2020 Men’s Club Handicap Championship
The 2020 Men’s Club Handicap Championship has now been decided. Twelfthseeded Don Romelli competed with sixthseeded David Coddington last Sunday, Sept. 13, for the honor. To add to their enjoyment, the two combined their match with the Stableford Sunday format.
The pair were tied after the first hole but on number two Don found the sand trap and David found the green. David parred and went one up. Hole three was par-par and on four, David birdied, going up two.
Both players parred five, and on six David yanked his ball out of bounds, while Don parred the hole bringing the match back to David up one hole.
On seven, David found another birdie bringing the match back to David two up and that is how the front nine ended. On hole ten both players were on the green fringe in two. There David called a one- stroke penalty on himself for ball movement but Don’s putt lipped out giving David the hole, David up three. Hole 11 was tied then Don won 12 bringing the match back to David two up. David won 13 with a par and on 14 birdied from off the green to end the match.
David, at the end of 18 holes, shot a 79 aided by his three birdies all the result of 15 to 20-foot putts. David acknowledged he had an out of the box round.
Congratulations on your win, David. Interestingly, days before the match David had a tuneup session with the wily ‘ol pro, Wayne Salyards, and a tune-up acupressure session with Carole Ray. Makes sense.
It has gone unreported and unacknowledged by Golf Notes but now is the time: Two weeks ago, local golf phenom Jim Corsar all by himself aced hole number seven. One hit across the canyon and in the hole. It was a Michael Jordon slam dunk. No bounces, no rolling, in the air and in the hole.
Gabe Jennings was playing with Jim and thought the shot was short in the sand trap but also said he thought he heard the flagpole rattle. Jim, being an engineer with a logical mind reasoned it can’t be in the trap if the flagpole rattled and he was right.
This is Jim’s third ace at the Little River Golf Course. The odds of an amateur golfer getting a hole-in- one are 12,500 to 1. To overcome these odds he used his trusty six iron and, playing with the Stableford group, he also won first place individual, and drawing Jim Ehlers, first-place partners.
Jim put his winnings to good use funding the hole-in- one tradition of buying everyone a drink.
Congratulations, Jim — a slam dunk.
David acknowledged he had an out of the box round. Congratulations on yourwin, David. Interestingly, days before thematch David had a tune-up sessionwith thewily ‘ol pro, WayneSalyards, anda tune-up acupressure sessionwith Carole Ray. Makes sense.