News archives from 2010
Martin wins
2nd Runny Nose
November 21,
2010
David
Martin won the 2010 Runny Nose Open on
Saturday in relatively mild conditions
at Harbor Club GC in
Belleville. Benign winds
kept the temperature comfortable for
late November and Martin posted a 36-34
- 70 to win by 3. Martin,
the Runny Nose champ in 2003, hit 12 of
14 fairways and 12 of 18 greens and
converted on 6 birdie opportunities.
Phil
Johnson (38-35 - 73) made a late charge
going birdie-eagle-birdie on holes 14-16
but finished 3-strokes back.
Kelly Arnold (39-35 - 74), Dennis
LeMaitre (38-36 - 74) and Tim Jakubowski
(36-38 - 74) shared 3rd place.
David Martin - 2010 Runny
Nose Open champ
Inaugural
Division Bell rings for Team Central
October 25,
2010
The
Mulligan Tour's Central Division, led by
Commissioner Greg Kline, won the
inaugural Division Bell event on Sunday
at Farmington Hills GC. The
4-man team of Kline, Kelly Arnold, Dan
Schwartz and Jason Rectenwald combined
for a 7-over par 291 and a 15-stroke win
over the East Division.
Arnold led the way with 2 eagles and 6
birdies posting a 4-under
67. Kline converted 4
birdies and finished at even par 71.
The East
Division was represented by Commissioner
Tom Hoelzle (74) and included Ron
Hiestand (76), Joe Brandenburg (86) and
Jon Heikkinen (70).
Heikkinen was a late replacement for the
ailing Erik Meland and joined Arnold as
the only 2 players to break par in the
event.
The West
Division finished at 28-over par 312
with Commissioner Phil Abele (72)
leading the way. Tom Moran (76),
Charlie Roy (79) and Maureen Abele (85)
completed the team.
Dan
Schwartz, Kelly Arnold, Greg Kline and
Jason Rectenwald
2010
Division Bell champs
Tom Moran
chips and putts his way to Skills
Challenge win
October 18,
2010
Tom
Moran, a 4-time winner on Tour, sank 3
of 5 putts in the final event of the
2010 Skills Challenge to secure the $75
win. Moran was first in the
bunker shot (event #3), 2nd in the
5-yard chip (event #4) and 3rd in both
the 40-yard pitch and the 12' putt
events. He finished with 36
points from the 7-events - 2 strokes
more than Erik Meland.
Meland
won the 5-yard chip event and also made
3 of 5 putts in the final event allowing
him to jump over Rick Persichetti for
2nd place. The Tour's
President collected the $50 2nd place
check. Persichetti and Art
Wakeford each finished with 33 points
but "Perch" won the tie breaker for 3rd
place by getting closer to the hole with
one putt from 60'. He took the
check for 3rd place ($25).
Thom
Bales finished 5th (30 points) with last
year's Skills champ Greg Kline taking
6th (24). The rest of the
field included Jon Heikkinen (14
points), Kelly Arnold (11) and Tim
Jakubowski (11).
Tom
Moran - 2010 Skills Challenge winner
Management
wins close inaugural President's Cup
matches
October 11,
2010
Team
Management beat Team Labor in the first
President's Cup on Sunday.
With temperatures well above normal for
October 10th, Fellows Creek GC hosted
the inaugural matches pitting a team of
6 from the Tour's Player Advisory
Council against a team of 6 Tour members
in good standing. The format
included a total of 9 team matches that
included 3 matches of best ball, 3
matches of alternate shot and 3 matches
of scramble.
Team
Management was led by Tour founder and
President Erik Meland. His
Vice Presidents included Division
Commissioner's Greg Kline, Phil Abele
and Tom Hoelzle. PAC members
Jeff Klipa and Barb Hoelzle rounded out
the team. Team Labor, led by
former PAC member Rick Persichetti,
called themselves "Strike
Force". They included Dan
Schwartz, Tom Moran, Mike Prieskorn, Ray
Collins and Jon Heikkinen.
Management
took a 2 - 1 lead after the best ball
matches and extended their lead to 4½ -
1½ after the alternate shot
matches. With Labor needing
to sweep the scramble matches to force a
playoff, the Barb & Tom Hoelzle
pairing shutdown Schwartz and Moran
5&4 to give Management the first
President's Cup 5½ to 3½.
The blue collar team of Collins and
Heikkinen proved the most successful
going 2-0-1 in their 3 matches together.
Team
Management - 2010 President's Cup
winners
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results
Abele, Acosta
and Villerot win divisional Skins Games
October 4,
2010
Phil
Abele, Commissioner of the Tour's West
division, took the final 2 skins
including the super skin on the 18th
hole to win the West Skins
Game. Abele won 4 skins in
all that totaled $38. Barb
Kaczmarek finished 2nd with 2 skins
worth $24. Don Morris took 2
skins for $18 while Dan Schwartz was
shut out.
Lou
Acosta won the first ever East Skins
Game by winning 6 skins totaling
$36. Acosta won each of his
skins with a par. East
division Commissioner Tom Hoelzle won
the final skin and finished 2nd with 3
skins totaling $28. Barb
Hoelzle netted 2 skins for $14 and
rookie Rich Dunmore took 1 skin for $2.
The
unofficial rookie-of-the-year Steve
Villerot captured the Central Skins
Game. Villerot won the day's
largest skin ($24) at the 16th hole with
a par and finished with $32 from 3
skins. Mike Sikes won the
super skin at 18 and finished with $22
from 4 skins. Thom Bales had
3 birdies winning a skin each time and
finished 3rd with $20. Erik
Meland, filling in for Central division
Commissioner Greg Kline, won 2 skins for
$6.
Phil
Abele
Lou
Acosta
Steve Villerot
Team Central
keeps Comm Cup
September 28,
2010
Commissioner
Greg Kline piloted Team Central to
another Commissioner's Cup victory,
successfully defending the Cup for a
second time. He has
captained 4 winners in 6
years. The Central squad
opened up a 6 1/2 to 1 1/2 lead after
the Saturday morning team matches only
to see the West team nearly pull even in
the afternoon. Team Central
slept on a 1 point lead and then took 5
1/2 points in the Sunday singles to win
the Cup 14 to 10.
Kline
returned 5 players from the victorious
2009 Central Comm Cup team and added a
couple of rookies. The mix
nearly ran away with another Cup after
dominating the morning matches -
including a clean sweep of the alternate
shot format. Team West
rebounded in the afternoon winning 5
matches and halving 2 others to pull
within a point at 8 1/2 to 7
1/2. The suspense of the
Sunday singles lingered into the
Thoroughbred's back nine until the
Central's Jason Rectenwald finished off
Charlie Roy on the 16th green for a
3&2 win and the 12th and a half
point that secured the Cup.
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the 2010 Commissioner's Cup
2010
Commissioner's Cup champs - TEAM CENTRAL
Gardner
plants a win at Polo Fields
September 20,
2010
Rob
Gardner, a 2nd year pro from Belleville,
won the 2010 TOUR Championship Saturday
at the Polo Fields Golf & Country
Club in Ann Arbor. Gardner
ranked 2nd in fairways hit (11/14) and
converted 3 eagles and 3 birdies to
finish at 1-over par 73 and make his
first Tour win a major
victory. Gardner was 19th on
the money list and just happy to make
the field for the TOUR
Championship.
Lou
Acosta made birdies at 13, 15 and17 but
missed forcing a playoff after a bogey
at the finishing hole. The
2nd place check of $35 moved Acosta to
6th ($138.67) on the final 2010 money
standings. Jon Heikkinen
(40-35 - 75) played the last 6 holes in
4-under par to secure 3rd place in his
first TOUR Championship.
Thom
Bales and Randall Reher shared 4th place
at 6-over 78. Bales led the
field hitting 12 of 14 fairways but came
up short in a bid to win a Grand Slam -
4 major titles in one year.
Reher has 2 top-4 finishes in the 2 TOUR
Championships played at the Polo Fields.
Julie
Gardner, Rob's better half, was at the
top of the leaderboard at the turn after
a net double eagle at the
9th. She finished 35-44 - 79
and tied for 6th with Mike
Prieskorn. With 4 wins this
year, Prieskorn (38-41 - 79) was trying
to join Bales and Greg Kline as the only
players in Tour history to earn 5 wins
in one season.
Kline
(42-38 - 80) finished T8 but secured the
2010 Money Title with $272.77 in
winnings this season. With 2
money titles on his resume, Kline owns
the 2 highest winning totals in Tour
history including the record earnings of
$292.70 from 2006.
Rob Gardner - 2010 TOUR
Champion
Top-10
at the 2010 TOUR Championship |
1
|
73
(+1)
|
Rob Gardner
$50
|
2
|
74
(+2)
|
Lou Acosta
$35
|
3
|
75
(+3)
|
Jon Heikkinen
$25
|
4
|
78
(+6)
|
Thom Bales
$12.50
|
|
78
(+6)
|
Randall Reher
$12.50
|
6
|
79
(+7)
|
Mike
Prieskorn $2.50
|
|
79
(+7)
|
Julie Gardner
$2.50
|
8
|
80
(+8)
|
Greg Kline
|
|
80
(+8)
|
Art Wakeford
|
10
|
82
(+10)
|
Denny Ersig
|
|
82
(+10)
|
Jeff Klipa
|
|
82
(+10)
|
Philip
Johnson
|
Kline, Abele
finalize teams for Commissioner's Cup
September 14,
2010
The
6th Commissioner's Cup Matches are set
for September 25-26 at the Thoroughbred
golf course at the JJ Ranch Resort in
Rothbury, Michigan. The
annual team matches pit a team
representing the Tour's Central Division
against a team from the West division.
Greg
Kline, 3-2 as the captain of the Central
team in the first 5 Cups, returns a
squad with 5 members from last year's
winning team. Phil Abele
will captain the West team for the
second time.
TEAM CENTRAL |
TEAM WEST |
Greg KLINE |
Phil ABELE |
Tom SACHS |
Barb HOELZLE |
Tom MORAN |
Thom BALES |
Jason RECTENWALD * |
Charlie ROY * |
Dan SCHWARTZ * |
Tom HOELZLE * |
Karl CARTER * |
Erik MELAND * |
Rich DUNMORE * |
Eric MORRIS * |
Tim MARKEL * |
Todd WEAKLEY * |
*
Captain's Pick
Better late
than never - Tom Moran delivers UPS
Quad-Tour win
September 12,
2010
Tom
Moran collected his 2nd win of the year
- and 4th overall - at the 2010 UPS
Store Quad-Tour Challenge on Saturday by
netting an even par 71 and accumulating
a team score of 8-under 276.
Moran finished the Central division
schedule ranked 5th with
$60.00. He is 9th ($83.67)
on the overall money standings heading
into the TOUR
Championship. The Quad-Tour
was rescheduled from the original July
24th date.
His
pro team of Tim Clark (64), Corey Pavin
(69) and Morgan Pressel (72) staked
Moran to an 8-under par total of
205. He added 6 birdies in his
round at Fox Creek GC but made 3 bogies
and a triple bogey on 18 that turned out
harmless.
John
Powell led after 3 rounds thanks to
Clark's 64, Mark Calcavecchia's 70 and
the LPGA's Suzann Peterson's 70.
His own 7-over 78 left him 6 strokes
back of Moran but in 2nd pace none the
less. It was his 10th top-4 of the
year and he goes into the TOUR
Championship ranked 3rd on the overall
money list ($185.40).
Erik
Meland (77-284) finished 3rd and Greg
Kline (75-286) and Julie Gardner
(80-286) tied for 4th. Kline
added $4 to his Tour leading total
($272.77), and also captured his 3rd
Central division Money Title, while
Gardner needed the $4 to get into the
top-20 and earn a trip to the Polo
Fields for the TOUR Championship.
Tom
Moran - 2010 UPS Store Quad-Tour
Challenge champ
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Quad-Tour Challenge
Tom Sachs
outlasts the PLAYERS at windy Eagle
Crest
September 5,
2010
Tom
Sachs, a 3rd year pro from Franklin,
Michigan, won the PLAYERS Championship
on Saturday by shooting a 39-38 - 77 on
a windswept Eagle Crest golf
course. The reigning MT
Senior Open champ made the PLAYERS his
2nd Tour win and first major triumph.
Sachs
hit 5 of 14 fairways on a day when no
one else hit more than 7. He
hit 4 greens in regulation when no one
else hit more than 5. Eagle
Crest is always tough, but the wind
turned a tough test into a truly
difficult test - a grind from hole #1 to
hole #18. The 5-over 77 was
the highest winning score in PLAYERS
history - eclipsing the 76 that won Russ
Holland the PLAYERS Championship in
2002.
Second
place was shared by a trio of players
that included Greg Kline, John Powell
and Bob Baar. Kline (37-42 -
79) came within 3 strokes of sweeping
the 3 division championships in
consecutive weekends. Kline
did clinch the Central division money
title with the $24 for T-2.
Powell (40-39 - 79) posted his 9th top-4
of the year and is currently 4th on the
Central money standings (5th overall)
and will be among the favorites at the
TOUR Championship. Baar
(39-40 - 79) had his best finish in a
major since tying for 3rd in the 2008
PLAYERS.
Tom
Sachs - 2010
PLAYERS Champion
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2010 PLAYERS Championship
Kline is
Grande in the West
August 29,
2010
Greg
Kline has made a habit of taking
Mulligan Tour major championship
hardware. One week after
winning the inaugural EASTERN
Championship, Kline took his "A" game
west, to Jackson, Michigan, and solved
the Grande riddle. Hitting
10 of 14 fairways and 12 of 18 greens at
the Grande Golf Club, Kline stayed away
from 3-putting until the final hole and
posted a 1-under par 71 for a 3-stroke
win.
This
win makes 9 Mulligan Tour major titles
on Kline's resume. He has
won the Match Play Championship and the
TOUR Championship 3 times each and the
Memorial, EASTERN and WESTERN once
each. He has jumped to the
top of the money list ($244.77) for 2010
and is in line to win his 2nd Money
Title.
Joe
Robar had a double-bogey, bogey finish
to fall back to 2nd place at 2-over
74. The defending champ,
Rick Persichetti, was in contention
until bogies at 14 and 16 and a
double-bogey at 17 left him at
75. David Martin (37-39 -
76) and Thom Bales (36-40 - 76) shared
4th place.
Tour
President Erik Meland recorded the
Tour's 6th hole-in-one on the 135-yard
5th hole. He finished tied
for 8th at 6-over 78.
Greg
Kline - 2010
WESTERN Champion
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2010 WESTERN Championship
Kline colors
Greystone red, Powel
wins East Money Title
August 23,
2010
Greg
Kline had little problem with Greystone
Golf Club, host site for the first
EASTERN Championship on Sunday, winning
his 8th Mulligan Tour major title with a
convincing 7-stroke
win. Kline converted 5
birdies and an eagle in posting a
4-under par 32-36 - 68. He was the
only player to finish in red numbers.
John
Powell, winner of the Sweet Sixteen back
in May, finished in 2nd place with a
35-40 - 75. The $36 was just
enough to stay ahead of Kline on the
East money list and win the very first
East Division Money Title with $68.00 in
earnings. Kline finished the
East schedule with $66.17 after winning
the $48 first place prize.
Erik
Meland (34-42 - 76), Jon Heikkinen
(38-38 - 76) and Jeff Klipa (38-38 - 76)
shared 3rd place and took in $12
each. Meland finished 4th on
the East money list ($36.50) with
Heikkinen tied for 5th ($36.00).
Greg
Kline - 2010
EASTERN Champion
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2010 EASTERN Championship
Perch reels
in 18th career win
August 23,
2010
Rick
Persichetti won the 2010 Ugly Pants Open
on Saturday - his 18th title in 8 years
on Tour. Perch posted a
38-31 - 69 that was 4-strokes better
than Eric Morris and 5-strokes clear of
Barb Hoelzle and John
Powell. The 18 wins is a new
record on Tour. The
victory was Persichetti's 65th top-4 in
132 career starts. He also
has the most runner-up finishes (19) in
Tour history.
A
week after winning the Caddyshack
Classic, Morris (35-38 - 73) played the
final 4 holes at Downing Farms in 6-over
par to lose the lead and drop back to
2nd place. The $21 check was
enough to get Morris into the WESTERN
Championship field.
Hoelzle,
the 2007 UPO champ, was the leader at
the turn after going out in
31. But an inward 43
relegated her to T-3. Powell
(35-39 - 74) made it 3 straight 3rd
place finishes as he continues to stay
in striking distance of 2010 Money
Title.
David
Martin won the "Ugly Attire" Award and
earned $40 off of his 2011
membership.
Rick
Persichetti - 2010 Ugly Pants Open
champ
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2010 Ugly Pants Open
Eric Morris
wins the Caddyshack
August 16,
2010
Eric
Morris was left holding the gopher on
Sunday when his 1-under par 71 held up
as the low score at the 2010 Caddyshack
Classic. The Links at Lake
Erie gave up it's normal allotment of
birdies and eagles, but there seemed to
be more bogies than usual - perhaps due
to the hot and humid conditions that
drained player's of their energy.
The
71 was the highest winning score ever at
the Caddyshack, a tournament where the
average winning score over the last 5
years has been 64.2. Morris
beat Victor McCoy by 1-stroke and a
group of 6 that finished 2 shots back at
73. The victory, worth $32,
gives Morris a spot in the inaugural
EASTERN Championship and assures an
invitation to the TOUR Championship as
well.
McCoy
(35-37 - 72) also earned an invitation
to the EASTERN, set for this coming
Sunday at Greystone Golf Club in
Romeo. The 6 players tied
for 3rd included John Powell, Jeff
Klipa, Jim Cwikla, Tom Hoelzle, Chris
Dunmore and Tim Jakubowski.
Eric
Morris - 2010 Caddyshack Classic champ
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2010 Caddyshack Classic
Mike
Prieskorn wins Carrington for 4th
victory of the year
August 16,
2010
Trying
to keep pace with his Memorial
Tournament partner, Mike Prieskorn won
the 2010 Carrington Classic on Saturday
- his 4th victory of the year, 1 shy of
the 5 titles Thom Bales has colleted
this season. Prieskorn won the Tin
Cup in early May before he and Bales won
the Green Towels at Gateway at the end
of May. Prieskorn also won the
Two-Stick Classic last month.
Shooting
a personal best gross 77, Prieskorn
netted a 4-under par 68 for a 3-stroke
win over Don Morris.
Prieskorn led the field in putting (27)
and carded 7 birdies and an eagle.
Morris
(36-35 - 71) was the only other player
to finish in red numbers.
After winning 3 times in his 2009 rookie
season, Morris has only 2 top-4's in
2010 but is qualified for the PLAYERS
Championship and the TOUR Championship.
John
Powell and Thom Bales led the five-some
of even par shooters. Bales
(37-35) continues to lead the Tour in
prize money with $208.60.
Powell is the only player to be ranked
in the top-6 in driving accuracy, greens
in regulation, putting and net
scoring. He is currently 6th
on the Money List with
$90.90. Tim Markel (33-39),
Eric Morris (35-37) and Rich Dunmore
(37-35) also finished at even par 72.
Mike
Prieskorn
Tournament host Jason Rectenwald and
Mike
Prieskorn
2010 Carrington Classic champ
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2010 Carrington Classic
Thom Bales
rolls to Go Blue title
August 9,
2010
A
hot and blustery day at Leslie Park led
to higher scores at the 2010 Go Blue
Classic. Thom Bales
prevailed with a 1-over par 73 for his
5th win of the year - tying Greg Kline's
record of 5 wins in the 2006
season. Bales jumped to the
top of the 2010 money standings with
$202.00 in earnings.
Windy
conditions made fairways a premium and
the rough was thick and lush reducing
the number of greens in
regulation. The field
averaged only 4.5 fairways and 3.6
greens for the tournament - well below
most tournament averages.
Playing in the first group, Bales set
the pace with a 37-36 - 73 that was
3-strokes better than Jeff Klipa and
Mike Prieskorn. T-Bone hit 5
fairways and 6 greens matching his
season averages in those
categories. He needed 30 putts -
5th best in the tournament.
Klipa
(37-39 - 76) notched his first top-4
since early June and most likely secured
a spot in the WESTERN Championship with
a T-2 in this west division
event. Prieskorn (42-34 -
76) carded a double-eagle on the par-5
16th and was the only player to
break par on either side of Leslie
Park's 36-36 - 72 layout.
Ned
Loving (41-36 - 77) netted his 2nd
career top-4 and is currently just
outside the top-20 on the West money
list.
Thom
Bales - 2010 Go Blue Classic champ
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2010 Go Blue Classic
Steve
Villerot collects the 65 Kennedy's at
Fifty Cent Classic
August 9,
2010
Steve
Villerot, 3 weeks removed from his first
career win, essentially made it 2 in a
row with a victory at the 2010 Fifty
Cent Classic on Saturday.
Since his win at the Crazy Brit on July
17, Villerot skipped the Two-Stick and
the Match Play and returned to action at
Stony Creek
Metropark. A fast start
at the Fifty Cent allowed Villerot to
post a 31-37 - 68 and a 2-stroke cushion
over a pair of Erik's.
Receiving
the customary sixty five 50-cent pieces
for first place, Villerot is now the
leading money winner among rookies
($64.50) and is qualified for the
EASTERN Championship and the PLAYERS
Championship by virtue of his 2
victories and will certainly be in the
top-20 money winners overall and qualify
for the TOUR Championship.
Erik
Johnson and Erik Meland tied for 2nd at
2-under 70. Meland (34-36 -
70) led the field in birdies with 9 and
Johnson was 2nd with 7.
Johnson (35-35 - 70) continues to lead
the Tour with a 5.75 birdie
average. Each took home a sack of
41 half dollars for the T2.
Greg
Kline (37-35 - 72) finished in solo 4th
and earned $8.50. Bob Baar
(36-37 - 73) and Jeff Klipa (34-39 - 73)
tied for 5th taking home $5.00
each. Among those tied for
7th was John Stepek. Part of the
sponsoring group for the Fifty Cent
Classic, Stepek (39-36 - 75) is moving
to Chicago soon to be closer to the kids
and grandkids.
Steve
Villerot - 2010 Fifty Cent Classic
champ
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2010 Fifty Cent Classic
T-Bone walks
all the way to the Match Play title, 3rd
major of the year
August 2,
2010
Thom
"T-Bone" Bales finished the job on
Sunday, winning his 3rd major
championship of the year by taking the
2010 Match Play Championship with a
2&1 win over Rick
Persichetti. The only player
to walk all 4 rounds, Bales outlasted
Erik Meland in the morning semi-finals
2&1 before the afternoon showdown
with Perch.
Bales
became the first player ever to win the
first 3 majors of the
season. He partnered with
Mike Prieskorn to win the Memorial in
May and then ran away with the Harbour
Pointe Open in June. He
plans to play in the WESTERN
Championship on August 28 and the
PLAYERS Championship on September
4. If he doesn't capture the
Grand Slam in one of those division
championships then he will have a final
shot at the TOUR Championship on
September 18.
This
was Persichetti's 3rd runner-up finish
in the Match Play but the 2nd place
check of $40 made him the career leader
in prize money ($1,398.07).
Perch is 2nd all time in starts (131)
and top-4 finishes (64) and is tied for
most wins (17). Persichetti
beat Dan Schwartz 4&2 in the morning
semi-final by winning 5 of the first 6
holes to take control of the match
Meland beat
Schwartz 3&2 for 3rd
place. The match was all
square thru 11 holes, but Meland carded
5 pars and 2 bogies on the last 7 holes
to secure the match.
Thom
Bales and Rick Persichetti finish the
2010 Match Play Championship on the
Woodlands' 17th hole
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2010 Match Play Championship
Sunday Match
Play duel includes Meland, Perch,
Schwartz and Bales
July 31, 2010
The
2010 Match Play Championship was
whittled down to the final four on
Saturday. Tour founder Erik
Meland won his first 2 matches ever in
this tournament to advance to the semi
finals on Sunday. He beat
the 2002 Match Play champ, David Martin,
with a sand save on 18 to halve the hole
and win the match 1-up. He
will play Thom Bales in the first semi
final match. Bales, a
runner-up to DeVonne Mowry at the Match
Play in 2007, beat Eric Morris 2&1
on Saturday to make the final four for a
second time.
The
other semi final match will pit Rick
Persichetti against Dan
Schwartz. Persichetti, a
runner-up in 2003 and 2004, beat Don
Morris on Saturday 4&2.
Schwartz, a runner up in 2006, beat Mike
Prieskorn with a net eagle on 18 to
close the deal 2-up.
Fridays
opening round results:
David
Martin def. Rich Dunmore
6&4
Erik Meland def. Tom R Litzler 2&1
Eric
Morris def. Greg Kline
1-up
Thom Bales def. Victor McCoy 4&2
Rick
Persichetti def. Tom Hoelzle
5&3
Don Morris def. Tom W Litzler 6&4
Dan
Schwartz def. Kelly Arnold
3&1
Mike Prieskorn def. Tom Sachs 7&6
Prieskorn
makes Two-Stick his 3rd win of the year
July 26, 2010
Mike
Prieskorn joined his Memorial partner
Thom Bales as 3 time winners in
2010. Prieskorn
used a 3-wood and a 7-iron to navigate
around the 6,200 yards of Sandy Creek GC
and win the 2010 Two-Stick
Classic. He finished tied
with Rick Persichetti at 1-over 73, but
a playoff never materialized when Perch,
playing in the first group, needed to
get home for his daughter's birthday
party.
Leading
the field in fairways hit (11), greens
in regulation (6) and birdies made (6),
Prieskorn recovered from a double bogey,
bogey, triple bogey start by playing the
next 9 holes in 5-under par.
He won the playoff by default - the 3rd
time in Tour history that a champion won
a playoff without stroking a
putt. Prieskorn moves up to
2nd on the Money List ($118)
Barb
Hoelzle (34-40 - 74) bogied the last 2
holes to finish a stroke out of the
playoff. The MT Ladies
champ, Hoelzle added $14 to her 2010
season and is currently 8th on the Money
List. Greg Kline (36-41 -
77) and Dan Schwartz (41-36 - 77) shared
4th place after Schwartz drained a
snaking 20 footer on 18 for
eagle. Kline continues to
lead the Tour in prize money ($140.27)
Mike
Prieskorn - 2010 Two-Stick Classic champ
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Tom Seniority
July 19, 2010
Tom
Sachs won the inaugural MT Senior Open
on Sunday at Lake Erie
Metropark. The most senior
member of the Tour played the steadiest
in the warm conditions and finished
2-strokes ahead of Tim
Markel. Sachs had 5 top-4
finishes in his first 2 years on Tour
but earned his first career win in this
his 38th start. He moves up
to 5th on the 2010 Money List ($81.25)
after finishing in the money for the 5th
time this season. Sachs is
the 8th first time winner on Tour this
year.
Sachs
led the field with 13 pars making 2
birdies and 3 bogies to post a 1-over
par 73. Markel (39-36 - 75)
led the field in birdies made (5) but
front nine bookend double bogies at the
1st and 9th holes was the
differnce. Bob Baar (37-39 -
76) and Tim Jakubowski (37-39 - 76)
shared 3rd place. It was
Baar's 24th career top-4 and the first
for the rookie Jakubowski.
Lake
Erie Metropark is the 2nd course to host
3 different Mulligan Tour tournaments
having held several Strokes on a Rope
events and the 2001 and 2003 Two-Stick
Classics. The other course
is Lake Forest GC in Ann Arbor (Western
Swing, Go Blue Classic, Strokes on a
Rope).
Tom Sachs - 2010 MT
Senior Open champ
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Steve
Villerot gets the points
July 19, 2010
Steve
Villerot, a rookie from Plymouth, found
the Crazy Brit format to his liking
scoring 43 points and taking the 2010
title in only his 5th start on
Tour. Villerot had 1 eagle (4
points) and 6 birdies (3 points each)
and scored points on every hole adding
10 pars (2 points each) and 1 bogey (1
point) for the final total.
He finished 4 points clear of Don Morris
and Victor McCoy.
Clubhouse
leaders for about 40 minutes, Morris (39
points) and McCoy (39 points) "prepared"
for a possible playoff by ordering
drinks and entertaining the other
players. It was McCoy's
first top-4 since the 2009 Memorial
tournament and Morris' first top-4 since
the 2009
Caddyshack. Tour rookie
Barry Kirsch (38 points) earned his
first top-4 finish in just his 5th
start.
Villerot
is the 7th first time winner this season
as the Tour continues to see new players
step up to accept the
trophies. Villerot is 5th on
the Central Money List and exempt from
qualifying for the PLAYERS
Championship. He is 24th on
the overall Money Standings.
Steve
Villerot - 2010 Crazy Brit champ
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Barb Hoelzle
reigns at MT Ladies Open
July 12, 2010
Barb
Hoelzle won the 2010 MT Ladies Open at
Fieldstone GC on Sunday to become the
winningest female player on
Tour. A net eagle at the
par-3 17th provided just enough cushion
to collect win #6 surpassing "Fairway
Mary" Petree who had 5 wins from 1999 to
2002.
Hoelzle
completed the 4,941 yard Fieldstone
layout shooting 38-40 - 78 for a
1-stroke victory over Julie
Gardner. The win was worth
$28 in official prize money and earned
Hoelzle an exemption into the TOUR
Championship and her choice of one of
the 3 division
championships. Hoelzle is
also the career leader among lady
members in starts (86), top-4 finishes
(20) and earnings ($398.50).
Gardner
(41-38 - 79) recorded her 2nd runner up
finish this season and is 13th on the
Money List with $46 in prize
money. Rookie Jan Crawford
finished 3rd, her first top-4, after
shooting 45-38 - 83 and Terry Baar
(43-43 - 86) has never finished out of
the money in 3 MT Ladies.
Barb
Hoelzle - 2010 MT Ladies Open champ
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Art Wakeford
gets first win in Casino Classic playoff
July 12, 2010
Art
Wakeford survived a lengthy playoff with
his friend Jon Heikkinen to win the 2010
Casino Classic on Saturday.
With Twin Lakes Golf & Swim Club
hosting the inaugural event, Wakeford
made a delicate, downhill 1-putt birdie
on the 7th playoff hole to claim his
first victory. Both players
finished at even par 72 during
regulation play - 2 strokes better than
a threesome of players.
Wakeford's
first Tour victory comes in his 14th
career start. He and
Heikkinen were teammates in finishing T4
at the Memorial Tournament in
May. Heikkinen, a rookie
making his 5th start, recorded the
Tour's 5th hole-in-one after acing the
146-yard 14th.
The
3-way tie for 3rd included Greg Kline
(37-37 - 74), Steve Prew (36-38 - 74)
and Randall Reher (36-38 -
74). Reher finds himself at
the top of the East Division money
standings ($33.67) with his 2nd top-4 of
the season.
Rookie
Rich Dunmore was the only player to
string 3 consecutive birdies together
winning himself a $20 bill. He
also pulled a numbered chip that matched
a hole that he made birdie to win
another $10. Lou Acosta, Ray
Collins and Mike Sikes also pulled $10
winning chips in the inaugural Casino
Classic.
Art
Wakeford - 2010 Casino Classic champ
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Bales
finishes off the field, wins the HPO by
13 strokes
June 28, 2010
Thom
Bales followed an opening 65 with a
final round 70 to finish at 9-under par
135 and claim the first 36-hole
Commercial Underwriters Harbour Pointe
Open title. Bales was the
only player to finish in red numbers and
finished 13 strokes ahead of Lou Acosta.
Bales
essentially ended the tournament at the
par-5 turn, making birdie 4's at the
8th, 9th and 10th to reach 10-under for
the championship. He is the
2nd player to win the Memorial and the
HPO in the same year and will continue
his pursuit of the Grand Slam at the
Match Play Championship in late July.
Acosta
started the championship round 8 shots
back of Bales tied for 6th place.
He followed a first round 73 with a
second round 75 to finish at 4-over 148,
1-stroke ahead Dennis LeMaitre.
LeMaitre
was the only player within 5 shots of
Bales after a Saturday 68 but never
could mount any pressure on the
leader. His final round 81
left him in 3rd place at 5-over
149. A 4-way tie for 4th
included the 2004 HPO champ Rick
Persichetti along with Young Tom
Litzler, John Powell and Joe
Robar. Persichetti made the
biggest move on Sunday climbing from
T-11 to get a piece of 4th.
Saturday's
opening round included 37 Touring pros
among the 46 players. The
cut line for the top-16 players was
7-over 79. All 17 players
that made the cut participated in
Sunday's championship round as the HPO
conducted the first 36-hole tournament
in Tour history. The players
also raised $465 for the Lennon
Pregnancy Center of Dearborn
Heights. Dan Schwartz of
Commercial Underwriters Risk Management
Inc presented the Center with the
contribution.
Todd
Stuart, a Tour member from 1999 - 2001
and an annual guest at the HPO, made a
hole-in-one at the tough 215-yard, par-3
3rd hole. He also finished
as low amateur for the 5th time since
retiring from the Tour.
2010
Harbour Pointe Open champ
Dan Schwartz awards a $465 contribution
to
Thom Bales and Dan
Schwartz
Katherine Lennon of the Lennon Center
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65 puts Bales
in the driver's seat
June 26, 2010
Thom
Bales posted a 7-under 65 on a long
Lakes of Taylor course to lead the 2010
Commercial Underwriters Harbour Pointe
Open by 3 strokes going into Sunday's
final round. Bales recorded
8 birdies and an eagle and needed only
30 putts.
Rookie
Dennis LeMaitre is giving chase.
LeMaitre carded 7 birdies and an eagle
to shoot a 4-under 68. Don Morris
and Joe Robar are currently tied for
3rd, 6 shots back, after opening 71's.
Seventeen
players made the cut after Saturday's
"open" round. The cut line was
7-over 79.
Sunday's
Championship round starts at 8:00am.
Denny Ersig
wins inaugural Sparty Classic
June 21, 2010
A
6 year Tour veteran, Denny Ersig picked
up win #5 at the inaugural Sparty
Classic at Pine Trace GC on
Saturday. Ersig shot a
7-under 65 to beat Randall Reher by 4
strokes. Ersig moved up to the top
of the East division Money List and is
exempt from qualifying for the EASTERN
Championship. He is ranked 14th on
the overall Money Standings.
Reher
(34-35 - 69) recorded his 3rd top-4 in
20 career starts. He is ranked
25th in earnings after collecting $24
for 2nd place. Tom Sachs
(36-35 - 71) finished 3rd and Nedrin
Loving (35-37 - 72) recorded his first
career top-4.
Denny
Ersig 2010
Sparty Classic champ
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Acosta
strings together 2nd win
June 21, 2010
Lou
Acosta, the 2nd year pro from Ann Arbor,
collected his 2nd Tour win by winning a
small field Strokes on a Rope title at
Lake Forest GC on Saturday.
He finished at 8-over par 80 to beat
Young Tom Litzler by a stroke.
Acosta
(37-43 - 80) was 4-over par thru 13 and
leading the tournament when back to back
double-bogies at 14 and 15 derailed his
round. Litzler (41-40 - 81)
birdied the 15th and took the lead but
gave it back with a double-bogey of his
own on 16. A bogey at the
17th gave the lead back to Acosta who
parred-in for his final 3 holes.
Mike
Prieskorn (43-39 - 82) finished 3rd and
Greg Kline (42-41 - 83) took
4th. Kline added $9 to his
lead in the money standings.
He has made $125.10 for the
year.
Lou
Acosta 2010
Strokes on a Rope champ
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T-Bone finds
a stake
June 21, 2010
Thom
Bales beat Greg Kline in a 5-hole
playoff at the 2010 Par-54 Classic on
Friday. Kline, the defending
champ, made a late charge making up 5
strokes on Bales over the final 5
holes. Both player finished
regulation play at 3-over 57.
Bales
tied for first in the field with 11
greens in regulation and was first for
number of birdies (5). When
he and Kline traded 2-putt pars during
the the 4-hole playoff, he ended the
suspense with a curving downhill 1-putt
on the first extra hole driving a stake
into the Tour's leading money
winner. The title is Bales'
8th career victory ranking him 5th on
the all time wins list.
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Thom
Bales 2010 Par-54
Classic champ
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Philip
Johnson reaches Holy Grail
June 14, 2010
A
second year player from Ypsilanti,
Philip Johnson became the 5th first time
winner on Tour this year.
Johnson shot 37-30 - 67 to beat Rob
Gardner by 3 strokes for the 2010 Holy
Grail title. Aided by an
eagle and 6 birdies, 3 of them coming in
his final 5 holes, Johnson won $32 and
is exempt from qualifying for the
WESTERN Championship.
Johnson
joins Phil Abele, Mike Prieskorn, Karl
Carter and Tom Hoelzle as first time
winners in 2010.
Gardner
(39-31 - 70) recorded his best
individual placement, and his 2nd
runner-up finish this year, thanks to a
net double eagle on the 17th
hole. He earned $24 for 2nd
place and is currently ranked 5th on the
Money List.
Rookie
Dennis LeMaitre (34-39 - 73) made the
turn with a 1-stroke lead but played the
final 6 holes in 4-over par to finish
3rd. His first career top-4 earned
him $16. Rick Persichetti
(38-37 - 75) finished eagle-birdie to
net his 4th top-4 of the year and is
currently ranked 4th on the Money
Standings with $54.50 in earnings.
Philip
Johnson 2010 Holy
Grail champ
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Terry Baar is
the Real McCoy
June 14, 2010
A
bridesmaid twice before at the Real
McCoy Classic, Terry Baar shot an
8-under par 63 at Farmington Hills GC to
win the RMC by 4 strokes over Dave
Randall. A front nine 28
powered Baar to her 3rd career win and
restitution for near misses in '06 and
'09.
Baar
hit 11 of 14 fairways and 5 greens in
regulation. She carded 8
birdies and an eagle in shooting 28-35 -
63. Her net scoring average
in 5 RMC's played at Farmington Hills GC
is 67.
Randall
(34-33 - 67) had a tournament low 28
putts and finished in the top-4 for the
3rd time in 5 tries at the Real
McCoy. If fact, it was
Randall that first victimized Baar in
2006 when his tournament record 61 beat
Baar's 63.
Bob
Baar (35-33 - 68) finished 3rd marking
his first top-4 finish since the '09
Holy Grail, a tournament where the
results were the same for the couple -
Terry winning and Bob taking 3rd.
A
four way tie for 4th included 3
rookies. Joe Varney (35-34 -
69) had the low gross score (72) in the
field as he, Rich Dunmore (31-38 - 69)
and Sam Akunuri (36-33 - 69) recorded
their first top-4's. Tom
Sachs (34-35 - 69) also shared 4th - his
3rd top-4 this year.
Terry
Baar 2010 Real McCoy Classic
champ
Terry Baar and tournament host Victor
McCoy
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Martin
returns to winning ways
June 14, 2010
David
Martin, the Tour's career money leader,
made his 2010 debut at the Fox Hunt and
collected win #16, his 67th top-4 in 120
starts. Martin led the field
with 12 greens in regulation and scored
51 points on the Strategic Fox layout to
beat Tom W Litzler by a
point. The Fox Hunt format
awards points for hitting greens and for
putting no more than 3
times. Martin was tied for
2nd in the field with 30 putts.
Litzler,
the Fox Hunt champ in 2006 with a record
60 points, hit 10 greens (ranked 2nd in
the field) and needed 31 putts
(4th). His first top-4 of
the year pushes Litzler into the top-25
on the Money Standings.
Rookie Steve Prew scored 48 points and
secured 3rd place - one point ahead of
the season money leader Greg Kline.
Martin
is scheduled to return to the Strategic
Fox on June 18th to compete in the
Par-54 Classic, a tournament that he has
won once (2006) and finished 2nd on 2
other occasions (2005, 2007).
David
Martin 2010 Fox Hunt champ
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Moran
collects 3rd Tour win
June 6, 2010
Tom
Moran shot a 1-under par 69 to win the
2010 Dudlee's Plymouth Open by
3-strokes. Moran recovered
from a double-bogey, par, bogey start on
the first 3 holes to play 4-under the
rest of the way. This was
Moran's 3rd win among 10 top-4's in 62
starts on Tour.
John
Powell (40-32 - 72) and Dave Randall
(38-34 - 72) each earned $17.50 for the
tie for 2nd place. Powell,
ranked 3rd in the MT world ranking, is
currently the only player ranked in the
top-10 of all 3 division's Money
Standings.
Jeff
Klipa (39-34 - 73) and Tom Sachs (36-37
- 73) settled for a 4th place tie worth
$6.00 each. Klipa, a 7-time winner
on Tour, could have had his 8th
victory. A strong back nine was
marred by a double-bogey on 16 and a
quadruple bogey on 17. An eagle on
the home hole got him into the money -
his 23rd career top-4.
The
participating players at the Plymouth
Open helped contribute $530 to the
Michigan Humane Society. Karl
Carter, sponsoring the Plymouth Open for
the first time and naming the tournament
after his dog Dudlee, was presented
with a check to give to the Michigan
Humane Society on behalf of the Mulligan
Tour.
Tom Moran
Karl Carter receives $530 donation to the
Michigan
2010
Dudlee's Plymouth Open champ
Humane Society from Commissioner Greg
Kline
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86th time's
the charm
June 6, 2010
A
seasoned veteran of 7 years on Tour,
East Division Commissioner Tom Hoelzle
put it all together on Saturday and
posted his first Tour win at the 2010
Big Dog Pro-Am. Hoelzle had
made 85 starts previous to this one with
the closest look at victory coming in a
playoff loss at the 2005 Memorial
Tournament. It was the longest
winless drought on Tour.
Hoelze
shot a career best 7-under 65 to pull
away from the field and win by 10
strokes in the 2-player team
format. His PGA partner,
Rickie Fowler posted him to a 1-stroke
lead by shooting a 66 in the 2nd round
of the PGA's Memorial
Tournament. The team score
of 13-under 131 is a new scoring record
at the Big Dog Pro-Am, besting Bob
Baar's 136 aggregate in the 2005
tournament.
Hoelzle
used 29 putts - 2nd in the field - to
post 7 birdies and 2 eagles on the Red
and Blue nines of Riverview Highlands
GC. The win, worth $32,
gives Commissioner Hoelzle an exemption
into the EAST Championship at Greystone
GC on August 22.
Erik
Johnson (36-37 - 73) and Lou
Acosta (35-35 - 70) shared 2nd place at
3-under 140. Johnson was helped by
the PGA's Kenny Perry (68) while
Acosta's partner, Phil Mickelson (71)
was a popular choice among the Mulligan
Tour field - all but 2 players making
Mickelson one of their 2 draft choices.
Erik
Meland and Rick Persichetti tied for 4th
place at 1-under 143. Meland
(34-38 - 72) also teamed with Mickelson
while Persichetti (38-37 - 75) was
helped along by Matt Kuchar (68).
Tom
Hoelzle - 2010 Big Dog Pro-Am champ
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Bales and
Prieskorn team up to win 2010 Memorial
Tournament
May 23, 2010
Thom
Bales and Mike Prieskorn, partners out
of necessity, found themselves holding
the Green Towels at the conclusion of
the 2010 Memorial Tournament last
Saturday at Gateway Golf Club. The
pair recorded the 3rd ever bogey-free
round at the Memorial shooting a 5-under
par 67 to win by 2. Bales'
Memorial partner for 3 years, Bob
Bruning, moved to Texas last summer and
the partnership with Prieskorn, hoping
to play in his first Memorial, only
formed the week before the tournament.
Bales
and Prieskorn made birdies on 2 of their
first 3 holes and avoided any mistakes
along the way adding 3 more
birdies. Each team that has played
the Memorial without error - no bogies -
has won the tournament
(Persichetti/Collins in 2004 and
Powell/Robar in 2009).
Bales
is now a multiple major champion (2008
Habour Pointe Open) adding this Memorial
title to a resume that includes 6 wins
among 23 top-4's. Meanwhile,
Prieskorn is off to a hot start in his
2nd year on Tour with 2 wins and a 5th
place in 3 starts.
Another
late forming team, Rick Persichetti and
DeVonne Mowry, tied for 2nd with a
2-under 69. Persichetti was trying
to become the first 3-time winner at the
Memorial and nearly did so with a 3rd
different partner after his normal
teammate Kelly Arnold was
unavailable. Rob and Julie Gardner
also shot 69 and the 2 teams were
warming up for a playoff until the
Bales/Prieskorn card came in to deflate
the anticipation.
Greg
Kline and Jason Rectenwald shared 4th
place with Art Wakeford and Jon
Heikkinen at 1-under 71.
Kline has a Green Towel from 2006 and
this was his 5th top-4 in 7 starts at
the Memorial.
Thom Bales and Mike
Prieskorn - 2010 Memorial Tournament
champs
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Powell tunes
up at Sweet Sixteen
May 16, 2010
John
Powell, a 3rd year pro from
Livonia, collected win #3 by taking the
2010 Sweet Sixteen at Blackheath GC on
Sunday. Powell carded 8 birdies
and an eagle and then discarded his 2
worst holes, a double-bogey and a bogey,
to finish at 7-under par. The win,
worth $28, earns Powell an exemption to
qualifying for the first EASTERN
Championship on August 22nd at Greystone
Golf Club.
Kelly
Arnold took 2nd place (4-under par) and
rookie Jeremy Roach (3-under par) took
3rd place. Eric Morris and Dan
Schwartz shared 4th place with even par
scores for their best 16 holes
John
Powell - 2010 Sweet Sixteen champ
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Kline wins
Animal House
May 16, 2010
Greg
Kline made it 2 for 2 to start the 2010
season. A week after taking
the Western Swing title, Kline found
himself with low score again winning the
Animal House Classic after shooting a
38-32 - 70 to beat Ray Collins by 2
strokes. Kline hit 7 of 13
fairways and recorded 9 greens in
regulation to net 4 birdies against 3
bogies. For the 2nd time in 5
years, Salem Hills was forced to convert
the par-4 16th into a par-3 after heavy
rains the day before made the 16th
fairway unplayable.
Collins
(35-37 - 72) finished 2nd in his first
start of the 2010 season. A
tour pro in his 8th year, Collins netted
his 13th top-4 finish in 45 career
starts. John Powell (36-38 -
74) and Tom Moran (37-37 - 74) tied for
3rd and Phil Abele and Rick Persichetti
shared 5th place with 77's.
Abele
also played in the Low Zoo Ratio
putt-off with Eric Morris, Dan Schwartz
and Tom Moran. Abele aced the
first hole to take a lead that held up
over the course of the 4 hole
putt-off. He took home a $25
Carl's Golfland giftcard for the
effort.
Greg
Kline - 2010 Animal House Classic champ
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Carter cashes
in at Chelsea Classic
May 9, 2010
Karl
Carter, a 2nd year pro
from Dearborn, made the 2010
Chelsea Classic his first Tour
win. Carter shot a 36-44 -
80 to beat PC Carlos and Joe Robar by
1-stroke. The 8-over par 80 was
the highest winning score in Tour
history - with the exception of the
Strokes on a Rope event.
Gale force winds mixed with some rain
made play difficult, if not challenging,
at Reddeman Farms on Saturday and the
field as a whole averaged a net score
over 86.
Carter
managed to record 2 eagles and a birdie
while making the turn in even par and a
3-stroke lead. He held on
through the inward nine staying away
from "blow-up" holes. The
kind of blow-up holes that caught Carlos
on #14 (triple bogey) and Robar on #17
(triple bogey). Robar (40-41
- 81) needed a birdie on the home hole
to catch his friend Carlos (39-42 - 81)
and force the tie for 2nd. Lou
Acosta (43-40 - 83) notched his 2nd
top-4 in 2 weeks.
Karl
Carter - 2010 Chelsea Classic champ
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Kline wins
3rd Western Swing
May 9, 2010
Central
Division Commissioner Greg Kline
withstood the strong winds at Rustic
Glen on Saturday to win the Western
Swing for the 3rd time.
Kline's first Tour victory was the 2003
Western Swing, played at Huron Meadows
Metropark. He also won this
event in 2006 at Calderone Farms.
Kline
led the field in putting (31) and was
2nd in greens-in-regulation (5/18) in
shooting a 37-39 - 76 to win by
4-strokes. His 15th career
title was his 46th top-4 finish in 117
starts. The win, worth $36,
pushed his career earnings to $1099.00.
Tom
Sachs (38-42 - 80) finished 2nd, his 7th
top-4 in 28 starts. Jason
Rectenwald (42-40 - 82) and Rick
Persichetti (42-40 - 82) tied for 3rd -
Persichetti's 58th top-4 in 121 starts
on Tour.
Greg
Kline - 2010 Western Swing champ
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Abele makes
2010 Pine View Classic his first career
title
May 2, 2010
Phil
Abele, commissioner of the Tour's west
division, shot a 2-over par 74 to
beat Barb Hoelzle by one stroke for the
2010 Pine View Classic
title. A passing
thunderstorm in the morning delayed the
start of the tournament by 20 minutes,
but then Abele got off to a hot start in
the lead group nearly acing the 140 yard
par-3 2nd hole. Abele netted
2 eagles and 3 birdies but a
double-bogey at the 15th and a bogey at
the 16th kept him from being the first
player in 7 years to break par at Pine
View.
Abele
earned $32 for his first title - his 8th
top-4 in 31 starts - and an exemption
into the WESTERN Championship.
The
leader at the turn, Hoelzle (33-42 - 75)
lost the lead after a triple-bogey at
#16. She hit 50% of her fairways
and recorded 5 of 18 greens in
regulation but was hampered by 39
putts. A 5-time winner on
Tour, Hoelzle collected $24 for her 18th
top-4 finish in 78 career starts.
Erik
Meland (39-38 - 77) finished 3rd and
rookie Jeremy Roach (38-42 - 80)
finished 4th to complete his Q-School
requirements and earn a Mulligan Tour
handicap index going
forward. Roach is one of
several new players on Tour with a
promising game. Joe Robar
(38-43 - 81) and Larry Kwiatkowski
(45-36 - 81) tied for 5th.
Phil
Abele - 2010 Pine View Classic champ
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Prieskorn
delivers at Tin Cup
May 2, 2010
Mike
Prieskorn, a 2nd year pro from Wayne,
won the 2010 Tin Cup on
Saturday. A stretch of 6
birdies in 7 holes gave Prieskorn (32-39
- 71) a lead that held up by 1-stroke
over Tom R Litzler. The victory is
the first for Prieskorn, and his first
top-4 in 13 starts on Tour. He hit
6 of 14 fairways and 6 of 18 greens,
needing 31 putts to finish 1-under
par. His 7 total birdies for the
round led the field.
The
12th different winner in the 12 year
history of the Tin Cup, Prieskorn
collected $32 for the win and is exempt
from qualifying for the PLAYERS
Championship at Eagle Crest GC on
September 4th.
Litzler
finished with an eagle on his last hole
(#18) but missed forcing a playoff, or
winning outright, after taking a
double-bogey 5 on the par-3 17th.
Litzler (35-37 - 72) led the field in
putting (27) but was one of 32 players
among the 37 in the field that could not
safely find the green from the 17th
tee. Litzler earned $24 for 2nd
place.
Central
division Commissioner Greg Kline (37-38
- 75) tied for 3rd place with Tim Markel
(38-37 - 75), each earning $12.
Barb Kaczmarek (39-37 - 76) earned $6
for 5th place and John Powell (41-37 -
78) made $4 for 6th.
Mike
Prieskorn - 2010 Tin Cup champ
Click
here for complete FINAL STANDINGS of the
2010 Tin Cup
The Mulligan Tour Chronicles
May 2010
Strokes start
to count on May 1
April 25,
2010
The
Pine View Classic and the Tin Cup open
the 2010 Mulligan Tour season on May
1st. A smaller field of 20 players
are travelling to Pine View for the 12th
playing of the Pine View Classic.
A larger field of 36 is headed to
Hickory Creek to play for the Tin Cup.
The
start of the regular season means that
the race is on to qualify for the
division championships and the TOUR
Championship. The top 20 players
on the Central division money list will
qualify for the PLAYERS Championship -
September 4th at Eagle Crest GC.
Likewise, the top-20 on the West
division money list qualify for the
WESTERN Championship - August 28 at the
Grande GC. The inaugural EASTERN
Championship will invite the top-20 on
the East division money list to play at
Greystone GC on August 22.
Finally, players qualify for the TOUR
Championship by ranking in the top-10 on
any division's money list or ranking in
the top-20 on the overall money
list.
School bell
rings at Fox Creek
April 12,
2010
The
Mulligan Tour's 12th season starts at
Q-School where the new rookie crop gets
a start on developing their MT handicap
index (MTHI). At least 23 new
members will make their Tour debut at
the first Q-School at Fox Creek on April
17th. The second stage of Q-School
moves to Whispering Willows on April 24
where another large field is expected.
There
are currently 30 new members joining the
Tour in 2010 pushing the overall
membership past 80 for the first
time.
Practicing
for the Links
By Tami
Bealert
PGA Professional / Fitness Trainer
March
25, 2010
After a long and
grueling winter, spring has finally
arrived!
The fairways are getting their
first cut, traps are being filled with
fresh sand, and new balls are replacing
the old ones at the golf range.
For some of you avid
golfers who may have been practicing all
winter, just hoping not to “lose your
game”, are chewing at the bit to get out
on the links. Perhaps
others were lucky enough to travel
someplace warm or tropical, and some are
still trying to find where they stored
their clubs for the winter. Regardless
who you are, now is the time to
re-evaluate your time spent at the
driving range before making your first
swing on the first tee box.
Some of those
frustrating habits you’ve struggled with
in the past can be easily corrected
early in the spring, which can provide
for a more enjoyable golf season. The
best way to accomplish this is to take a
lesson or a series of lessons from a PGA
or LPGA instructor. I
have been fortunate over the years to
learn from some of the best in the
industry.
My professional playing
experience and practical training,
provides me the necessary tools to
assist others improve their game.
Together, we will develop a plan based
on your experience, body type, range of
motion, and personal goals. Understanding
your own swing, and what your body is
capable of doing, can directly
contribute to how you physically and
mentally approach the game. More
importantly, the time you spend
practicing will be more rewarding and
likely to produce the results both on
the course and your scorecard.
Here are a few
suggestions on how to practice.
1) Know the
difference between warming up to play
golf or warming up to practice on the
range.
The warm-up may be the same, but
the actual time preparing to play or
just working on your game is very
different.
2) Always have a
purpose or a plan on what you’d like to
accomplish when going to the range. Bring
a note pad to record your progress and
any additional thoughts or questions you
may have.
3) Start with your
set up.
Always have a target in mind, and
adjust yourself to different targets
throughout your practice.
4) Apply the proper
practice drills that will build motor
skill memory. For
quicker results, you can practice some
of the drills daily away from the range.
5) Make it fun! Bring
a friend and share some of your goals. Go
out for lunch or dinner afterwards.
What’s exciting for
me as a PGA Golf Professional is that
every student is unique and each one
offers a different swing motion. I
look forward to every lesson that I
give, because both the student and I
share the same goals – to improve their
game.
With the correct
instruction, proper practice will
improve your performance. So
whether you are a beginner or a scratch
golfer, consider taking a few lessons. It’s
one way to ensure that you are providing
yourself the opportunity to play your
best and to enjoy each moment on the
course, swing after swing!
Tami Bealert is a
teaching pro working out of Hickory
Creek Golf Club www.trainwithtami.com
She
will conduct a clinic after the Tin
Cup tournament on May1 Tin
Cup Clinic
Tour readies
for 2010
January, 2010
The
Mulligan Tour is preparing for its 12th
season. Several tournaments
are already set on the schedule with
other events tentatively in place.
The Tour is planning for as many as 39
different events in an ambitious 2010
campaign.
The
Tour will create an East division and
include 4 established tournaments and 3
new events. The Sweet Sixteen, the
Big Dog Pro-Am, the Caddyshack Classic
and the Fifty Cent Classic will anchor
the new East division while the Casino
Classic and the Sparty Classic will
complete the regular season
schedule. The division
championship, called the EASTERN
Championship, will wrap up the 7 event
schedule.
New
post season events will include the
President's Cup and the Division
Bell. The President's Cup will
feature a team of 6 players captained by
Tour founder and President Erik Meland
competing in 3 different 9-hole matches
against a team of 6 Touring
members. The Division Bell will
invite 4 players to represent each
regional division in an 18-hole, 4 round
total score event.
Click
here for the tentative
2010 tournament schedule
Membership
rates will remain the same for the 3rd
year in a row. A full membership
will cost $120 for the year, although
there is a $20 discount if the
membership is received by March
31. A limited membership (6
events max) is still available for $80.
The
Mulligan Tour is planning to be
represented at the 2010 Michigan Golf
Show on March 5-7 at the Rock Financial
Showplace. Visit http://michigangolfshow.com/
for details about show.
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