VOLUME 43 Number 21 June 18, 2007

From Concepts to Reality – 4th of July Parade Update!

Your West El Paso Rotary Committee had its reg-ular weekly meeting on

June 8th to finalize the details for the Parade. As is the case with Cliff Walsh’s 7:00 AM Pa-rade Committee meetings, most of the Committee work is done not at the weekly Parade Com-mittee Meetings, but is rather done by individual members do-ing countless behind-the-scenes phone calls, contacts and coor-dination items that make the Pa-rade a success.

At this meeting Chava Gon-zalez presented the sketch of the new Club float for the Pa-rade. The engineering details for the float are pretty much set, but still needed are volun-

teers with artistic flair to dec-orate the float – Club member so interested should contact Chava at 584-9656.

Key items discussed at the June 8th Parade Committee meeting included:• Parade entries continue to

“trickle in” with the usual last minute panic of entrants dur-ing final weeks.

• Jesse Allen will be contacting all Club members for volun-teer duty for Parade day and for the last few days leading up to the Parade.

• The Committee will request that the July 2nd regular Mon-day Club meeting be dedicat-ed to last minute Parade de-tails.

continued on next page Above: Concept Design for the Club’s New Float

Bastel Wins Major Championship In PlayoffDECATUR, Ill., June 17, 2007 –

Early in the week, Dave Bastel told his daugh-ter that he knew what he

wanted for Father’s Day. And af-ter two extra playoff holes today at the $105,000 Michelob UL-TRA Duramed FUTURES Players Championship, Emily Bastel de-livered his present with an eight-foot birdie putt.

“I worked really hard to make that happen,” laughed daugh-ter Bastel, whose father, teach-er and caddie had the best view all day of his daughter’s second season win. She carded rounds of 69-68-71-70 for a 10-under-par total of 278 and edged run-ner-up Onnarin Sattayabanphot in a two-hole playoff at Hickory Point Golf Course at the Tour’s longest-running tournament and only major championship.

“My win earlier this year in McAllen [Texas] was special be-cause it was my first profession-al win, but this one validates the first,” said Bastel, 26, of Upper Sandusky, Ohio, who collected $14,700 for the win and moved to the top of the Tour’s money list after 10 events. “It felt like old times with my dad out there with me today.”

Sunday’s final round of the 23rd annual event turned into

a Big Ten shootout with Bas-tel, a former collegian at Michi-gan State University, and Satta-yabanphot (nicknamed “Moo”), who played at Purdue Universi-ty, going head-to-head in the fi-nal round. The rookie from Bang-kok, Thailand matched scores of 70 with Bastel to force the extra holes.

And while those two were battling in the final Sunday pair-ing, former Ohio State University All-American Mollie Fankhauser also made a run at the leaders, firing a six-under-par round of 66 to move into a tie for third with Caroline Larsson (69) of Dan-deryd, Sweden and Rachel Bai-ley (69) of Faulconbridge, Aus-tralia, all at 280 (-8) in the Tour’s only 72-hole, regular-season tournament.

Fankhauser birdied four of her last eight holes, draining a 40-foot birdie putt on the 17th. The 2006 tournament winner hit 16 greens in regulation and rolled in 28 putts en route to her bogey-free round.

“I’ve been losing patience with myself and this week kind of stirred me up,” said Fankhauser of Columbus, Ohio, who carded six birdies in today’s final round. “I’ve been due to make some putts and I finally cashed in to-day.”

Sattayabanphot (pronounced Sah-tah-yah-bun-pot) admitted to having a case of nerves on the first tee this morning, pumping her tee shot way left and taking bogey. But she tied for the lead with Bastel and Liz Janangelo when she made a 14-foot bird-ie putt on the second hole, and then grabbed the lead with a 50-foot birdie on No. 3. When she added another birdie from five feet on the ninth, Sattayaban-

phot had built a three-shot lead over Bastel and Larsson, and was looking like the same 2006 Big Ten Player of the Year she had been in college.

“She got out to a lead early and played great,” said Bastel. “Playing with the lead for that long is a different kind of stress than if you’re trying to catch up.”

As she approached the last stretch of holes, Bastel’s dad knew his daughter would have a better chance to catch the long-hitting rookie on the downwind holes that were coming up on the 6,594-yard course.

“I said, ‘Let’s try to birdie two of the last three and see what happens,’” said Dave Bastel, a PGA Professional who owns and operates Lincoln Hills Golf Course in Ohio. “Moo’s pretty long and she wasn’t giving any-thing away. I knew once we got it turned downwind, we’d have a chance.”

Sure enough, his daughter

rolled in a birdie putt on No. 16 from 18 feet, and then added a second birdie on the 17th from 15 feet. When Sattayabanphot left her bunker shot six feet short of the hole and didn’t get up and down for par, Bastel seized a share of the lead at 10 under with one hole to play. When her seven-foot birdie chance on the final hole in regulation burned the right edge, and Sattayaban-phot’s birdie putt slid past the left side, the two were forced into extra holes.

“It’s kind of match play at that point and now you really have to take advantage of opportuni-ties,” said Bastel, who used only 26 putts in regulation.

On the first playoff hole -- played on No. 18 -- both players drove into a right fairway bun-ker. The rookie hit her bunker shot into the deep, front rough. She chipped to two inches and tapped in for par. Bastel had to navigate her way out of the sand and over a tree from 117 yards. That shot came out, but landed 77 yards short of the flagstick. Bastel’s wedge shot landed with-in three and a half feet of the hole and she drained her must-make par to force another hole.

Back to the 18th tee for a sec-ond playoff hole, Bastel’s tee shot skipped through the left fairway bunker and landed safe-ly in the fairway. Sattayaban-phot’s drive flew left of Bastel’s, behind a crab apple tree. She punched out a low shot with a 5-iron, but landed 25 yards short of the flagstick. The rookie chipped to 15 feet, and then drained her 15-footer for par to put the pres-sure on Bastel.

“I never quit and I gave my-self a chance to win,” said Sat-tayabanphot, 23, who added the

runners-up check of $10,500 to her bank account. “But Emily’s really good. Her irons and her putting are awesome.”

The fourth-year pro hit her approach to eight feet and sized up her putt for the win with her dad by her side. Bastel’s putt curled into the left side of the hole for the winning birdie and an automatic exemption into the LPGA’s State Farm Classic, just down the road in Springfield, Ill., on Memorial Day weekend.

“We’re here [on the Duramed FUTURES Tour] because we want to be on the LPGA Tour, so to win and to earn an exemption is a bonus,” said Bastel, who had full LPGA status in 2005 and 2006.

Bastel lost her Tour card at LPGA Q-School last fall and re-turned to the Duramed FUTURES Tour, where she had finished 6th on the money list in 2004. But this year, her purpose was more about freeing herself up to play good golf than anything else.

“Last year was very hum-bling,” she added. “I never made any cuts and I didn’t feel like my-self on the golf course. You learn so much more from a bad year like that than from a good expe-rience. I’m proudest of the fact that I can rebound.”

And rebound, she did, with the eyes of her teacher and fa-ther watching her climb back into form as the kind of player who made it to the LPGA Tour in the first place three years ago.

“I think she probably learned that you have to show up every day in this game,” said her dad. “If you really want to be out here, you have to commit to it, and Emily’s made a commitment to try to make this a career again.”

With two wins to her cred-it and nine weeks to go this sea-son, Bastel seems to just be hit-ting her stride. And if Father’s Day was this dramatic, one can only wonder about Christmas with the Bastels.