TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS RESULTS
October 26 & October 27

(Editor's Note:  Writing about your own success is hard, especially in the third person.  However, the web guy takes his job seriously so just pretend that someone else wrote the following.)

A beautiful October weekend at Palo Alto welcomed the 36 qualifiers to this years TOC.  But with the tees back and the course playing long, the course won out against most of the players.  However, Craig Allen was able to use his side saddle putting style to shoot gross scores of 77 and 72 from the Black tees to take both the Overall Low Gross and Overall Low Net titles for the tournament.  One putting 17 holes out of 36 (and never three putting), he beat Nick Kaufman by 3 shots and posted  the lowest tournament score made from the Black tees this  year.  Three times during the tournament he clanked shots against the flagstick which stopped within a foot.  The golf goddess was smiling on him this weekend; I'm sure she will get back at him later.

 

In addition, to winning the tournament titles, Craig's winnings put him a miniscule 3 points ahead of John Osness to take the Player of the Year Title.  John finished 5th; 4th would have secured the title.  (Note:  Since Craig also keeps the spreadsheet for the TOC, anyone wishing to audit the results is welcome to do so.)

 

 

 

In other news, Jack Woods beat Tracy Powell to win Low Net in the 2nd flight.  This completes our own club's version of the Woods slam since Jack also won his flight in the Directors' Cup and the Stroke Play Championship.

Following are the results of the 2002 Tournament of Champions:

 

 

 

Championship Flight

Low Gross Craig Allen 8 77 72 149   $80
Low Net  Nick Kaufman 4 76 76 152 144 $80
2nd Low Net Sam Giannotti 8 83 81 164 148 $60
3rd Low Net Tim McElravy 8 82 84 166 150 $50
4th Low Net Joel Rosenthal 5 80 81 161 151 $40
5th Low Net John Osness 6 84 82 166 154 $30

First Flight

Low Gross Steve Mikulic 11 77 85 162   $80
Low Net John Frykland 12 84 83 167 143 $80
2nd Low Net Matt Davis 14 87 89 176 148 $60
3rd Low Net Bob Kelley  9 81 87 168 150 $50
4th Low Net Rick Wheat 12 86 89 175 151 $40
5th Low Net Ron Pang 14 93 86 179 151 $30

Second Flight

Low Gross Mike Riche 15 85 88 173   $80
Low Net Jack Woods 21 92 95 187 145 $80
2nd Low Net Tracy Powell 24 99 94 193 145 $60
3rd Low Net Ed Barkley 21 97 92 199 147 $50
4th Low Net Larry Gerrman 18 94 89 183 147 $40
5th Low Net Karl Clemons 15 88 89 143 147 $30

Last Updated on 03/06/2003