Jack Butcher gets his first Hole-in-One!
Jack Butcher has been looking for his very first hole-in-one for a long time, fifty some years. On Thursday, April 24th, playing his 18th hole out at Lakeview Golf Course, his Ping Zing 8 iron hit a Top Flite XL3000 golf ball with just enough get-up-and-go to land on the green, roll about 20 feet and drop over the lip and into the hole. Bingo. The looking is over and done with. Jack was joined on his back nine following Senior League play by Rex and Kenny Hudson and Jack Lents. Jack was left speechless by his accomplishment while Rex said that he wished he had been looking. Jack Lents had an 'Oh, golly durn' as he and Rex started the hole two strokes up on Kenny and the new guy in the Lakeview Hole-in-One Club. The ace is the first one of the year at Lakeview.
Thursday Senior League
The team of Dave Brown and Ray Shaw held onto the top spot in the team competition in spite of Dave having to handle the battle all by himself. Brown, shorthanded, managed to capture 10.5 of the 14 points available in the match with the team of Allen Swayze and Charlie Sheetz. In Individual competition, Junior Byron slipped ahead of Dave by firing a 38, good for second place in low gross, and a net 32 which tied him in the low net category; he also got the hole prize at #9. Mike Bird birdied each of the par threes, shot a 36 for the low gross, shared the low net with a 32 and got the hole prize on #7. Other hole prize winners included Allen Swayze at #3 and Jack Butcher at #8.
Tuesday Men's League
Best scores for the day: Low net for Keith Parsons with a 29; Joe Allen came in second with a 30. Low Gross goes to Dave Wininger with a 34 while Terry Padgett came in with a 35. Hole prizes: Joe Allen, TJ McAtee, Brent Courter, and Trenton Kidwell. Phil Eyler and Charlie Lyon posted a net team score of 68 and edged Curt Johnson and Bric Parker by a score of 107 to 101 points in the 18 hole Team Tournament.
Butcher, McAtee, Johnson and Huff Triumph
In Saturday's Manager's Scramble, Terry Butcher, TJ McAtee, Curt Johnson and Josh Huff squeaked by three other teams by a single stroke with a score of three under to take home the trophy for the day. Terry had a chip in for birdie alongwith a twenty foot putt to help capture the win. In this modified scramble where the participants played their own ball on the par threes, the winners managed to come in with a minus two on those holes while the other teams struggled with a combined six over. Tied for second with scores of two under were the teams of Dave Wininger, Mike Kidwell, Joe Allen and Tom Holt in one squad and Mark Sherer, Mike Bird and Wayne Souerdike in another. Bringing up the rear with a score at the even mark were Mark Jeffers, Trenton Kidwell and Kevin Byron. The Wininger, Kidwell, Allen and Holt team dug themselves a hole on their first two holes, giving away what in effect was four strokes with a par on #2 and a bogey/double bogey on #3; they recovered their poise and came in at five under on the remaining seven holes, including a double birdie on #7, falling one shot shy of the winners' circle. The winners also double birdied #7.
