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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