TMPL Event 9 Recap

Patty Bowling and Pam Byron continued their dominance of league and tournament play yesterday with net rounds of 32 and 33.  Patty earned 51 points for her efforts and maintains her hold on the top position in the individual standings.  Her 359 points tops Dick Lemmon's 344 points; Jack Lents is in third place with 332 points.  Pam's net 33 kept her in the lead of the Individual Handicapped Tournament with a score of minus 16.  Her lead did narrow to a single stroke as Dick Lemmon's net 30 on the day brought him to minus 15 in the tournament.  Wayne Pearl, at minus 12, and Jack Lents at minus 11, sit in the third and fourth positions with nine holes to go in the tournament.  In team competition, Jack Lents and Mike Bird took on the leaders, Jack Butcher and Rex Hudson.  In a close match which was even through six holes, the Lents-Bird team won two of the last three holes to win the match portion of the game, 5 to 4; they also won the low net portion by two strokes, 71-73.  That gave them a 10-4 victory, one which allowed the Byron-Bowling team, a 10.5 to 3.5 winner in their match with Junior Byron and Wayne Pearl, to slip into first place in the standings with a total of 80.5 points.  Butcher and Hudson, at 77.5, are in second place while the team of Dick Barber and John Chapman, 11 to 3 victors in their match with Dane Mosby and Ed Summers, hold third place.  Low scores for Thursday's  play were turned in by Junior Byron with a 37 gross, by Mike McLaughlin and Virgil Harper with net 30's, and by the Byron-Bowling team with a 65 (-7) in team scoring.  Mike McLaughlin also claimed the close to the pin prize at #7; Junior Byron the same prize at #9.  Terry LaMar rolled in the longest putt at #8 to claim the third hole prize of the day.  Average gross score for the group ballooned to 46.13, two strokes higher than the 44.06 posted seven days earlier.