Mark Wiebe

NEWPORT BEACH – Many on the Champions Tour say they love to play the Toshiba Classic because it's in Newport Beach. They enjoy the shops and restaurants nearby, and most of all they enjoy the sunny weather. The latter doesn't look as if it will hold...

18th annual Toshiba Classic Friday Newport Beach Country Club First round groupings & starting times Tee No. 1 10:30 a.m. – Jim Thorpe, Don Pooley, Sandy Lyle 10:39 – Fuzzy Zoeller, Dave Stockton, J.L. Lewis 10:48 – Jim Colbert,...

Second round Saturday – Tee No. 1 8 a.m. – Nick Price, Rodd Spittle, Don Pooley 8:09 – Peter Senior, Ted Schulz, Lonnie Nielsen 8:18 – Gary Hallberg, Jeff Hart, Jim Thorpe 8:27 – Jay Haas, Mark Wiebe, Brad Faxon 8:36 &#...

It's not how you start but how you finish. That's among the favorite lines for a coach to use. But Nick Price's start proved to be very important last year when he won the 17th Toshiba Classic. He opened the three-day tournament with an 11-under-par 60,...

18th annual Toshiba Classic Friday Newport Beach Country Club First round groupings & starting times Tee No. 1 10:30 a.m. – Jim Thorpe, Don Pooley, Sandy Lyle 10:39 – Fuzzy Zoeller, Dave Stockton, J.L. Lewis 10:48 – Jim Colbert,...

As is often the case in sports, the Newport-Mesa landscape in 2011 offered championship celebrations and near-misses by handfuls of local teams. Similarly diverse among the top 10 sports stories of the year, as selected by the Daily Pilot sports staff,...

This column is a mixed bag of sorts. We'll start with the ownership change at both the Balboa Bay Club & Resort and Newport Beach Country Club. The big news that Delaware-based Seven-One Capital-Business Inc. is buying both properties from International...

NEWPORT BEACH — At the 17th Toshiba Classic many saw Nick Price, a three-time major winner, do his best to maintain a first-round five-shot lead. In the ropes, if they looked closely and heard him speak afterward, they would've seen a rebirth of a...

Robert Thompson let his putter carry him from qualifying for the 17th Toshiba Classic to a tie for fifth following Sunday's final round at Newport Beach Country Club. Thompson scored a bogey-free final round to finish 13-under-par 200 (68-66-66),...

Robert Thompson let his putter carry him from qualifying for the 17th Toshiba Classic to a tie for fifth following Sunday’s final round at Newport Beach Country Club. Thompson scored a bogey-free final round to finish 13-under-par 200 (68-66-66),...

Purse: $1,700,000 Course: Newport Beach CC Par: 71 Winning share: $255,000 1. Nick Price, 60-68-68-196, $255,000 2. Mark Wiebe, 65-65-67-197, $149,600 T3 Michael Allen, 69-64-66-199, $112,200 Joe Ozaki, 68-64-67-199, $112,200 T5 Brad...

NEWPORT BEACH - Joe Ozaki of Japan played in the first round of the Toshiba Classic Friday not knowing his family’s status after a massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit his homeland the night before. He figured they’d be OK because...