Scott R Chilcutt, Frisco, TX (November 1, 2014) The Dallas Tour opened its 2015 points season at the Frisco Lakes Challenge. Brisk northerly winds hit the area on Halloween and dropped the overnight lows into temperatures the area has not seen since last winter. Variable clouds and sunshine would eventually prevail to beat the past few openers. On the eastern side of Lake Lewisville, Frisco Lakes Golf Club, off the tour the past year, showed it was worthy of a stop. Great course conditions with quick and smooth greens would make it a putting contest for the top finishers.
Ron Hardy from nearby Lewisville, TX would take home the Tournament Champion Trophy, presented by his Carlisle's Engraving business.
RESULTS:
Championship Flight: Dallas Webster of Wylie, TX won the 2013 - Pinehurst Amateur Championship, has carded a handful of runner up finishes, including three Major Championships this past points season and his last time out at Frisco Lakes in 2013. Until today he hasn't stood on top of the podium at a local event. Webster, with a steady scorecard of fourteen pars, finished off his first Dallas Tour win, three strokes ahead of Abilene, TX, first time player Jared Cramer. Cramer, was all over the board with only one par on the day, but added four birdies and an eagle to clinch the runner up spot. A pair of Granbury, TX players, Jim Largent and Eric Anderson, with two birdies on the day, shared the third place honors two strokes back of Cramer.
Senior Championship Flight: Fort Worth, TX player Sean Fenton is two for two after his first win on the season at the October Fall Challenge in Round Rock. Fenton, with a big skins buster at the par 3 - 12th hole, made it his eleventh win on tour, including two Major Championships. Matching Fenton on the front side, Larry Vannatta of Grand Prairie, TX fell one shy on the back to secure the runner up finish. Tony Peppler of Dallas, TX and Diana, TX player Mark Echols split the show place honors three strokes out of the lead.
Palmer Flight: After only playing in four events over the previous two seasons, Russell Rice of Fort Worth, TX was only able to conjure up a seventh place finish. Two consecutive birdies going out was just enough to cover some tough holes on the back for his first win on tour. Clay Johnston of Lewisville, TX and Flower Mound, TX resident, David Wright finished just one stroke back to split the runner up honors.
Senior Palmer Flight: Kem Albritton of Garland, TX became a ten time winner on tour with a consistent round of +7 - 79. Four strokes back, Irvine, CA traveler, Todd McSeveney made the best of a birdie on the par 4 - 7th to secure the runner up finish. First time player, John Price of Whitney, TX and Keller, TX player Nic Linde, with help of a birdie on the par 5 - 15th split the third place finish.
Hogan Flight: Bedford, TX player, Darren Bufton carded a pair of 40's to record his second win on tour. Three strokes back, Scott Harper of Ranger, TX birdied the par 4 - 7th and par 5 - 18th to secure the runner up finish with McKinney, TX member, Navakiran Chitturi one stroke back for the third place honors.
Senior Hogan Flight: Columbus, OH native, Bob Mulligan now residing in Dallas, TX grabbed his second win on tour. Mulligan with thirteen pars on the day, cleared the field by three strokes with visiting Houston Tour member, Bruce Beakley in the runner up spot. Beakley, already with three second place finishes on the 2015 points season birdied his final hole, the par 5 - 18th to stay one clear of Haslet, TX member Phillip Holt finishing in the final podium spot.
Sarazen Flight: Starting his day on the tenth hole, Wadsworth Jarrell of Fort Worth, TX, birdied his tenth and eighteenth holes, which would end up just the number to pick up his first win on tour. Two strokes back, San Antonio, TX player C.D. Dunem, in the Metroplex for business, picked up the runner up finish, three strokes clear of Scott Brown of Oklahoma City, OK with a pair of birdies of his own on the day.
Senior Sarazen Flight: James McKee of Abilene, TX, five strokes off the lead after his first nine holes, finished his last five holes in even par to force a sudden death playoff with Lewisville, TX player Mark Donohue. Matching on the first extra hole, it would take a total of twenty holes on the day for McKee to prevail for his second win on tour. Davis Noble of Lake Kiowa, TX, with a birdie on the par 5 - 18th, and Sanger, TX resident, Steve Killion with a birdie of his own on the par 4 - 2nd, shared the third place finish.
Jones Flight: Long time Lewisville, TX player, Ron Hardy used a birdie on his second to last hole, the par 3 - 8th to secure his first win in twenty five events. It was Hardy's seventh win on tour and first since the May 2013 Bobcat Open @ Texas Star. Steve Kemp of Dallas, TX, Abilene, TX traveler, Leon Giesecke and Mike Rogers of Lewisville, TX were knotted in the second place finish, just two strokes back.
Snead Flight: In another two for two, Larry Atchley of Kyle, TX continued his great play following up his win at the Fall Challenge in Round Rock. In town for the NASCAR events on Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway, Atchley, birdied the par 4 - 2nd and par 5 -15th to finish with a nine stroke advantage over Arlington, TX player Thomas Rauch. Stan Harper of Lake Leon, TX rounded out the top three.
SKINS:
Giant SKINS: ($330/each) 1 -- Eric Anderson, Granbury, TX; Sean Fenton, Fort Worth, TX.
Championship / Senior Championship: ($30/each) 3 -- Jared Cramer, Abilene, TX. 1 -- Larry Vannatta, Grand Prairie, Tx; Tim Williams, McKinney, TX; Eric Anderson, Granbury, TX; Sean Fenton, Fort Worth, TX; Jeff Shores, Irving, TX.
Palmer / Senior Palmer: ($35/each) 2 -- Russell Rice, Fort Worth, TX; Todd McSeveney, Irvine, CA. 1 -- Chris Wadle, Coupland , TX; Bart Slaughter, Dallas, TX; Nic Linde, Keller TX.
Hogan / Senior Hogan: ($95/each) 1 -- Joseph Roy, Rockwall, TX; Joshua Douglas, Leander, TX; Scott Harper, Ranger, TX; Bob Mulligan, Dallas, Tx.
Sarazen / Senior Sarazen: ($116/each) 2 -- Rodney Wren, Dallas, TX. 1 -- Ron Junghans, Arlington, TX; Wadsworth Jarrell, Fort Worth, TX; Scott Brown, Oklahoma City, OK.
Jones / Snead: ($68/each) 2 -- Larry Atchley, Kyle, TX. 1 -- Douglas Pritchett, Ft Worth, TX; Zane Latham, Valley View, TX; Ron Hardy, Lewisville, TX.
CLOSEST TO THE HOLE:
($130/each) #5 - Wadsworth Jarrell - 7' 1"; #8 - Darren Burton - 8'; #12 - Sean Fenton - 4'6 1/2"; #14 - Tim Williams - 11' 2"
NEXT UP:
Dallas Tour members will visit Hawks Creek Golf Club for the first time on tour, Sunday November 16th. Entry deadline is Friday, November, 7th at 11:59 PM EST.
Houston gets back to play at the November 8th Katy Classic / Cinco Ranch.
The Hill Country Tour resumes action at the Winter Championship @ Canyon Springs on Saturday November 22nd.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Scott R Chilcutt
Director - Texas Tours
Dallas Tour - Hill Country Tour - Houston Tour
GOLF CHANNEL Amateur Tour
405.513.1467
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