Six golfers turned out for the season’s fourth round of doubles in what would be one of the most exciting finishes in memorable NFGA history. A season doubles’ record of -21 would be se ...
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Six golfers turned out for the season’s fourth round of doubles in what would be one of the most exciting finishes in memorable NFGA history. A season doubles’ record of -21 would be set between two teams who would have to play two playoff holes to settle the round.
We pick up the action on the tee for Hole 17 with the team of Sammy and Wayne at -17 leading Robby and Brad by a stroke. All four players threw nice drives giving no apparent advantage to either team.
Wayne then threw first; and promptly sliced his second shot some 6 meters up into a tree 10 meters off the right of the fairway; and there it stayed. Luckily for the team, Sammy (who had been carrying Wayne through most of the round) threw his second shot onto the left side of the fairway and about 10 meters from the hole.
Robby and Brad found themselves 15 meters out and in the fairway right side. While Sammy and Wayne attempted to retrieve Wayne’s disc from the tree, the familiar metallic whack of a hit resounded across the course. Robby had hit a double eagle from their lie to put the pressure on the leading team.
After his disc was retrieved, Wayne attempted to discuss strategy with Sammy who instead, went into some kind of a trance and threw his disc into the face of the hole for an unbelievable answer to Robby’s double! Wow! The lead team kept their one stroke advantage as the group headed for the final hole.
Robby threw first and left his team with an easy bird. Next up, Brad let loose a shot that left no doubt; RADAR WAS ON! With a couple of skips on the fairway; bingo-bango and it was an ace! It was Brad’s first of the season and his first recorded on this course! The gallery went crazy at this point and had to be corralled by league officials before the game could resume. Next up, both Sammy and Wayne hit birds leading to a playoff scenario.
On the first playoff hole, Brad went long and Robby went short, while both Wayne and Sammy had the distance but were on either side of the hole. Both teams then hit birdies on what was an uneventful first playoff hole.
On the second hole however, Robby led the group off with, of all things, another ace! Sammy and Wayne both came close but there was just not enough left to thwart the momentum that was sparked by the double eagle and aces both Robby and Brad were able to muster late in the round.
Congratulations to both Brad and Robby for a great round and well deserved victory.
MaT and Dean finished in third at -11.
With that, the all time recorded course doubles record still stands at -21 (though now in a three way tie) as originally set by the team of Sammy and Frito on April 20, 2011. And Brad joins the exclusive Ace Hole club as its fourth all time member.
And for the record, the singles season course record stands at -16 as held by MaT while the all time recorded singles course record is -19 as set by Sammy on June 8, 2011.
The League APAR still remains at 8.
This round’s anonymous sound bite was not a sound bite but rather a glazed over, strategy ignoring and much focused stare at the seventeenth hole from some 10 meters out.
