Next tour stop is the Golfweek Open Major at the Club at Irish Creek June 23rd-24th 1:30 shotgun start both days!

Please email me back (Yes or No) as this event sold out fast last year.

Practice rounds are for players on the list only so sign up quickly to be able to play a practice round this week.  Play is weekdays only for $50 per player.

Tees:

Champ Flight:       Gold (Championship Tees) 7099 yards

A, B & C Flight:    Blue (Back Tees) 6489

D Flight:               White (Middle Tees) 6000 yards

For those of you new to the tour majors mean double the prize pool, double points and your National Championship paid for if you win your flight! 

Irish Creek Prize Breakdown:

Champ   A Flight    B Flight       C Flight

1^st 525    525          525             525

2^nd 250   250           250             250

3^rd  200   200           200             200

4^th  100   100           100             100

    $1025  $1025    $1025           $1025

Note: First place in each flight will be your $325 National Championship Fee paid and a $200 gift card.

      D Flight prize pool will be based on player count. 

Stand up to Cancer drive raffles for the June tournaments.  Once again the Golfweek Amateur Tours will donate a year end check to Stand up to Cancer at the Tour Championship.  To date we have raised over $28,000 around the country with Team Charlotte getting ready to support the cause. For those of you new to the tour we started are SUTC Team as a tribute to loosing one of our own Tour Directors at age 40 in 2008.  Roger Mitterling had been a director for 12 years and when he got diagnosed with cancer he was gone in less than 2 years.  Also, I lost my mother at 51 to Lymphoma and I know many of you have been touched by this terrible disease.

We will draw all the prizes day two of the major at Irish Creek.  Tickets are $20 each and you can buy as many as you want.  There will be a button on the credit card payment page for easy payment or bring check or cash to any of the tournaments.  You do not have to be present to win so please at least give on ticket a chance for the cause.

Also many tours last year did a 50/50 drawing for $10 a ticket.  At Irish Creek day one we should have over 100 players so if everyone puts in just $10ea we will have $1,000 in the pot so $500 to the winner!

Prizes include:

Free Foursome to Myer Park CC

Free Foursome to Irish Creek

Free Foursome to The Palisades

2 x $25 gift cards from Longhorns Steakhouse

2 x $25 gift cards from Chili’s

2 x $25 gift cards from Edwin Watts

Championship Flight:

Hyun Chung started his front nine in fine fashion shooting a 2 under par round 34 trying to become the first tour member this year to win 3 in a row.  Hyun’s attempt came to an abrupt halt when he made a 9 at the 12^th hole on Saturday.  That let newcomer Mark Absher and Jay Barnes in the lead where the finished tied with 74’s.  Going back to the 18^th hole Absher captured his first ever victory with a par in sudden-death, for Barnes it was his second sudden-death loss this season but just a matter of time until he get’s his first victory.  Dave Brown narrowly missed the playoff as his missed a short put on the 18^th but did manage third place on the card over the Triad’s James Moore.  Both Brown and Moore posted 75’s.

A Flight:

Roger Stevenson also won for the first time all season as he was the only A Flight player to break 80 with a winning score of 77.  Mel Hemminger from the Upstate, Kevin Ronan and Sean Robbins all fired 80’s but it was Hemminger on the card playoff grabbing second place money and Ronan third.  

B Flight:

Tim Stahlschmidt also won for the first time this year as he posted a one shot victory at 81.  Nolan Elenz narrowly missed a playoff finishing in second with 82.  BJ Haughey and Denny Miller both carded 83’s and Haughel grabbed third on the card playoff.

C Flight:

First timers again ran true as Steve Daniels captured C Flight on Saturday with a smooth 87.  Richard Cairns beat out Patrick Williams on the card for second with both players firing 91’s.  Connor Moreny brand new to the tour finished in fourth place with 95.

D Flight:

Chris Harmon won for the second time in a sudden death playoff this time after three holes.  Jay Tinch lost in the playoff but grabbed second while Joseph Rinaldi was third and Paul Aschmann fourth.

Golfweek Amateur Tour

Results from Rock Barn (Jones)

Championship Flight: 74: Mark Absher, Jay Barnes; 75: Dave Brown, James Moore; 77: Darrell Campbell, Hyun Chung; 79: Darrell Ewing, Brett Parlier.

A Flight: 77: Roger Stevenson; 80: Mel Hemminger, Kevin Ronan, Sean Robbins; 81: Stephen Shad, Wayne Wooten; 82: Josh Myers, Daniel Weber, Spencer Webster.

B Flight: 81: Tim Stahlschmidt; 82: Nolan Elenz; 83: BJ Haughey, Denny Miller; 85: Terry Upright, Tim Elliott; 86: Randy Hodges; 87: Brian Huffling, Dean Barron, Cliff Sult, Guy Roberts.

C Flight: 87: Steve Daniels; 91: Richard Cairns, Patrick Williams; 95: Connor Moreny; 97: Larry Barker; 98: Charles Mines; 101: Matthew McAvoy, Larry Hinson, Dana Greer.

D Flight: 88: Chris Harmon, Jay Tinch; 94: Joseph Rinaldi; 107: Paul Aschmann; 108: Mark Sikes, Robert Perry.