A total of 140 two-man teams will compete today and Sunday at Alvamar in the first annual Be Like Bob (Billings) Memorial golf tournament.

Shotgun starts are scheduled for 9 a.m. at both the public and private sides at Alvamar, and proceeds will help endow the Wilt Chamberlain Scholarship at Kansas University.

Billings, who died in February, was president of Alvamar Inc. and led the development of west Lawrence, including the two Alvamar courses. Billings was a teammate of Chamberlain on KU’s basketball team in the ’50s.

“He and Wilt were very good friends,” Alvamar CC pro and tourney organizer Randy Towner said. “He had done something to endow a scholarship in Wilt’s name and we just wanted to complete that.”

Towner said organizers hoped to raise $40,000 from the tournament, which will also feature an auction of various golf items, sports memorabilia and Chiefs tickets. The tournament should be the final piece of a $350,000 endowment for the Chamberlain grant.

Half the field will play on Alvamar’s public side and the other half on Alvamar CC today.

Sunday, the competitors will switch courses.

Gift certificates redeemable at either Alvamar golf shop will be awarded to gross and net score winners from each of several divisions. The winners will be noted on a permanent trophy on display at the Alvamar complex.