Ricardo Burgess, Don Shoecraft and Lee Weingart move on to the Match Play Championship

(p)Ricardo Burgess held on to a narrow lead throughout his match against John Davison not leading by more than 2 holes and finally winning 2&1. Ricardo shot an 83 to John's 82 tells you how close their match was. In the second match Don Shoecraft edged out Terry Crabtree 3&2. Terry's cold putter helped Don out by 3 putting 7 greens. Don shot an 81 and Terry shot 86. Ricardo will match against Don in the Match Play championship at Roddy Ranch on November 20th. The third match pitted Lynn Harvey against Lee Weingart in the 2nd flight. Lynn jumped out to an early lead but Lee came on strong to finish the match at 5&4. Lee ended up shooting a 98 to Lynn's 97.

In Medal play Mel Bates shot a sizzling net 67 in the first flight with Don Shoecraft and Ricardo Burgess tying for 2nd with a 69 and john Davison coming in 3rd with a 71. In the second flight Phil Footlik won with a 69, Terry Crabtree's 70 for second and Mike Hennings came in 3rd with a 72. Carson Grinnell was hot at Franklin Canyon firing a 66 for 1st place. Andy Dipaolo shot a very respectable 68 for second and Bill Halek captured 3rd with a 70. Mike Quigley, Don Shoecraft, Mel Bates, Jose Rivera and Carson Grinnell won the closest to on the par 3's.

Our next event is at Sunol on the Cypress course for a 2 person team event playing a medley of alternate shot, best ball and scramble. This will be interesting. So far only 13 players have signed up. I hope the format hasn't scared anyone away. Then on September 18th we're off to Monterey to play Laguna Seca. Again only 13 players signed up for medal play at this track. Then the dreaded yellow ball at the west course of Blue Rock Springs. 13 players have signed up for this one.

Joe Varvaro should be back for Laguna Seca after his hip replacement. We hear he is terrorizing the nurses at his assisted care facility and they're anxious to get him back at him feeding his chickens.

Tom Kruk and Tom Foley were the last team to qualify for the NCGA Senior Four-Ball Championship at the Rancho Solano site with a team score of 10 under. The championship will be at Poppy Ridge on September 7th and 8th.

Hope to see you out there

Tom