Christian Wakeford – Champ Flight, Joshua VanCampen – A Flight, Eddie Murray – B Flight, David Greeno – C Flight and Randy Guminski – D Flight all won the inaugural Great Lakes Regional hosted by American Dunes Golf Club!
The Great Lakes Regional brought members from 16 of our local Tours across the country to Grand Haven Michigan for the first Michigan held Regional. American Dunes hosted 102 Golfweek Amateur Tour players to "Golf's Most Heroic Round!" American Dunes Memorializes the birthplace of Folds of Honor. American Dunes Golf Club's impact is over $1,000,000 annually to the Folds of Honor Foundation, over $3,000,000 to date. These life-changing donations are a direct result of guests such as Golfweek Amateur Tour players playing Golf's Most Heroic Round. Together, we honor their sacrifice and educate their legacy. Golfweek Amateur Tour helped to raise $750 to Folds of Honor by raffling a set of Srixon ZX7 irons, donated by our Tour sponsor Srixon. Ryan Beere was the lucky recipient of the irons. Thank you to all who participated and donated.
In the Championship Flight, Christian Wakeford (Chicago) led wire to wire to capture the victory with a 72/79 (151) over the weekend. Shooting the second lowest round of the day on Sunday was Matt Green (Cincinnati/Dayton) in 2nd place with 78/75 (153). In 3rd place, carding a low round on Day Two, was John Chupp (Michigan West) with 80/74 (154). Low Round-Non-Winner prize of $50 was given out to the player in each flight who shoots the lowest round on Sunday but does not quite make it into the prize money. The LRNW prize in the Championship Flight went to Justin Osborn (Michigan East) 79, beating out Chris Pontello’s (Michigan East) 79 with the tie breaker.
In the A Flight, there was another wire-to-wire winner. Joshua VanCampen (Michigan East) went low on Saturday with a 74 and maintained the lead for the win on Sunday with an 80 (154). Billy Ray Hinojos (El Paso, TX/Las Cruces, NM) took 2nd place with a consistent 81/81 (162). A scorecard tiebreaker was needed to settle the positions between two players with total scores of 163. Coming down to Sunday’s round, Brandon Farrell (Michigan East) shot 80 taking 3rd place and Virginia Gilton (Michigan East) shot 82 taking 4th place. Going to another scorecard playoff with total scores of 165. Came down to Sunday, John Ciccone (Michigan East) carded 80 claiming 5th place and Zach McTheeney (Michigan West) carded 89 taking 6th place. LRNW prize went to Joe Digiorgio (Cincinnati/Dayton) with a 79 on Sunday.
In the B Flight, Eddie Murray (Michigan West) claimed victory by having an outstanding Sunday round with a 79, taking the win with a 167 overall. With a three-way tie for 2nd place, it all came down to Sunday’s round. Chris Rocha (Paso, TX/Las Cruces, NM) reported a 87 claiming 2nd place, Adam Ogonowski (Denver) carding a 91 and Scott Rhoades (Michigan East) shooting a 91 placing them in 3rd and 4th place. Directly behind them with a 177 was Wally Bromberek (Chicago) taking 5th place. LRNW prize went to Aaron Lalonde (Michigan West) with an 87.
In the C Flight, it was a tight race, but David Greeno (Michigan West) took the win with a 1 stoke lead of 92-89-181 over 2nd place Ken DeLong’s (Michigan West) 87-95-182. Not far behind was Chris Becks (Charlotte) in 3rd place with a 184. Rounding out the top 5 were Michael Aschberger (Milwaukee) winning LRNW with a 92 and Ryan Cecil (Cleveland/Akron), both with 185.
In the D Flight, Randy Guminski (Michigan West) took a commanding lead on Saturday with an 89. He kept the same momentum into Sunday and won by 5 strokes (183) over 2nd place Robert Benavides’ (Cincinnati/Dayton) 188. Vying for 3rd place came down to Sunday’s round to claim 3rd place. Lee Waldeck (Michigan East) carded 94, and Po Lehman (Tampa) reported a 95 who also won the LRNW along with Bill Roelfsema (Michigan West) who all shot 190.
American Dunes Golf Club was a wonderful host and have reminded us all as to why our “Freedom is not Free”. Thank you everyone for honoring those who have sacrificed by supporting Folds of Honor.
Thank you to everyone who participated, and we look forward to seeing you next year.
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