2026 - Week 5

Airways Golf League — Week 8 Recap: June 2, 2026

The fifth official week of the season

For five weeks the Logan Jarvis show has been the only show in town. Then on Tuesday, on the back nine at Airways, the Gallaghers showed up and stole the entire production. Nine players teed it up. Seven of them met their targets. Bill Gallagher and his son John both turned in the best rounds of their season — by enormous margins — and the back nine continued its impossible trajectory of becoming more pleasant with each visit.

Also: a player hit a barn. Another player caught his own golf ball after it ricocheted off a tree. Two stories you generally do not get on the same back nine.

Bill Gallagher Posts the Round of His Life

Bill Gallagher had been bouncing around all season — 1, 4, 7, 3 in his four prior official weeks, with a steady habit of meeting smaller targets and then immediately bombing the next one out. This week he was given a target of 4 and posted 12. Eight bonus points. Forty-four strokes. A par on 11. A par on 15. And, on the final hole of the night, a birdie on 18 — only the fifth birdie of the 2026 season and the first for any player not named Logan Jarvis or (way back in Week 1) Kevin Kearns.

Bill's scoring run from hole 11 onward was beautiful: par, bogey, double, bogey, par, bogey, bogey, birdie. Five bogeys, two pars, and a birdie in eight holes. The lone hiccup was a quadruple-bogey 7 on the par-3 tenth to open — the kind of start where you accept your fate and start thinking about which beer you'll have afterward — and then he rallied for the rest of the round. Bill had been due for one of these. He picked an excellent week to deliver.

John Gallagher Posts the Round of HIS Life

If Bill's round was a story, John's was a story-and-a-half. John came in with a target of 2 — the league had wisely calibrated expectations for a player who'd posted 1, 2, 1, 5 in his official weeks. He scored 11. Nine bonus points — a season high for any player in any week.

The scorecard reads like fiction. Pars on 10, 11, 13, 15, AND 18. Five pars in one round. No other player has come within one of that figure all year — Kevin Gallagher made 4 pars in Week 3, Logan Jarvis made 4 pars in Week 6, and that's it. John didn't tie the season record for pars in a round; he set a new one. His only blemishes were a triple on 12, a double on 14, and a quad on 17 — and even those got drowned out by the pars on either side.

John finishes the night tied with Logan Jarvis atop the official-season bonus-points leaderboard at 13.

Logan Jarvis Hits Target on the Nose

In any normal week, Logan Jarvis would be the headline. He shot 43 — lowest raw score of the night by a stroke — and posted exactly 10 points on a target of 10. Right on the nose. He parred 10 to open, parred 18 to close, and collected six bogey points in between. Three consecutive weeks of double-digit Stableford totals: 14, 13, 10. He didn't earn bonus points (his first non-bonus official week since Week 5), but at this rate, calibrating his target is becoming an exercise in throwing darts.

Through five official weeks, Logan now has 15 pars and 3 birdies on the 2026 season leaderboard — comfortably the league leader in both categories. He's also tied for the official-season bonus-points lead despite Bill and John's huge nights. Logan is the league's high-water mark, and even he's now sharing the bonus lead.

The Ted Cowles Barn Incident

Ted Cowles teed off on the par-3 tenth and managed something most golfers never get the chance to do: he hit a barn. There is a barn near the tenth hole at Airways, and Ted, with his opening shot of the evening, found it. The ball did barn-things, presumably went barn-places, and Ted ended up scoring a bogey 4 — which, all things considered, is a heroic recovery from an opening shot that involved agricultural architecture.

Ted finished the night with 5 points on a target of 3, his fourth consecutive official week meeting his target. He didn't make a par but he bogey'd five holes — 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 — five consecutive bogey points to start his round after the barn ordeal. The man knows how to compose himself after hitting outbuildings.

The Joe Alvarez Caught-Ball Incident

Joe Alvarez, having returned to active play after the well-documented Rain Walk of two weeks prior, was on the par-5 sixteenth when something happened that probably will never happen again in his lifetime. He struck his second shot, the ball flew toward a tree, the ball hit the tree, and the ball came right back at him — and Joe caught it. In the air. With his hand.

Now, in golf, this is a problem. (It's a two-stroke penalty under the Rules, though one suspects it was not formally invoked in a friendly Tuesday round.) But in terms of pure athletic accomplishment? Joe caught a baseball-speed projectile coming off a tree. He should put that on his résumé. He ended up with an 8 on the hole — a triple bogey — but somewhere in the middle of it was a moment of pure reflex glory.

Joe finished the night with 2 points on a target of 4, his lone bogey points coming on holes 10 and 13.

The Other Targets Met

Kevin Kearns posted 8 points on a target of 7, picking up 1 bonus point. He parred hole 13 (the toughest par-3 to par on the course) and hole 16 (the par-5 that was once the chamber of horrors) for his second straight week with two pars. The Kearns groove continues.

Tom Wieland's quietly excellent stretch continues — 6 points on a target of 2, with four bonus points. He parred hole 11 and collected bogey points on five other holes. After starting the season with 2, 2, 0, Wieland has now posted 4, 3, 4, 6 with his target met all four times. He may not be the most flashy player in the league, but the consistency right now is real.

Dave Deyette posted 6 points on a target of 4, claiming 2 bonus points and getting back in the bonus column for the second straight week. He bogeyed six holes — a Deyette signature — including three of his final four. The Bogey Whisperer is officially whispering again.

The Back Nine's Impossible Trajectory

Back-nine appearances by the league this season: April 21 (3.1 average points, 1 target met, 5 pars). May 5 (3.5 avg, 3 met, 6 pars). May 19 (5.5 avg, 6 met, 12 pars). June 2 (7.2 avg, 7 met, 12 pars). Each visit has been better than the last. Whatever curse the back nine carried in April has been thoroughly exorcised. The 7.2-point average is more than double what the league posted in late April.

Where the Pars Came From

Twelve pars on the night across six different holes:

• Hole 11: Bill Gallagher, John Gallagher, Tom Wieland
• Hole 10: John Gallagher, Logan Jarvis
• Hole 13: John Gallagher, Kevin Kearns
• Hole 15: Bill Gallagher, John Gallagher
• Hole 18: John Gallagher, Logan Jarvis (plus Bill Gallagher's birdie)
• Hole 16: Kevin Kearns

John Gallagher: 5 pars. Bill Gallagher: 2 pars and a birdie. Logan Jarvis: 2 pars. Kevin Kearns: 2 pars. The Gallagher contingent alone (Bill, John, and brother Kevin) produced 7 pars and a birdie — more scoring than the entire field generated in the season's first back-nine visit.

Hole 18: A Star is Born

The closing par-4 has been an underrated bright spot. Its scoring average has now dropped each visit: 6.2, 6.5, 5.5, 4.9. This week it gave up two pars and a birdie — the gentlest it's ever played. Bill Gallagher's birdie on 18 was actually the second birdie the closing hole has produced this season (Logan got the first two weeks ago). Hole 18 has officially gone from "finish line you survive" to "finish line you might enjoy."

The Struggles

Kevin Gallagher had a quieter night than his brother John — 5 points on a target of 7. He bogeyed five holes but doubled or worse on the other four. After his identical-twin synergy week with Kearns last time, this time the Kevins diverged too. Joe Alvarez, beyond the famous caught-ball moment, posted 2 points on a target of 4, with the rest of his card filled with triples and doubles.

By the Numbers

Nine players, 1 birdie, 12 pars, 37 bogeys (a season high), 7 targets met. The 2026 season birdie count climbs to five — split among Kearns (1), Jarvis (3), and now Bill Gallagher (1). Logan still leads the season par chase at 15, with Kearns at 14 and Kevin Gallagher at 13.

The official-season bonus-points race is suddenly a two-man tie: Logan Jarvis 13, John Gallagher 13, with Bill Gallagher charging hard at 11 and Tom Wieland steady at 7.

Attendance Watch

Six absent this week — the most all year. The three regulars who haven't shown up at all in 2026 stay missing. Chris McKone makes it back-to-back absences after a strong early-May stretch, and Bill Oravec and Len Stadnicki both took the night off after recent runs of solid attendance (Stadnicki had played five weeks in a row before this).

The Gallaghers had themselves a night. Ted hit a barn. Joe caught a ball. The back nine got friendlier still. And Logan Jarvis hit his target right on the nose.

On to Week 9.

SEASON STANDINGS (through Jun 2, 2026)

#    Golfer              Rounds    Avg Pts    Pts 
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1    Logan Jarvis          5         10.8      13 
2    John Gallagher        5         4.0       13 
3    Bill Gallagher        5         5.4       11 
4    Tom Wieland           5         3.0       7  
5    Kevin Kearns          5         7.6       5  
6    Ted Cowles            4         4.3       4  
7    Dave Deyette          4         4.0       3  
8    Len Stadnicki         4         2.5       2  
9    Kevin Gallagher       5         5.6       1  
10   Chris McKone          2         5.5       1  
11   Joe Alvarez           3         2.3       0  
12   Bill Oravec           2         2.5       0  
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Airways Golf — Weekly Stableford Report
Date: Jun 2, 2026

Golfer                Score     Target    Net Pts
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John Gallagher        11        2         +9      
Bill Gallagher        12        4         +8      
Tom Wieland           6         2         +4      
Dave Deyette          6         4         +2      
Ted Cowles            5         3         +2      
Kevin Kearns          8         7         +1      
Logan Jarvis          10        10        0       
Kevin Gallagher       5         7         0       
Joe Alvarez           2         4         0       
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UPDATED TARGETS (after this week)

Golfer                New Target  
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Bill Gallagher        5           
Bill Oravec           3           
Chris McKone          5           
Dave Deyette          5           
Dave Zogbaum          4           
Hermann Keilich       4           
Joe Alvarez           4           
John Gallagher        4           
Kevin Gallagher       6           
Kevin Kearns          8           
Len Stadnicki         2           
Logan Jarvis          11          
Ted Cowles            4           
Tom Confrey           12          
Tom Wieland           3           
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SEASON LEADERS — EAGLES (since Apr 13, 2026, through Jun 2, 2026)

  (none)

SEASON LEADERS — BIRDIES (since Apr 13, 2026, through Jun 2, 2026)

Golfer                Count     
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Logan Jarvis          3         
Bill Gallagher        1         
Kevin Kearns          1         
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SEASON LEADERS — PARS (since Apr 13, 2026, through Jun 2, 2026)

Golfer                Count     
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Logan Jarvis          15        
Kevin Kearns          14        
Kevin Gallagher       13        
John Gallagher        6         
Bill Gallagher        5         
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2026 - Week 4

Airways Golf League — Week 7 Recap: May 26, 2026

The fourth official week of the season

Two weeks ago, Logan Jarvis turned in the round of the official season — a 40 on the back nine with a birdie on 18. The thinking was: that's a peak. That's a once-a-season round. That's the kind of thing a player puts in a frame.

Then Tuesday happened. Eleven players took the field on the front nine, and Logan Jarvis decided to do it again.

Logan Jarvis: Back-to-Back Monsters

Jarvis shot 42 on the front nine — six over par — with a birdie on hole 5 (a 3 on a par 4) and pars on holes 1 and 9. He posted 13 Stableford points on a target of 8, picking up 5 bonus points. Two weeks ago: 14 points, 7 bonus, 40 strokes. This week: 13 points, 5 bonus, 42 strokes. Two consecutive weeks where the man broke the league.

His birdie on hole 5 deserves its own mention. The last front-nine birdie this league produced was Kevin Kearns's hole-9 conversion all the way back in Week 1 — six weeks ago, in the season's preseason opener. Since then, the front nine had been played three times by ten-plus golfers and produced zero birdies. Logan Jarvis ended that drought in roughly forty minutes of work.

Through four official weeks, Logan leads the league in bonus points with 13. The next closest are John Gallagher and Kevin Kearns at 4. Logan has more than three times the bonus points of anyone else in the league — through four rounds.

John Gallagher's Vindication Round

John Gallagher entered Tuesday having met his target just once in three official weeks — and only because that target had been lowered to 2. He came in with a target of 1.

He scored 5. Five bogeys (holes 2, 5, 7, 8, 9), a 50-stroke round (his lowest of the official season), and four bonus points. He's now tied for second on the official-season bonus-points list. After three weeks of single-digit struggles, John Gallagher finally got the round he'd been chasing.

The Two Kevins (Identical Twins on the Scorecard)

For the second time in three weeks, Kevin Gallagher and Kevin Kearns finished with identical Stableford totals — this time, 7 points apiece. Both met their targets (Kearns on the nose at 7, Gallagher one over at 6 + 1 bonus). They also tied for most pars on the day with two apiece — Kevin G. parred 5 and 7; Kevin K. parred 6 and 8. The Kevin synergy in this league continues to be uncanny.

The all-time par leaderboard is one of the tightest races in the league: Kevin Gallagher 13, Logan Jarvis 13, Kevin Kearns 12. Three players within a single par across seven weeks.

Dave Deyette Returns from a Back-Nine Slump

After two consecutive back-nine appearances yielded just 3 and 2 points (and zero bonus points), Dave Deyette got back to the front nine and got back to what works: bogey points. He posted 5 points on a target of 4 (one bonus) with bogey points on holes 1, 5, 7, 8, and 9. The man bogeyed his last three holes in a row to claim his first bonus point of the official season.

The Staircase Holds

Ted Cowles posted 4 points on a target of 3 — one bonus point, and his second straight bonus-point round. His official-season scoring line now reads: 4, off, 4, 4. He parred hole 1 to open his round, then immediately followed it with two of the worst holes on the night (a 7 on the par-4 second and an 8 on the par-4 third). But he picked up bogey points on 5 and 7 to make up for it. Ted has met his target in all three official rounds he's played.

Eight Targets Met

Eight of the eleven players who teed it up hit their targets — a clear season high. The previous best was six, set just one week ago. The front nine, which had been the league's death zone for much of the spring, turned out to be relatively manageable on Tuesday, with an average of 4.6 points scored per player. Beyond Logan, Kevin G., Kevin K., Deyette, Cowles, and John G., Len Stadnicki met his target of 3 right on the nose, and Tom Wieland did the same at 2. Only Bill Gallagher (3 on a 4), Joe Alvarez (1 on a 4), and Bill Oravec (1 on a 5) fell short.

Hole 5: From Trouble Hole to Birdie Hole

Hole 5 (par 4) deserves a quick mention. Logan's birdie there was the first the hole has surrendered all year. Kevin Gallagher also parred it, and seven other players bogeyed it for points. Out of eleven players, nine earned at least one point on hole 5.

Hole 3: The Tyrant Returns

Just when the field thought hole 3 might be softening — its previous front-nine visit had it playing to a 6.4 average with two bogeys, the gentlest it had been all year — the par 4 came roaring back. Tuesday's hole 3 averaged 7.2, with six players posting 8s (Cowles, Deyette, Bill G., Oravec, Stadnicki, and Kevin G.) and zero bogeys recorded. Across every front-nine visit this year, hole 3 has yielded exactly zero pars. It's the only hole on the course that hasn't surrendered at least one par yet — and it doesn't appear interested in starting now.

Hole 4 (par 5) wasn't far behind — five players made 8 or 9. Only Logan Jarvis (bogey 6) escaped without a triple or worse.

Where the Pars Came From

Eight pars on the night across six different holes:

• Hole 1: Ted Cowles, Logan Jarvis
• Hole 9: Logan Jarvis, Len Stadnicki
• Hole 5: Kevin Gallagher
• Hole 6: Kevin Kearns
• Hole 7: Kevin Gallagher
• Hole 8: Kevin Kearns

The Struggles

Joe Alvarez returned (and actually finished this time — credit where credit's due, given the rain ordeal of two weeks ago) but had a rough outing — 1 point on a target of 4, with seven holes of triples or worse and a single bogey on hole 5 his only payoff. Bill Oravec, in just his second official appearance of the season, posted 1 point on a target of 5, with a bogey on the par-4 sixth his only success. Bill Gallagher came up one short of his target of 4, after stringing together back-to-back target-met official weeks. Three doubles and two 8s on holes 3 and 4 made the round more difficult than it had to be.

By the Numbers

Eleven players, 1 birdie, 8 pars, 31 bogeys. Eight players met their targets — a season high. The season birdie count climbs to four, three of which now belong to Logan Jarvis.

Attendance Watch

Four players missed the night: Tom Confrey, Hermann Keilich, and Dave Zogbaum (still 0-for-4 in official weeks) plus Chris McKone, whose hot streak (5 points in each of his two prior official appearances) goes on pause. Chris will probably be back next week, presumably wondering why he picked this particular Tuesday to skip.

The front nine softened a little. The field showed up in force. Logan Jarvis turned in another round that probably doesn't make sense statistically. And John Gallagher finally got the breakthrough we've all been quietly rooting for.

On to Week 8.

SEASON STANDINGS (through May 26, 2026)

#    Golfer              Rounds    Avg Pts   Pts 
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1    Logan Jarvis          4         11.0     13 
2    Kevin Kearns          4         7.5       4 
3    John Gallagher        4         2.3       4 
4    Bill Gallagher        4         3.8       3 
5    Tom Wieland           4         2.3       3 
6    Ted Cowles            3         4.0       2 
7    Len Stadnicki         4         2.5       2 
8    Kevin Gallagher       4         5.8       1 
9    Chris McKone          2         5.5       1 
10   Dave Deyette          3         3.3       1 
11   Joe Alvarez           2         2.5       0 
12   Bill Oravec           2         2.5       0 
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Airways Golf — Weekly Stableford Report
Date: May 26, 2026

Golfer                Score     Target    Net Pts 
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Logan Jarvis          13        8         +5      
John Gallagher        5         1         +4      
Kevin Gallagher       7         6         +1      
Dave Deyette          5         4         +1      
Ted Cowles            4         3         +1      
Kevin Kearns          7         7         0       
Bill Gallagher        3         4         0       
Len Stadnicki         3         3         0       
Tom Wieland           2         2         0       
Joe Alvarez           1         4         0       
Bill Oravec           1         5         0       
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UPDATED TARGETS (after this week)

Golfer                New Target  
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Bill Gallagher        4           
Bill Oravec           3           
Chris McKone          5           
Dave Deyette          4           
Dave Zogbaum          4           
Hermann Keilich       4           
Joe Alvarez           4           
John Gallagher        2           
Kevin Gallagher       7           
Kevin Kearns          7           
Len Stadnicki         2           
Logan Jarvis          10          
Ted Cowles            3           
Tom Confrey           12          
Tom Wieland           2           
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SEASON LEADERS — EAGLES (since Apr 13, 2026, through May 26, 2026)

  (none)

SEASON LEADERS — BIRDIES (since Apr 13, 2026, through May 26, 2026)

Golfer                Count    

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Logan Jarvis          3         
Kevin Kearns          1         
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SEASON LEADERS — PARS (since Apr 13, 2026, through May 26, 2026)

Golfer                Count     
--------------------------------
Kevin Gallagher       13        
Logan Jarvis          13        
Kevin Kearns          12        
Ted Cowles            4         
Chris McKone          4         
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2026 - Week 3

Airways Golf League — Week 6 Recap: May 19, 2026

The third official week of the season

Tuesday at Airways was supposed to be the third official week of the season. It ended up being something more than that: the night Logan Jarvis finally remembered he was a golfer.

Ten players took the field, sort of. Joe Alvarez technically showed up, played the par-3 tenth, started the eleventh, took one look at some rain clouds, and walked back to the clubhouse. He didn't leave — he hung around, dry and presumably comfortable, and eventually rejoined his group at hole 16 to ride along for the rest of the round without actually playing. The league recorded him as not played, because completing one hole and abandoning ship on the second is not, technically speaking, a round. The other nine players got rained on too. They also finished. Joe will get his own paragraph below; he earned it.

But first: Logan.

Logan Jarvis Posts the Round of the Season

Through five weeks, Logan Jarvis had been the league's most patient sufferer. The smooth swings and low raw scores were always there — 44, 50, 48, 47, 49 — and the targets, until recently, were always slightly too high. He had been collecting "missed target by one" finishes like trading cards.

This week, the dam broke.

Jarvis shot 40 — five over par on the back nine. He birdied hole 18 (3 on a par 4), parred 12, 15, 16, and 17, and added bogey points on 10 and 11. His scoring run from hole 12 onward: par, double, double, par, par, par, birdie. Four pars and a birdie in his last five holes — including a par on the par-5 sixteenth that had been the back nine's chamber of horrors. The doubles on 13 and 14 kept the round from being something truly absurd, but even with them, 40 strokes is the lowest raw score posted by anyone all season.

Final tally: 14 Stableford points on a target of 7. Seven bonus points — more than anyone has scored in a single week this season. He laps the field by three Stableford points. The birdie on 18 was the third of the entire season, and Jarvis's second.

Kevin Kearns Has Himself a Night Too

In any other week, Kearns would be the headliner. He shot 43, posted 11 Stableford points on a target of 7, and collected 4 bonus points. He parred holes 11, 14, and 15, and added five bogey points (holes 10, 12, 13, 17, and 18) for good measure. Three pars in a single round is something Kearns hadn't done yet this year. After three weeks in the wilderness (5, 4, 8 points), he's now strung together back-to-back target-met performances of 8 and 11. The Kearns from Week 1 is officially back.

Bill Gallagher Bounces All the Way Back

If you're charting Bill Gallagher's season, it looks like a roller-coaster designer drew it: 7, 6, 3, 1, 4, 7. After bottoming out at one point on May 5th, he's now strung together 4 and 7. This week was his best performance since Week 1: 7 points on a target of 4, three bonus points, and a par on hole 13 — historically one of the hardest par-3s to par all season. He bogeyed five holes (11, 12, 14, 15, 17) along the way. Bill Gallagher does not panic. Bill Gallagher just keeps showing up.

The Hole 11 Party

The par-5 eleventh gave up three pars in a single round — Kevin Gallagher, Kevin Kearns, and Chris McKone all walked off with 5s. Combined with Logan Jarvis's birdie on it back in Week 4, hole 11 has officially become the most welcoming par-5 on the course.

Kevin Gallagher's par was particularly elegant — he opened his round with a par on the par-3 tenth and followed it with a par on 11. Two pars to open. Then the course remembered who it was, and a 6 on 12 broke the streak.

Chris McKone Hits the Target Right on the Nose

McKone posted exactly 5 points on a target of 5 — his second consecutive week meeting his target after going 3, 5, 5 to start the season. His par on 11 was a highlight. An 8 on hole 12 and an 8 on hole 16 were less so. McKone is quietly putting together a consistent run.

The Other Targets Met

Ted Cowles continued his beautiful staircase — 0, 2, 3, 4, off last week, and now 4 again — with one bonus point. He parred hole 13 (the toughest par-3 to par on the course) for the second straight back-nine appearance. His sentence is "Ted parred a par-3" and the league still cannot quite believe it.

Tom Wieland posted 4 points on a target of 2 for two bonus points — his best week of the year and back-to-back target performances after going 2, 2, 0 to start. The Wieland of woe is having a moment.

The Joe Alvarez Situation

Joe Alvarez teed off on the par-3 tenth, posted a score, walked to the eleventh tee, started his second hole of the evening, noticed the weather had taken a turn from "fine" to "drizzly," and decided that was quite enough golf for one Tuesday. He walked back to the clubhouse, where he then waited around for several hours, eventually rejoining his playing partners at hole 16 — as a spectator. One hole completed. One round abandoned. One curious decision to return as a passenger.

To Joe's credit, it was raining. To everyone else's credit, they were also out there in the same rain, and they finished. The other nine players posted full nine-hole scorecards. Joe posted hole 10 and then half of hole 11 before retreating to the dry comfort of indoors. The league's official scoring system does not have a column for "left at the first sign of moisture and came back to walk the last three holes for company," but if it did, that's where Joe's name would be filed.

It is one thing to skip a round entirely. That's a choice we respect — many players have done it this season. It is another thing to show up, play one hole, abandon the second, and then come back later to be social. The league has notes. The league has questions. The league has reservations.

We will leave it at this: Joe, the rest of us got rained on too. We finished.

The Struggles

Len Stadnicki posted 1 point on a target of 3 — a bogey on 11 was his only point. After 2, 5, and now 1 across his three appearances, his scoring line reads like a heartbeat monitor. Dave Deyette had another rough back-nine outing, posting 2 points on a target of 4 — the second time the back nine has handed him a low number, after his 1-point Week 2. The season's bonus-points leader has now gone two appearances without one. John Gallagher rounded out the bottom with 1 point on a target of 2.

The Back Nine Has Found Its Heart

Three back-nine appearances this season, and the trajectory is unmistakable. Week 2: 5 pars, 0 birdies, 1 target met, average 3.1 points. Week 4: 6 pars, 1 birdie, 3 targets met, average 3.5 points. Week 6: 12 pars, 1 birdie, 6 targets met, average 5.5 points. The course either softened or the field finally figured it out. Either way, the back nine is no longer the haunted house it was in April.

Where the Pars Came From

Twelve pars on the night — a season high — distributed across eight different holes:

• Hole 11: Kevin Gallagher, Kevin Kearns, Chris McKone
• Hole 13: Ted Cowles, Bill Gallagher
• Hole 15: Logan Jarvis, Kevin Kearns
• Hole 10: Kevin Gallagher
• Hole 12: Logan Jarvis
• Hole 14: Kevin Kearns
• Hole 16: Logan Jarvis
• Hole 17: Logan Jarvis

Logan Jarvis led with four pars (plus a birdie). Kevin Kearns had three pars. Kevin Gallagher had two.

Through six weeks, the season par leaderboard now reads: Kevin Gallagher 11, Logan Jarvis 11, Kevin Kearns 10, then a sizable drop to Chris McKone at 4.

By the Numbers

Ten players showed up, nine actually finished, and the field collectively produced 1 birdie, 12 pars, and 27 bogeys. Six players met their targets — a season high. The season birdie count is now 3 (Kearns Week 1, Jarvis Week 4, Jarvis Week 6). Logan Jarvis is the new league birdie leader.

Four players missed the night entirely: Tom Confrey, Hermann Keilich, and Dave Zogbaum (none of whom have appeared this year) plus Bill Oravec, who hasn't been seen since Week 4 — the first official week of the season. Joe Alvarez gets his own category: present, briefly, then resting, then chaperoning.

The course softened. The field responded. The birdie tally finally clicked over. And Logan Jarvis turned in a round people will be talking about for the rest of the summer.

On to Week 7. With any luck, no precipitation.

SEASON STANDINGS (through May 19, 2026)

                                             TOT
#    Golfer              Rounds    Avg Pts   Pts
-------------------------------------------------
1    Logan Jarvis          3         10.3      8  
2    Kevin Kearns          3         7.7       4 
3    Bill Gallagher        3         4.0       3 
4    Tom Wieland           3         2.3       3 
5    Len Stadnicki         3         2.3       2 
6    Chris McKone          2         5.5       1 
7    Ted Cowles            2         4.0       1 
8    Kevin Gallagher       3         5.3       0 
9    Dave Deyette          2         2.5       0 
10   Joe Alvarez           1         4.0       0 
11   John Gallagher        3         1.3       0 
12   Bill Oravec           1         4.0       0 
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Airways Golf — Weekly Stableford Report
Date: May 19, 2026

Golfer                Score     Target    Net Pts
-------------------------------------------------
Logan Jarvis          14        7         +7     
Kevin Kearns          11        7         +4     
Bill Gallagher        7         4         +3     
Tom Wieland           4         2         +2     
Ted Cowles            4         3         +1     
Kevin Gallagher       6         7         0     
Chris McKone          5         5         0     
Dave Deyette          2         4         0     
John Gallagher        1         2         0     
Len Stadnicki         1         3         0      
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UPDATED TARGETS (after this week)

Golfer                New Target  
----------------------------------
Bill Gallagher        4           
Bill Oravec           5           
Chris McKone          5           
Dave Deyette          4           
Dave Zogbaum          4           
Hermann Keilich       4           
Joe Alvarez           4           
John Gallagher        1           
Kevin Gallagher       6           
Kevin Kearns          7           
Len Stadnicki         3           
Logan Jarvis          8           
Ted Cowles            3           
Tom Confrey           12         
Tom Wieland           2           
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SEASON LEADERS — EAGLES (since Apr 13, 2026, through May 19, 2026)

  (none)

SEASON LEADERS — BIRDIES (since Apr 13, 2026, through May 19, 2026)

Golfer                Count     
--------------------------------
Logan Jarvis          2         
Kevin Kearns          1         
--------------------------------

SEASON LEADERS — PARS (since Apr 13, 2026, through May 19, 2026)

Golfer                Count     
--------------------------------
Kevin Gallagher       11        
Logan Jarvis          11        
Kevin Kearns          10        
Chris McKone          4         
Ted Cowles            3         
Dave Deyette          3         
Bill Gallagher        3         
--------------------------------

2026 - Week 2

Airways Golf League — Week 5 Recap: May 12, 2026

The second official week of the season

If Week 4 was the back nine showing a little mercy, Week 5 was the front nine following suit. Eight golfers teed it up on Tuesday — the smallest field of the year — and they collectively did what no front-nine field had managed all season: they made the course look beatable.

Five of the eight players met their targets. That's the highest target-met rate of any week so far, by a wide margin. The front nine yielded seven pars (one more than the last visit), and hole 1 — which has tormented this league all year — gave up three pars in a single round. Still no birdies, but progress comes in many forms.

Kevin Kearns Hits the Bullseye

After three consecutive weeks of falling well short of high targets — 7 on 11, 5 on 9, 4 on 8 — Kevin Kearns came home with the round he'd been threatening to deliver: 8 points on a target of 8. Right on the nose. He shot 46, parred hole 1 to start, parred hole 7 in the middle, and collected bogey points on five other holes. No bonus points, but his first target met since Week 1 — and his clean exact-target performance won him the night.

Logan Jarvis: One Off Again

Logan Jarvis is now collecting "missed target by one" achievements like merit badges. After ten points to win last week, he posted seven this week on a target of eight — and would have hit it cleanly if hole 4 hadn't bitten him with a 9. He parred holes 5 and 7, picked up bogey points on holes 1, 2, and 9, and turned in another 49. Through five weeks, Jarvis has now missed his target by one stroke three times. Somewhere there's a single missing point with his name on it.

Len Stadnicki's Triumphant Return

Len Stadnicki — who had played exactly one of the previous four weeks — showed up with a target of just 3 and proceeded to post 5 points and 2 bonus points. He bogeyed holes 4, 6, 7, 8, and 9. Five bogey points in a row to close out the round. After a forgettable Week 2 cameo (2 points), this was the comeback Stadnicki needed. The lesson, as always: lower expectations are easier to exceed.

Joe Alvarez Returns from the Wilderness

Joe Alvarez hadn't been seen since Week 1. Four weeks of mystery, four weeks of speculation, four weeks of milk-carton jokes. He returned Tuesday and announced his presence by parring hole 1 — the same hole that had handed him a quadruple bogey 8 in his Week 1 appearance. He followed it with a bogey on 2, a bogey on 7, and a stack of doubles and triples elsewhere. Four points on a target of five — missed by one, but considering he opened with a par after a month off, we'll grade on a curve.

Bill Gallagher, John Gallagher, and Tom Wieland: All on Target

Three more players cleared their targets, helped along by some rationally-set numbers. Bill Gallagher posted 4 points on a target of 4 — four bogeys (holes 3, 5, 7, and 8), one point each, target met exactly. The man who started the season meeting his target twice in a row and then went three points and one point in successive weeks has officially stopped the bleeding.

John Gallagher hit his target of 2 with exactly 2 points (bogeys on 1 and 9). Tom Wieland posted 3 points on a target of 2 — two bogeys plus a bonus — for his first target met of the season after three weeks of single-digit struggles.

The Hole 1 Revival

Hole 1 has been one of the hardest holes on the course all season. Average score in Week 1: 6.4. Week 3: 5.9. Zero pars in either of those visits combined among the first nine attempts (Logan Jarvis parred it in Week 1 — the only one). This week: average 4.9, with three pars (Joe Alvarez, Kevin Gallagher, and Kevin Kearns). The hole is now solidly the easiest opener of the year. Whether that's because conditions softened or the field finally figured it out, we'll find out next time.

The Hole 3 Watch

Hole 3 — the unanimous tyrant of the course — gave up two bogeys this week (Bill Gallagher and Kevin Gallagher, both with 5s). That's the same number of bogeys it surrendered in the previous two front-nine weeks combined. The hole 3 average this week was 6.4, the lowest it's been all season. It's still the toughest hole on the course (no pars yet, ever), but Tuesday saw the smallest dose of carnage to date. No 8s. No 9s. Almost manageable.

Where the Pars Came From

Seven pars, spread across four holes:

• Hole 1: Joe Alvarez, Kevin Gallagher, Kevin Kearns
• Hole 5: Logan Jarvis
• Hole 6: Kevin Gallagher
• Hole 7: Logan Jarvis, Kevin Kearns

Kevin Gallagher (2 pars), Logan Jarvis (2), and Kevin Kearns (2) led the way. Through five weeks, Kevin G. now has 9 pars on the season — still leading the league, with Kearns at 7 and Jarvis at 5.

Kevin Gallagher's Quieter Week

Speaking of Kevin G. — after his four-pars-in-a-row legend last visit, he posted 6 points on a target of 8 this week. Two more pars (holes 1 and 6), a couple of bogeys, but a 7 on hole 2 and a 7 on hole 4 took the air out of the round. Still a solid 49 strokes, but the magic from two weeks ago stayed home.

The Birdie Drought Continues

Five weeks. Three hundred and forty-three holes played. Two birdies total. The league's birdie count remains a stubborn 2: Kevin Kearns on hole 9 in Week 1, Logan Jarvis on hole 11 last week. Hole 9, which yielded the only birdie of the season's opening week, surrendered zero pars and zero birdies this time around — just four bogeys and a bunch of doubles.

By the Numbers

8 players, 0 birdies, 7 pars, 25 bogeys. Five players met their targets (Kearns, Stadnicki, Bill Gallagher, John Gallagher, Wieland), three fell short — but all three of those (Jarvis, Alvarez, Kevin Gallagher) missed by just one or two points. The closest thing to a disappointing round was John Gallagher's bare-minimum 2 points, and even that hit the target.

Attendance Watch

Seven absent this week — the most all season. The usual long-term missing (Tom Confrey, Hermann Keilich, Dave Zogbaum) still haven't surfaced. Joining them this week: Ted Cowles (who had been on his beautiful staircase of improvement), Dave Deyette (the bonus-point leader!), Chris McKone, and Bill Oravec. The good news: Joe Alvarez and Len Stadnicki both returned. The bad news: four reliable regulars sat out.

If you're keeping track at home, that's six different players who have missed Week 5 specifically and three who haven't appeared at all this season. The league is starting to resemble a small reunion where you keep wondering who else is going to walk through the door.

On to Week 6.

SEASON STANDINGS (through May 12, 2026)

                                             TOT
#    Golfer              Rounds    Avg Pts   Pts 
-------------------------------------------------
1    Len Stadnicki         2         3.0       2 
2    Logan Jarvis          2         8.5       1 
3    Chris McKone          1         6.0       1 
4    Tom Wieland           2         1.5       1 
5    Kevin Kearns          2         6.0       0 
6    Kevin Gallagher       2         5.0       0 
7    Bill Gallagher        2         2.5       0 
8    Joe Alvarez           1         4.0       0 
9    Ted Cowles            1         4.0       0 
10   Bill Oravec           1         4.0       0 
11   Dave Deyette          1         3.0       0 
12   John Gallagher        2         1.5       0 
-------------------------------------------------

Airways Golf — Weekly Stableford Report
Date: May 12, 2026

Golfer                Score     Target    Net Pts
-------------------------------------------------
Len Stadnicki         5         3         +2     
Tom Wieland           3         2         +1     
Kevin Kearns          8         8         0      
Logan Jarvis          7         8         0      
Kevin Gallagher       6         8         0      
Joe Alvarez           4         5         0      
Bill Gallagher        4         4         0      
John Gallagher        2         2         0      
-------------------------------------------------

UPDATED TARGETS (after this week)

Golfer                New Target  
----------------------------------
Bill Gallagher        4           
Bill Oravec           5           
Chris McKone          5           
Dave Deyette          4           
Dave Zogbaum          4           
Hermann Keilich       4           
Joe Alvarez           4           
John Gallagher        2           
Kevin Gallagher       7           
Kevin Kearns          7           
Len Stadnicki         3           
Logan Jarvis          7           
Ted Cowles            3           
Tom Confrey           12          
Tom Wieland           2           
----------------------------------

SEASON LEADERS — EAGLES

  (none)

SEASON LEADERS — BIRDIES

Golfer                Count     
--------------------------------
Logan Jarvis          1         
Kevin Kearns          1         
--------------------------------

SEASON LEADERS — PARS

Golfer                Count     
--------------------------------
Kevin Gallagher       9         
Logan Jarvis          7         
Kevin Kearns          7         
Dave Deyette          3         
Chris McKone          3         
--------------------------------

2026 - Week 1

Airways Golf League — Week 4 Recap: May 5, 2026

The first official week of the season

After three weeks of preseason warm-ups, the season officially counts now. And on the same back nine that posted the league's most dismal numbers of the year just two weeks ago, eleven golfers showed up — including Len Stadnicki, who emerged from his three-week sabbatical — and turned in the best back-nine performance of the year. Six pars, one birdie, three target-beaters, and Logan Jarvis finally getting one in the win column.

The Headline: Logan Jarvis Wins the Night

Through three weeks Logan Jarvis had played the best ball-striking golf of anyone in the league — three rounds in the 44–50 range — and gotten almost nothing to show for it on the Stableford ledger. High target, brutal courses, no payoff. This week, with his target lowered to 9, Jarvis finally cashed in.

He started rough — a quadruple-bogey 7 on the par-3 tenth, the kind of opening hole that makes you check the parking lot to see if your car is still there. Then he stepped to the par-5 eleventh and made a 4. Birdie. Only the second birdie of the entire season, and the first by anyone other than Kevin Kearns. He followed that up with a par on 12, parred 16 as well, and added bogey points on 14 and 15.

Final tally: 10 points, target met, one bonus point, and a 47 — the lowest raw score of the night. After three weeks of looking like a man cursed by the golf gods, Jarvis finally got his round.

Chris McKone Joins the Target Club

Through three weeks Chris McKone had been the league's most consistent near-misser — 3, 5, and 5 on targets of 6, 6, and 6. This week, with his target trimmed to 5, he posted 6 points and picked up his first bonus point of the season. He parred both par 5s on the back (holes 11 and 16), added bogey points on 13 and 17, and finally got his name on the right side of the target column.

Ted Cowles Completes the Climb

If you like a comeback story, here you go. Ted Cowles's first four weeks: zero points, two points, three points, four points. A perfect staircase. This week he met his target of 4 right on the nose — and he did it by parring the two toughest par-3s on the course, hole 10 and hole 13. From "is Ted okay?" in Week 1 to "Ted just parred two par-3s in the same round" in Week 4. Welcome back.

The Birdie

Logan Jarvis's birdie on the par-5 eleventh is only the second birdie recorded all season, joining Kevin Kearns's birdie on hole 9 from Week 1. The league has now played 270 holes of golf and produced exactly two birdies. Park the celebration carts.

Hole 16: Redemption Arc

Two weeks ago, hole 16 was the villain of the back nine — a 7.5 stroke average with two 9s and not a par in sight. This week, the same hole gave up two pars (Logan Jarvis and Chris McKone), three bogeys, and played to a more humane 6.7. Still tough — Ted Cowles and Bill Gallagher each posted 9s — but a meaningful improvement.

Where the Pars Came From

Six pars on the night, distributed across five different holes. Logan Jarvis had three of them (12, 16, plus the birdie on 11), Chris McKone had two (11 and 16), and Ted Cowles had two (10 and 13). Hole 16 was the only hole to surrender multiple pars in the same round.

The Struggles

Tom Wieland posted the only zero of the night, on a target of 3. Ten holes worth of doubles, triples, and quads — not a single point gained. Bill Gallagher (1 point on a target of 6), John Gallagher (1 on a 4), and Len Stadnicki (1 on a 4) joined him in the single-digit basement. Stadnicki's return after missing two weeks was not exactly triumphant — his lone point came from a bogey on 11.

Bill Gallagher's quiet collapse continues. After meeting his target in Weeks 1 and 2, he's now posted 3 points and 1 point in successive weeks. The man who looked like a model of consistency three weeks ago is suddenly the man trying to find his swing.

The Kevins

Kevin Gallagher and Kevin Kearns both finished with 4 points on identical targets of 8 — and identical 50s on the scorecard. Kevin G. did most of his damage on the par-3s (bogey points on 10, 13, and 15) plus a bogey on 16. Kearns picked up four bogey points in the late stretch (13, 16, 17, 18). Both fell well short of their targets and will be hoping for kinder courses ahead.

The Hardest Hole of the Night

Hole 14 (par 4) gave up just two bogey points (Logan Jarvis and Bill Gallagher) and otherwise produced doubles or worse from everyone else, including 8s from Cowles, Oravec, and Wieland. Honorable mention to hole 12, which yielded only Logan Jarvis's par and otherwise served up a steady diet of 7s and 8s.

By the Numbers

11 players, 1 birdie, 6 pars, 22 bogeys. Three players met their targets (Jarvis, McKone, Cowles), eight fell short. Average score: 3.5 points. The season's birdie count climbs from one to two. Progress.

Attendance Watch

Four players remain absent: Tom Confrey, Hermann Keilich, and Dave Zogbaum still haven't been seen all year, and Joe Alvarez hasn't played since Week 1. Len Stadnicki broke his streak of absences with a return appearance, so consider that a partial victory.

On to Week 5, with the front nine — and hole 3 — waiting.

SEASON STANDINGS (through May 5, 2026)

                                             TOT
#    Golfer              Rounds    Avg Pts   Pts  

-------------------------------------------------
1    Logan Jarvis          1         10.0      1 
2    Chris McKone          1         6.0       1 
3    Ted Cowles            1         4.0       0 
4    Kevin Gallagher       1         4.0       0 
5    Kevin Kearns          1         4.0       0 
6    Bill Oravec           1         4.0       0 
7    Dave Deyette          1         3.0       0 
8    Bill Gallagher        1         1.0       0 
9    John Gallagher        1         1.0       0 
10   Len Stadnicki         1         1.0       0 
11   Tom Wieland           1         0.0       0 
-------------------------------------------------

Airways Golf — Weekly Stableford Report
Date: May 5, 2026

Golfer                Score     Target    Net Pts
-------------------------------------------------
Logan Jarvis          10        9         +1     
Chris McKone          6         5         +1     
Ted Cowles            4         4         0      
Kevin Gallagher       4         8         0      
Kevin Kearns          4         8         0      
Bill Oravec           4         5         0      
Dave Deyette          3         4         0      
Bill Gallagher        1         6         0      
John Gallagher        1         4         0      
Len Stadnicki         1         4         0      
Tom Wieland           0         3         0       
--------------------------------------------------

UPDATED TARGETS (after this week)

Golfer                New Target  
----------------------------------
Bill Gallagher        4           
Bill Oravec           5           
Chris McKone          5           
Dave Deyette          4           
Dave Zogbaum          4           
Hermann Keilich       4           
Joe Alvarez           5           
John Gallagher        2           
Kevin Gallagher       8           
Kevin Kearns          8           
Len Stadnicki         3           
Logan Jarvis          8           
Ted Cowles            3           
Tom Confrey           12          
Tom Wieland           2           
----------------------------------

SEASON LEADERS — EAGLES

  (none)

SEASON LEADERS — BIRDIES

Golfer                Count     
--------------------------------
Logan Jarvis          1         
Kevin Kearns          1         
--------------------------------

SEASON LEADERS — PARS

Golfer                Count     
--------------------------------
Kevin Gallagher       7         
Logan Jarvis          5         
Kevin Kearns          5         
Dave Deyette          3         
Chris McKone          3         
--------------------------------

2026 - Pre-Season Fun Week #3 - Dr. Seuss Version

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A Stableford Story at Airways — Part the Third

by Dr. Seuss (who is beginning to wonder if these golfers need a different hobby)

One birdie this season. Just one. Only one. Kevin Kearns, hole nine, Week One — and since then? NONE.

A hundred and seventy-one holes have been played. One birdie came out. The rest? ALL dismayed.

The birdie is lonely. It sits on its shelf. It's starting to wonder if it MADE itself.

But ten golfers showed up on this Tuesday in spring, and though birdies stayed hidden, there WAS a big thing...

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Now Kevin — GALLAGHER — started out BAD. Bogey, then double, then bogey. How sad!

Another bogey on four, then a TRIPLE on five! Through five holes of golf he was barely alive.

The voice in his head said, "Go home. Pack it in. This round is a DUMPSTER. You cannot possibly win."

But Kevin said NO. Or perhaps Kevin said NOTHING. He just stepped to hole six and did something... SOMETHING.

He parred it. A four. Clean and simple and true. Then he parred hole SEVEN — a three! Through and through!

Then he parred hole EIGHT! Then he parred number NINE! FOUR PARS IN A ROW in a perfect straight line!

No one ALL SEASON had done such a feat — four pars back to back with no stumble, no beat!

Eleven whole points! Four bonus points too! On a target of seven, Kevin G. broke right through!

McKone parred the sixth, and Kearns parred the ninth, but NOBODY else parred a single hole. Fine-th.

(That's not a word. But I'm Seuss. It's okay. I once rhymed "Lorax" with "Snorax." Good day.)

Seven pars on the SEASON — the most in the league! Kevin Gallagher's rolling! He's on a PAR-STREAK!

(Kearns has five. That's the next-closest count. Kevin G. leads by two — a significant amount.)

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Now DEYETTE — Dave Deyette — the Bogey Whisperer, they say. He bogeyed SEVEN of nine holes on this fine Tuesday.

Not a par to be found! Not a birdie in sight! Just bogey, bogey, bogey, bogey, bogey — all night!

(Well, seven. Not nine. Holes three and four went astray. A quad and a triple got rudely in the way.)

But SEVEN bogey points on a target of four? That's three bonus points! Who could ask for much more?

After Week Two's disaster — one point, what a fright — Dave bounced back to seven, and the world felt more right.

SIX bonus points now on the season! He LEADS! Dave Deyette grows his points like a farmer grows seeds.

Quietly. Slowly. One bogey at a time. No flash. No pizzazz. But the man knows how to climb.

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Now HERE is where nightmares and bogeymen dwell. The THIRD HOLE at Airways — the mouth of all hell.

SIX players shot EIGHT. Let me say that again. SIX PLAYERS SHOT EIGHT ON A PAR-FOUR. Amen.

Cowles! Deyette! Bill Gallagher! John! Oravec and Wieland! Their scorecards? ALL GONE.

Kearns and McKone shot sevens — a triple apiece. And Jarvis shot six, which was DOUBLE — no peace.

But KEVIN GALLAGHER — yes, HIM, once again — shot FIVE on the third hole. A bogey! A TEN-

...well, not ten. A five. But it FELT like a ten out of ten! A gold star! The BEST score that hole has SEEN!

In nineteen whole rounds on hole three this year, NOT ONE SINGLE PAR has anyone come near.

One bogey. JUST ONE. Kevin G., and that's it. The rest? Doubles and triples and quads in a pit.

Seven-point-two is the average. Plus THREE over par. Hole three doesn't care who you think that you are.

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But WAIT — there is MORE to this dark, dismal tale. The FOURTH hole — par five — also made the field wail.

Eight of ten players made double or worse! John Gallagher shot NINE — like a golf-shaped curse.

And holes ONE through FIVE — all fifty attempts? — produced ZERO pars. None. Zilch. No contents.

Fifty swings at five holes and not ONE par was had! The front half of the front nine is SPECTACULARLY bad.

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BUT THEN! Oh, but THEN! Starting hole number six, the course got a LITTLE less fond of its tricks.

Holes six through nine gave up all six of the pars, and twenty of thirty-three bogeys — those beautiful stars!

Hole seven gave up five bogeys (not bad!) plus Kevin G.'s par (the best night he's had).

Hole eight did the same — five bogeys, one par. (Kevin G. again. Yes, THAT Kevin. That star.)

The DIFFERENCE was stark between holes one-through-five and holes six-through-nine. It's like... two courses LIVE

side by side on one track — one BITES and one PURRS. One takes all your points. The other? It stirs

up some hope in your heart that the game can be fun. Then you remember hole three and you start a dead run.

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Now McKone fell SHORT by a single small point. Five on a target of six — out of joint!

A par on the sixth and three bogeys beside (on one, five, and eight) — so CLOSE, yet denied.

And Cowles? Also SHORT by one — three on four. Bogeys five, six, and nine and nothing else more.

His opening FOUR holes? An eight, seven, eight, eight. But he rallied with bogeys! (A little too late.)

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John Gallagher posted one point. Only one. A bogey on eight — and the rest? Overdone.

A NINE on the fourth! An eight on hole three! Sevens on one and on two! Oh dear me, oh dear me.

Bill Oravec came BACK after sitting out Week Two — two points was his yield. (Not the grand re-debut.)

And Wieland got two, in a frustrating trend. His season thus far is not making a friend.

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Now Jarvis and Kearns — the LOW handicap pair — fell short of their targets by margins UNFAIR.

Jarvis: six on a ten. Kearns: five on a nine. When the front nine plays TOUGH, big targets aren't fine.

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And Bill Gallagher's STREAK? Two weeks meeting his mark? This week: three on a six. The end. Snuffed. Dark.

Four doubles, one quad on that villainous three. The last perfect record has fallen. R.I.P.

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So here are the numbers — I'll read them out loud. ZERO birdies (again!) for the whole golfing crowd.

Six pars (Kevin G. had four of those six). Thirty-three bogeys total. That's... quite a mix.

Two men met their targets: Gallagher (Kev) and Dave D. Eight others fell short of where they wanted to be.

FIVE players are MISSING — Confrey! Keilich! Zogbaum! Three weeks and they STILL haven't come out of their room!

Alvarez, gone since Week One! Stadnicki, since Two! Their faces on milk cartons? That might be past due.

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The front nine is quiet now. Dark. Still. Asleep. Hole three softly chuckling, its secrets to keep.

But NEXT WEEK — the back nine! A change! Something new! Perhaps there's a birdie just waiting to FLEW.

(Fly. Waiting to FLY. But "flew" rhymed much better. I'm a doctor of rhyming, not a grammar go-getter.)

The season rolls on! Week Four's on the way! And Kevin Gallagher's pars are the talk of the day.

The End. (Once more.) (For now.) (We think.) (Hole three disagrees.)

2026 - Pre-Season Fun Week #3

Airways Golf League — Week 3 Recap: April 28, 2026

Three weeks in and the league has produced exactly one birdie all season — Kevin Kearns's 3 on hole 9 back in Week 1. That's one birdie across 171 holes of golf. At this point, the birdie isn't a scoring outcome so much as a rumor someone started in the parking lot.

But if Week 3 lacked birdies, it did not lack a story. And that story's name is Kevin Gallagher.

The Kevin Gallagher Show

Kevin Gallagher posted 11 Stableford points and 4 bonus points, both league highs for the week, on a tidy 44 strokes. But the scorecard tells two very different tales. The first five holes were a grind — bogey, double, bogey, bogey, triple — the kind of start where most people begin mentally composing their excuse for why they're leaving at the turn.

Then something clicked.

Holes 6 through 9: par, par, par, par. Four consecutive pars to close the round. That's the first time anyone in the league has strung together four pars in a row this season, and Kevin did it when his round was on life support. Chris McKone joined him with a par on 6, and Kevin Kearns parred 9, but nobody else managed a par on any of those closing holes. Kevin Gallagher had all four.

Through three weeks, Kevin G. now leads the league with 7 pars on the season. Kevin Kearns is next with 5. The man has quietly become the par machine of Airways.

Dave Deyette: The Bogey Whisperer

Dave Deyette turned in another target-beating performance with 7 points on a target of 4, picking up 3 bonus points. His method? Seven bogeys on nine holes. Not a single par — just seven holes where he was one over, collecting a point each time. After a rough Week 2 on the back nine where he managed just 1 point, Deyette bounced back to match his Week 1 total of 7. He now leads the league with 6 bonus points on the season and has beaten his target in two of three weeks.

The Hole 3 Massacre

If hole 3 had a reputation before this week, it now has a rap sheet. Six players — Cowles, Deyette, Bill Gallagher, John Gallagher, Oravec, and Wieland — all posted quadruple-bogey 8s on the par 4. Kearns and McKone each made triple-bogey 7. Jarvis escaped with a double-bogey 6. The only player to avoid a double or worse was Kevin Gallagher, whose bogey 5 was the best score anyone has ever posted on hole 3 this season — the first bogey the hole has allowed all year. Across three weeks and 19 rounds, hole 3 has played to a 7.2 average with zero pars and exactly one bogey. It remains the undisputed toughest hole on the course, and it's not particularly close.

Hole 4 Wasn't Much Friendlier

The par-5 fourth wasn't far behind in the misery department. Eight of ten players made double bogey or worse, including John Gallagher's 9. Only Kevin Gallagher and Logan Jarvis kept it to bogey 6s. The opening stretch of holes 1 through 5 produced zero pars across all fifty attempts this week — not one, from any of the ten players on any of the five holes.

The Back Half Brightens Up

The mood improved noticeably starting at the sixth hole. Holes 6 through 9 accounted for all six of the evening's pars, plus twenty of the night's thirty-three bogeys. Hole 7 (par 3) gave up five bogeys and Kevin Gallagher's par, though four other players still made double. Hole 8 was similar — five bogeys and Kevin Gallagher's par, with the remaining four players posting doubles or worse. The contrast between the first five holes and the last four was like playing two different courses.

Near Misses

Chris McKone came within a point of his target (5 on a 6), picking up a par on 6 and bogey points on 1, 5, and 8. Ted Cowles also fell one short (3 on a 4), scraping together three bogey points on 5, 6, and 9 after a brutal opening that included 8s on holes 1, 3, and 4.

The Struggles

John Gallagher had another tough outing — 1 point on a target of 5. His lone point came from a bogey on 8. A 9 on the par-5 fourth and an 8 on hole 3 were the lowlights of a long evening. Bill Oravec returned after sitting out Week 2 but managed just 2 points, and Tom Wieland also posted 2.

Logan Jarvis and Kevin Kearns, the league's two lowest-handicap players, both fell well short of their targets again. Jarvis posted 6 on a target of 10; Kearns posted 5 on a target of 9. When the front nine is playing this tough, high targets become a heavy burden.

Bill Gallagher's Streak Ends

A quiet casualty of the evening: Bill Gallagher, who had met his target in each of the first two weeks, posted just 3 points on a target of 6. Four doubles and a quad on hole 3 did the damage. The only player who'd been perfect through two weeks is now one of us.

By the Numbers

Zero birdies (again), 6 pars, 33 bogeys. Two players met their targets (Kevin Gallagher and Deyette), eight fell short. The season's lone birdie remains Kevin Kearns's 3 on hole 9 in Week 1. Dave Deyette leads the league in bonus points with 6, followed by Kevin Gallagher with 4.

Five players remain absent: Tom Confrey, Hermann Keilich, and Dave Zogbaum have yet to appear this season, Joe Alvarez hasn't been seen since Week 1, and Len Stadnicki has gone missing again after his one-week cameo in Week 2. The league may need to start putting their faces on milk cartons.

On to Week 4.

Airways Golf — Weekly Stableford Report
Date: Apr 28, 2026

Golfer                Score     Target    Net Pts

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Kevin Gallagher       11        7         +4     
Dave Deyette          7         4         +3     
Logan Jarvis          6         10        0      
Kevin Kearns          5         9         0      
Chris McKone          5         6         0      
Ted Cowles            3         4         0      
Bill Gallagher        3         6         0      
Bill Oravec           2         6         0      
Tom Wieland           2         4         0      
John Gallagher        1         5         0      
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UPDATED TARGETS (after this week)

Golfer                New Target  
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Bill Gallagher        6           
Bill Oravec           5           
Chris McKone          5           
Dave Deyette          4           
Dave Zogbaum          4           
Hermann Keilich       4           
Joe Alvarez           5           
John Gallagher        4           
Kevin Gallagher       8           
Kevin Kearns          8           
Len Stadnicki         4           
Logan Jarvis          9           
Ted Cowles            4           
Tom Confrey           12          
Tom Wieland           3           
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SEASON LEADERS — EAGLES (since Apr 13, 2026, through Apr 28, 2026)

  (none)

SEASON LEADERS — BIRDIES (since Apr 13, 2026, through Apr 28, 2026)

Golfer                Count     
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Kevin Kearns          1         
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SEASON LEADERS — PARS (since Apr 13, 2026, through Apr 28, 2026)

Golfer                Count     
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Kevin Gallagher       7         
Kevin Kearns          5         
Dave Deyette          3         
Logan Jarvis          3         
Bill Gallagher        2         
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