“Well that’s just stupid.”
– Chippewa Scratch League Manager Eric McKinney, upon review of the winning scorecard.
With winds of 15-20 mph that kept the rest of the field over par, Ty Kovach and Allen Freeman posted a 5-under par score of 65 in the combined total format on the front nine in the Chippewa Scratch League on Monday evening, winning by a whopping 7 shots.
16 teams braved a drizzly game-time temperature of 48 degrees (and falling!) for Week 2 of the Chippewa Scratch League.
And while in the end it was a three-way tie and a three-way skins pot split, Jim Cea had his fingers in the money yet again to become the defacto 2011 money leader.
Jim Cea and Mark Thomas each grabbed a first place finish with a partner at last Saturday’s ADGA 2-M Better Ball; Cea as a senior, Thomas in the main event. And both men continued their winning ways — each with a new partner! — in the first week of the 2011 edition of the Chippewa Monday Scratch League.
Send the runner to second: Kevin Larizza balked the pitch for the start of the first official night of the Chippewa Monday Scratch League yesterday. Instead of starting the 2-M format, yesterday’s play featured an individual $10 warm-up skins game that was originally scheduled for the previous week but was rained out. So Kevin has a justifiable reason for his balk, but the runners still move ahead.
Now the league is scheduled to officially begin this coming Monday, May 9th. (And the $50 Big Skins game will continue play every Monday at 11:30 a.m. as well.)
But the big news coming out of this off-week is that Larizza has decided to implement a fairly major rules change.
In the final Monday evening Chippewa Scratch League event of the 2010 season, the teams of Drew Thompson / Allen Freeman and Mike Simpson / Jim Kravanick tied for the top spot at 3-under par 33 in the better ball format on the back nine.
And in a spectacular season-long performance, Mike Kracker wins the 2010 Chippewa Scratch League Money List by a whopping $500, while Kracker’s partner Dr. Jeff Mallette finishes in second place.
On a beautiful night for golf with great golf course conditions, the team of Mike Simpson and Jim Kravanack posted a solid score of 2-under par 56 in the 12-hole Rosemont Jumble format, edging Mike Armour and Jason Chadima by a single shot at Monday’s Steak & Cash Night.
