While no one played their best golf, neither did their opponents so the results were better than last week. The Fountain Valley course was in pretty good spring shape with smooth and quick greens. The top two teams in the league, University and Hiawatha, have a good head start on the rest of the league. There are nine teams within 9 points of each other covering 3rd to 11th place. The BMGA teams are in the middle of that pack.
The Valley Team defeated Valleywood 14-10, led by captain @sheldon-silberman with a sweep of 6 points (while shooting a net 81) with a clutch 35 foot putt from a green side bunker on 18 to 1 foot to push the hole and win the side and match. Chris Gaspard picked up a cool 5 points taking the front nine 2-up and tying the back with a gutsy net par on the 550 yard 15th hole to tie the back nine and staying even through the final three holes. Mark Steinhauser struggled with a net 81 but toughed out 2 points wining the back nine. Chuck Bernardy, shooting two birdies and several pars, matched his opponent with a net 74 but lost the front down 1 and tied the back.
Larry Jocelyn carried the Golden team with a 6 point sweep shooting a net 69 against the Wirth team. Richard Courtney, shooting a net 75 and matched his opponent tying the front and the back for a split of 3 points. Stan Hop had a tough day with a net 81 but was still able to pull off a tie on both the front and back for 3 points. @steve-slivken gave up 8 strokes to his opponent and could just not get a break getting swept for no points. The team tied Wirth 12-12.
The Brookview Golden Team is in 8th placed the Valley Team is in 11th place.
Next Friday is at Columbia. Valley takes on 4th place Greenhaven and Golden plays 1st place University. An opportunity for both teams to move up in the standings.
Thanks for the great write ups Sheldon!