Notes on Thursday Match Play League

The 36 hole Individual Flighted Tournament got underway with mixed results as far as the #1 seeds were concerned.  In A Flight, #1 seed Junior Byron used a birdie at the last hole (#1) to finish with a 34 and a four stroke lead over his opponents.  Mike Bird and Albert Kavanaugh helped him out by taking an extra two shots at the same last hole after plunking their approach shots into the water.  In B Flight, #8 seed Dave Brown (38) and #6 seed Tony Wease (39) had sub 40 rounds while #1 Jack Lents stumbled to a 44.  C Flight leader is Jim Bateman, the #4 seed, who shot a 40 and leads #3 seed Rex Hudson by two strokes.  Wayne Pearl, the #1 seed in the flight, carded a disappointing 45.  The #1 seed in D Flight, Pam Byron, holds a slim one stroke lead over Charlie Sheetz and Joe Gray and a two stroke lead over Dick Barber.  In E Flight, Wilma Bateman, the #3 seed, holds a two stroke lead over Clyde Wake.  The #1 seed, Carroll Rayhill, did not play.

In regular season action, the individual standings had a wholesale change at the top with Jim Bateman taking over first place with his league leading low net score of 29.  Last week's leader, John Chapman, who shot a 47 gross and a net 41, failed to get any points on the week and tumbled to 6th place in the standings.  Dave Brown and Al Kavanaugh moved up to second and third places, nine and thirty-three points from the top.  Junior Byron's 34 was the low gross on the day.  Hole prizes were claimed by Jim Bateman at #7, Mike Bird at #8 and Terry LaMar at #9.  Average gross score for the group was 44.61, the same as the previous week.