Both of the BMGA Metro Senior teams descended on Valleywood in hopes of gaining ground in the last few weeks of the season. Even though some changes have been made to the course and many trees have been removed resulting in stumps and wood chips, our boys had a pretty good day.
The Golden Team slammed last place Gross (who only brought two players) taking 22 of the possible 24 points and jumping up in the standings from 11th to 8th place. @Dan-Olson (net 69) and @Gary-Ridout (net 69) took 6 points each. Captain @Roger-Hamm (net 73) and @Ward-Eames (net 76) both took 5 points.
According to Dan Olson: “The most noteworthy thing that happened was hole 7 (par 3); I almost aced it, ending up 4 feet past the hole. My opponent is on the green maybe 50 feet away. Ward is over the green, nearly in the hazard. So Ward chips in for birdie; John makes a 50 foot putt for birdie, leaving me with a tricky 4 foot putt. But I made it! All 3 of us birdied the hole!”
Valley Team continued their winning ways with a solid 17-7 win over Green Haven. Both @Ramiro-Sifuentes and @Dean-Penk shot 37 on the front nine. Dean was up 3 at the turn but Ramiro gave 2 strokes to his opponent and pushed for a tie on the front. Dean kept the petal to the metal and shot a 39 on the back for a net 64 and took all 6 points. Ramiro shot a nice 40 on the back for a net 68 and won the back and the match for 5 points. @Richard-Courtney bounced back from last week and took 5 points tying the back nine by winning the last three holes for a net 71. @Jim-Husnik shot a net 68 but could only scratch out a tie on the front nine for 1 point. Even with 17 points gained the team dropped from 5th to 6th in the league but only 1 point behind the two teams tied for 4th and 4 points out of 3rd.
Next week we play at Como where Golden takes on 7th place Columbia and Valley plays the 13th place host team. Two weeks to go and we are moving up!
To find out more on the league, see Sheldon or Roger.
