Month: July 2020

It felt like Fall Last Wednesday night? There wasn’t a lot of movement in the standings besides Hack Attack reclaiming the lead in their division over Putt four Dough. Foreplay had a dominating performance scoring 49 points, but were a half point off from claiming the top winning team.

Week 11 Team Winners Who’s Your Caddy $10 Each: Stan Hop, Steve Shellenbaum, Brent Lindstrom, Greg Larson, Chuck Bernardy, Doug Paquette, Steve Couture, Michael Manion

Low Net $10 Ward Eames 31

Low Gross $10 Dave Supalla 34

Skins Front $25 Each: Bill Wallace 3 on #7, Bill Guthrie 4 on #1

Skins Back $10 Each: Ward Eames 4 on #15, Mick Krause 4 on #13, Tom Scheuneman 5 on #16, Dan Kjorsvik 3 on #14, Brent Lindstrom 3 on #11

Another weekend where all the bad weather somehow missed Brookview. We had a few flirting moments but barely had a rain drop.

We had another full tournament, with 52 players. In our Gross Division we had a two-way tie at -5 (67). Congrats to Justin Wallace + Tom Nestvold and Matt Grove + Richard Brynteson for earning $57.50 and 88 BMGA Cup points for each player.

In the Net division we had another tie. At -9 (63), we had Jim Sherburne + Ward Eames and Doug Paquette + Larry Hahka. They will also receive $57.50 and 88 BMGA Cup Points each.

In third place in the Gross Division, we have Doug Paquette + Larry Hahka. They earned $35.00 for their efforts. No BMGA Cup points as they already scored a greater number in the Net Division.

Speaking of the Net, we had a massive pile up at -8 with a three-way tie for 3rd place. Congrats to Justin Wallace + Tom Nestvold, Matt Grove + Richard Brynteson and Stan Hop + Steve Shellenbaum. They will receive $12.00 for their efforts. In addition, Stan and Steve earned 16 BMGA Cup Points for the 3-way tie.

Our next weekend event is the Club Championship on August 15th and 16th.

With an undermanned team, the Brookview Senior 8-Man team was defeated by Columbia 8-4.  We missed the regular services of  the always reliable Tom Hansen,  Steve Hartmann, and Forrest Nelson.   Unfortunately Charlie Tsatsos also had a last minute work conflict and could not compete.  I am not sure how many matches were close, but here are the final results.

Mark Kraus and Doug Zuck tied their match 1 1/2- 1 1/2, so obviously that match was close.  I heard from a very reliable source that Mike Deede and Jim Sanford unfortunately did not have the usual stellar games, and they fell 0-3.  Then one of the MVP’s of the season, Perry Jacobson, and his partner Steve Houtz, won their match 2 1/2- 1/2.  I don’t think Perry has lost a match in three years (oops!  Maybe recently at Highland National).   In the final group, Steve Merriman was forced to play as a single for a few holes until Gary Ridout filled the emergency opening on hole #4.   Always the loyal competitor, Gary is rumored to have raced by local sheriffs on his way back from Wadena to get there as soon as he could.   Unfortunately, the story did not end well as they were defeated 0-3.  

Thanks to Mark Kraus for captaining yesterday.  Could be a sign of the future.  Although the weird 2020 Covid 19 season is over for the team, 2021 looks solid as we have a lot of good players.

Here are the details for the 2020 2-Man Scramble. Remember, you are going to record a SINGLE GROSS score for each hole. The computer will determine our GROSS / NET winners.

Tee Times

All tee times are off hole #1 and can be found via Golf Genius here: https://www.golfgenius.com/pages/6546073455421343707

Score Cards

Format

This is a scramble event. Each player must use at a minimum of SIX (6) drives from each player.

Handicaps

Handicaps will be determined Thursday based on 35% of the low players USGA Index and 15% high players index. Adjustments are made for Gold Tees.

We ran into a buzz saw against Fountain Valley on Sunday. Apparently, a bunch of the big guns from Valleywood decided to leave the club and join Fountain Valley because they were raising their rates (!). We actually played them very tough but came up short and lost 10.5 – 13.5.

Reports on the ground were that they had 5 rounds of 70 or lower! Trent Peterson led the charge with a smooth 66 in the first group…playing the day before the State Am at Edina CC where he would go on to finish THIRD at -9!!! Other notables were John Holmes and Justin Burleson, two guys that have had prominent amateur careers in MN. Have to think these guys should be bumped up to a higher division next year.

Mike Sustad and Kelly Gallagher led the Brookview squad with a rounds of 70 and 71. Great playing guys!

Nice job hanging in there guys. We did a great job to have a chance to beat these studs with the last group coming up 18.

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Standings are getting tight with only a few more weeks left. Whose your Caddy takes the lead in the GVC East conference scoring 50 points over Fairway to Heaven. Putt for Dough takes the lead in the GVC West after CTB pulls off a stunner over Hack Attack. CTB had some miracle putts including Joel Longo’s putt on #9 30 foot bender for Birdie and the win.

On the other side of the standings Bald Man Brewery and I Like big putts both lost but still have a commanding lead in their divisions.

Week 9 Team Winners $10 Each: “Whose Your Caddy” Kevin Stoner, Steve Wennblom, Stan Hop, Steve Couture, Brent Lindstrom, Steve Shellenbaum, Steve Slivken, Doug Paquette

Low Net $5 Each: Brad Jordan and Matt McClernan (32)

Low Gross $5 Each: Alan Johnson and Howie Hoffman (34)

Front Skin $50: Kevin Ahtou 3 on #8

Back Skins $12.50 Each: Craig Wethington 4 on #16, Darin Allen 3 on #11, Bill Wallace 2 on #12, Matt McClarren 4 on #15