2020 Member-Guest

 A beautiful summer day was only surpassed by the excellent and spirited play for the 2020 LYNX Member-Guest Championship.   The contest featured many past Member-Guest and LYNX Club Champions as well as many new members.  The new Shamble-Scramble format led to balanced scoring throughout each flight and had many teams “in the hunt” until the final holes played.  

The four Flight winners included the teams Mike Triemstra-Levi Funk (Bobby Jones), Clayton Seneca-Nathan Barrett (Arnold Palmer), Rob Hoffman-Jeff Hoffman (Jack Nicklaus) and Chad Brice-Doug Dekema (Tiger Woods).

In the end, a short but exciting one-hole sudden death playoff among the flight winners was held and the team of Clayton Seneca-Nathan Barrett prevailed when Clayton buried a 30 foot birdie  putt on the 10th hole capturing the overall title of 2020 Member-Guest Champions.  Clayton and Nathan will be memorialized with the picture, name plate on the LYNX Wall of Fame and engraved on the Member-Guest trophy in the lobby.

Bobby Jones Flight (Gold Tees)

Mike Triemstra - Levi Funk           38-34-32.5     104.5*

Tom Pete – Ken Fales  37-38-34.8     109.8

Barry Harris – Bob Fulton 41-37-34.5   112.5

Scott McClure – Scott Campbell 40-38-35.0 113.0

John Kramer – Frank Kramer 41-38-34.4 113.4

Arnold Palmer Flight (White Tees)

Clayton Seneca – Nathan Barrett 35-34-33.5 102.5*

Tyler Hammon – Jeff Nooney 36-35-32.3 103.3

Kent Wallace – Nathan Wallace 40-31-32.6 103.6

Jim Szilagyi – Brian Szilagyi 34-37-33.9 104.9

Corey Cohle – Dustin Cohle 36-36-40.0 112.0

Jason Marshall – Troy Wilkes 43-36-35.6 114.6

Jack Nicklaus Flight (White Tees)

Rob Hoffman – Jeff Hoffman 38-34-31.5 103.5*

John Lewis – Max Fahling 33-41-34.3 108.3

Mark Zyzelewski – Randy Hoyt 41-37-33.0 111.0

Dan Dorgan – Quinn Dorgan 39-40-33.9 112.9

Ken Bronkema – Dave Carter 37-45-32.0 114.0

Bill Nooney- Phil Nooney 46-46-37.9 129.9

Tiger Woods Flight (Blue Tees)

Chad Brice – Doug Dekema 35-35-32.9 102.9*

Bubba Chester – Dale Chester   35-36-32.4     103.4

Brian Sawdy – Gordy Fransen 36-36-33.1 105.1

Doug Nooney – Don Hamilton 39-45-33.2 117.2

The field showed its true overall competitive balance with 9 teams finishing the flight portion of the event within 2.6 strokes of the best scoring in the event.  Many teams had a chance to win.   Better luck next year.   The day ended Saturday night with Allegan County’s largest cocktail party and the annual Big Cup Chip-off.  A fun time was had by all.