For the week of June 7, 2010
Lakeview Golf course News
by Michael Bird, Lakeview Golf Course Manager
Photo: Trey Kidwell, Mike Arvin and Tony Wease, winners in the Lakeview Saturday Morning Scramble. Not pictured: Mark Jeffers.
Photo by Michael Bird
At Lakeview Golf Course on Saturday, June 5th, Mark Jeffers, Mike Arvin, Tony Wease and Trey Kidwell won the Saturday Morning Scramble with a score of 31. The foursome was tied by the team of Wayne Souerdike, Stan Graber, Joe Allen and Kevin Byron, and the team of Tyler Kidwell, Larry Hembree, George Templin and Joe Doyle. The Jeffers team won on a tiebreaker, a draw of the cards. One other team participated and came in at three under par in the low scoring affair.
First nine holes of the 36 hole Individual Handicapped Tournament was played on Thursday, the 3rd of June, with Jim Bateman firing the low net score of the day, a nifty 29, 6 under par. Three players share second place at 4 under par: Jack Lents, Susan Fee and Pam Byron. Bateman and playing partner, Wilma Bateman, also remained on top in the regular season team standings, trumping Clyde Wake and Dave Strange by a score of 11.5 to 2.5. The Batemans also had the low net team score of the day, a 63. Frank and Susan Fee are in second place in the team standings; they crushed their opponents of the day, Ken Hudson and Carrol Rayhill by a score of 12 to 2. Low gross score was turned in by Mike Bird with a nine par even par score of 35. Walter Henrichsen's 39 was the second best as were his 6 pars. Bird leads the Individual standings and is followed by Wayne Pearl, Jim Bateman and John Chapman. Hole prizes were claimed by Ken Hudson at #7 and #8 while Jack Butcher got the one at #9 for the second week in a row. Average gross score for the day was 46.64, down from the 47.11 of the previous week and the second lowest for the season. Event one's average of 46.36 remains the low for the year. Hole #6 played the hardest on the day at 1.6 strokes over it's par 5, while hole #2 played the easiest at .72 strokes over it's par of 4.
Terry Butcher had a five birdie afternoon last Tuesday and turned in the low gross with a sterling 32. Doug Denson also had a good afternoon with three birds and a score of 33. Kevin Byron had the low net of the day, a very nifty 26 on a gross of 40, and is the leader of the Individual Handicapped Tournament after nine holes. He leads Tracy Rayhill by three strokes, and is four up on Dennis Brosmer, Doug Denson, John Drake and Greg Potts. Hole prize winners on the day were John Drake (2) and Skip Ackerman on close to the pin shots, and Terry Padgett, Dennis Brosmer and Jon Boyd on the long putts. Low net team score was a tie at 63 by the Terry Butcher/Rob Sterling team and the John Drake/Tom McAtee team. Leaders in the standings after seven events are Doug Denson and Buck Holland in team competition and Tom McAtee in the individual competition. On the day, 42 of 59 players shot net par or better, 35 of them in the better category. Group average gross score was 41.80, a new low for the season.
Community League Season Underway
Lakeview Golf Course's Community League got underway during the week of May 30th. Seventeen two person teams are participating in this summer league where the golfers play their round at their convenience sometime during the week. For the initial week of the season, Jack Lents and Allen Yoder came out clicking on all cylinders, each shooting sterling net 29's. That puts them on top of the individual standings as well as tied for first in the Individual Handicapped Tournament, a four week, 36 hole event to start the season. In team standings, Allen Yoder and Dale Yoder are on top after firing a net 60. Second place is held by the team of Jason Graber and Perry Yoder who combined for a net score of 62. Low gross score was Short Jeffer's 37 with Mike Bird's 38 taking second.
On Saturday, May 29th, Joe Allen chipped in for eagle at #5 and then rolled in a 25 footer at #9 to do his share in helping teammates Mark Sherer, Darvin Knepp and Jack Nickless win the Saturday scramble at Lakeview. The foursome finished at eight under par for the nine holes and won the event on a card draw tie breaker as the team of Dave Wininger, Greg Potts, Abe Knepp and Trey Kidwell also finished at eight under. Mike Bird, Wayne Souerdike, Gaby Love and Curt Johnson at six under par finished third in the five team competition.
