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sports:
men's golf
Four to join golf
hall of Fame
By Mike Haubrich
Summer Forty-Niner
Four new members
will join the Long Beach Golf Hall of Fame next month, and
two have direct ties to Long Beach State.
Current LBSU men's
golf Coach Bob Livingstone and former 49er player Jamie Mulligan,
along with Dan Gooch and Tom Frost, are this year's honorees,
the City of Long Beach Department of Parks, Recreation and
Marine and Long Beach Golf Hall of Fame Chairman Del Walker
announced.
Livingstone has
coached the 49ers since 1994, and was named coach of the year
for the Big West Conference in 2000. He is currently the chairman
of the NCAA Division I Men's Golf committee and has been a
member of the Southern California Golf Association since 1992.
Livingstone also
wrote the "Policy and Procedures" and "Golf
Operations" manuals that are used by the city of Long
Beach.
"It's nice
to have the last 15 years acknowledged," Livingstone
said. "I just love golf, and to be [inducted] is flattering."
Mulligan is the
head golf professional at the Virginia Country Club, and he
has also served in that capacity at both Skylinks and Recreation
Park in Long Beach and Coyote Hills in Fullerton. Mulligan
was named "Teacher of the Year" by the Metro Chapter
of the Southern California PGA in 1999 and the Southern California
Section of the PGA of America in 2000.
Gooch has raised
over $125,000 for the Marie C. Gooch Scholarship Fund, which
benefits golfers at LBSU, Long Beach City College, the various
high schools in Long Beach and the Long Beach Junior Golf
Association.
Frost has helped
oversee many improvements in the five City of Long Beach golf
courses since 1984.
The four honorees
will be inducted into the Long Beach Golf Hall of Fame Sunday,
July 29 following the conclusion of the Long Beach Open at
El Dorado Park.
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