Hanover -- Mike Pollard birdied 17 to tie the match and then made birdie putts on 18 and the first extra hole to help his team upend six-time Tommy Keane Invitational champions Mike and Scott Peters in yesterday’s rain-delayed afternoon Championship Flight match at Hanover Country Club.
Pollard and Chris House will now face Hanover graduate Rex Whitney and Hartford product Jake Obar, who posted a 4-and-3 victory over former champions Craig Steckowych and Brian Doyle.
“We’re 1-up and Pollard goes birdie-birdie-birdie,” Scott Peters said. “He’s a very good player. What are you going to do?”
Pollard, an assistant green keeper at HCC, low-keyed his performance. “It was a good match,” he said. “There wasn’t any great golf but it was pretty even all the way around.”
The Pollard-House team forced an extra hole when Mike Peters’ 40-footer on 18 just missed and Pollard sank a 5-footer. On the extra hole, Mike Peters nearly canned a 20-footer only to see Pollard clinch the match with a 15-foot birdie.
In the other half of the championship bracket -- twice delayed by lightning -- Ted Dardani and former Dartmouth standout Lee Birchall moved into the semis with a 5-and-3 win over Tony Pippin and Ted Byrne. They will face Frank Plimpton and Jody Larson, the Rutland-based team that advanced with a 4-and-3 win over Bill O’Keefe and Michael Murphy.
The winning teams in Sunday’s morning round will play in the afternoon for the championship.
Saturday, July 29, 2006
5:40 pm Update
Kudos to pro Alex Kirk for his timing pulling players off the course. Within a minute or two, the skies let loose and within a few more minutes there was lightning.
It's 5:40 now and the players have just been sent back out onto the course after a delay of just over an hour. The skies opened up again just as the horn sounded, but lightning isn't a problem anymore. Standing water, however, is another story.
More later.
It's 5:40 now and the players have just been sent back out onto the course after a delay of just over an hour. The skies opened up again just as the horn sounded, but lightning isn't a problem anymore. Standing water, however, is another story.
More later.
4:30 Saturday Update
It's the quiet before the storm -- figuratively and literally -- at the Tommy Keane. Only one group has finished its afternoon round, with the 5th-seeded Hazard/Donnelly pairing upending No. 6 Brownell/Brennan in a First Flight match closer than the 6&5 final would indicate.
It's 4:30 and the horn just sounded. That's the literal part of the quiet before the storm. Darkening skies and rolling thunder have given way to safety concerns and so the players are being pulled off the course. Next update when play resumes.
NOTE: I found a better way to do the brackets to make them more readable. Again, click them to enlarge.
It's 4:30 and the horn just sounded. That's the literal part of the quiet before the storm. Darkening skies and rolling thunder have given way to safety concerns and so the players are being pulled off the course. Next update when play resumes.
NOTE: I found a better way to do the brackets to make them more readable. Again, click them to enlarge.
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