The Charleston and Upstate Tours along with members from 9
visiting tours took to the mountains this past weekend!! Lake Lure’s Bald Mountain Golf resort
welcomed them and to say the golf and views were spectacular is an
understatement. Everyone enjoyed themselves,
spectacular views rivaling what we will see in September at the Ryder Cup we to
be had everywhere!
The weekend started early with a 8:30 AM shotgun start both
days. All the golfers assembled at Lake
Lure for Day one of the tournament. The
Championship Flight was led by Kyle Moffett and Chris White who both fired
opening rounds of 3 over par to share the lead.
Mike Cobb was sitting two shots back and 3 other golfers, B.J. Hill, T.A
Fulmer and Bill Jenner were three shots back making it anyone’s game on
Sunday.
On Sunday it was just a matter of who would step up and take
it. While Kyle Moffett equaled his day one score, the field was run over by
Bill Jenner and his five Birdies to secure a one-shot victory over Kyle
Moffett.
The A flight had some spectacular golf on display, Sat at
Lake Lure, Jim Goulding fired a one over par 73 to take a one-shot lead on
Boone Wanner who posted a spectacular 74. James Badgley and Lee Dixon were 3
and 4 shots back respectively. On Sunday
Boone and Jim battled back and forth both posting very nice rounds of 80 to
take the top two spots while Westfield Brown had the round of the day and fired
a 3 over par 75 to climb into the third spot!
The B flight started Sat with three golfers firing first
rounds of 85 to be tied for Second Place five shots behind leader Tim Sumption
who eagled his final whole of the day.
Sunday Started with Tim going five over on the first three holes to
wedge a tie between him and two other golfers.
Tim’s second day 84 was enough to secure a two-shot victory over Jamie
Branham. David Smith, Jason Courtney and Chris Franklin rounded out the top
five.
The C flight started on Saturday like the B flight with
three guys firing 84’s to finish the first day one shot in back of Bruce
Berdine. This left it wide open for
Sunday on a course that could easily bring the field together or separate depending
upon the score. As expected, the difficult
mountain course opened up the field and it was Ed Cassady who posted a very
solid round of 85 and climbed to the top of the leaderboard to secure the one-shot
victory over Mark Dyvig and Randal Garver.
The D flight had the only playoff as Charleston’s David
Deese who had just lost in a playoff at the Match play event to his son, proved
to be to tough for the youngster Alex Franklin.
The two were tied after a two day total of 180, four shots up on Al
Hooper (184) and took to the 18th hole with the spectators viewing
from the scoring porch. David rolled in
a a nice par putt to secure the victory!
Overall it was a great time had by all and we are already
looking at dates for next year!