Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Tuesday Men's League Recap Event 18 and Week 1 of Flighted Tournament

The first week of the four week Individual Flighted Tournament got underway with three golfers storming to three stroke leads in their respective flights.  James Hager posted a 31 in A Flight to top Alan Burch's 34; Junior Byron's 35 in B Flight leads Jon Boyd, Josh Hawkings and Jordan Divine's 38's; and Jake Divine's 35 in C Flight tops Karry Stoll's 38.  In two of the other flights, one stroke separates the top two positions: D Flight's Bryant Trambaugh's 37 just nips Paul Hart's 38 while in E Flight Tom Trambaugh's 49 tops Tom Flynn's 50.  In the one other flight, E Flight, three golfers share the lead with 45's: Kevin Byron, Lonnie Hawkins and Virgil Harper. 

In the regular season races, Tracy Rayhill and Greg Potts shot a net 73, earned 22 points and remained on top of the team standings with a total of 626 points.  Terry LaMar and Jack Lents posted a net 70, earning them 36 points, and pulled to within two points of the top at 624 points.   With three weeks remaining in the season, fifteen teams are within 50 points of the top and very much still in contention for the championship.  The competition in the individual race for the top is just as fierce with Jordan Divine gaining the hot seat at the top this week by posting a net 34 and earning 79 points.  His season total of 1220 points gives him a 22 point lead on Dan Jones at 1198 points, and a 48 point lead on John Drake and Karry Stoll who are tied for third place at 1172 points.

Hager's 31, comprised of five birds, three pars and a single bogey, was the low gross score of the day.  Jake Divine used an even par round of 35 to net 28 for the low net score.  Bryant Trambaugh and Mike Breeden shot the low net team score with a 63.  Hole prizes were won by Jon Boyd, James Hager and Jack Lents on close to the pin shots at the par threes.  Scott Arthur, Terry LaMar and Kent Summers sank long putts for their hole prizes.  The group's average gross score of 41.66 was a quarter stroke higher than last week's 41.42.

Of note:  Alan Burch's one under round of 34 could have been a whole lot better.  He had four birds to go along with four pars and a single triple bogey at hole number 7.  Ryan Johnson's eagle at #4 was the only eagle on the day in a year where eagles have come along very sparingly.  Tuesday's evening play was delayed by 30 minutes when a storm passed through the area leaving some much needed rain.