Mike Bird, George Templin, Ron Hettle and Kevin Byron after agreeing to share the Saturday scramble title after they played a nine hole playoff. Each team finished at five under par. Photo by Pam Byron.
After nine playoff holes in the Saturday Scramble, the teams of Ron Hettle and Kevin Byron along with Mike Bird and George Templin, called it quits and agreed to share the trophy for this week’s scramble at Lakeview. The two teams tied at two under par through the first nine holes with George Templin running in a birdie putt of thirteen feet from just off the green at #8 to get his team to two under; Ron Hettle rolled in a ten foot putt at the ninth hole to get his team to the tie. Both teams had shaky starts with Hettle and Byron finding a double bogey at the first hole, and the Bird/Templin team gathering in a bogey there as well. During the nine hole playoff, the teams traded pars and birdies with each rolling in birdie putts at the last – Byron with a nine footer after Hettle’s tee shot, and Bird with a fifteen footer from just off the green. Hettle managed a super 70 yard bump and run shot from in the woods to the side of #5 fairway that led to par save while Templin rolled in a downhill sliding putt of twelve feet at the sixth hole for birdie to continue the game. The two teams finished their 18 holes with five under par 65’s. Three other teams participated in the scramble. Junior Byron and Lee Wininger, Greg Potts and Larry Hembree, and the threesome of Jordan Divine, Jack Divine and Jackson Hembree, each finished with one under 34’s and missed the playoffs by a single stroke.
