UPDATE: Steve Heestand (brother of Matt) won the GMS Challenge! Congrats Steve! On the heels of amadio’s comment posted to yesterday’s preview story about the upcoming Cleveland Am, Derek Duda of Group Management Services has put together a little contest for NEOHgolf.com readers: the 2012 GMS Cleveland Am Fantasy Golf Challenge! It takes just a minute to pick four players and submit your entry, and the winner gets a dozen logo ProV1 balls!
We’ve gathered the brain-trust of the Greater Cleveland Amateur Golf Championship — Cleveland Metroparks golf professionals Mike Raby of Big Met, John Fiander of Sleepy Hollow and Tom Kochensparger of Manakiki — and turned them into “fantasy golf prognosticators” as a preview to this weekend’s big tournament!
See their picks for The Winner, The Darkhorse, The Winning Score, and the Top-5 Finishers — and see how their picks stacks up against the choices made by NEOHgolf.com’s Allen Freeman!
Amy Sulieman of Middleburg Heights shot rounds of 72-68 for a 142 total to capture the title at the 2012 Women’s Greater Cleveland Amateur Golf Championship at Shawnee Hills Golf Course.
Sulieman’s 4-under par total bested Tegan Skirpstas of Medina, who shot rounds of 70-75 to finish second.
Cleveland State senior-to-be Jonathen Reimer of Lyndhurst fired at 3-under par 68 to post a two-day total of 2-under par 140 and ran off with the championship, winning the Greater Cleveland Amateur qualifier held at Shawnee Hills.
With an extremely difficult course setup in play the scores were higher this year, but the champion at Sleepy Hollow was still the same: Pete Skirpstas of Medina defended his title by shooting rounds of 73 – 76 for a 149 total to win by two shots.
Bryan Yeo from Litchfield ran away from the rest of the field, scoring an incredible, record-setting seven shot victory on Sunday.
Yeo won the Big Met Course championship with a sterling 10-under par score of 66-68 for a 134 total.
