El Rancho sees large turnout at first event

Local teens place high in junior competition

The El Rancho Chico Golf Club enjoyed a large turnout for its first tournament of 2022, necessitating three flights. The format was a fourplayer, shamble/ scramble, wherein two scores were counted in the shamble portion.

Yellow tee flight: 1, Jeff Blocker, Chris Jenson, Mark Streets and Vic Mitchell, 85.5; 2, Jim Cagno, Cecil Braswell, Joe Gallaway and Dan White, 87.7. 3, Pat Goodwin, Phil Jones, Gary Albers and Rich Lash, 88.8. 4. Scott Donahoo, Sam Davis, Cap Porterfield and Doug Shook, 89.4.

White tees, first flight: 1, Randy Cook, Chas Gower, Lloyd Hightower and Dave Williams, 90.2; 2. Pete Huru, Shawn Anderson, Tom Aylward and Jason Roberts, 90.7; 3, Kyle Utterback, Jim Murgia, Mike Janke and Jamie Sayer, 90.9. White tees, second flight: 1, Scott Franssen, George Laver, Bob Bell and Mike Bell; 2, Bill Kanner, Paul Kanner, Don Davidson and Dennis Bruggman; 3, Dan Davis, Jennifer O’Donoghue, Tom O’Donoghue and Davis Smith.

Closest to the pin contest: No. 2, Braswell; No. 4, Smith; No. 7, Gower; No.16, Chris Malone.

The Bidwell Women’s Golf Club held its January pro-points tournament last week.

First flight low gross: Kelly MacKinnon, 86. Low net: 1, Karla Dreiss, 72; 2, Debi McDermont, 75. Second flight low gross: Barbara Albers, 103. Low net: 1, Sara Simmons, 78; 2, tie, Jolene Nixon and Eleanor Calvert, 81. Third flight low gross, tie, Susan Lanier and Susan Pease, 114. Low net: Deena Cooper, 84.

Table Mountain GC

Sally Stemen was low gross with a score of 86 in the Table Mountain Women’s weekly tournament. Leslie Vermillion took low net at 74. The game was called “Par 5 Delight” wherein players could revert their score on the par five holes back to par if needed.

First flight: 1, Liz Hofeling, 71; 2, Sherrie Sue, 73, card-off; 3, Traci Cvitkovich, 73; 4, Deb Miller, 74.

Second flight: 1, Paula Brush, 69; 2, Karen Scurlock, 71; 3, Pam Weichert,

72, card-off; 4, Betty Horton, 72. Third flight: 1,

Pam Eaton, 70; 2, Elaine Thomas, 74; 3, Jody Thompson, 75; 4, Twyla Buck, 76. Closest to the pin on No. 12: Stemen.

Canyon Oaks CC

The Canyon Oaks Women’s Golf Club were required to decide on which nine holes to count toward their score before teeing off for their weekly game called appropriately “Any Nine”.

First flight low gross: Shelley Carney, 86. Low net: Cynthia Paulo, 73. Game: 1, Sally Pearson; 2, Paulo; 3, Linda Allen. Second flight low gross and low net: Vickie Spelts, 93/71. Game: 1, Spelts, 28 (no kidding); 2, Nancy Taylor, 28.5; 3, Sue Osterholt, 29. Closest to pin on No.

12: 1, Paulo; 2, Evie Spring; 3, Karen Olson.

The club played a “blind draw” scramble tournament last week as well.

No. 1, Linda Allen, Nancy Evans and Taryn Mehan, 60; 2, Robin

Smith, Vickie Spelts and Heather Fowler, 61.8; 3, Shelley Carney, Kathy Sullivan and Dorothy Cranston, 64.9; 4, Karen Escott, Nan Wysong and Jakki Thomas, 65.9. Closest to pin on No. 6: 1, Carney; 2, Allen, 3, Evie Spring.

The club also held its

Annual Awards Dinner last week. Shelley Carney was honored as the reigning club champion. Nancy Vieira was awarded Player-of-the-Year. The Most Improved Player was Linda Arellano. Arellano lowered her handicap from 22.5 to 16.3, not easy to do at Canyon Oaks. The Most Inspirational award was presented to Linda Alworth who also serves as the club’s handicap chair. Captain Sally Pearson, turned over her Captain’s gavel to Cynthia Paulo, who will serve in that capacity for two years. Pearson becomes the co-captain for 2022.

Butte Creek CC

The Butte Creek Women’s Golf Club played a game called “ONES” counting only the scores beginning with those letters.

First flight: 1, Sandy Fortino, 32; 2, Irma Jenkins, 33; 3, tie, Karla Dreiss, Sally Hayes and Kay Kurdziel, 34. Second flight: 1, Darlene Thomasson, 33; 2, tie, Paula Rich and Joan Bequette, 35.

Junior Golf

The Junior Golf Association of Northern California tournaments began in earnest in January, starting with the 36-hole Haggin Oaks Shoot-Out. Tommy

Ma took first in the boy’s 12-13 age division. Hyunhu Na took the second spot. Amy Na finished second in the girls 14-15 age division. Andrew Ma took seventh in the boys 14-15 age division, shooting a fine round of one-over par 73 the second day.

Spectacular shots

Pat Hallin holed out his 138-yard approach shot on the 11th hole at Butte Creek for an eagle two. Witnessing Hallin’s perfect 7-iron shot find the bottom of the cup, and undoubtedly paying handsomely for the privilege, was his playing companion Jim Sands. Amazing what some people will do to get their name in the golf column, just saying.

National contest

Registration opens today for all local qualifying sites throughout the country to participate in the National Drive, Chip and Putt contest. Visit www.drivechipandputt.com for details. Local qualifying will be held at Butte Creek CC, Thursday, July 14.