Bill Baltser and Kevin Duffy topped the field in the Men’s Back division with 42 points at the fifth MSGA One-Day event of the 2017 series. Montgomery Country Club hosted a field of 92 players on a cool, cloudy afternoon in Laytonsville that ended with light rainfall, as the final groups finished their rounds. 46 Teams competed among four divisions in a four-ball stroke play format with a stableford points system used for scoring.
Baltser and Duffy, both of whom are members of Montgomery CC, made their way around the 6,239 yard, par 72 layout with four birdies, an eagle, and no bogeys. Baltser contributed the eagle when he holed out from inside 100 yards at the short par-4 twelfth, while Duffy added the four birdies, three of them going out and the last at the short par-3 fourteenth.
The team of Jim Kyttle, Beaver Creek CC, and Michael Garner, Montgomery CC, finished with 40 stableford points to take second place gross outright in the Men’s Back division. Third place gross in the same division went to the father-son pairing of Steven and Jake Griffin of Kensington. The Griffins’ tally of 38 points included an eagle three at the par-5 ninth, but they were set back by a bogey at the fifth and a double bogey at the fifteenth.
In the net competition for the Men’s Back division, Pedro Carrasco and San Sridharan of Blue Mash GC and the MSGA eClub respectively, totaled 49 net points to take first place. Charles Griffin-Matt LaChance’s 45 points was good enough for third place in the net competition, but Baltser-Duffy finishing ahead of them with 46 net points allowed Griffin-LaChance to win the second place prize.
Third place net in the Men’s Back division was a tie at 44 points decided by a scorecard playoff between Steve Chaney-Al Aldana and Bob Daniels-David Bormel. Daniels and Bormel, from Hayfields Country Club, finished with 22 points on the back nine to Aldana-Chaney’s 20 points.
22 teams competed in the Men’s Forward division from the Gold tees measuring 6053 yards. Starting on the back nine, Jim Young, II from Beaver Creek CC, and Bob Berlinsky, Maryland National GC, tied Barry Andrews and Craig Whitaker of US Naval Academy GC for first place gross with 36 points.
Andrews-Whitaker used two birdies, two bogeys, and fourteen pars, but both birdies came on the front 9; while Berlinsky-Young, II made three bogeys on the back 9, but two back nine birdies helped offset the bogeys and win the scorecard playoff (which came down to the last 6 holes after tying the back nine with 17 points), leaving Andrews-Whitaker in second place. Third place gross went to the pairing of Thomas Blackburn-Daniel Hastings from Northwest Golf Course with 35 points.
First place net in the Men’s Forward division also netted a total of 49 points. Richard Phillips-Paul Sliwka of the Lamda Links club finished alone in first with a steady performance of 24 points on the front nine (bogey-free with six net birdies) and 25 points on the back nine, the latter of which included four net birdies and two net eagles.
MSGA eClub members Charles Karadimos and William Koustenis finished alone in second place with 48 net points. They finished their round on a high note when Koustenis birdied their last hole, the par-5 ninth, for a net eagle 3. Bob Chase, Montgomery CC, and Ray Hutzler, Hampshire Greens GC, won third place net after defeating two members of the host club, Jim Harvey and Mark McKenna in a scorecard playoff that came down to the last six holes, in which Chase-Hutzler edged out Harvey-McKenna by three points on the back nine.
Only first place net was awarded in the Mixed and Women’s divisions due to division size. Paul and Allison Fischman’s 40 points edged out Stephanie Ordakowski, Crofton CC, and Jim Banello, Patriot’s Point CC (SC), by 2 points in the mixed division. In the Women’s division, Chan Chung-Hosang Yi from Northwest GC finished with 41 net points. Their round included seven net birdies and a double bogey at the par-4 second.
Hillendale CC will host the next MSGA One-Day tournament on Friday, September 8, 2017. The format will be four-ball stroke play.
Full Payout Results
Men’s – Back
1st Gross – Bill Ballster and Kevin Duffy ***
1st Net – Pedro Carrasco and San Sridharan
2nd Gross – Michael Garner and Jim Kyttle
2nd Net – Charles Griffin and Matt LaChance
3rd Gross – Jake and Steven Griffin
3rd Net – David Bormel and Bob Daniels ***
Men’s – Forward
1st Gross – Bob Berlinsky and Jim Young, II ***
1st Net – Richard Phillips and Paul Sliwka
2nd Gross – Barry Andrews and Craig Whitaker
2nd Net – Charles Karadimos and William Koustenis
3rd Gross – Thomas Blackburn and Daniel Hastings
3rd Net – Bob Chase and Ray Hutzler ***
Mixed
1st Net – Paul and Allison Fischman
Women
1st Net – Chan Chung and Hosang Yi
