threat to the Longhorns‘ undefeated season came three games ago against Brampton when it took a lastâ€"second (literally) field goal just to tie the game at 6â€"6. Oakville won in overtime 23â€"6. Satfirday's sudden death playoff game starts at 6 p.m. at Bronte Athletic Field. respectively. The host Oakville Cycling Club just missed a trip to the podium with Piers Davidge finishing fourth by whiskers in the elite men‘s tier one and two race. On the men‘s side, Oakville resident, Wayne Boudreau, who races for Cycle Path, won the junior men‘s title. But still, they‘re not hanging their heads down. In a field of 90 competitors, "we had four in the top twenâ€" ty," explained Adams. The event, he said, featured some "great races." The highlights for him, included the two v1ctones by the Oakville Cycllng Club riders. In winning the junior women‘s race, Hargrove manâ€" (See ‘Buffalo cyclist‘ page 24) dA 1,/ Karolina Zmirak (Photos by Jeff Chevrier)