Week 16 (Final)

Great night for the last week of golf!

First, I want to thank Bob Kemp for the carts and the closest-to-the-pin prizes! As always, it was great to play at Airways! Thanks Bob!!

Let’s get the weekly stats out of the way!

Sandbagger of the Week: There’s a tie between Len Stadnicki and Marilyn Dolan. Both had a net of 28. Great round Len and Marilyn!

Byrdie Club: 3 returnees: Kevin Kearns birdied the 4th hole. Manny Russell birdied the 1st hole and Gene Patrizzi, who also birdied the 1st hole. Great shooting, gentlemen!

Eagle Club: No new members.

We had 2 closest-to-the-pins. One was on the 7th hole and the other one, on the 9th hole. The 7th hole was first posted by Gene Patrizzi (first group off) and lasted to the last group where Mark Stadnicki ball landed 31 feet 1 inch from the pin. On the 9th hole, I only seen one name on the list and that was Malcolm Powell who ended up being 16 feet 10 inches from the hole. I didn’t see any circle around their scores on those holes, hmmmm! But needless to say, great shots Mark and Malcolm. Both received a dozen golf balls and a free 9 hole round for 2 at Airways.


CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND

Congratulations to the team of Kearns / Russell for repeating as Phoenix Golf League Champions.

Kevin Kearns and Manny Russell beat the team of Meyer Frankel and Mark Stadnicki by 3 strokes to retain their title. It was one of the closest matches in a while.


Manny drives his team to victory!

With Kevin beating Meyer, this leaves a 3-way tie for Individual Golf Standings between Marilyn Dolan, Meyer Frankel, and Kevin Kearns. They all have 20.50 points.
Congratulations to the 3 of them for their outstanding play during the year. Congrats – Marilyn, Meyer, and Kevin!

Low Net of the Year: it’s a tie between Shaun Mackin and Jason Zwanch. Both shot a net of 27. Great Rounds Shaun and Jason!

SandBagger of the Year: This went to a tie breaker. We had Rob Pierce, Shaun Mackin, Dave Deyette, Bill Gallagher, and Ted Cowles, all had 2 SandBagger of the Week awards. I went to, ‘How many of these golfers were in 2nd place’. Rob Pierce just beat out Ted Cowles, 2 to 1. Rob wins the SandBagger of the Year award and like a true Sandbagger, his handicap went up this week! This is a science and Rob has it down.

The "Sandbagger of the Year" in action.

I’ll be sending out more information on the up coming events.

Thanks to Meyer ‘The Money Man’ Frankel for taking care of the money and the outing. Also, thanks to Kevin ‘Click Click’ Kearns, for his great weekly pictures and Bill ‘Scoop’ Gallagher for putting together the ‘Phoenix Golf’ blog with his great captions along with Kevin’s pictures. Thanks again.

Another year comes to an end and it was great golfing with everyone. I hope to see everyone next year! Can Kearns / Russell team, 3-peat??

Dave

Final Standings:

3) Kearns / Russell (47.5 points)
4) Frankel / Larson (47.0 points)
10) Mackin / Pierce (43.5 points)
1) Deyette / Stadnicki (43.0 points)
9) Michaud / Zwanch (40.5 points)
6) Hemphill / Waid (40.5 points)
8) Dolan / Galiszuski (39.5 points)
5) Housman / Morano (37.0 points)
7) Myers / Patrizzi (34.0 points)
2) Gallagher / Keilich (27.5 points)

Win or lose . . . we booze!

Maybe if Hermann had played with golf clubs instead of spindles from the deck railing, his team would not have gone wire-to-wire in last place.