Dustin / Casey narrowly defeat Justin / Zach 50-40 to fall a little bit into 2nd place in a match played early Wednesday (before heat / humidity / thunderstorms)… not a bad idea. While Justin / Zach each won their medal play matches by a net 3 strokes they lost the match play scoring by 1 hole each… a very close match. The Hulls took over 1st place with a dominant 64.5-25.5 performance over Mike/Jonathan where their 25 team points provided just enough to give them a 3.5 point lead in the standings.
While we suffered a bit with high temperatures and humidity there was nary a drop of rain…
An interesting week for skins / near pin (#8) … not a single tee shot found and held on that toughest little par 3 in the Catskills… so that means we’ll have a $34 carry over next week when surely someone will hit and hold on the generous 7th green. Skins also proved to be interesting… Our 17 contestants covered each other on every hole with par after par after par… only the statistically difficult 1st and 9th hole proved to be a real challenge… Hot hand Gary Hessberger had the only par on the 1st hole – until Brian Wheaton covered it with a par of his own on Friday… that proved fortunate as his partner, Harry Saslow, managed to sink the one and only birdie putt of the week on his final stroke on his last hole to take the entire $51 pot all for himself !
In the meantime… here are the standings of the top 6 teams – all of whom played Wednesday. Keep in mind that the 7th and 8th place teams are within 50 points of 5th place… certainly not an insurmountable path into the $$$…
They also took all 27 match/medal points.
