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.