Notes on Thursday Match Play League

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.  Details and complete standings here.