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
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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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