In the Super Senior Division, amateur Lynn Martin of Findlay posted a sterling 6-under par 64 to finish at 1-under par for the tournament and win by one shot over Bryan Abbott of Stuart, FL.

SUPER SENIOR DIVISION

He now has the driver he’s been looking for, and I have money I can toss into the next big skins pot. Win-win.

If you have golf gear you want to sell, list it for FREE(!) in the Classified Ads section of Northeast Ohio Golf. Pick a club that’s taking up space in your garage, take a picture of it, post the details, list a price, and get it sold…

With almost no wind and relatively straight-forward hole locations, a 2-over par aggregate team score of 74 was all it took to get the job done and tie for first place on the evening.

Yes the rough was a bit thick, and yes the greens still aren’t 100%, but the course was there for the taking.

The teams of Dave Oates / Nick Lambos and Rick Bryson / Ryan Maxwell played well enough to take advantage of the opportunity,tying for first place on the evening to get their names well up on to the 2012 League Standings list.

Three skins were won from the $1,000 pot; one of those skins was earned by the Bryson/Maxwell team, making them the big winners on the evening!
 

2012 CHIPPEWA SCRATCH LEAGUE: Week 2 May 14 – Aggregate Back 9
T1 – Oates – Lambos 74 GCs-TBA $240.00 PP
T1 – Bryson – Maxwell 74 GCs-TBA $240.00 PP
3rd – Mallette – Kracker 75 GCs-TBA
 

Skins
Helaney – Berkheimer #11 (7) $333.00
Bryson – Maxwell #12 (5) $333.00
Skorman – Stephen #16 (7) $333.00

Even with the inflated $3.9 million dollar purchase price, Banbury still retains ownership of the 10 commercially-zoned acres around the clubhouse and its main buildings — a sweetheart deal by any definition. Banbury paid $2.5 million for the entire property in 2007.

So what, if anything, can still be done?

The total cost of the deal is $4.521 million (with the additional funds over the purchase amount used for watershed restoration), and must still be ‘approved’ by the Ohio EPA. But since the Ohio EPA is the agency who pushed for the project and are the funding source for it, that pending approval process appears to be a sham strictly for public show.

The only recourse now is to contact Governor John Kasich and the Ohio EPA to point out the inherent waste of taxpayer dollars in such a transaction, and to write letters to state and federal representatives and local newspapers to put pressure on the proceedings.

1 Steve Mulcahy Lima Shawnee CC 32-33–65 -7 $1,300.00
T2 Eric Morgan Plum Brook CC 33-36–69 -3 $850.00
T2 Mike Emery Brookside 34-35–69 -3 $850.00
T4 David Morgan Eagle Creek GC 38-32–70 -2 $600.00
T4 Robert Moss Pepper Pike Club, The 37-33–70 -2 $600.00
T4 Ryan Stocke Tippecanoe 35-35–70 -2 $600.00
T4 Dan Doyle Chagrin Valley 37-33–70 -2 $600.00
T4 Dennis Miller Mill Creek Park G C 37-33–70 -2 $600.00
T4 Matthew Ball Westbrook CC 37-33–70 -2 $600.00
T4 Jason Reddington Beechmont 35-35–70 -2 $600.00
T11 Benjamin Farina Oberlin 33-38–71 -1 $387.50
T11 Jaysen Hansen Belmont CC 36-35–71 -1 $387.50
T13 Brandon Veld Portage 37-35–72 E $337.50
T13 Thomas Herzan Findlay CC 36-36–72 E $337.50
T15 Nick Gustin Erie Shores GC 36-37–73 +1 $225.00
T15 Mike Stone Maumee SportsMall Golf Center 36-37–73 +1 $225.00
T15 Larry Manski Portage 37-36–73 +1 $225.00
T15 Olle Karlstrom Quail Hollow Country Club 38-35–73 +1 $225.00
T15 Tony Adcock Lakeview GC 36-37–73 +1 $225.00
T15 Scott Brotebeck Canterbury 38-35–73 +1 $225.00
T15 Karen Paolozzi Chagrin Valley 39-34–73 +1 $225.00
T22 Jake Scott Elyria 37-37–74 +2 $17.86
T22 Matthew Creech Sand Ridge 37-37–74 +2 $17.86
T22 Mike Shulas Salem 37-37–74 +2 $17.86
T22 Daniel Terry Dick’s Sporting Goods 38-36–74 +2 $17.86
T22 Mitch Flemming GolfTec 36-38–74 +2 $17.86
T22 Ben DeArmond Highland Meadows GC 38-36–74 +2 $17.86
T22 Adam Craig Findlay CC 38-36–74 +2 $17.86
 

Senior Division
1 Tom Atchison Congress Lake 35-34–69 -3 $700.00
T2 Mitchell Camp Walden G & CC 36-36–72 E $366.67
T2 Bob Barto West Pines Golf Range 35-37–72 E $366.67
T2 Thomas Waitrovich Lakewood 35-37–72 E $366.67
5 Brad Heilman Dick’s Sporting Goods 35-38–73 +1 $200.00

Pete Skirpstas and Jeremy King played flawless golf in the 2012 Turkeyfoot 2-Man Scramble

They shot a score that no one in the field would have predicted as the winning total before play began, maximizing every opportunity they had.

On a golf course with firm greens and difficult hole locations set near every edge and ridge that Charlie Mozingo could find, the pair shot a blazing 13-under par score of 58.

How ‘maximized’ was their round?

- Six birdies on the front nine for a score of 30, five birdies and an eagle on the back nine and a score 28;

- A bogey-free performance in which they won by two;

- On the drivable 14th hole, their closest tee shot was past the hole on the upper shelf with the pin set just below the ridge, leaving a shot almost impossible to get close. So they decided to take the ball short of the green in the fairway for an uphill chip. They promptly holed out the pitch shot;

- On the really difficult par-3 15th hole, they missed the green and left themselves a somewhat substantial putt for par from the edge of the rough. Just when it looked like the pair might make their first bogey of the day, they holed the putt from off the green.

It was a record-setting performance of which the pair should be proud.

Finishing in second place was the team of Lenton and Heim with a great score of 11-under par 60. Usually, such a score wins in a walk.

Dave Sotka and Nick Anagnost finished in third place at 10-under par, matching the sizzling back nine score of 28 by the winners.

For as great as those three teams played to earn the top spots, the way the results of the big skins game unfolded is more a story of unbelievable ‘good fortune’. Bob Burkheimer and partner Karim were last minute walk-up entries to the event on Saturday. On the par-4 5th hole, Burkheimer’s tee shot bounced untouched through the pine trees on the right and finished in the fringe pin high. With a swooping right-to-left putt from about 22 feet, Burkheimer putted first for the team and missed about 3 feet too high and past the hole. The ball stopped momentarily then started slowly creeping down the hill. You guessed it: the missed putt ended up in the bottom of the cup. More amazingly, even though the hole played a mere 275-yards, no other team eagled it. When Tim Davis’ team, playing as the last group of the day, chipped in for eagle on the par-5 16th hole to squash the only other skin outstanding (owned up to that point by Jeff Barbas and Joe Tornabene), Burkheimer and Karim won the entire skins pot: a whopping $1,280. Makes for a pretty happy last-minute decision to play, and some ‘good fortune’.

Thanks to Tim Davis, Charlie Mozingo and the rest of the staff at Turkeyfoot for another great spring scramble, as always. The golf course was in great condition and the field was a whopping 65 teams, showing that scratch tournament golf in Northeast Ohio is making a true resurgence.
 

FINAL RESULTS:
2012 Turkeyfoot Spring 2-Man Scramble
Turkeyfoot Lake Golf Links, Green, Ohio
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Par 71

1 King/Skirpstas 30-28=58 | $800

2 Lenton/Heim 30-30=60 | $700

3 Sotka/Anagnost 33-28=61 | $600

T4 Crewse/Vincelette 32-30=62 | $415
T4 Mallette/Kracker 32-30=62 | $415
T4 Schrader/Tarter 32-30=62 | $415

T7 Lambos/Simpson 33-30=63 | $280
T7 Brick/Smith 33-30=63 | $280
T7 Leeds/Anderson 32-31=63 | $280

T10 Bishop/Davidson 31-34=65 | $165
T10 Light/Schembechler 33-32=65 | $165
T10 Bartruff/Lester 33-32=65 | $165
T10 Anderson/Meade 33-32 65 | $165

OUT OF THE MONEY
T14
Kloetzer/Karamas 35-31=66
Johnson/Jadgchew 34-32=66
Kopcsil/Kopcsik 35-31=66
Barto/Spino 35-31=66
Freeman/Kovach 35-31=66
Savage/Shuff 35-31=66
Schustrich/Okeson 34-32=66

T21
Fisher/Fisher 67
Cutlip/Stormer 67
Phillips/Davis 67
Andrews/McClure 67
Nemeth/Marr 67
Miller/Russell 67
Stack/Martin 67
Thornton/Roberts 67
Miller/Lahnan 67

T30
Baugh/Demeter 68
Fricker/Lowry 68
Vellios/Wade 68
Tarter/Hedrick 68
Horner/Wenger 68
Cutlip/Barry 68
Livak/Sinclair 68
Grosso/Burnett 68
Cea/Bell 68

T39
Kimson/Patton 69
Seever/Davis 69
Conway/Mischiff 69
Duda/Barber 69
Armour/Trier 69

T44
Heestand/Bognar 70
Letson/Marsinek 70
Harbert/Risaliti 70
Woodrum/Kern 70
Martz/Fannin 70
Keshock/Keshock 70

T50
Diebold/Beck 71
Barbas/Tornabene 71
Selzer/Senglas 71

T53
Dieckman/Hinkle 72
Fogarty/Eberley 72
Burkeheimer/Karim 72
Murphy/Trenta 72
Plute/Miller 72
Wood/Miller 72

T59
Essik/Woody 73
Rybka/Rohde 73

61 Eastman/Roth 74

T62
Linn/Weaver 75
Voight/Caporletti 75

64 Marshall/Ede 76

65 O’Boyle/Johnson 86
 

SKINS:
Burkeheimer/Karim – Eagle 2 on Hole #5 – $1,280

Absolutely perfect weather conditions greeted the players at Manakiki on Saturday, and the scores reflect those conditions. The team of Joe Mannix and Shane Ash shot a 10-under par score of 62 to win by a shot. Joe Mannix also was part of the team that won the first event of the year as well at Sleepy Hollow.

1. Joe Mannix and Shane Ash – 62
2. Mark Hubert and Kevin Hagen 63
3. Brad Poe and Dave Stover – 64
4. Cary Slabaugh and Chris Dietz – 65
5. Ward Crane and Ron Ritner – 66

A total of 26 Teams competed.
 

UPDATED STANDINGS:
2012 Cleveland Metroparks Golf Player of the Year

Carl “Unc” Quercioli of Munson Township, who finished fourth on last year’s Leaderboard with a four-figure winnings total, captured the only skin on the night — and with it a giant payday.

Unc’s birdie on the 158-yard par-3 5th hole was worth a whopping haul of $482!

Another senior, Geoff Nicely took home the pin shot on that same 5th hole, hitting it 5-feet away. But Nicely missed the putt, allowing “Unc” to be all smiles when he came into the clubhouse to learn of his good fortune. Nicely earned $63 for the pin shot.

(Both Nicely and “Unc” play in the “over 55″ category, where the rules permit senior players to hit from the white tees. But the advantage did not make any difference in today’s round, as all players hit from the blue tees on the par three holes each week.)

The other winner on the night was Erron Gomez, who was the only player in the 21-man field to hit the green on the par-3 205 yard 8th hole. Gomez took the Mulligan’s Pin Shot on that hole, worth $84.

Holes #1, 3, 6, 8, and 9 went without a birdie made — a pretty large number for 21 players.

The greens rolled true and the course was in excellent shape, and the Skins Game thanks Powderhorn for the great green fee rate offered.

Mark Borlin still holds the top spot on the 2012 Leaderboard, but “Unc” and the rest of the field is in hot pursuit of Borlin as we head to week 5 next Thursday at Tanglewood National G.C starting at 5 p.m.

2012 GREATER CLEVELAND SKINS GAME LEADERBOARD – WEEK 4