The final day of team competition for the Thursday Match Play League 2011 season gave the #2 team a chance to go head to head against the #1 team. This year that put Pam Byron and Patty Bowling, the #1 team, up against the #2 team of Jack Butcher and Rex Hudson. The top team had to be the favorites since they enjoyed a 12 point lead in the standings and only 14 points available in the match. That turned out to be a half point too little as the Butcher/Hudson team completely dominated the action and finished the day with 12.5 points in the match and the championship trophy in their hands. Butcher and Hudson, each with net 33's, shot a four under par net round while the Byron/Bowling team stumbled to a plus 7 on the day. The third place team at the start of the day, Jack Lents and Mike Bird, also had trouble in their match with the fourth place team, falling to Ed Summers and Dane Mosby by a score of 10 to 4. That gave Summers and Mosby third place for the season with Lents and Bird falling to fourth. Dick Barber and John Chapman also moved up in the standings with a 10.5 to 3.5 match win over Mike McLaughlin and Leroy Allbright. Complete match results and final team standings can be found at golflakeview.com.
In the individual competition, Butcher also moved to the top of the standings. His gross 38 and net 33 earned him 49 points and gives him a season total of 608 points. Dick Lemmon posted a gross 40, a net 32, earned 57 points and sits in second place at 599 points. Last week's leaders, Dave Brown and Jack Lents, each shot net 36's and find themselves tied for third place with 596 points. Al Kavanaugh had the low gross of the day with an even par round of 35. Dave Strange's net 30 was the low net. Dick Barber and John Chapman combined to shoot the low team net of 65. Hole prize winners were Junior Byron with the longest putt at #8, and Mike McLaughlin and Dick Lemmon with close to the pin shots at #7 and #9 respectively. As a whole, the group average gross this week was an even 45, up just about a full stroke from last week's 44.06.
Coming up: The 36 hole individual flighted tournament starts next week with Al Kavanaugh as the #1 seed in the A Flight, Leroy Allbright #1 in B Flight, Dave Brown #1 in C Flight, Rex Hudson #1 in D Flight and Vic Wallace the #1 in E Flight.
