Onion Creek - Home of the Legends of Golf
Scott R Chilcutt, Austin, TX (June 8, 2014) It was fitting that the Hill Country Tour returned to the "Birthplace of the Senior PGA Tour", Onion Creek Club, on a weekend that the Champions Tour played the Big Cedar Lodge, Legends of Golf, presented by Bass Pro Shops.
While the Order of Merit points continue to shift standings around, the Summer Series hit its third event in the three weeks before a break for the San Antonio Open and finally the heat of the season brings out the ice towels.
Homer Turbeville, Sarazen and Charles Cox, Senior Jones, played a Srixon ball and made the best of the Srixon ball promotion. They will both receive a dozen of their choice, for winning their respective flights. Playing in Palmer Flight, Walter Manuet, takes home the Tournament Champion Trophy, presented by Carlisle's Engraving, one stroke clear of playing partner Allan Collier.
RESULTS:
Championship Flight: Playing out of Castroville, TX, Reagan Rothe may have had some three putt woes, but in the end didn't stop him from picking up his second win on four attempts on the season. Rothe birdied the par 5 - 5th and played the back nine in +3 to finish two strokes clear of Tanner Spani of Del Rio, TX. Spani, possibly spending a little too much time on 6th Saturday night, finished three strokes clear of Austin, TX player Sean Skellenger, rounding out the top three.
Palmer Flight: In a combined Palmer / Senior Palmer flight, two Seniors fight it out for the title. Houston Tour member, Walter Menuet made an eagel on the par 5 - 12th hole that would ultimately be enough to force extra holes with Scott Williams of College Station, TX. Williams, in his third playoff of the year made his second in as many attempts count on the first sudden death hole for his second win of the season and fifth on tour. Austin, TX first year member, Ken Shapiro finished just two strokes back of the leaders finishing in the show position.
Hogan Flight: Bryan Wood of Leander, TX played the par three holes in -1, with birdies on two of them, picking up his first win on the season and fifteenth on tour. Two strokes back, Don Koether of LaGrange, TX and Killeen, TX resident, Derrick Matthews shared the runner up honors, but did it in different ways. With a lone birdie on the par 4 - 14th, Koether matched scores with Matthews that carded six birdies on the round, three on each side, with a very colorful scorecard.
Senior Hogan Flight: Georgetown, TX player, Darrell Wilson, matched the low front nine score in the flight with the help of a birdie on the par 4 - 9th and was able to squeak in for a one stroke advantage. It was Wilson's seventh win on tour and first since the 2012 The Legends of Golf Classic, played on the Original Course. Bob Tuttle of Kingsland, TX had his best finish of the season in the runner up spot with Houston Tour member and resident, Bruce Beakley rounding out the top three,
Sarazen Flight: Senior members prevail in another combined flight, when Homer Turbeville of Lakeway, TX shot a +4 on the back nine to edge out, Leander,TX player Joshua Douglas by a stroke. The win was Turbeville's second on the season and fifth on tour. Douglas, with birdies on the par 3 - 2nd and par 4 - 12th made it his second runner up finish on the year to go with his win at The Challenge @ River Place in April. Playing in his first event of the season, Jack Holt of Boerne, TX captured the third place spot.
Jones Flight: Nearly matching outfits, playing out of the same cart in a twosome seemed a little more than coincidental when Houston Tour Member, Patrick Richardson playing out of The Woodlands, TX and San Antonio, TX member Xavier Bardy finished with the same scores. That finish, three strokes clear of the third place spot, sent them back out in a Committee supervised playoff, where Bardy finished on top for his fifth win of the season. Artis Stewart of Houston, TX rounded out the top three.
Senior Jones Flight: In what became the third playoff of the day, Donald Bebout of Lakeway, TX had to make a quick turnaround from his departure to play an extra hole with Austin, TX member Charles Cox. Cox, already qualified for the National Championship with a T2 at the November Fall Classic at Tunica and playing in his first local event on the season, finished out with the sudden death win on the first playoff hole. Houston Tour member, Mark Boles of Sealy, TX making his third appearance on the Hill Country Tour in as many weeks took home the third place points.
Snead Flight: Art Henry of Victoria, TX, one of many playing out of the Houston Tour to join us on the day, took six strokes off the front nine on the back, to finish one stroke clear of Fischer, TX player Rickie Franklin for his first win on tour. One stroke back of Franklin, D Nair of Austin, TX shot his best score on tour and matched his best finish, a T3 at the Round Rock Open - Forest Creek.
SKINS:
Giant Skins: 1 -- Walter Menuet, Houston, TX; Demetrio Young, Killeen, TX; Rick Houchins, Houston, TX; Xavier Bardy, San Antonio, TX; Mark Boles, Sealy, TX.
Championship / Palmer: 1 -- Nash Armstrong, Killeen, TX; Allan Collier, Sugar Land, TX; Walter Menuet, Houston, TX; Ken Shapiro, Austin, TX; Kody Cundy, San Antonio, TX.
Hogan / Senior Hogan: 5 -- Derrick Matthews, Killeen, TX. 1 -- Don Koether, La Grange, TX; Jerry Smith, Salado, TX; Darrell Wilson, Georgetown, TX; Bob Tuttle, Kingsland, TX.
Jones / Senior Jones: 3 -- Aaron Seafous, Austin, TX. 1 -- Xavier Bardy, San Antonio, TX; Artis Stewart, Houston, TX; Mark Boles, Sealy, TX.
Sarazen: 3 -- Joshua Douglas, Leander, TX. 1 -- Kristopher Bixby, Katy, TX; Rick Houchins, Houston, TX; Homer Turbeville, Austin, TX.
Snead: 3 -- Art Henry, Victoria, TX. 2 -- Larry Atchley, Kyle, TX; D Nair, Austin Tx. 1 -- Dwain Smith, Round Rock, TX; Larry Harper, San Antonio, TX; Javier Quintero, Houston, TX.
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