Airways Golf League — Week 2 Recap: April 21, 2026
If Week 1 on the front nine was a tough night at the office, Week 2 on the back nine was a full-blown HR incident.
Ten golfers showed up — an improvement over last week's nine — but the back nine at Airways showed absolutely no appreciation for the increased attendance. Zero birdies were recorded. Not one. Across ten players and nine holes, not a single soul managed to beat par on any hole. Kevin Kearns's birdie from Week 1 now feels less like a highlight and more like a hallucination.
Five pars. That's it. Five pars among ninety total holes played. The back nine didn't just win this week — it shut them out.
The Lone Survivor: Bill Gallagher
In a week where the course ate everyone's lunch, Bill Gallagher was the only man to meet his target. His 6 points on a target of 5 earned him a bonus point and, more importantly, the right to look the rest of the field in the eye. He parred the par-4 fourteenth, collected bogey points on four other holes, and generally did what Bill does — showed up, ground it out, and walked away with something to show for it. Two weeks in, two targets met. The man is nothing if not consistent.
Kevin Kearns: Still the Points Leader, But...
Kearns posted the lowest raw score of the night at 46 and led the field with 7 Stableford points, which sounds respectable until you notice his target was 11. He parred both the thirteenth and fifteenth — two of the back nine's three par-3s — which accounted for nearly half his points. But the rest of the card was a mix of bogeys and doubles that left him four points short. Last week's hero had a more human outing this time around.
The Par-3 Paradox
The back nine at Airways features three par-3s (holes 10, 13, and 15), and you'd think that would be good news. You would be wrong. Hole 10 opened the evening by handing out double bogeys to six of ten players. Kevin Gallagher and Logan Jarvis were the only two to par it, while everyone else was scrambling to a 4 at best and a 5 at worst. Hole 13 was even meaner — eight of ten players made double bogey or worse. Only Kearns managed par. And hole 15? Seven doubles-or-worse, with Kearns again collecting a par and Chris McKone and Logan Jarvis each escaping with bogeys.
In other words, the par-3s were more like par-3-and-a-halfs for most of the field.
The Returning Absentees
Three of last week's no-shows — Chris McKone, Len Stadnicki, and Tom Wieland — made their 2026 debuts. The back nine did not roll out a welcome mat. Tom Wieland managed a single point (a bogey on 10). Len Stadnicki scraped together 2 points from bogeys on 12 and 18. Chris McKone fared slightly better at 3 points, picking up bogeys on 12, 15, and 18. If these three were hoping to ease into the season, the back nine had other ideas.
The Struggles
Dave Deyette, last week's bonus-point king with 7 points and three pars, came back to earth with a thud — 1 point on a target of 4. His only point came from a bogey on the par-5 eleventh. The man who closed last week with pars on three of his final four holes couldn't find one this time. Golf: the great equalizer.
John Gallagher also posted just 1 point, a bogey on 11, against a target of 7. A 9 on the par-5 sixteenth didn't help matters. Ted Cowles improved from last week's zero to 2 points, which qualifies as progress in the same way that finding a dollar in the couch cushions qualifies as a raise.
Holes 16 and 17: The Gauntlet
If any holes deserve villain status this week, it's 16 and 17. Nine of ten players made double bogey or worse on each. The par-5 sixteenth saw two 9s (from Deyette and John Gallagher) and a pair of 8s. The par-4 seventeenth wasn't much kinder, dishing out 6s, 7s, and 8s like a blackjack dealer having the night of his life. Combined, those two holes generated exactly one Stableford point from the entire field (Bill Gallagher's bogey on 16). One point. From twenty total attempts.
By the Numbers
Zero birdies, zero eagles, five total pars, and a whole lot of soul-searching. Only one player met his target. The average Stableford total was 3.1 points, which for context is the kind of number that makes the front nine's Week 1 average look like a PGA Tour leaderboard. Logan Jarvis again posted a solid raw score (50), but his target of 11 was never within reach — he finished with 4 points, seven short.
Five players remain AWOL through two weeks: Tom Confrey, Hermann Keilich, and Dave Zogbaum haven't been seen yet, and Joe Alvarez and Bill Oravec, who played Week 1, took this one off. At this rate, the league might want to start checking on them.
The back nine won this round, convincingly. On to Week 3 — and maybe, just maybe, somebody will make a birdie.
Airways Golf — Weekly Stableford Report
Date: Apr 21, 2026
Golfer Score Target Net Pts
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Bill Gallagher 6 5 +1
Kevin Kearns 7 11 0
Kevin Gallagher 4 8 0
Logan Jarvis 4 11 0
Chris McKone 3 6 0
Ted Cowles 2 5 0
Len Stadnicki 2 5 0
Dave Deyette 1 4 0
John Gallagher 1 7 0
Tom Wieland 1 5 0
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UPDATED TARGETS (after this week)
Golfer New Target
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Bill Gallagher 6
Bill Oravec 6
Chris McKone 6
Dave Deyette 4
Dave Zogbaum 4
Hermann Keilich 4
Joe Alvarez 5
John Gallagher 5
Kevin Gallagher 7
Kevin Kearns 9
Len Stadnicki 4
Logan Jarvis 10
Ted Cowles 4
Tom Confrey 12
Tom Wieland 4
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SEASON LEADERS — EAGLES (since Apr 13, 2026, through Apr 21, 2026)
(none)
SEASON LEADERS — BIRDIES (since Apr 13, 2026, through Apr 21, 2026)
Golfer Count
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Kevin Kearns 1
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SEASON LEADERS — PARS (since Apr 13, 2026, through Apr 21, 2026)
Golfer Count
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Kevin Kearns 4
Dave Deyette 3
Kevin Gallagher 3
Logan Jarvis 3
Bill Gallagher 2
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