Tournament

Team Tournament Individual Results

DIV San Diego (SD) Wins Loss Ties
MPO1 Micah Doius 2 2 3
MPO2 Carlo Pelg 5 2 0
MPO3 Max Nichols 2 3 2
MPO4 Luke Christianson 2 4 1
MPO5 Tyler Tremelling 3 3 1
MPO6 Mason Newstead 2 3 2
MPM1 Dave Devine 4 2 1
MPM2 Mike Westerman 3 3 1
MPM3 Mike Slonim 4 2 1
MPG Jeff Nichols 3 0 4
MPS Fred Aguero 4 2 1
FPO Shonda Garcia 2 5 0
36 31 17
DIV Santa Cruz (SC) Wins Loss Ties
MPO1 Avery Jenkins 1 5 1
MPO2 Shasta Criss 3 2 2
MPO3 Tony Tran 3 3 1
MPO4 Myles Harding 2 4 1
MPO5 Matt Bell 2 3 2
MPO6 Chris Foss 0 6 1
MPM1 Jon Baldwin 7 0 0
MPM2 Jim Hagen 0 7 0
MPM3 Marty Hapner 2 4 1
MPG Doug Werner 3 3 1
MPS Hunt Hyde 3 3 1
FPO Carrie Berloger 3 3 1
29 43 12
DIV Huntington Beach (HB) Wins Loss Ties
MPO1 Kyle Eckmann 4 3 0
MPO2 Jeff Spohr 3 3 1
MPO3 Mike Raley 3 4 0
MPO4 Jeff 4 2 1
MPO5 Robert McIntee 2 4 1
MPO6 Marcus Cisneros 3 2 2
MPM1 Chris Brophy 3 3 1
MPM2 Dan Duron 3 3 1
MPM3 Mark Collicott 5 2 0
MPG Steve Killian 1 5 1
MPS Tom Clickner 3 4 0
FPO McKayla Thomas 2 5 0
36 40 8
DIV Arizona (AZ) Wins Loss Ties
MPO1 Ricky Wysocki 6 1 0
MPO2 David Feldberg 6 0 1
MPO3 Devan Owens 4 1 2
MPO4 Andrew Bohme 1 6 0
MPO5 Mike Lassuy 4 2 1
MPO6 Mike Downes 4 1 2
MPM1 David Neff 1 5 1
MPM2 Javier Kowalski 3 3 1
MPM3 Steve Johnston 0 6 1
MPG Dan Ginnelly 5 2 0
MPS John Kirkland 6 1 0
FPO Nicole Bradley 5 1 1
45 29 10
DIV Redwood Empire (RE) Wins Loss Ties
MPO1 Gregg Barsby 2 3 2
MPO2 Brad Armstrong 0 5 2
MPO3 John Child 4 2 1
MPO4 James Proctor 5 1 1
MPO5 Roger Cansler 4 3 0
MPO6 Justin Wilson 2 2 3
MPM1 Peter Sontag 2 4 1
MPM2 Scott Riley 5 1 1
MPM3 Kevin Parkhurst 2 4 1
MPG Jeff Fielder 5 1 1
MPS Mark Karleskind 1 3 3
FPO Anni Kreml 4 2 1
36 31 17
DIV Sylmar (SM) Wins Loss Ties
MPO1 Steve Rico 2 5 0
MPO2 Gabe Cota 2 2 3
MPO3 Wally Moore 2 4 1
MPO4 Freddie Sotelo 5 2 0
MPO5 Chris Horn 2 4 1
MPO6 Bamba Rico 4 2 1
MPM1 Jerry Goff 4 2 1
MPM2 Gary Sandoval 5 2 0
MPM3 Mike Byrne 4 3 0
MPG Mike Roberts 2 2 3
MPS Mark Horn 7 0 0
FPO Ohn Scoggins 5 1 1
44 29 11
DIV SoCal (SA) Wins Loss Ties
MPO1 Angel Garcia 3 2 2
MPO2 Trey McKelvey 3 4 0
MPO3 Garrett Tapken 2 5 0
MPO4 Scott Miller 4 1 2
MPO5 Carl Huering 4 1 2
MPO6 Shane Dehner 1 3 3
MPM1 Ed Speakman 3 4 0
MPM2 Greg Stanbro 2 2 3
MPM3 Mike Tyberg 5 2 0
MPG Randy Wylot 2 3 2
MPS Dave Oney 0 7 0
FPO Elaina Crusher 3 3 1
32 37 15
DIV Oak Grove (OG) Wins Loss Ties
MPO1 Philo Brathwaite 4 3 0
MPO2 Randy Saab 1 5 1
MPO3 Brian Vagi 3 1 3
MPO4 Jeff Thomas 2 5 0
MPO5 Harold Hampton 2 3 2
MPO6 Kyle Hughes 5 2 0
MPM1 Dago Bribiesca 1 5 1
MPM2 Ken McKelvey 3 3 1
MPM3 Denny Bohanan 4 3 0
MPG Robert Valenzuela 1 6 0
MPS Mark Hassan 1 5 1
FPO Erin White 1 5 1
28 46 10

2013 Team Tournament Recap

This year’s edition of the 32nd annual team tourney began with the usual putting contest on Friday afternoon.Only 28 contestants vyed for the $300 in prize monies. Many players unaware or prefering practice time. The cagy veterans waiting till the last minute before the prelims were to close before entering. Hoping the wind would die and their prelim qualifing round would keep them sharp in the finals. But several top contenders failed to qualify ; Greg Barsby, Randy Saab and last year’s winner Kyle Eckmann who was the only player in the last 2 years to hit from all 9 stations. In the end it was San Diego’s #3 Open player Max Nichols who took home the $100 first prize outlasting Jerry Goff, Steve Rico, Steve Johnstan and Scott Miller. Max had an amazing year on tour finishing tied for 4th at the USDGC shooting a 55(1075 rated) on famed Winthrip Gold course. Saturday morning dawned with cool cloudy weather. The weather report called from torrential downpours all day and hugh winds increasing as the day progressed. Thankfully, the weatherman’s dire predictions were like political promises. More bluster than reality. There was one good downpour around 2 p.m. (round 4) that sent most players scurring for shelter. One San Diego player though, newby Mason Newstead turned it to his advantage scoring 4 straight birdies during the heaviest part of the deluge.

This event is a match play event. Pitting each player on one team against the correspondingly numbered player on another team. Each team consists of 6 open players, 3 masters (age 40+), 1 grandmaster (50+),1 senior grandmaster (60+) and 1 woman. Match play is unique and fun format in that a each hole is it’s own tournament. Low score on a hole scores a point for that player. Total score for the round is irrelevant. Only that you scored better than your opponent on more holes. Matchs are 12 holes. The course is extended to 24 holes with 6 added holes on Snyder Hill (across Jacaranda Dr.) and the organizational picnic area which we rent from the city for 2 days each year for this event. At the end of 1 full round (24 holes)each player has played 2 matches. 60 competitive holes were played on Saturday. We took one 45 minute break for lunch provided by my son’s Cali Kebab restaurant. Players enjoyed lamb, chicken kebabs, pita bread,dirty rice,falafels, humus and salad.

San Diego started off with 2 straight wins. Arizona with 2 straight losses before lunch. But the afternoon rains were the great equalizer. By the end of the day Sylmar lead the pack at 4-1 and 4 teams including San Diego, Arizona, Redwood Empire and Huntington Beach were all 3-2 at day’s end. Sunday morning dawned bright and cool. By now everyone was intimately familiar with the course and their respective opponents. The traveling tour boys on the AZ team bore down and destroyed their competition. At the end of the 7 match round robbin Arizona, San Diego and Sylmar were all tied at 5-2. Each team had 1 loss among them to the other 2. When it went to points between them Sylmar and Arizona had 12.5 each. San Diego had 11. Head to head Arizona had beaten Sylmar so they were 1st. For second it goes back to head to head and Sylmar had beaten San Diego in the prelims so they were second. Ironically, 3 years ago when faced with the same 3 team tie San Diego got into the finals and then won.

The weather was perfect for the finals. I followed the lead group of Ricky Wysocki and Dave Feldberg for Arizona and Steve Rico and Gabe Cota for Sylmar. This grouping put on a clinic for the crowd following them. Ricky in particular showed why he is the top PDGA rated player (1048) in the world shooting a scorching 14 under in his match play final round. Lead by their Hall of Fame captain Dano Ginnelly the Arizona Team’s momentum carried them to a 10-2 finish in the finals over a flagging Team Sylmar.

The free drawing before the finals saw 70 items donated from the sponsors Innova Champion, Discraft, Legacy, and Dynamic Disc given out to tourney’s participants. This year’s primary sponsor SDHydro had a booth set up all weekend. They had samples, a free drawing and custom stamped discs for all the winners. This year we went to a VHS to DVD conversion store and had all the old Team Tourney videos from 1984 thru 1992 plus a special edition from 2009 made up. We showed these all weeked on a big screen TV at Friz Central. We’ll get these archived onto the website so players can get a glimpse of our past history (and see how far our course has come).

This year Team Redwood Empire won the Spirit Award for the first time. Amidst all the storm turmoil before the 5th round on Saturday we contacted their captain (during round 4)to let him know his team was responsible for scorecards in the 5th round. He had all his players lined up and ready to pick up their cards right on time which allowed us to stay on time and finish the 5th round on Saturday. After herding cats all day trying to get the rounds off on time and running cards out to forgetful players it was refreshing to see a team take responsibility and get the job done in a timely manner. Many thanks to all the staff; Mac the assisstant TD, Team Simmons Eric and EJ, Juan Tapaz, Hans Degnar, my wife Joanne, plus my shop guys Jesse, Mitch and Tyler. Special thanks to Fireman Dave who brought us all donuts on Sunday morning.

Till the next edition of the Team Tourney… Z ya

2013 Team Results

#  Team Name               Abr.  W L T1  San Diego                   SD    5  2  0 2  Santa Cruz                  SC    2  5  0 3  Huntington Beach        HB    3  4  0 4  Arizona                        AZ    5  2  0 5  Redwood Empire          RE    4  3  0 6  Sylmar                        SM    5  2  0 7  SoCal                          SA    3  4  0 8  Oak Grove                   OG    1  6  0

2013 Team Tournament Rosters (Final)

Redwood Empirederrick billings gregg barsby james proctor john child roger cansler Justin Wilson peter sontag Scott Riley kevin parkhurst Jeff Fielder mark karleskind anni kreml

San Diego Micah Dorius Carlo Pelg Max Nichols George Spracklen Tyler Tremelling Maon Newstead Dave Devine Mike Westerman Mike Slonim Jeff Nichols Fred Aguero Shonda Garcia

Sylmar Steve Rico Gabe Cota Wally Moore Freddie Sotelo Chris Horn Bamba Rico Jerry Goff Gary Sandoval Mike Byrne Mike Roberts Mark Horn Ohn Scoggins

Santa Cruz Avery Jenkins Shasta Criss Tony Tran Myles Harding Matt Bell Chris Foss Jon Baldwin Jim Hagen Marty Hapner Doug Werner Hunt Hyde Carrie Berloger

Arizona Paul Ulibarri David Feldberg Ricky Wysocki Andrew Bohme Mike Lassuy Mike Downes David Neff Javier Kowalski Dan Ginnelly Steve Wisecup John Kirkland Nicole

Huntington Beach Kyle Eckmann Bobby Musick Jeff Spohr Mike Raley Chris Kunde Robet McIntee Chris Brophy Dan Duron Mark Collicott Steve Killian Tom Clickner McKayla Thomas

SoCal Angel Garcia Trey McKelvey Garrett Tapken Scott Miller Carl Huering Shane Dehner Ed Speakman Greg Stanbro Mike Tyberg Randy Wylot Greg Olsen Elaina Crusher

Oak Grove Philo Brathwaite Randy Saab Bryan Vagi Jeff Thomas Harold Hampton Kyle Hughes Dago Bribiesca Ken McKelvey Denny Bohanan Robert Valenzuela Mark Hassan Erin White

2013 Course Championship

This year’s course championships had beautiful weather throughout. It’s a rare treat to be able to play on this course on the weekend with only other serious minded tournament players. The second round course is a special long and difficult layout only seen one time per year in this event only. Although the cause of much wailing and gnashing of teeth the players swear they love the challenge of this unusually difficult layout. The third round on Sunday morning is just the opposite with each hole in its easiest layout position allowing for lots of movement potential with a hot round.

Round one went to Team Garcia. Angel shot a -12 to lead the Open division and Shonda shot a +3 to lead the Women’s group. Round two saw scores skyrocket with only 5 players, all Open division, capable of shooting under par. Micah Dorius now 14 time course champion shot an amazing -6 for a new course record on that particular layout.  Micah’s -12 in the 3rd round and -7 in the final 9 gave him a 6 stroke victory over 2013 course champion Carlo Pelg.

In the Am division Team Maki lead after round one. Son Jonathan shot a -6 and father John a -5. Jonathan still had the lead after round 2 but faltered in the final round to a surging Kenny Summers who shot -9 in the final round to take a 3 stroke victory.

Players in the tournament received a red dry tek tourney shirt with pizza and salad lunch on Saturday. Carved wooden trophies by George Spracklen are a tradition for this event. Randy Wylot won the Grandmaster trophy for best score by a 50+ year old. Randy shot a tourney best -13 in the final round. He actually tied with Jeff Nichols but won the trophy by virtue of his better 3rd round score. Micah now 40 also won the Masters plaque for 40+ year olds.  There was one ace in the tournament. Trey McKelvey aced hole 18 in the third round.

Open Division

1-Micah Dorius -36 $270

2-Carlo Pelg -30 $190

3- George Spraklen -25 $125

4-Angel Garcia -24 $100

5-Tyler Tremelling $90

6T- Trey McKelvey $75

6T- Garrett Tapken $75

8th-Luke Christensen $60

9T-Randy Wylot $57 split

9T-Jeff Nichols $57 split

Women’s Division

1-Shonda Garcia +18 $55 prize pkg.

2-Amber Ivy +24 $40 “ “

3- Allie Robles +26 $30 “ “

Amateur Division

1-Kenny Sommers -9 $150 prize pkg.

2-Chris Parker -6 $101 “ “

3-Jonathan Maki -5 $95 “ “

4-Carlos Caballero -4 $90 “ “

5-Tracy Crowder -3 $85 “ “

6T-Dave Dohr -2 $77.50 “ “

6T-Will Griffn -2 $77.50 “ “

8-Garrett Russell -1 $70 “ “

9-James Barnes +1 $65 “ “

10T-John Maki +3 $55.50 “ “

10T-Mike Valli +3 $55.50 “ “

10T-Eric Repp +3 $55.50 “ “

13T-Josh Hesser +7 $47 “ “

13T-Don Vincent +7 $47 “ “

15-Heath Weiss +8 $43 “ “

16-Chet Morse +9 $40 “ “

Spring Fling 2013 Recap

This year’s Spring Fling featured 7 different Amateur categories. Four descending skill levels of men’s, one woman’s and 2 age protected divisions. This is an annual PDGA sanctioned B tier, SoCal series and DGA series event. Having 95 participants play on a closed course. This year featured two 19 hole rounds of 2 different layouts featuring several pin positions seen only for tournament play. Dutch from NP Trophy produced perhaps our best looking burl plaques ever for all the winners.

In the men’s Advanced division a north county local Travis Cutler the eventual division winner started off by throwing an ace for his very first throw of the tourney on hole 2 long. Ironically, it was the second ace thrown on that hole in that group as Patrick Paramore throwing two players ahead of him aced the hole first. Amazing. Of note, second place finisher Jason Purdue shot a magnificent  -13 down the first round garnering a 1060 player rating for his efforts.

In the women’s Advanced division Shonda Garcia held a one stroke lead over Allie Robles after the first round and her consistency and solid putting held up in round two as she eventually won by 3 strokes.

The men’s Intermediate division saw a great battle at the top as 3 players ended regulation in a tie for first at -4.  A quiet but determined Daniel Vega was the eventual sudden death victor over Chris Parker and Eddie Arinduque.

The men’s Recreational division lacked drama at the top as Derrick Dreyer crushed the field by 5 strokes but after that only 2 strokes separated next 5 players of a nine person division.

The Novice division was won by local Greg Davis who’s rarely seen as he always plays so early in the morning. Greg’s the Good Samaritan who’s always finding and turning in lost plastic on the course. He finds so many he usually plays free.

The men’s Masters division (age 40 and above) was won by daily local Doug Larhette. Doug led from the outset. Doug carried the weight of being the heavy local favorite well as he never wavered in his quest.

The men’s Grandmaster division provided another great battle for the lead as Jeff Brown beat Christian Cullen in a sudden victory playoff. Always courteous and upbeat this is Jeff Brown’s first ever and well deserved victory in Am Grandmasters.

Lunch this year was provided by a combination of salads from California Kebab and delicious carnitas and roasted chicken street tacos with beans and rice from San Diego Taco Company.

Dale Chambliss (a soon to be dad…congrats Meesh!) won the Skill Shot basket in the giant mondo (ring of fire) after lunch. After 3 players hit the shot  Dale won in a throw off where all 3 contestants went for the shot all missing by 15 feet. Dale won by 1.5 centimeters when we measured the throws.

Perfect weather greeted all the players this year for a change and the free drawing saw a record number of donated items from the various manufactures (Voodoo, DGA, Innova, Discraft, Prodigy, Legacy and  Millennium. Plus So Cal and the SD Aces donated items) given out to the participants. The tourney went off right on time every round and except for a minor pin placement screwup in the second round (holes 2 and 3 next to each other…oops sorry) everything went off without a hitch.

Thanks to all who helped out Mac, Joanne plus everyone on staff from the shop who gave up their day so all the locals could have their day. Till next year…

Z-ya

Spring Fling 2013 Results

Advanced Men
1 Travis Cutler 50 51 -13
2 Jason Purdue 44 59 -11
3 Tyler Tremelling 52 52 -10
4 Mike Tyberg 49 57 -8
5 Patrick Paramore 52 55 -7
5 Tracy Crowder 50 57 -7
7 Ben Neely 54 54 -6
7 Jason Jet Tydingco 51 57 -6
9 Greg Stanbro 51 58 -5
10 Dave Dohr 52 58 -4
10 Jesse Meyers 49 61 -4
12 Carl Renda 55 56 -3
12 Casey Sowa 53 58 -3
14 Shane Dehner 54 59 -1
14 Matt Howard 54 59 -1
16 Edwin Rodriguez 57 57 E
16 Chad Duckworth 54 60 E
16 Mark Verrochi 54 60 E
19 Jeff Bozi 56 59 1
19 Jack Daniels 54 61 1
21 Salvador Brambila 56 60 2
21 Shaun James 55 61 2
23 Fred Aguero 57 60 3
24 Mike Jewel 60 58 4
24 Justin Martinez 58 60 4
26 Dale Chambless 59 60 5
27 Chad Nichter 60 60 6
28 Daniel Boe 59 62 7
29 Tom Vincent 60 64 10
30 Jeremy Barnes 63 62 11
31 Quinn Henry 56 888
31 Taylor Mate 65 888
Advanced Women
1 Shonda Garcia 63 64 13
2 Allie Robles 64 66 16
3 Pam Iam Vaughn 65 67 18
4 Chris De La Torre 67 69 22
5 Denise Diaz 77 80 43
Advanced Masters
1 Doug Larhette 52 55 -7
2 Braden Coolidge 54 57 -3
3 Jay Harbin 58 56 E
3 Mark Hauser 56 58 E
3 Chris Ganem 53 61 E
6 Mike Henry 56 61 3
7 Jeff Nessen 58 60 4
8 Steve Fawcett 58 62 6
9 Alex Mate 62 62 10
9 Greg Cheeky Arimura 57 67 10
9 Robert Eams 57 67 10
12 Kevin Cristie 62 63 11
Advanced Grandmasters
1 Jeff Brown 58 57 1
2 Xian Cullen 57 58 1
3 Ben Farrington 58 60 4
4 Jeff Graham 56 65 7
5 Spence Stevess 58 65 9
6 Bill Richards 63 62 11
7 Dave Oney 61 66 13
8 Don Vincent 60 69 15
9 Randy Brown 67 79 32
Intermediate
1 Daniel Vega 52 58 -4
2 Chris Parker 55 55 -4
3 Eddie Arinduque 55 55 -4
4 Santos Miranda 51 60 -3
5 Chet Morse 53 59 -2
6 Damon Newman 58 57 1
7 Andrew Allen 58 58 2
7 Garrett Ulrich 54 62 2
9 Billy Romhild 59 58 3
9 Richard Ewald 57 60 3
11 Christophe Goodrich 58 60 4
12 Glen Kluge 60 60 6
12 Chris Wright 58 62 6
12 James Barnes 56 64 6
15 Michael Olivarez 62 59 7
15 Heath Weiss 58 63 7
17 Robert Martin 57 66 9
18 Joey Capparilli 62 62 10
18 Mike Xazarian 62 62 10
18 Noes Sanchez 60 64 10
21 Rastin Luna 63 62 11
21 David Brambila 58 67 11
23 Jason Wolck 63 64 13
24 Danny Zwolenski 61 69 16
25 Cliff Griswold 69 64 19
Recreational
1 Derrick Dreyer 57 60 3
2 Thomas Matlock 62 60 8
3 Joe Sanger 56 67 9
4 Juan C. Ramos 62 62 10
4 Eric Repp 61 63 10
6 Zack Fluty 60 65 11
7 Sean Mantell 62 68 16
8 Derrick Remington 70 72 28
9 Michael Daglio 72 74 32
10 E
Novice 
1 Greggory Davis 56 60 2
2 Richard Ayers 63 71 20
3 Karl Scheirer 70 78 34

Spring Fling Signups Roster

Advanced MA1 Tyler Tremelling 57406

Shaun James 56831

Matt Howard 46716

Daniel Boe 53503

Fred Aguero

Ben Neely 22216

Jack Daniels 39125

Dale Chambless 41010

Carl Renda 32852

Mike Tyberg 37755

Shane Dehner 39169

Chad Duckworth

Taylor Mate 49145

Jason Purdue 56547

Justin Martinez 49953

Travis Cutler 50619

Chad Nichter 50192

Tom Vincent

Casey Sowa

Greg Stanbro

Patrick Paramore 38001

Edwin Rodriguez 51360

Salvador Brambila 49185

Jason "Jet" Tydingco 56202

Mark Verrochi 41379

Dave Dohr 47985

Mike Xazarian 52016

Intermediate MA2

Chris Parker

Hans Desner

Billy Romhild 11884

Danny Zwolenski 28993

Robert Martin 25847

James Barnes 47955

Joey Capparilli

Eddie Arinduque

Richard Ewald 52674

Chris Wright

Santos Miranda

Daniel Vega

Wes Schneider 45240

Damon Newman

David Brambila

Jason Wolck

Glen Kluge 51365

Michael Olivarez 46530

Cliff Griswold 44347

Recreational MA3

Sean Mantell

Eric Repp 57912

Jack Fluty 58279

Thomas Matlock

Stuart Coleman 916

Novice MA4

Richard Ayers

Gregory Davis

William Schneider 54367

Masters MM1

Jay Harbin

Doug Larhette 50212

Braden Coolidge 50095

Steve Fawcett

Alex Mate 43781

Mark Hauser 13459

Robert Eames

Jeff Nessen 21884

Chris Ganem

Mike Henry

Grandmasters MG1

Jeff Brown 43727

Xian Cullen 28200

Bill Richards 11016

Ben Farrington

Spence Stevess 47078

Jeff Graham

Randy Brown

Don Vincent

Advanced Women FW1

Pam "Iam" Vaughn 54207

Shonda Garcia 46370

Allie Robles