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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