The Charleston and Columbia Tours held their joint event on April 7 at Orangeburg Country Club.  It was a difficult day due to the weather but as usual the staff at Orangeburg demonstrated the professionalism and experience in helping us complete as much as possible.  The Championship and A flights were able to complete their rounds while the B C and D flights were reduced to a common 9, nine hole tournament. 

Champ Flight- with only two players in the flight, they both knew exactly were they stood and finishing in the rain, Mathew West out dueled Jack Stone for the victory. 

In the A flight, the lead bounced back and forth all day and in the end Birmingham’s Bernie Dailey and Columbia’s Westfield Brown that tied for first place with 7 over 79’s.  The two decided to play it off on the course and it was Bernie’s par that won the tournament on the first playoff hole. 

B Flight. Charleston’s Billy Gamblin took home first place honors due in large part to his eagle 2 on the opening hole.  Columbia’s Bubba Atkinson and Augusta’s Wes Graves both finished tied for second with Bubba taking home the second place money via a scorecard playoff.

C Flight. Charleston’s Glenn Eagerton finished in first place with a nice round of 40 on the front.  Augusta’s Jason McCary and Charlestonian Vince Ackerman finish one and two shots back respectively.

D Flight  Upstates Brent Westbrook took home the first place honors via his 9 over 45.  Columbia’s Mike Flannigan also finished at 45 and since the course was unplayable we had to do a scorecard playoff with Brent winning out.  Rounding out the top three was Columbia’s Mike Bailey who finished one shot back of Brent and Mike.

Our next event is the Crowfield Social with the tournament scoring and refreshments being done at my house on hole number 1.  Please sign up early for this so I can know how much food to prepare.