May 31, 2012 Results
An even 100 players braved the dire prediction for 90% chance of rain at Bear Creek and were not disappointed. It did rain lightly on occasion and even one steady rain that only lasted a couple of minutes. The promise of playing at Bear River did not manifest itself, fortunately. However, the weather did provide us with some exercise. I can’t remember how many times I put on and took off the rain jacket, but it was enough to almost break a sweat.
The course was in excellent condition. These fairways have filled in beautifully and the greens, though rather swiss-cheesed with ball marks, ran fairly true. They do seem to have subtle breaks in them right around the holes as we found out on too many occasions. We didn’t have lipouts but we did have too many near misses with the ball not finishing into the holes. I’m sure the bulk of the contestants today can testify to that, with of course the exception being the teams near or at the top of the heap.
Results:
Alone in first with a -13. tying the all-time ACS low score was the Ken Klasing team of Russ Wall, Bob Pahmeier, and Dave Buesse. Discussing this great feat with Ken he definitely said it was a team effort and that on the greens Mr. Wall demonstrated some amazing putting. As we know, it all comes down to that and today the sun shone on this team (well, you know what I mean). Great shooting guys.
Two teams was second place at a -11. The Duane Jefts, Bob Edwards, Elmer Dill and Casey Szpak team knotted it up with the Paul Rivard, Jim Hawkes, Pierre Sans Souci and Rich Graeff squad. These guys also must’ve conquered the putting issues for the day.
Three teams were tied for thrid place , at -9, The John Prather, Dennis Terhaar, Joe Pfeifer, and Ron Maniscalco team, the Ron Butler, Steve Dierker, Harvey Ruth and Larry Knopfel team, and the Paul Pals, Jack Reiner, John Aubuchon, and Dennis Swift team all tamed the course with that solid -9.
Four teams finished fourth at -8, 1. The Fred McGavran team. 2. The Randy Pratt team. 3. The Ed de la Peña team. 4. The Don Bartoni team.
One teams finished fifth at -7, 1. The John Dierker team.
Three teams finished sixth at -6, 1. The Joe Goines team. 2. The Jack Eckhard team. 3. The Don Giarraffa team.
Four teams finished seventh at -5, 1. The Mike Rutherford team. 2. The Jeff Delaplain team. 3. The Tom Murphy team. 4. John Boyd team.
One team finished eight at -4, 1. The Doug Nolte team.
Two teams finished ninth at -3, 1. The Doug Torrie team. 2. The Ron Krick team.
Two teams finished tenth at -2, 1. The Art Soble team. 2. The Livingston Sykes team.
One team finished eleventh at -1, 1. The Charlie Pope team.
One teams finished with a +3 for the day. 1. The Joe Mullins team.
Awards;
Closest to the pins for the day; #3 Mark Gordon #6 Joe Cernich #12 Duane Jefts #16 Bert Schott
Skins: #15 Tom Murphy team with a an eagle 3. #18 Joe Goines team with an eagle 2.