News Article for the Week of September 13

For the week of September 13, 2010

Lakeview Golf Course News
by Michael Bird, Lakeview Golf Course Manager

Coming up at Lakeview: the September Challenge, an inter league, two person, three event handicapped tournament open to all 2010 league players and substitutes. 

Notes on Thursday Match Play League

The Flighted Tournament and the regular season came to a close for the Thursday Leaguers out at Lakeview last Thursday with plenty of fireworks, club throwing (not really - just the urge) and mini arm pumps.  Ken Hudson and Mike Bird came from behind to tie Jim Bateman and Junior Byron for championships in the C and A flights while Pam Byron held off a hard charging Charlie Sheetz in D Flight.  Terry LaMar and Tony Wease duked it out in B Flight, each firing 41's on the day, with Tony unable to make up that one stroke he needed to share the crown.  Wilma Bateman cruzed to her championship in E Flight.

In the regular season action, Jim Bateman's 45 gave him 16 points for the day, enough to hold off Mike Bird (a 33 and 42 points) to claim the top spot.  Jim finished the season with 563 points, Bird 551, and Al  Kavanaugh, who also fired a 33 on the day, finished in third place with 550 points.  On the final day of league action, Susan Fee and Jim Bateman claimed hole prizes on the par threes while Terry LaMar rolled in the longest putt at #8.  Low scores were carded by octogenarian Clyde Wake with a net 27 (on a gross 52, his best game of the year), and by Al Kavanaugh and Mike Bird with their gross 33's.

Of note:
-Al Kavanaugh just missed out on what would have been a tying eagle shot in the A Flight competition.  His chip from just off of #4 green, the group's eighth hole of the day, hit the stick, curled around behind it and came to rest on the back side of the cup.  The tap in birdie left him one stroke behind Junior Byron and Mike Bird.
-Junior Byron started the day with a five stroke lead but saw it disappear when he three putted three holes (#7, #8 and #3) and then failed to make a birdie at either #2 or #4.  He still had a chance to win with a booming drive on #5, the group's last hole, and a pitch shot that left him with a four foot birdie putt.  That putt, alas, skirted the cup on the right, making the tap in par putt one that gave him a disappointing but welcome tie for the A Flight championship.
-The League's Grand Poobah Award, new this year and given to the team and individual who displayed mastery in both team and tournament play, goes to Jim and Wilma Bateman as a team and to Jim Bateman as an individual.  The two, playing together in the Thursday League for the first time, enjoyed a very special year.
-The group enjoyed a pitch in lunch after play.

Notes on Tuesday Men's League Play

Holy Cow!  Paul Hart takes the top spot on the final day of play and wins the 2010 individual championship.  Paul shot an even net par of 35, earned 58 points on the day, and slipped ahead of Bric Parker to take the trophy as the best in 2010.  Bric suffered a second straight not-so-nice round, this one a net 42, a score which earned him 4 points, enough to take second place, 11 points better than Rob Rollins in third.

In the team race, Rob Rollins and Allan Harmon carded a net 71 as a team, earned 23 points for the day and bested George Templin and Don Nolan by eight points for 1st place.    Brent Courter and Larry Sutton, with Noah Callahan subbing nicely over the last two weeks of the season, finished in third place.

Low scores for the final event of the 2010 season were turned in by Rob Sterling with a net 29, by Short Jeffers and Dave Wininger who each shot 33's for the low gross, and by the teams of Mike Albertson and Mark Jones and Terry Butcher and Rob Sterling with net 65's for low team score.  Hole prizes were claimed by Junior Byron, Warren Atkison and Charlie Lyon on the par threes, and by Tony Wease (twice) and Paul Hart on the long putts.  In the special competition, 21 golfers tried to get close to the barrel sitting at the 70 yard line in the second fairway with Trey Kidwell coming the closest with a shot that settled about 25 feet from the barrel.  In the long drive competition, 7 golfers attempted to hit it deep down #6 fairway with not a single one of them finding the narrow corridor that is the sixth fairway.  Grand Poohbah Award winners in the Tuesday Men's League were Mike Albertson and Mark Jones as a team, and Bric Parker as an individual.

Wininger, Souerdike and Wininger Win Mini-Scramble

The rains stopped Saturday morning just before nine o'clock and the Morning Scramble at Lakeview got underway.  Five golfers showed up for the event with Dave Wininger, Wayne Souerdike and Lee Wininger shooting a very nifty 29 to swamp Mike Bird and Junior Byron by four strokes.  Up by two strokes after four holes (the group started on hole #6), the winners then got hot with Wayne Souerdike plugging his approach on #1 at the one inch mark, Dave Wininger chipping to a foot at #2, and following that with a tee shot at #3 to three feet.  All resulted in birds and was followed by the more routine bird at #4 - long drive, second shot to the collar, run at the flag for an eagle and then the tap in for bird - for their fourth in a row.  A par at #5 concluded their scoring. 

All the results and the final standings for league play can be found on the internet at golflakeview.com

Coming up at Lakeview Golf Course:  One: The September Challenge, an inter league, two person, three event handicapped tournament open to all 2010 league players and substitutes.  And two, Mike Anderson's East-West Challenge pitting golfers from Lakeview against golfers from Country Oaks.  Eighteen holes will be played at Country Oaks on the morning of September 14th with the concluding eighteen holes being played at Lakeview on the 21st.