Gentlemen,
For those that don’t yet know I, Dru Broadway, have been elected as TGA President for 2009. Wayne Hunt is going to be my Vice-President while Dwight Clark will remain secretary/treasurer.
I think this will be an exciting year for the TGA. Like, the federal government, we are planning a year for change. Due to some low tournament turnouts and a tighter economy, we have decided to make some changes that we hope will have a positive impact on the continued success of the TGA.
As voted on at the King Invitational, we have made some changes to the membership fees for the 2009 season. Membership fees for previous members will be $20.00 for the upcoming season, down from $30.00 for the past two years. However, members who seek first-time membership will still pay $30.00. All membership fees will be due before the first tournament a member plays in.
New members will be required to pay the full membership price if they join any time prior to the first five events. A member joining after five official events have been played will pay a reduced membership rate of $15.00.
New members will still have to play at least three rounds with a TGA member before establishing a handicap and being eligible to play in official events. We are looking for new members that can join to grow the TGA so if any one knows of someone interested in joining you can contact me or Wayne.
Another change for the 2009 season will be a reduction in the number of different courses we will play. We have decided instead of playing so many courses with high greens fees, we will play three courses for 2009. Winding Creek in Thomasville will be our “home course” for this year. Besides two mid-year majors that will be played at Lexington Golf Club (TGA Open) and Holly Ridge Golf Links (TGA Masters), Winding Creek will host every tournament. The last major will still be at Winding Creek as a two-day event.
All majors will still be double points and will pay an extra $50.00 to the winner. Events will still be played on the third Sunday of the month unless it falls on a holiday. If that happens, we will plan around it. A schedule will be released in the next week or so.
This year the TGA fund will be used to buy our own proximity markers as well as to fund the handicap service and software, Player of the Year award and major tournament purses.
We will also do away with our old web site www.tga-golf.com and will use this site, www.triadgolf.blogspot.com since it is free and has been such a hit in the last few weeks.
With all this said, I hope we have a great year of golf!
Yours truly,
Dru “The Hammer” Broadway
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Sunday, February 1, 2009
King Invitational ends in stalemate
The final day of the King Invitational featured another day of back-and-forth action that ended the same way the 54-hole event started: with both teams tied.
The day began with Kim Highfill and Jay Whitt taking on Randy Griffin and Wayne Hunt, paired together on the final day for the second consecutive season. The match was a rout early on for The Hunt Club as Griffin and Hunt won the first three holes of the match outright and never looked back. The King's Court eventually cut the lead to two holes following a birdie-par-par finish heading to the turn.
But, after halving the tenth hole, Griffin and Hunt won two straight holes and headed into the fourteenth with a chance to guarantee at least a dormie match. A win at the fifteenth closed out Highfill and Whitt as The Hunt Club captured the win, propelling their team to an 8-6 lead over The King's Court.
The King's Court would even the match up again with a 4-and-3 victory by Tommy Dugan and Ryan Mayo over Lane Moore and Wes Crump. Dugan and Mayo, the youngest two-man team in King Invitational history, struggled early on but settled down to take a two-hole lead after nine holes. They then used a mistake-prone tenth hole by Moore and Crump to push the lead to three and cruised to victory with an array of awe-inspiring tee shots, as Dugan and Mayo played a game of long drive one-upmanship in beating their Hunt Club opponents.
In a unique turn of events, the fourth match of the day would actually be the third match to post a finish as Chad Hedrick and Tom Dugan, representing The Hunt Club routed their King's Court foes, Dwight Clark and Jackie King 5-and-3. After seeing the match go dormie on the 14th hole, Hedrick and Dugan then used a win on the 15th hole to close out their match and stake The Hunt Club to a 10-8 lead.
Clark and King struggled all day long and were extremely disappointed with their showing. Hedrick and Dugan had pitfalls of their own which opened the door for Clark and King but their inability to get anything going off the tee doomed their chances to win. "We couldn't hit the fairway and when we did, we couldn't reach the green," lamented Jackie King after the match, adding "we could have won this match with a better showing."
While Clark and Dugan were closing out their match, the third match of the day suddenly became the decisive one. The Hunt Club led by three holes early on as Chris Morris and Phillip Brookshire, playing together for the second time in three days, tried to win their second two-man match of the event. But, The King's Court team of Ted Prestwood and Dru Broadway battled back and headed to the 16th with a one stroke lead. Morris and Brookshire seemed poised to halve the hole with a bogey when Prestwood chipped in for par to push his team to a 2-hole lead with two to play.
With The Hunt Club up 10-8, Prestwood and Broadway couldn't take a chance of halving their match. Needing to ensure a win, Broadway came through with a 305-yard drive that fell just short of the green and his team parred the hole to finish their match 2-up and grab the final two points of the King Invitational.
With the two teams tied with ten points apiece, all sixteen players were assured an even split of the purse, netting each player $50.00 in prize money.
Day 3 results:
The day began with Kim Highfill and Jay Whitt taking on Randy Griffin and Wayne Hunt, paired together on the final day for the second consecutive season. The match was a rout early on for The Hunt Club as Griffin and Hunt won the first three holes of the match outright and never looked back. The King's Court eventually cut the lead to two holes following a birdie-par-par finish heading to the turn.
But, after halving the tenth hole, Griffin and Hunt won two straight holes and headed into the fourteenth with a chance to guarantee at least a dormie match. A win at the fifteenth closed out Highfill and Whitt as The Hunt Club captured the win, propelling their team to an 8-6 lead over The King's Court.
The King's Court would even the match up again with a 4-and-3 victory by Tommy Dugan and Ryan Mayo over Lane Moore and Wes Crump. Dugan and Mayo, the youngest two-man team in King Invitational history, struggled early on but settled down to take a two-hole lead after nine holes. They then used a mistake-prone tenth hole by Moore and Crump to push the lead to three and cruised to victory with an array of awe-inspiring tee shots, as Dugan and Mayo played a game of long drive one-upmanship in beating their Hunt Club opponents.
In a unique turn of events, the fourth match of the day would actually be the third match to post a finish as Chad Hedrick and Tom Dugan, representing The Hunt Club routed their King's Court foes, Dwight Clark and Jackie King 5-and-3. After seeing the match go dormie on the 14th hole, Hedrick and Dugan then used a win on the 15th hole to close out their match and stake The Hunt Club to a 10-8 lead.
Clark and King struggled all day long and were extremely disappointed with their showing. Hedrick and Dugan had pitfalls of their own which opened the door for Clark and King but their inability to get anything going off the tee doomed their chances to win. "We couldn't hit the fairway and when we did, we couldn't reach the green," lamented Jackie King after the match, adding "we could have won this match with a better showing."
While Clark and Dugan were closing out their match, the third match of the day suddenly became the decisive one. The Hunt Club led by three holes early on as Chris Morris and Phillip Brookshire, playing together for the second time in three days, tried to win their second two-man match of the event. But, The King's Court team of Ted Prestwood and Dru Broadway battled back and headed to the 16th with a one stroke lead. Morris and Brookshire seemed poised to halve the hole with a bogey when Prestwood chipped in for par to push his team to a 2-hole lead with two to play.
With The Hunt Club up 10-8, Prestwood and Broadway couldn't take a chance of halving their match. Needing to ensure a win, Broadway came through with a 305-yard drive that fell just short of the green and his team parred the hole to finish their match 2-up and grab the final two points of the King Invitational.
With the two teams tied with ten points apiece, all sixteen players were assured an even split of the purse, netting each player $50.00 in prize money.
Day 3 results:
- Randy Griffin & Wayne Hunt d. Kim Highfill and Jay Whitt 5-and-3
- Tommy Dugan & Ryan Mayo d. Wes Crump and Lane Moore 4-and-3
- Ted Prestwood & Dru Broadway d. Chris Morris and Phillip Brookshire 2-and-1
- Chad Hedrick & Tom Dugan d. Dwight Clark and Jackie King 5-and-3
Day 3 Greenies:
- Ted Prestwood
- Kim Highfill
- Jackie King
Final Individual point totals:
- Tommy Dugan 4
- Tom Dugan 3-1/2
- Chad Hedrick 3
- Randy Griffin 3
- Ted Prestwood 3
- Ryan Mayo 3
- Wayne Hunt 2-1/2
- Dru Broadway 2-1/2
- Lane Moore 1-1/2
- Kim Highfill 1
- Jackie King 1
- Dwight Clark 1
- Phillip Brookshire 1
- Wes Crump 1
- Chris Morris 1
- Jay Whitt 0
Final 3 day Greenie Totals:
- Tommy Dugan - 2
- Phillip Brookshire - 1
- Dwight Clark - 1
- Tom Dugan - 1
- Randy Griffin - 1
- Kim Highfill - 1
- Wayne Hunt - 1
- Jackie King - 1
- Ryan Mayo - 1
- Ted Prestwood - 1
Final 3 day Skins Totals:
- Dwight Clark - 4
- Randy Griffin - 3
- Tommy Dugan - 2
- Jackie King - 1
- Kim Highfill - 1
Final Money Totals:
- Dwight Clark $150
- Randy Griffin $150
- Tommy Dugan $140
- Kim Highfill $92
- Tom Dugan $82
- Ryan Mayo $82
- Phillip Brookshire $66
- Ted Prestwood $66
- Jackie King $57
- Chad Hedrick $50
- Chris Morris $50
- Dru Broadway $50
- Lane Moore $50
- Wes Crump $50
- Wayne Hunt $41
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