Lakeview Golf Course News for the week of September 1st
In the Saturday Morning Manager's Scramble, the C and D team of Jack Lents and Vic Wallace shot an even par to trounce by three strokes the team of Curt Johnson and Bryant Trambaugh. Meanwhile, their AB partners Mike Bird and Kevin Byron held Chuck Baker and Junior Byron at bay, each team coming in at 34. That gave the Lents/Wallace/K.Byron/Bird team a combined score of 69 to a 72 for the Johnson/Trambaugh/Baker/
JrByron team. The group played the par threes unusually well with ten pars and only two bogeys.
Senior League results are posted. Mike Anderson and Al Kavanaugh completely dominated the daggerless team of Jack Lents and Jim Bateman, 12-2, to win the Gold Flight in the playoffs. In the Black Flight, Jack Butcher and Rex Hudson beat the stand-in team of Jack Nickless and Morris Cornelius, 11-3, to win in that flight. The two flight winners will meet next Thursday to determine the overall champion of the playoffs. In this regular season finale, the excellent play of Al Kavanaugh and Mike Anderson allowed them to slip into first place in the Team standings to win by half a point over the Mike Bird/Richard Swayze team who were trashed by Diane Bird and Wilma Bateman, 11.5 to 2.5. Al, with a sterling round of 36 also vaulted over Mike Bird in the Individual standings to claim the season trophy in that competition. The Wrap: Low scores were turned in by Bob Norris with a nifty low net of 26. Clyde Wake and Dave Strange were tied for second with 30's. Team low net was 58 by Bob Norris and Leroy Streepy. Low gross scorer was Al Kavanaugh at 36 while his partner Mike Anderson got second with a 38. Hole prizes were claimed by Dave Brown and Ray Shaw on the long putts and by Dave Brown and Jack Nickless on the close shots to the pins. Only two birdies on the day, those found by Dave Brown on #6 and Wayne Pearl on #9. The average gross score for the group dropped a bunch: from 46.97 to 45.59. An amazing 24 of the 29 golfers shot net par or better on the day. The Senior League now turns to the season ending Individual Flighted Tournament over the next two Thursdays. This is an open tournament and area senior golfers are welcome to come out and join in the fun.
The Wrap: Golfers found the fairways pretty hard for Tuesday's event and that meant long drives off the tees. For some, that turned into birdie time. Four golfers found three birdies in their rounds yesterday: Trenton Kidwell, Phil Eyler, Short Jeffers and Mark Sherer. Another seven found two birdies: Steven Downey, Mike Kidwell, Tyler Kidwell, Terry Butcher, Doug Denson, Chris Bledsoe and Mike Bird. That was a large part of the reason the average gross score dropped to 41.04 from 42.82. Hole prizes were claimed by Jason Rominger, Steven Downey and Chris Bledsoe on the closest-to-the-pin shots while John Drake ran a long putt in on #8. The daily 'Go-for-it' contest prizes were won by Mike Breeden on #4 and Steven Downey on #5. The overall winners in that contest are Tom McAtee at #4 and Mark Sherer at #5. Low scores for the event: low net at 28 was Charlie Lyon with Curt Johnson and Mike Smith tied for second at 29. Low net team with a 60 was shot by last year's team champions, Keith Parsons and Bill Carrico. Low gross was turned in by Trenton Kidwell with a 33 with Doug Denson's 34 taking second place. No change at the top as Noah Callahan leads Jim Murphy by 37 points in the Individual race. Terry Padgett and Gary Burris hold on to first in the Team standings with a scant nine point lead over Rob Sterling and Jim Murphy and a twenty-seven point lead over the third place team of Todd Baker and Noah Callahan. Other notes: Mike Smith missed his first par round ever by getting a double bogey on nine but still finished with his best ever round, a 36; that's a net 29 for Mike. Trenton Kidwell had himself a pretty good round by finding birds at four, six and seven; he finished with a gross 33, a personal best, and a net 30. Eddie Green played without brother Richie who just became a papa again for the third time, a second baby boy. Charlie Lyons had an exceptional round, a 40 which included an 8 on #5; that's a net 28 for Charlie. Phil Eyler had to get three birdies to offset three bogeys on one, two and three and a fourth at #7 in a round of 36. The leader of the pack, Noah Callahan, chipped in one on three for a birdie and went on to shoot 37, a net 31. John Drake continued his hot shooting, bringing in a round of 41 gross, net 32, and that was after opening with a triple bogey. Doug Denson broke into the sub par figures with a round of 34 that included consecutive birdies on holes five and six.
