CONGRATULATIONS TO RICHARD KOPPY ON BECOMING THE 2017 BMGA CUP POINTS CHAMPION with a whopping 813 points!!!
Rounding out the top 5 are:
T2 – Roger Hamm – 708
T2 – Ermin Cicic – 708
4th – Craig Wethington – 705
5th – Chuck Bernardy – 698
Month: September 2017
Individual and 2-Man Match Play Re-Cap
We had a great season of completion in both the single man and 2-man match play events.
Even with weather hiccups we all felt this year, I want to thank all the participants in both events for keeping everything on schedule and getting the matches completed as they were supposed to and kept everything on track.
SINGLE MAN MATCH PLAY RE-CAP
The single man match final pitted Dave Supalla against Steve Broyer. Dave and Steve chose to hold the final at The Meadows. Dave Supalla had a great day and finished his round with a 74, and with great day like that, he was able to close out the championship with a 5&4 victory to become the 2017 Individual Match Play Champion – Congratulations Dave!
Here are the final brackets and prize report for the single man tournament.
Single Man Match Final Bracket (North-West)
Single Man Match Final Bracket (South-East)
Individual Match Play Prize Report
2-MAN MATCH PLAY RE-CAP
The 2-Man Match Play saw the teams dwindle down to Deede/Rogers versus Bolduc/Egan. Egan played a great round in the President’s Cup the day before the 2-Man final and the family team of Deede/Rogers took a brief 3 week hiatus for a vacation before being able to schedule the final match. However, the break of play certainly seemed to help them and Egan couldn’t carry his play in the President’s Cup into the final. Deede/Rogers performed exceptionally in the final and won the match in the same fashion as the single man with a 5&4 victory. Congratulations Mike Deede and Ryan Rogers!
Here is the final 2-Man Match play bracket and prize report.
President’s Cup Re-Cap
The re-Scheduled Presidents Cup was held this past Saturday. It was a steamy day but still better weather than the original date!
We had 3 flights in this years event – Member Net, White Net & President’s Flight
The Member Net flight finished in a tie for first place between Brian Egan and Ted Roberts. Trent Mayberry finished a close 3rd, with Mark Kraus right on his heels in 4th.
The White Net flight showed no contest as Ermin Cicic ran away with the flight, with the best point total in the whole field of +20. Sheldon SIlberman finished respectably in 2nd.
The President’s Flight was as hotly contested as the temperature was on Saturday. In the end, Doug Paquette surpassed the past president’s and won the title!
WNL Champions…WTF?!?!
That’s right, WTF (Where’s The Fairway) is your 2017 BMGA Wednesday Night League Champions!
Captain Andy Kim and his squad finished runner-up in 2016 and came back to have a strong 2017 season – WTF finished the regular season with the most points (635) and on a 6 week winning streak. After a bye in round 1, they kept rolling with a win in the semi-finals and then last night won the Championship 43-37 over CTB.
Matt Grove and his CTB team had a good run, also winning the final 6 weeks of the regular season and 1st two rounds of the playoffs as a wildcard. They put up a good fight in their loss last night, but came up short to a white-hot WTF team. It was good to see that they were all smiles for their final selfie of the season.
Congrats to WTF!
Thank you all for a great WNL Season and hope to see you at the banquet!
WNL Semi-Finals
The Semi-Finals wrapped up on Wednesday, and the stage is set for the Championship match on the 20th of September.
Regular season leading point-getters (635 points), WTF came out ready for battle vs. the 2nd place leading point-getters (634) AND their divisional rivals, Range Balls. WTF advances with a 46-34* win to represent the Golden Valley Conference in the championship match. Congratulations, boys!
In the Bassett Creek Conference, CTB steamrolled Fairway 2 Heaven 50-30. CTB was the Wildcard and certainly has some mojo going as only one player lost their match this week – way to go, fellas!
Next week is the Championship, and CTB and WTF (maybe more team names will change to acronyms next year for good luck…?) will be teeing off at 4:33 and 4:42 off the front and back – there is NOT open golf, but would be great to see some of you out there so grab a tee time with your boys and get nine in after work and cheers the Champions, let’s go!
Reminder of payouts as this was asked by a couple of you:
Conference Winners get $40/player:
- Fairway 2 Heaven
- WTF
Division Winners get $20/player:
- Foreplay
- Drive 4 Show
Semi-Final Winners get $30/player:
- CTB
- WTF
League Champions get $35/player and their team name engraved on a sweet-ass trophy:
- TBD (not a team name yet, guys, we just don’t know…)
*Unfortunately, Range Balls had a no-show due to a last minute medical emergency and couldn’t get a sub to take a spot in time – I do not have details on the situation and I do not want to misinform, so I will leave it at that. Our current rules state that in the playoffs all 10 points are awarded to the opposing team for a no-show. I did check what would have happened following our regular season rules, and the victory would still belong to WTF. This rule will be looked at by next year’s Board.
3-Ball Update (Calcutta)
The 2017 20Man 3-Ball event was held on a beautiful weather weekend. The weekend festivities began on Friday evening with the auction. Brad Kadue ran the auction with precision and heightened the energy of the bidding to have the total pot for the 15 teams reaching about $3500.
The first round saw some great weather, helping some teams to play really well. As the teams scores started coming in, the story for Sunday was beginning to take shape. The defending champions posted 60 to take the clubhouse lead, but there still teams on the course….At the end of day one, 3 teams were tied for the lead Kadue/Broyer(team handi 18), Meier/Bolduc(team handi 43) & Koppy/Cicic(team handi 35)…the question was…would the defending champs vault ahead on Sunday or would there be a new champion…
Sunday provided the same great weather as Saturday…a welcome sight after the weather issues of the year. The tee times were re-shuffled after Saturday to have the leaders out last. As the teams started coming in, the pages of the story were turning rapidly to find out the ending. As expected, the scores were tracking along with the Saturday finish. A middle of the pack team Peyer/Couture(team handicap 39), posted a 66 on Saturday, took the clubhouse lead with a -5, 139 for a team total of 205. The question was…would it hold with 6 teams ahead of them…
One by one, the teams came in…and couldn’t catch the new lead….the team of Gallagher/Jordan(team handicap of 14) was anxious as their total was being tallied…207…the Monogue/Pula(team handi 24) team came in, 63 Saturday, 146 Sunday…209 total…
Then the 3 Saturday leaders came in….the defending champs faltered and fell well off the pace…the Meier/Bolduc posted 153, total of 213….the Cicic/Koppy team posted 151 for a total 211….and all was done….a 6 shot come from behind victory for Peyer/Couture team to win the 2-Man 3-Ball event.
Here are the prizes for the top 5 teams and hole prize winners for the weekend.
WNL Playoffs – Round 1
Round 1 is in the books, folks.
CTB defeats Foreplay 43 to 37 with some strong performances. Don Grove continued his WNL prowess by scoring 7.5 points to lead the team. They will play Fairway 2 Heaven next week in the semi-finals.
Plucky Range Balls won in dramatic fashion over Drive 4 Show 41.5 to 38.5. D4S was up by 6 waiting for the final group to come in, and the Marks (Steinhauser and Lauffenburger) took 15 total points (8 and 7) to clinch the team victory. They will take on WTF in a grudge match for the ages.
Jason Lunetta shot a 34, winning 8 points for D4S in their losing effort, and had possibly the shot of the year from what I heard. Wasn’t able to talk to the man himself, but his opponents tell quite the tale – after snapping a drive left on #16 and bouncing off some trees, he found himself closer to #7 fairway than #16…we’ve all been there…but from 250+ (maybe 275?!?!) he apparently saw a window no mere mortal would see. He hit a high, hard cut (story is with a 5 wood?!?!), he ended up kicking off the #17 tee box side hill (?!?!), ending up just off the left of the green for a chip and putt for birdie (?!?!). That’s a lot of ?!?! going on, man. Beauty.
Good times this week, and looking forward to the semi-finals next week (9/13):
- Fairway 2 Heaven vs. CTB
- WTF vs. Range Balls
(FYI – There is no more open golf for the remainder of the playoffs.)
Calcutta Details (Tee Sheet, Team Report & Auction Info)
The Calcutta details have been set….teams aligned and tee times set…
The Tee Sheet and Team Report are attached below.
The auction and para-mutual betting are set to take place on Friday night, Sept 8th at 6:30 in the Brookview grill. All BMGA members are welcome to attend and place wagers in the auction or on the para-mutual betting.
WNL Regular Season Recap
With some unfortunate drama (see email, I’m not rehashing that unfortunate happening here), our regular season has come to an end! We had three rainouts, sure, but got to make up two of them which is fantastic. We tried a new conference/division set up, which I thought was a smashing success and a lot of fun – hope you did, too, and if not want to hear what’s up!
Congratulations to our two Conference Champs – Fairway 2 Heaven and WTF who earn a 1st round bye and $40/dude!
Fairway cruised to the conference title by an 11 point margin over Foreplay and crushed the division – nearest competitor Young Gunz finished 44.5 points back. Wow.
WTF barely edged out Range Balls, winning the conference and division by 1 point! Crazy finish in a very tough division. Range Balls makes the playoffs as a very, very tough wildcard. They would have won any other division based on their points…what a race.
2017 WNL Standings-Week 18 (Week 15 Make-Up)
BCC South winner Foreplay ($20/guy for the division win) will go against Wildcard winner CTB next week in Round 1.
GVC West winner Drive 4 Show ($20/guy for the division win) will battle Wildcard winner Range Balls.
I will reach out to the Captains to let them know tee times and what not.
Also, there WILL BE open golf next week for BMGA Members – we were unable to confirm last night, thus no sign up sheets, but it’s official. There is a signup sheet in the Pro Shop, or you can call 763-512-2330 and tell them you are signing up for September 6th, BMGA – give you name and choose a time to see what’s open.
Finally, our WNL MVP Winner is….Dylan Niska with 88.5 total points! Nice work, Dylan – looks like Dylan didn’t miss a night of golf and averaged 5.9 points per week. Well done, he earns $250 in pro shop dough.
I will be sending out an invite to the top 12 point-getters (using your 10 best scores of the season) to participate in the shootout. If I receive “no thank yous” I will extend down the list. This list can be found on the above link under “Ind Pts”.
Thanks to all for a great season!
Individual Low Gross:
- Dave Supalla – 36 (front) $5
- Todd Crandell – 36 (front) $5
Individual Low Net (odd weeks):
- 1st: Robert Monge – 30 (front) $35
- t2nd: Mark Steinhauser – 31 (back) $17.50
- t2nd: Todd Crandell – 31 (front) $17.50
$10 each goes to:
- Closest-to-Pin-in-Two #1: Rahul Tamhane
- Closest-to-Pin #4: Jason Clark
- Closest-to-Pin #8: Aaron Riedel
- Long Putt #9: Doug Maday
- Closest-to-Pin-in-Two #11: Bill Wallace
- Closest-to-Pin #12: Larry Larson
- Closest-to-Pin #17: Rick Bollin
- Long Putt #18: Rick Bollin