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
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Logan Jarvis 1
Kevin Kearns 1
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SEASON LEADERS — PARS
Golfer Count
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Kevin Gallagher 9
Logan Jarvis 7
Kevin Kearns 7
Dave Deyette 3
Chris McKone 3
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