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APRIL - Opening Scramble
The golf season has started for the 160 or so retirees at the Rossland Trail Golf course. We had our Official Season Opener today. The weather was great and everyone seemed to have a good time and connected with friend who they haven't seen for a while.
The winning team in our 2 best ball tournament are Ken Coupland, Larry Brandt, Norm Moll, and Brian Powell .
MAY - SPRING SHAMBLES
Great weather for playing golf greeted 25 foursome teams in the annual Retirees Host the Ladies Shambles Tournament.
Team Results - 2 Best Net Scores for the Team
1st Place (102) - Dave Crarey, Ian Glover, Doreen Campbell, David Orlando
2nd Place (104) - Louise Dewdney, Dave Muir, Maureen Elliot, Sergio Peloso
3rd Place (104) - Carolyn Caron, Robin Valentine, Dino DeRosa, Tom Keen
KP#5 - Jim King 2' 6"
KP#8 - Tom Keen 2' 9"
LP #9 - Louise Dewdney 64' 8"
KP #13 - Al Pasin 3' 8"
KP #16 - Tony Vecchio 9'
LP #18 - Terry Colautti 22' 9”
MAY - INVITATIONAL
One hundred twenty senior golfers from Birchbank, Balfour, Castlegar, Christina Lake, Champion Lakes, Colville, & Nelson enjoyed sunny, warm weather and great course conditions for the 2014 Retirees Invitational. This is one of an annual series of inter-club tournaments designed to promote friendship amongst the local golf clubs.
RESULTS:
1ST - Vic Bobbit, Jim Park, John Kazakoff, Arnie Witt (Team score 284)
2ND - Joe Danchuk, Phil Molloy, Jack Holiday, John Lundquist (285)
3RD - John Kim, Dennis Annesley, Randy Gris, George Luceri (286)
4TH - Jim Campbell, Tony DeRosa, Dick Schultz, Dave Simpson (287 on Tied breaker)
KP#5 - Dan Horan 8'6"
KP#8 - Nick Fizor 17"
LP#9 - Sergio Peloso 18'3"
KP#13 - John Curran 3' 3"
KP#16 - Merv Olson 4'3"
LP#18 - Max Egger 22’
JUNE - 666 TWO MAN
Sixty Retirees’ Club members played in their annual 6-6-6 Two Man Tournament - six holes of Total Net, six holes of Scramble and 6 holes of Alternate shot forced all the two man teams to work together in order to lower their team score.
Winners of the event with a total of 65.2 - (L to R in photo) Ian Glover and Paul Troseth narrowly beat the second place team of Fred Mattucci and Terry Colautti (65.6). KP winners - Paul Ferro, Jim Markle, Phil Molloy, Dave Orlandos. Long putt winners: Stan Trozzo & Lorne Babcock.
JUNE - CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP
The 2014 Birchbank Retirees Club Championship was held June 26 with 80 members participating.
OVERALL WINNERS
Low Gross: Ross Saundry - 72. Low Net: Greg Berglund - 63
FLIGHT A
Low Gross: Al Doherty
1st Low Net: Reg Cherenko
2nd Low Net: Al Pasin
3rd Low Net: Mark Brown
FLIGHT B
Low Gross: Serge Pasquali
1st Low Net: Albert Holm
2nd Low Net: Merv Olson
3rd Low Net: Don Szilagyi
FLIGHT C
Low Gross: John Lattanzio
1st Low Net: Len Woods
2nd Low Net: Jim Campbell
3rd Low Net: Ben Bobbit
FLIGHT D
Low Gross: Doug Glover
1st Low Net: Roy Nordquist
2nd Low Net: Gord Swedburg
3rd Low Net: Dino DeRosa
Team Results
1st: Saundry, Cherenko, McLellan, Weaver - 116
2nd: Nordwuist; Karges, DeRosa, Hadley - 117
3rd Huszti, Glover, Georgetti, Hanlon - 120
KPs
#5 - Doug Glover
#8 - Paul Troseth
#13 - Roland Caron
#16 - Rick Georgetti
LPs
#9 - Dave Crarey
#18 - Ross Saundry
AUGUST - DICE SCRAMBLE
For the Annual Dice Scramble format, it is just as important to have a good roll of the dice as it is to have a good drive. Many fantastic drives are left unused due to a bad roll of the dice to determine which drive to use on the hole.
1st Place: Phil Molloy, Pat Burke, Paul Ferro (66 - tie break)
2nd Place: Al Pasin, Jamie Pipes, Harvey Handley, Sergio Peloso (66)
3rd Place: Dave Crarey, Rick Georgetti, Tony Beatty
KP5 - Dave Ross (5')
KP8 - Jamie Pipes (3'5")
KP13 - Norm Moll (10'5")
KP16 - Paul Ferro (2'9")
LP#9 - unclaimed!
LP#18 - Wayne Weaver (10’4"
SEPT - RED, WHITE, BLUE SCRAMBLE
The Retirees Club closed their season with the annual Red-White-Blue Team Scramble.Two teams tied with scores of 6-under par 66 and a winner was declared via tie breaker.
Results are as follows:
1st Place (Team Score 66) John Lattanzio,Bruce Hadley, Jamie Pipes, John Kim
2nd Place (Team Score 66) Merv Olson, Dan Horan, Al Holm, Norman Moll
3rd Place (Team Score 68) Dave Crarey, Dino DeRosa, Stan Trozzo, Ben Bobbitt
KP #5 - Gary Robitaille 4'10"
KP #8 - Terry Panton 6'10"
LP # 9 - Merv Olson 26'9"
KP #13 - Ross Saundry 20'2"
KP #16 - Butch Palmer 10'5"
LP #18 - John Kim 10’6"