2026 - Week 7

 

Airways Golf League — Week 10 Recap: June 16, 2026

The seventh official week of the season

If there has been a single defining trend of the 2026 Airways season, it's the steady, week-by-week improvement of the back nine — and on Tuesday, the back nine outdid itself yet again. Eight players took the field. Seven met their target. The field averaged 8.5 Stableford points — the highest of any week this season — and on this same back nine that opened the year averaging 3.1 points, players are now talking about pars instead of survival.

The other defining trend: Logan Jarvis is on a heater that's becoming difficult to describe.

Logan Jarvis Breaks 40

Logan Jarvis shot 39. Three under his usual best of the season, four over par, and the first time anyone in this league has posted a sub-40 round all year. He birdied hole 11 (his second birdie on that hole this season), parred holes 10, 16, and 17, and added five bogey points to round things out. Final tally: 15 Stableford points on a target of 12. Three bonus points. Target met for the sixth time in seven official weeks. His scoring streak of double-digit Stableford rounds is now at four in a row.

The 20-Hole Points Streak

Worth its own headline. From the par-5 sixteenth of his June 2 round (his last hole without a point) through every hole he played on June 9 (all 9) and June 16 (all 9), Logan has now scored at least one Stableford point on 20 consecutive holes. Twenty holes. No blanks. No big numbers. No giving anything back to the course.

For context: across the rest of the league this Tuesday, the eight players combined for 30 blank holes — and Logan was 0 of them. Through seven official weeks, Logan now leads the league in pars (21), birdies (5), and bonus points (20). The next closest in any of those categories is at 19 pars, 1 birdie, 16 bonus points.

Kevin Kearns Bounces Back Hard

After last week's target miss and the now-infamous Wieland trash talk that did not age well, Kevin Kearns returned this week and posted 11 Stableford points on a target of 8 — three bonus points and his best Stableford total of the official season. He shot 42 strokes (the second-lowest of the night), parred four holes (11, 12, 16, and 18), and quietly produced one of his most efficient rounds of the year. The Kearns from Week 1 has been threatening to come back for a few weeks now. This week he showed up.

Ted Cowles's Miracle Chip-In

The streak had to end sometime. Ted Cowles had met his target in five consecutive official weeks — the only player in the league with a perfect target-met record. On Tuesday, he posted 4 points on a target of 5 and missed by one. The streak ends.

But the story of his round is one chip shot.

On the par-3 thirteenth — historically one of the toughest par-3s on the course — Ted somehow found himself in position to chip from off the green, and he holed it. Chipped it in. For par. A miracle chip-in for par on a hole the field had been making doubles and triples on for two months. It was the only par Ted scored all night, and it was the kind of shot that, on any other day, would have been the lead of the recap.

Without that one swing, Ted's Stableford total would have been 2 points instead of 4. The man got within one point of his target on a card otherwise full of doubles — and the miracle on 13 was the difference. There is no shame in a streak that ends this way.

Bill Gallagher Saves Bogey on 16 with His Lefty 5-Iron

The story of Bill Gallagher's round was unfolding nicely — par on 11, steady bogeys, target on track — when he got into trouble on the par-5 sixteenth and found himself in a spot that called for some creative thinking. The solution: he reached into his own bag, pulled out a left-handed 5-iron he keeps on hand for exactly these situations (a hand-me-down from his son Kevin), took a swing as a lefty, and produced a recovery good enough to save bogey on the hole.

This is the kind of moment that lives in league lore. Bill Gallagher, a right-handed golfer, carrying a left-handed 5-iron in his bag, using it to escape trouble on hole 16, and salvaging a single Stableford point in the process. He finished the round with 9 points on a target of 7 (two bonus), a par on 11, a par on 18, and the immortal lefty-rescue on 16.

Dave Deyette's Best Round of the Season

Dave Deyette posted 8 points on a target of 4 — four bonus points, his best total of the season — and parred hole 11. He bogeyed six other holes (10, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18), which is exactly the kind of round the Bogey Whisperer was built for. After two consecutive front-nine rounds with one bonus point each, the back nine handed him the breakout. His season-bonus tally moves to 8.

Len Stadnicki Goes Big Again

Len Stadnicki, whose last back-nine appearance was a 1-point disaster, returned to the back nine and posted 8 points on a target of 4 with four bonus points. Two pars (holes 10 and 18), four bogeys, and one of his best rounds of the season. After his 8-point round on the front nine last week, he's now strung together back-to-back season-best stretches.

John Gallagher Quietly Excellent

John Gallagher posted 7 points on a target of 4 with three bonus points. Two pars (holes 14 and 18), three bogeys, and a 47-stroke round — his lowest of the year. After last week's regression, John bounced back nicely. His season bonus-point tally now sits at 16 — second only to Logan.

Tom Wieland: Six In a Row

Tom Wieland posted 6 points on a target of 4 — two bonus points and his sixth consecutive official week meeting his target. He's now the only player with a longer active target-met streak than Logan Jarvis. He parred hole 11, bogeyed four holes (10, 14, 15, 18), and survived a stretch of 7s on 12, 13, 16, and 17. The man's bonus-points total is now at 13.

Hole 11: Now the Friendliest Hole on the Course

If you'd told someone in April that hole 11 — the par-5 that played to a 7.0 average across its first two visits — would become the easiest hole at Airways, they would have laughed at you. But here we are. This week hole 11 surrendered five pars (Dave Deyette, Bill Gallagher, Kevin Kearns, Len Stadnicki, Tom Wieland) and a birdie (Logan Jarvis). Six of eight players scored at or under par. The hole's per-week scoring average has now dropped each visit: 7.0, 7.0, 6.0, 6.0, 5.2. It's one of three holes that have surrendered multiple birdies this season — joining holes 9 and 18, each of which has given up two.

Hole 18: The Closing-Hole Renaissance Continues

Four pars on the closing hole this week — Bill Gallagher, John Gallagher, Kevin Kearns, and Len Stadnicki — plus bogey points from three others. The par-4 eighteenth has now played to averages of 6.2, 6.5, 5.5, 4.9, and 4.4 in its five visits. The closing hole at Airways used to be where rounds went to die. Now it's where players salvage them.

Hole 16's Punishment Stretch

Not every hole was friendly. Three players posted 9s on the par-5 sixteenth (Ted Cowles, Dave Deyette, Tom Wieland), and even Bill Gallagher's celebrated lefty recovery only got him to 6 (bogey). Hole 16 gave up two pars and two bogeys among the eight players, but also collected three quadruple-bogey 9s — a reminder that this hole, while improving, still bites.

Where the Pars Came From

Seventeen pars on the night — a new season high for any week, eclipsing last week's 16 — across eight different holes:

• Hole 11: Dave Deyette, Bill Gallagher, Kevin Kearns, Len Stadnicki, Tom Wieland (5 pars)
• Hole 18: Bill Gallagher, John Gallagher, Kevin Kearns, Len Stadnicki (4 pars)
• Hole 10: Logan Jarvis, Len Stadnicki
• Hole 16: Logan Jarvis, Kevin Kearns
• Hole 12: Kevin Kearns
• Hole 13: Ted Cowles (the chip-in!)
• Hole 14: John Gallagher
• Hole 17: Logan Jarvis

Kevin Kearns and Logan Jarvis: 4 pars each (with Logan adding a birdie). Bill Gallagher, John Gallagher, Len Stadnicki: 2 pars each.

By the Numbers

Eight players, 1 birdie, 17 pars (season high), 30 bogeys, 7 targets met. The 2026 season birdie count climbs to seven — Kearns (1), Bill Gallagher (1), Jarvis (5). Logan's lead in the official-season bonus-points race extends to 20, comfortably ahead of John Gallagher (16) and Bill Gallagher (15).

Attendance Watch

Seven absent this week, including Kevin Gallagher — his first miss all season. The Gallagher brother who's been atop or near the top of the par leaderboard all year took the night off. Joe Alvarez, Chris McKone, and Bill Oravec also out, joined by the three players who haven't appeared in 2026.

The back nine kept getting friendlier. Logan kept getting better. Ted holed a chip. Bill went lefty. And Kevin Kearns reminded the league he can still play.

On to Week 11.

SEASON STANDINGS (through Jun 16, 2026)

#    Golfer              Rounds    Avg Pts    Pts 
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1    Logan Jarvis          7         12.0      20 
2    John Gallagher        7         4.3       16 
3    Bill Gallagher        7         6.1       15 
4    Tom Wieland           7         4.0       13 
5    Len Stadnicki         6         4.3       12 
6    Kevin Kearns          7         7.9       8  
7    Dave Deyette          6         5.0       8  
8    Kevin Gallagher       6         6.7       7  
9    Ted Cowles            6         4.5       6  
10   Chris McKone          3         5.7       2  
11   Joe Alvarez           4         2.5       0  
12   Bill Oravec           2         2.5       0  
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Airways Golf — Weekly Stableford Report
Date: Jun 16, 2026

Golfer                Score     Target    Net Pts 
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Dave Deyette          8         4         +4      
Len Stadnicki         8         4         +4      
Logan Jarvis          15        12        +3      
Kevin Kearns          11        8         +3      
John Gallagher        7         4         +3      
Bill Gallagher        9         7         +2      
Tom Wieland           6         4         +2      
Ted Cowles            4         5         0       
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UPDATED TARGETS (after this week)

Golfer                New Target  
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Bill Gallagher        8           
Bill Oravec           3           
Chris McKone          5           
Dave Deyette          5           
Dave Zogbaum          4           
Hermann Keilich       4           
Joe Alvarez           2           
John Gallagher        5           
Kevin Gallagher       7           
Kevin Kearns          9           
Len Stadnicki         5           
Logan Jarvis          13          
Ted Cowles            5           
Tom Confrey           12          
Tom Wieland           5           
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SEASON LEADERS — EAGLES (since Apr 13, 2026, through Jun 16, 2026)

  (none)

SEASON LEADERS — BIRDIES (since Apr 13, 2026, through Jun 16, 2026)

Golfer                Count     
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Logan Jarvis          5         
Bill Gallagher        1         
Kevin Kearns          1         
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SEASON LEADERS — PARS (since Apr 13, 2026, through Jun 16, 2026)

Golfer                Count     
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Logan Jarvis          21        
Kevin Kearns          19        
Kevin Gallagher       18        
John Gallagher        9         
Bill Gallagher        8         
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2026 - Week 6

Airways Golf League — Week 9 Recap: June 9, 2026

The sixth official week of the season

The front nine at Airways finally cracked. Eleven players took the field on a beautiful Tuesday and produced the best front-nine night of the year by a wide margin: 16 pars, 1 birdie, 8 players meeting their targets, and Logan Jarvis posting his best Stableford total of the season. The course that had spent April and May handing out 8s like Halloween candy turned out, on June 9, to be a course you could actually score on.

Also: Kevin Kearns picked the wrong week, the wrong opponent, and arguably the wrong tee box from which to start running his mouth.

Logan Jarvis Sets the Bar Higher

Logan Jarvis shot 40 on the front nine — six over par — and posted 15 Stableford points on a target of 11. That's a new season high, surpassing his 14 from May 19. He birdied hole 9 (a 3 on a par 4 — the same hole and same score Kevin Kearns birdied way back in Week 1), parred holes 2, 6, and 7, and added five bogey points for good measure.

Here's the wild part: Logan scored at least one Stableford point on every single hole. Nine holes, nine scoring holes. No zeroes anywhere on the card. In a league where the average round produces three or four blank holes, posting points on every hole is a different kind of golf entirely.

Four bonus points pushed his official-season bonus-points lead back out to 17. This is now the fifth time in six official weeks Logan has hit double-digit Stableford points. He's posted 40, 42, and 40 in his last three front-nine visits to the course where the field's average had been hovering around 47. He's also tied for the season lead in pars at 18.

Kevin Gallagher Joins the Five-Par Club

Just one week after his brother John shocked the league by posting 5 pars in a single round — setting a new season-per-round record — Kevin Gallagher did exactly the same thing. Five pars on holes 1, 4, 6, 7, and 9. The season record now has back-to-back holders, and they live in the same household.

Kevin's 12 Stableford points on a target of 6 was good for six bonus points, doubled his target, and pulled him into a tie with Logan Jarvis atop the season par leaderboard (18 each). His 43 strokes was the second-lowest score of the night. He's quietly built one of the most consistent ball-striking seasons in the league, even if the bonus-points column hadn't always rewarded him until now.

Len Stadnicki Comes Back Loud

Len Stadnicki, after a one-week absence, returned with a vengeance. Target of 2; posted 8. Six bonus points — tying Kevin Gallagher for the second-most bonus points in any single week this season (behind only John Gallagher's 9 last week). He parred hole 6, bogeyed six other holes (3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9), and the only holes that got the better of him were doubles on 1 and 2. Once he got into bogey gear after a rough start, he stayed there. The result: his best round of the season.

The Kearns-Wieland Situation

Mid-round — after several holes that had not gone according to plan — Kevin Kearns informed Tom Wieland that Wieland was bound for relegation to the women's league. The remark was, presumably, intended in the spirit of competitive ribbing. The timing was, presumably, intended to be the moment when Kearns had a comfortable advantage.

The scorecard had other ideas.

Both players shot 49 strokes. Identical raw scores, hole for hole nearly identical too — both made bogey on holes 2 and 9, both made double on hole 8, both had a 4 on the par-3 seventh. Wieland's worst hole was a quad-bogey 8 on the par-4 third. Kearns's worst hole was a triple-bogey 7 on the same hole — and another triple-bogey 7 on the par-5 fourth.

When the dust settled, Tom Wieland posted 7 Stableford points on a target of 3 (four bonus points, target crushed). Kevin Kearns posted 6 Stableford points on a target of 8 (zero bonus points, target missed by two).

Same score. Different ledgers. Different outcomes.

So if anyone is being relegated, the math may be pointing in a direction Kevin did not anticipate. Perhaps Kevin would benefit from a fresh perspective next week — say, from a set of forward tees with a different color marker on them. Just a thought. From a friend.

Meanwhile, Wieland has now met his target five weeks in a row with four of those producing bonus points. His Week 4 scoring line of zero feels like ancient history. He's quietly in fourth place on the official-season bonus-points list (11), behind only Logan, Bill Gallagher, and John Gallagher.

Hole 3 Watch

Hole 3 — undefeated all year against pars — gave up two bogeys this week (Logan Jarvis and Len Stadnicki, both with 5s) and played to a 6.9 average. That's actually the second-best the hole has played all season. But still: across five front-nine visits, hole 3 has surrendered zero pars and just five total bogeys. It remains the only hole at Airways without a par on its 2026 ledger.

Hole 7's Bogey Party

The par-3 seventh became the busiest scoring hole of the night. Of eleven players, two parred it (Kevin Gallagher and Logan Jarvis) and the other nine all bogeyed it with 4s. Every single player on the course scored a point on hole 7. There aren't many holes that can claim that.

Bill Gallagher and Dave Deyette Find Pars

Bill Gallagher posted 7 points on a target of 5 with two bonus points, parring hole 5 in the process. After his season-best 12-point round last week, he keeps the momentum — back-to-back target-met official weeks. Dave Deyette parred hole 6 and posted 6 points on a target of 5 for one bonus point. The Bogey Whisperer was true to form once again, with five bogeys among his nine holes.

Chris McKone Returns

Chris McKone, after consecutive absences, returned to the field and posted exactly his target of 5 plus a bonus point for 6 total. His opening four holes were the kind of stretch that hurts to look at — 8, 7, 8, 9 — but he closed strong with bogeys on 6 and 7 and pars on 8 and 9 to salvage the round. That's now three official weeks for McKone, and he's met his target in all three.

The Ted Cowles Streak Continues

Ted Cowles posted 6 points on a target of 4 with two bonus points — his fifth straight official week meeting his target. He's the only player in the league to have hit his target in every official appearance he's made. He bogeyed six different holes (1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9) and avoided pars entirely, but the Cowles method requires no pars: it just requires steady bogey points and the occasional quad to keep things interesting.

The Struggles

John Gallagher, fresh off his nine-bonus-point round last week, came back to earth with 3 points on a target of 4. A par on hole 5 and a bogey on hole 7 were his only scoring holes — the rest of the card was doubles and triples. Sometimes the magic stays for one week and one week only. Joe Alvarez also posted 3 points on a target of 4, with a par on hole 2 his lone highlight.

Kevin Kearns's 6-point round on a target of 8 was his first official week missing his target since Week 5. Tough week to pick for it.

Where the Pars Came From

Sixteen pars on the night — a new front-nine season high — across eight different holes:

• Hole 6: Dave Deyette, Kevin Gallagher, Logan Jarvis, Len Stadnicki (4 pars)
• Hole 5: Bill Gallagher, John Gallagher, Kevin Kearns (3 pars)
• Hole 2: Joe Alvarez, Logan Jarvis
• Hole 7: Kevin Gallagher, Logan Jarvis
• Hole 9: Kevin Gallagher, Chris McKone (plus Logan Jarvis's birdie)
• Hole 1: Kevin Gallagher
• Hole 4: Kevin Gallagher
• Hole 8: Chris McKone

Kevin Gallagher: 5 pars. Logan Jarvis: 3 pars and a birdie. Chris McKone: 2 pars. Bill Gallagher, John Gallagher, Kevin Kearns: 1 par each.

By the Numbers

Eleven players, 1 birdie, 16 pars (a season high), 43 bogeys (also a season high), 8 targets met. The 2026 season birdie count climbs to six — split among Kearns (1), Jarvis (4), and Bill Gallagher (1). Logan and Kevin Gallagher are tied at 18 pars for the season, with Kevin Kearns at 15.

The official-season bonus-points race after six weeks: Logan Jarvis 17, Bill Gallagher 13, John Gallagher 13, Tom Wieland 11, Len Stadnicki 8.

Attendance Watch

Four absent this week — fewer than last week. The three regulars who haven't shown up at all in 2026 stay missing. Bill Oravec is the only other player out tonight, his second straight skip.

The front nine softened. Logan Jarvis set a new personal best for the season — and posted points on every hole. Kevin Gallagher matched his brother's five-par record. Len Stadnicki returned in style. And Kevin Kearns may want to keep certain mid-round opinions to himself going forward.

On to Week 10.

SEASON STANDINGS (through Jun 9, 2026)

#    Golfer              Rounds    Avg Pts    Pts 
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1    Logan Jarvis          6         11.5      17
2    Bill Gallagher        6         5.7       13
3    John Gallagher        6         3.8       13
4    Tom Wieland           6         3.7       11
5    Len Stadnicki         5         3.6       8 
6    Kevin Gallagher       6         6.7       7 
7    Ted Cowles            5         4.6       6 
8    Kevin Kearns          6         7.3       5 
9    Dave Deyette          5         4.4       4 
10   Chris McKone          3         5.7       2 
11   Joe Alvarez           4         2.5       0 
12   Bill Oravec           2         2.5       0 
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Airways Golf — Weekly Stableford Report
Date: Jun 9, 2026

Golfer                Score     Target    Net Pts 
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Kevin Gallagher       12        6         +6      
Len Stadnicki         8         2         +6      
Logan Jarvis          15        11        +4      
Tom Wieland           7         3         +4      
Bill Gallagher        7         5         +2      
Ted Cowles            6         4         +2      
Dave Deyette          6         5         +1      
Chris McKone          6         5         +1      
Kevin Kearns          6         8         0       
Joe Alvarez           3         4         0       
John Gallagher        3         4         0       
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UPDATED TARGETS (after this week)

Golfer                New Target  
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Bill Gallagher        7           
Bill Oravec           3           
Chris McKone          5           
Dave Deyette          4           
Dave Zogbaum          4           
Hermann Keilich       4           
Joe Alvarez           2           
John Gallagher        4           
Kevin Gallagher       7           
Kevin Kearns          8           
Len Stadnicki         4           
Logan Jarvis          12          
Ted Cowles            5           
Tom Confrey           12          
Tom Wieland           4           
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SEASON LEADERS — EAGLES (since Apr 13, 2026, through Jun 9, 2026)

  (none)

SEASON LEADERS — BIRDIES (since Apr 13, 2026, through Jun 9, 2026)

Golfer                Count     
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Logan Jarvis          4         
Bill Gallagher        1         
Kevin Kearns          1         
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SEASON LEADERS — PARS (since Apr 13, 2026, through Jun 9, 2026)

Golfer                Count     
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Kevin Gallagher       18        
Logan Jarvis          18        
Kevin Kearns          15        
John Gallagher        7         
Bill Gallagher        6         
Chris McKone          6         
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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 
--------------------------------------------------
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
--------------------------------------------------
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       
--------------------------------------------------

UPDATED TARGETS (after this week)

Golfer                New Target  
----------------------------------
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     
--------------------------------
Logan Jarvis          3         
Bill Gallagher        1         
Kevin Kearns          1         
--------------------------------

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

Golfer                Count     
--------------------------------
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 
-------------------------------------------------
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 
--------------------------------------------------
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       
--------------------------------------------------

UPDATED TARGETS (after this week)

Golfer                New Target  
----------------------------------
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    

--------------------------------
Logan Jarvis          3         
Kevin Kearns          1         
--------------------------------

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         
--------------------------------

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
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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  
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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     
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Logan Jarvis          2         
Kevin Kearns          1         
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SEASON LEADERS — PARS (since Apr 13, 2026, through May 19, 2026)

Golfer                Count     
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Kevin Gallagher       11        
Logan Jarvis          11        
Kevin Kearns          10        
Chris McKone          4         
Ted Cowles            3         
Dave Deyette          3         
Bill Gallagher        3         
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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 
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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 
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Airways Golf — Weekly Stableford Report
Date: May 12, 2026

Golfer                Score     Target    Net Pts
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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      
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UPDATED TARGETS (after this week)

Golfer                New Target  
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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           
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SEASON LEADERS — EAGLES

  (none)

SEASON LEADERS — BIRDIES

Golfer                Count     
--------------------------------
Logan Jarvis          1         
Kevin Kearns          1         
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SEASON LEADERS — PARS

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