Little River Men’s Club Abalone Golf Tournament
Annual Little River Men’s Club Abalone Golf Tournament
The 2021 Annual Little River Men’s Club Abalone Golf Tournament was wet…. and dry. Fifteen fiveman teams, seventyfive players, showed up for the two-day event, Saturday and Sunday the 18th and 19th of September with a practice round on Friday the 17th. The predicted rain for Saturday came.
All teams began Saturday morning with a shotgun start. Meaning every team was assigned a starting hole and at the sound of the shotgun began their round. Drizzly rain also started from the start and continued the whole 18 holes sometimes falling harder occasionally stopping. At rounds end the common exclamation was,
“I’m soaked. I’m going home to a warm shower.”
Mushing through and placing first on the beginning day was team S. Goeken, Taylor, Gausemal, Pickel, and Johansen. Last names only are given as that’s how they were presented on the leader board. In the tournament format, the three best scores on each hole were recorded handicaps in play. This team placed first with 194 strokes. Team Woodruff, Carr,
Brunton, Campbell, and Brown with 197 strokes placed 2nd. Third place was captured by team Hanover, Roe, M. Harrick, Macy, and Comer. Closest to the pin on hole two was Carmichael, on hole seven Roe, on nine Flynn, and on sixteen G. Pardini. The low net for Saturday was Shellman scoring a 66 with Delore getting a 65-low net on Sunday. Low Gross for both days was S. Goeken shooting a 72 and a 75.
Sunday’s weather was great mostly blue sky. Golfers even pulled off their jackets and played bare-armed. The greens were back to normal and what was not normal was for the team who places first on the first day of the tournament to win the whole thing. But they did. Rare. Hardly ever happens. Team S. Goeken, Taylor, Gausemal, Pickel, and Johansen shot another 194 for a two-day 388 and are the 2021 Ab
alone Champions. Congratulations. The second-place team scoring 392 was team Turner, Cimmiyotti, McQueen, Flynn, and Burke. Shooting 394. Third place was team Meuschke, DeLore, Henderson, Salie, and Berry. Coming in fourth and final place with a 394 was team Shellman, Myers, K. Baumgartner, P. Baumgartner and Swensen. Both the 3rd and 4th place teams shot a 394 but the Meuschke team shot a better back nine on Sunday which was the tiebreaker.
Scott Deitz did the Full Deitz all weekend which is walking the course carrying his bag also Ralph Turrentine did the Deitz as well as 78-year-old Tom Salie. Also on Sunday Bill Gibney made an unusual birdie on fourteen chipping to the hole hitting Peter Barg’s ball on the fly and ricocheting in for the three. Peter should have gotten the assist. It was a great tournament thanks to all board members and volunteers who made it possible.