Birdies were scarce on the treacherous greens of Wicked Woods Golf Course in Newbury on Thursday night in the Greater Cleveland Skins Game.
Four holes had no birdies on them at all, including the easily-reachable par-5 13th hole.
But three players still found paydirt.
Rob Shustrich of Windham fired an even par score of 71 to capture the 2010 Greater Cleveland Shoot-Out at Chardon Lakes Golf Club on Labor Day Monday.
Shustrich birdied the first two holes of the day and never looked back, firing even par nines of 35-36. It was Shustrich’s first Cleveland Shoot-Out victory, and the win earned him the $750 first place prize.
Eddie Neer widened his lead on the 2010 Leaderboard on Thursday at Tanglewood National Golf Course, grabbing two of the three skins won on the night.
Neer made birdie on the short par-4 second hole, and then followed that up with a birdie on the 520-yard par-5 sixth hole that held up.
Twenty players had high hopes at the start of Thursday’s “Double Down” event at Aurora Country Club, where the event’s entry fee is doubled for the night to $60 per man.
But only four players left with smiles on their faces: three big skins winners and one huge pin shot winner.
Eddie Neer wasted no time making birdies, pin shots and skins on Thursday night at the Quail Hollow Devlin Course to extend his lead to over $500 in the race for the 2010 Thompson Cup.
Neer birdied the par-4 10th hole to capture the first skin of the night. He then stuck it close on the following hole, the short par-3 11th, to earn the pin shot there, making his haul for the evening $178.20.
It was a beautiful night for skins game golf at Powderhorn in Madison on Thursday.
And under firm and fast conditions, a number of skins were won — and a back-to-back Thompson Cup winner drew ever so closer to the season-long leader.
