Golfers sizzle on fairways

With sizzling summer temperatures upon our local golf community, many of you have escaped to mountain retreats offering moderate daytime highs and cool evenings that are complimented by comradery of friends and family. However, our dear friend and narrator of local golf highlight has taken this summer heat escape to the next level by jumping across the pond with his partner in crime for culinary adventures and cultural immersions. Please join me in congratulating the great local golf play presented in this week's Tee to Green — Snoopy Towers (Ghostwriter)

Bidwell Park Women's GC

The annual Chapman Tournament was hosted with partners playing a modified alternate shot scoring format; kudos to Kelly MacKinnon and Karla Dreiss for spearheading this fun format sweetening the awards with homemade cookies for the field.

Low gross over the field: Tie — MacKinnon and Dreiss and Becky Callas and Debbie McDermont (81)

Low net over the field: Gail Johnson and Barbara Joronen (60.5)

Flight 1:

First place: Pam Coleman and Barbara Albers (64.5)

Second place: Pat VanDyke and Cheryl Vermillion (70.5) Flight 2

First place: Liz Mosher and Cindy Bell (64)

Second place: Jolene Nixon and Susan Pease (67.5)

Third place: Lynne Collar and Linda Mowell (68)

Closest to pin on No. 4

First: Coleman

Second: Pease

Third: McDermont

Table Mountain WC

This week's tournament format was a team scramble, a great opportunity for players to collectively contribute. Team scoring results below.

First place team: Janet Ott, Liz Hofeling, Elaine Thomas, Leslie Vermillion

Second place team: Dana Blanton, Kris McGee, Karen Scurlock, Donna Madson

Third place team: Sally Stemen, Deb Lerner, Liz Colman

Closest to the pin on hole 3: Terry Chambers 23 feet, 6 inches

Canyon Oaks WC

A busy week for the ladies up in the canyon with two events hosted with both Cross Country and a 6-6-6 tournaments hosted in the heat.

Cross Country format offered players the chance to count their best score from hole 1 or hole 18, hole 2 or hole 17, etc. to calculate a 9-hole score of which 50% of the player's handicap was subtracted to produce a Cross Country game score. In spite of the heat, Sophia Magana shot

an amazing gross score of 82 and a net score of 68. Game results as follows:

First place: Magana — 25

Second place: Cathy Edgar — 26.5

Third place: Nancy Vieira — 28

Fourth place: Gina Davis — 28.5

Closest to pin winners First place: Joan Wagoner — 12 feet, 9 inches

Second place: Magana — 16 feet 2 inches

Third place: Cynthia Paulo — 59 feet

Birdies:

Magana — Holes 6 and 14

Edgar — Hole 2

6-6-6 Weekend Tournament

With the high temperatures, the two-day eclectic was smartly modified to a one-day event wherein 9 teams (18 players) worked to stay cool over the three formats of play: best ball, alternate shot and scramble scoring. Results as follows:

First place: Shelley Carney and Cathy Edgar (63.77)

Second place: Susan McVicker Wever and Kathy Sullivan (65.88)

Third place: Lynne Beyers and Linda Arellano (66.26)

Fourth place: Robin Smith and Konnie Marskey (66.40)

Closest to Pin Winners: First place: Marskey — 9 feet 2 inches

Second place: Evie Spring — 12 feet 10 inches

Third place: Gina Davis

— 17 feet 2 inches

18-hole highlights include:

Birdies:

Davis — hole 3 Spring — hole 6 Smith — hole 17

Butte Creek WGC

This week's first and last tournament format requires players to count their first four holes and their last five holes scores, then subtract 50% of their handicap for a 9-hole net tournament score. As with the other member club golf reported in this article, the women of BCCC complimented the extremely warm temperatures with some hot play on the course.

Flight 1

First place: Kay Kurdziel (31)

Second place: Pam Miller (32)

Third place: Sandy Fortino (33)

Flight 2

First place: JoAnne Rutledge (30)

Tie for second place: Karen Beckman and Carol Varley (34)

18-Hole Highlights: Karla Dreiss — Birdie — Hole 9

JoAnne Rutledge — Chip In — Hole 4

Tami Blofsky — Chip In — Hole 13

Butte Creek MC

The annual 3 club + putter tournament is a caddie's dream with lightweight golf bags on the shoulders and simple club selection for shots; players must only carry three selected clubs and their putter in their golf bag, requiring some serious shotmaking from tee to green.

Many players in the field embraced the hot temperatures carding 18-hole net scores in the neighborhood of par with their limited golf club arsenals, however, Brandon Harris' gross 79/net 70 tournament score prevailed for the overall title. Flight 1

First place: Harris (70) Tie for second place: Blake Barstow and Royal Hawkley (72)

Flight 2

T-First place: Mike Sohnrey and Mike Wear (73)

Third place: Alex Vasquez (74)

Senior Flight

First place: Craig Duncan (82)

Chico-Paradise SIRs

Forty strong supported the bi-monthly Sons in Retirement golf gathering at Bidwell Park GC last week. According to its guru, Darrell Hands, this was a full 100% showing of the local branch, a testament to the game of golf's camaraderie — well done SIRS.

The tournament scoring format was a fourplayer team shamble; all four players tee off, select the best drive, then all four players play their second shot from the chosen golf ball's location and finish the hole playing their own golf ball. Results as follows, net scoring counting all four golf balls.

First place: Jim Barger, Bob Mabrey, Dennis McNamara, Gary White (275.4)

Barger's gross 82/net 57 inspired his team's play. Well done!

Second place: Norm Atkin, Greg Brown, Kyle

Glaziner, Jack Knowlton (293.6)

Third place: Cap Porterfield, Doug Shook, Ken Baker, Don Sturt (298.2)

Fourth place: Dennis Bruggman, Michael Hull, Ray Quinto, Alex Van Patten (299.7)

Closest to the Pins:

The par 3 tee shot games of the SIRS were as hot as the week to come during this event. You would have thought Norm Atkin's tee shot on the 12th to 4 feet 11 inches or Lloyd Lee's effort to 3 feet 10 inches on the 2nd or even Mike Gross' play to 1 foot on the 4th were worthy of huge applause — but then, one SIR decided to be the hero at the clubhouse watering hole to make the perfect swing on the par 3 12th hole to make an ace! Congratulations to Greg Brown who ensured great hydration for all 40 SIRS after the round.

Other players taking home a little stipend for their second-place tee shot efforts were: No. 2, Bob Browning; No. 4, Baker; No. 7, McNamara; No. 12, Atkin; and No. 16, Shook.

In closing, the golf shoes have been far too big to fill in regard to this article's creation this week. Special thanks to Anderson for the opportunity to put the ink to paper this week on his behalf while abroad, an absolute privilege to report on our golf community's weekly highlights.