Lakeview News for the week of August 11:
Skip Ackerman, nearing the golden age of 67, hit a towering shot into #7 on a rainy Tuesday Men's League afternoon, watched as it hit about eighteen inches in front of the cup and then trickle into the hole. "Holy dandelions!" he exclaimed. "My first hole-in-one!" Playing partners Phil Eyler, John Walker and Charlie Lyon stood around and cheered him in his new found status as a Lakeview Ace. Skip used a King Cobra gap wedge and hit a Pinnacle Gold FX Long ball over the hundred yards from tee to cup. Nice shot and hole dandelions indeed, Skip! They finished three under over the last two holes to steal a win. That would be the scramble team of Jeff Doyle, Larry Hembree, and father and son Mike and Tyler Kidwell. The foursome found magic late to take the Saturday morning scramble. Tyler Kidwell started the rally by finding a birdie all by himself on hole #8. The other three took care of the last hole: Jeff Doyle made a nifty up and down for par from behind the sand trap; and Mike Kidwell and Larry Hembree both made three foot putts for birdies. That gave them a final score of two under which was one stroke up on any other team. At one under was the team of Mike Bird, Greg Potts, Bryant Trambaugh and Gary Arvin. Strong putting by Greg Potts and a long putt by Mike Bird for birdie at #9 weren't quite enough to offset a bogey at #1 and a plus one score on #9. At even par was the team of Dave Wininger, Wayne Souerdike, Karry Stoll and Kevin Byron. At plus five on the day was the team of Doug Denson, Junior Byron, Mike Arvin and Joe Doyle. This was a modified scramble with golfers playing their own ball on the par threes and three of the four scores counting as the team score. Again, how you did on these short holes was critical to success. The top team was plus one on those holes; second place team was plus two; third place team, a plus four; and fourth place team, a mind boggling plus seven. Oh my.
It's Walton time at Lakeview: Bob Walton fired a 38, low gross for the Seniors, and son Tyler came in at 37, low gross for Men. Tyler's round included a birdie catch at #4. Noah Callahan shot a 38 and found a birdie at #2. Kay Sheetz picked one up on #2 as well, shot a 49 gross and a 31 net. Playing partner Kim Jones shot a 47 gross, net 33, giving them a nifty net team score of 64. Scott Schutte came oh so close to scoring in the 30's, finding a birdie on #7 before stumbling at #9 with a double bogey to finish with a 40. That was good enough for a net 31 for Scott. His playing partner, Mike Arvin, found a birdie on hole #2 (must have been passing them out free up there at that hole!) in a round of 43, a net 35. Low gross for Women this week was Susie Chanley who got herself a birdie right off the bat at #1 and then went on to shoot a season low of 46; that gave her a net 27 and honors in that category for both Women and Seniors. Other birdie gatherers included Cam Sheetz at #8, and Jim Hart at #5. Low net Team score for the week belonged to Tarry Bratton and Karry Stoll with a nifty 61. The low net score for Men belonged to Karry Stoll with a 30. Leaders at the end of the week: Kent Summers and Noah Callahan in Team competition with 210 points; they are closely followed by Mike Arvin and Scott Schutte with 207 points and Cam Sheetz and Missy Kneip with 205 points. In Individual competition, Noah Callahan leads the pack with 450 points with Missy Kneip in second with 443 points. In the season ending Team Tournament, Tarry Bratton and Karry Stoll lead Kim Jones and Kay Sheetz by two points, with Mike Arvin and Scott Schutte four points back.
Highlights for Event 16: Hole Prizes went to Mike Bird on #3, Ray Shaw on #7, Wilma Bateman on #8 and John Chapman on #9. John also shared low net score with Dave Strange, each shooting a 31. Low gross score was shot by Mike Bird with a 36 while Al Kavanaugh, owner of two birdies on the day, came in second with a 37. Low net team score of the day was a sterling 63 turned in by Dick Barber and John Chapman; only one other team, Swayze and Bird, managed net par or better. Other players with birds for the day included Dave Brown on #7, Jack Butcher on #8 and Mike Bird on #2. The match of the day between #1 and #2, that would be Richard Swayze and Mike Bird up against Jack Lents and Jim Bateman, ended in a 10-4 win for the leaders. That extended their lead in Team competition to eighteen points. Lents and Bateman as well as Mike Anderson and Al Kavanaugh are in second at 128 points. Wilma Bateman and Diane Bird are in fourth with 125 points. In Individual play, Mike Bird continues to lead the pack with 553 points; Al Kavanaugh is in second with 523 points. Don Lannan and Richard Swayze are in third and fourth with 479 points and 474 points respectively. Jack Lents, Charlie Sheetz, Virgil Harper, Vic Wallace, John Chapman and Jim Bateman round out the top ten. Average gross score for the day was 47.79, up almost a full stroke from the previous week. Seniors now enter three weeks of play where opponents are determined firstly by position in the standings and then by a win or a loss. Following these 'playoffs', the final two weeks of the Senior League are taken up by the Individual Flighted Tournament.
Rains in the area and a 'rain event' was declared. Still, lots of golfers came out and played and one even got a hole-in-one. That would be Skip Ackerman, as noted in an earlier article. Of note: Steven Downey had some excitement of his own, finding an eagle at #2 in a round of 37. John Drake came back from a week off and shot a 39; that translates to a very nifty net 26. A couple of zero handicappers, Phil Eyler and Short Jeffers, made it look easy with rounds of 34 and 35. Bill Carrico did some 24 strokes better than he did five years ago, bringing in a card with a score of 42; that's a net 29. Scott Arthur and Dave Wininger both birdied #7, Scott's shot coming within eight inches of the cup. A second hole-in-one would have been nice. Noah Callahan did not have the kind of round he wanted. The leader of the pack played bogey golf with only one par (on #7) and that negated by a double bogey on #9; that gave him a 44 for the day with a net 38. That's good news for some of his chasers, including Bryant Trambaugh who continued his improved play with a score of 40 gross and net 32. Jim Murphy will also benefit; he shot a 43 gross and a net 33. In spite of the very questionable weather, twenty-three of the thirty-seven golfers shot net par or better. Group average gross score: 42.6. Tuesday Men players have until the start of play this coming Tuesday to complete their rain event games.
