For the week of July 26, 2010
Lakeview Golf Course News
by Michael Bird, Lakeview Golf Course Manager
In the Match Play Tournament, all four matches were close with the Mike Albertson/Mark Jones vs. Tony Wease/Charlie Sheetz being the closest. They finished tied at 4.5 points each. The tiebreaker, low net score for the team, gave the match to Albertson and Jones who shot a 70 against the 71 that Charlie and Tony carded. Mark Jones chipped in for birdie at #9, a shot that didn't win them the hole but it did get them to the net 70 that won them the match. Charlie Sheetz also birdied the hole which won the hole for them and sent the match to the tiebreaker. In the Mark Sherer/Mike Bird match with Bryant Trambaugh and Wayne Arvin, it took a four foot bogey putt that slipped in on the right side of the cup at the last hole to secure the win for the Sherer/Bird team in a 5 to 4 match. Bryant Trambaugh, with the exception of a triple bogey at #5, had an exceptional round of 39 which included a birdie and a hole prize at #3. Doug Denson's two birdie start and a even par round of 35 led the Denson and Holland team to a 5 to 4 win over Paul Hart and Kent Summers. In the fourth match of the day, John Drake and Tom McAtee won the 8th hole and tied the 9th to break a tie with Curt Johnson and Bric Parker and win their match by a score of 5 to 4. The semifinals next Tuesday will have Albertson and Jones going out against Sherer and Bird, and Denson and Holland taking on McAtee and Drake in head-to-head competition.
In regular season action: George Templin and Don Nolan came in with the low net scores of the day at 31 and that also gave them the low net team score at 62. Three players carded 35's to tie for the low gross of the day - Doug Denson, Mike Kidwell and Mark Potts. Hole prizes were claimed by Bryant Trambaugh, Phil Eyler and Charlie Lyon at the par threes, and by Kent Summers, Chris Taylor and Charlie Lyon on the long putts. Kent Summers and Paul Hart stayed at the top of the team competition standings with Curt Johnson and Bric Parker sitting in second. Paul Hart leads the individual competition with Mark Jones, Tom McAtee, Bric Parker and Rob Rollins, and a host of others, giving chase. Of note: Doug Denson did it for the second time - found birds at holes one and two and got himself a complimentary cart card. He's the only one who has been able to birdie the first two holes during league play so far this year.
Vic Wallace and Joe Gray along with Clyde Wake and Terry LaMar remain undefeated in the Thursday Match Play July Match Tournament. The two teams are 3 and 0 in their matches and are one week away from playing for the championship. Four teams sit at 2 and 0, ready to take the place of one of the leading teams should they falter. The four teams: Ray Shaw and Dave Brown, Mike Bird and Jack Lents, Tony Wease and Charlie Sheetz, and the Course team, this week filled by Richard Lemmon and Leroy Streepy.
In Thursday's play, low scores for the day were turned in by Dave Brown with a nifty net 28 on a gross 38, Wayne Souerdike's gross 36 and a net 30, and three teams tying for the low net team score at 67 - Mike Bird and Jack Lents, Dick Barber and John Chapman, and Wayne Souerdike and Charlie Sheetz. Hole prizes were claimed by Susan Fee at #7, Wayne Souerdike at #8 and Mike Bird at #9. With three weeks to go in the team competition for the regular season, Susan and Frank Fee hold on to an eight point lead over Jim and Wilma Bateman with Wayne Pearl and Junior Byron nineteen points back, and Mike Bird and Jack Lents sitting in fourth twenty-five points from the top. In individual competition, the guy at the top, John Chapman went head-to-head with his nearest competition, Mike Bird, and increased his lead from eleven points to eighteen points. Dave Brown moved up the rankings on the strength of his 54 point day and sits in third place, twenty-three points behind the leader. For the day, the group average score was 46.29, well above the year's low of 44.93 of two weeks ago. Very wet grounds contributed to the additional strokes taken during play.
Adam Wagler and Tyson Stoll dispatched Ricky Graber and Tyler Graber in the Community League's Match Play Tournament last Thursday evening to head to the championship round. The winning twosome closed out the Grabers at hole #7 when Ricky Graber missed a birdie putt that would have extended the match. The winners will join Ken and Sharon Frye, who sent Dale Yoder and Allen Yoder to the sidelines twenty-four hours earlier, in a game that wasn't settled till the ninth hole.
In regular season action, low scores for the week were posted by Perry Yoder with a net 28, by Short Jeffers and Mike Bird with gross 34's, and by the team of Jack Lents and Virgil Harper with a net of 63. Dale and Allen Yoder, in spite of the defeat in the Match Play Tournament, continue to top the standings in team competition, holding a narrow four point lead over Shirley and Short Jeffers. No change at the top in the individual standings as well as Allen Yoder leads Gary LaMar by 27. Gary vaulted into second place with a 56 point week on the strength of a scorecard with a 39 gross and a 29 net, Tyson Stoll, Shirley Jeffers, Virgil Harper and Eric Bird round out the top six in the standings.
Scott Schutte aced #3 out at Lakeview Golf Course on Thursday, July 22nd, as he was playing his Community League round. It is the first for Scott and the second of the week at Lakeview where Curt Johnson also got his first ace the previous Saturday.
Nick Wininger, Tyler Kidwell, Lee Wininger and George Templin found seven birdies to go along with two pars to fire a 28 at Lakeview to win the Saturday morning scramble. The foursome bested two teams tied at 29: Dave Wininger, Mike Bird and Joe Allen, along with Short Jeffers, Greg Potts, Steven Qualkenbush and Kevin Byron. Two other teams participated and came in at 30.
Sharon and Ken Frye went out and played like and with a couple of youngsters this evening, and then came in a few hours later as champions. The Loogootee couple bested Adam Wagler and Tyson Stoll in Lakeview's Community League July Match Play Tournament. Needing a win on the last hole to tie and extend the match, Wagler and Stoll did their part by getting pars. But the Fryes did one better, Ken rolling in a par putt just after Sharon had rolled in a birdie putt of her own. The close match was tied through four holes before the Fryes took the lead for good at #5. The next three holes were halved setting up the dramatic conclusion at the ninth hole. 
The youngster is expected in August and is bound to arrive with a love for golf as Wanda and Randall have been out quite a bit these last several weeks.
