#RICH BEEM EL PASO PRO#

From age 12, she attended school in Northern Virginia and was a cheerleader for the Langley High football team, quarterbacked by Sen. Sharon's father, Bill Archer (R-Tex.), was a longtime Congressman and former chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee until he retired in January 2001. She's also walked most of the way with him, and was there with a hug and a kiss after he holed out for birdie from deep rough at the seventh hole this morning as Funk completed his second storm-delayed round. He's paying attention at the moment during a career season, with $1.6 million in earnings and another nice payday coming on Sunday if he can remain among the leaders, or even win his first major.įred Funk's wife, Sharon, has been sleeping on a downstairs sofa bed with her two young children in a house they're renting for the week, while her husband has been trying to get some serious rest in his own bedroom upstairs. 'I was lost, and my attention span was not very good.' 'Most of the help, I liked them, but the, I didn't like, so I wasn't very attentive.

#RICH BEEM EL PASO PRO#

'My head pro and now my instructor, Cameron Doan, came in one day and said 'Rich, you have two choices: Either you're going to quit and go play golf for a living or you're going to quit.' I really wasn't a very good assistant pro. 'I worked there for the better part of 21/2 years,' Beem recalled. But when I went to sell car stereos, I had no clue.'īeem eventually gravitated back to the game, and took a job as an assistant pro at the El Paso Country Club. 'I was pretty good selling cell phones,' he said. Still, after playing badly on mini-tours in the early '90s, he actually decided to give up the game for eight months in 1995 and worked in a cell phone and car stereo store in Seattle. He's now trying to make a name for himself nationwide, and is doing a decent job of it with a victory two weeks ago at the International and his play this week in the PGA Championship.īeem admitted the other day that it's a good thing he can play at this level, because several of the real-world jobs he's had just never suited his temperament. Rich Beem, who led the PGA after the first 45 holes and is still in position to win his first major, is well known to Washington-area golf fans after his stunning up-from-nowhere triumph in the 1999 Kemper Open at Avenel his rookie season on the PGA Tour.

Rich beem el paso