Mike Angie still leads the pack!
It was a small turnout at Thunder Hill in Madison, but points leaders Mike Angie and Steve Blackburn Jr. each grabbed a skin to maintain their 1-2 positions on the Cleveland Skins Game Leaderboard, both over the “four figure” mark.
But it was John Niedzialek who was the big winner on Thursday, grabbing both pin shots and a skin.
In a dramatic sudden death playoff, Pat Tyrrell of Sagamore Hills won the 2009 Greater Cleveland Shoot-Out Championship.
On a wet Labor Day Monday at Chardon Lakes Golf Course, Tyrrell and Steve Blackburn Jr. of Willowick each posted a score of 75 from the black tees in the stroke play event run every season for players of the Greater Cleveland Skins Game.
Coming in, Blackburn Jr. appeared to be the man to beat, since he is a past Shoot-Out winner and just won the Briardale Greens club championship the day before with 67-66. But Tyrrell noted that “he had the putter going well” coming into the day, and in the end he backed it up with critical putts to take the title.
Mike Angie did not waste any time Thursday at Powderhorn, making birdie at the difficult 430-yard par-4 1st hole to capture half the skins pot.
Angie’s out-of-the-gate skin of $138.00 takes him over the magic $1,000 mark for the season and extends his lead on Steve Blackburn Jr. and the rest of the pack. Angie is tied at the top for the most skins and the most pin shots won on the season.
The “Hilltoppers” came to play Thursday, as Scott Mackar and Dave Sotka of Chardon took the skins pot at Fowlers Mill Golf Club.
Mackar birdied the tough par-4 15th hole, and Sotka followed it with a birdie on the par-4 16th. The skins were worth $138 each.
The Greater Cleveland Skins Game is pleased to announce that its 2009 Greater Cleveland Shoot-Out will be held on Labor Day Monday, September 7 at Chardon Lakes Golf Course. This will be the first time this 18-hole stroke play event will be held at Chardon Lakes.
The $750 first place prize is guaranteed courtesy of sponsors Steve’s Sports and Blonde John’s Tickets, to allow amateurs to “play like the pros for a day” in this unique event started by Ed Tresger at Fairway Pines Golf Course almost 20 years ago.
Stormy skies and a rain-shortened event made for a small field on Thursday at Quail Hollow. But Steve Blackburn Jr. made a charge up the leaderboard by capturing the only skin and a pin shot at the Weiskopf Course.
The field played six holes before the skies unloaded. Three holes were birdied, but two of those birdies were canceled on holes 1 and 6.
