The Greg Mastriona Golf Courses at Hyland Hills in Westminster hosted the PGAJL Southwest Regional over the weekend, drawing opposing teams from Dallas, Houston and Scottsdale, Ariz.
The Axis All-Stars from greater Houston, which is in the process of rebuilding after Hurricane Harvey, won the Southwest Regional title and therefore will advance to the PGA Junior League national championship, set for Nov. 16-19 at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale.
With all four teams at Hyland Hills playing three matches in a round-robin — two on Saturday and one on Sunday — Colorado-based Mt. Elbert went 0-3 and finished fourth, with nine points.
On Saturday, Mt. Elbert fell to Brookhaven from the Dallas area, 8-4, and to Grayhawk from Scottsdale, 10-2. On Sunday, Axis defeated Mt. Elbert 9-3.
Here’s the Mt. Elbert All-Star team roster that represented Colorado over the weekend after winning the Sub-Regional competition (more than 1,500 juniors competed in PGA Junior League in Colorado this year):
Team Captain: Rick Timm, PGA — Timm Golf Academy
Assistant Coach: Tim Porter
Traejan Andrews, 13 — Timm Golf Academy
Ty Andrews, 10 — Timm Golf Academy
Kaden Devenport, 11 — Timm Golf Academy
Rachel Penzenstadler, 13 — Timm Golf Academy
Andy Schwartz, 12 — The Links Golf Course
Dylan Bundy, 12 — The Links Golf Course
Qwenton Caldwell, 13 — The Links Golf Course
Max Zadvorny, 12 — South Suburban Golf Course
Cade Rummell, 13 — Fossil Trace Golf Club
Ayzic Belanger, 13 — Family Sports Center Golf Course
The three other teams competing at Hyland Hills over the weekend each went 2-1 in round-robin action, but Axis finished with 22 points, edging Grayhawk (21.5) and Brookhaven (19.5).
Axis started with a 6.5-5.5 loss to Grayhawk, beat Brookhaven 7.5-4.5, then defeated Mt. Elbert 9-3.
The seed was planted a few years ago when Gary Potter received a request from former CGA executive director Warren Simmons, asking for a pledge for a fundraising event in which Simmons was participating.
“I was kind of curious, and that’s where it started,” Potter recalls.
Now that seed that was inadvertently planted by Simmons is set to bear fruit in Colorado in the form of the Colorado Golf Hall of Fame Classic 100.
On April 7 (or March 31 in the case of some determined participants, pictured below) at the South par-3 layout at the Greg Mastriona Golf Courses at Hyland Hills in Westminster, Potter and about 15 of his cohorts on the Colorado Golf Hall of Fame board of directors plan to play 100 holes for a couple of good causes. Through a ProFund campaign in which participants garner pledges for the 100-hole event, the Classic 100 will raise money for the History of Golf in Colorado Foundation — a 501c3 which benefits the Colorado Golf Hall of Fame and its museum — and for youth programs that will be determined in coordination with the Colorado Golf Foundation.
(Updated March 31) More than $95,000 has been pledged to the causes. Some individual sponsors have committed to pitch in $1,000 each.
“It’s a hell of a success,” said Potter, himself a Colorado Golf Hall of Fame inductee, and the campaign captain for the Classic 100. “Our goal Jan. 31 was to get to $40,000 overall, so doubling that is a great success.”
The Colorado Golf Hall of Fame was established in 1973 and this year — May 14 at Cherry Hills Country Club to be exact — it will induct its 44th class, Craig Stadler and Ann Finke (READ MORE). The Hall of Fame will hold its CGHOF Team Championship June 13 at Riverdale Dunes in Brighton, where the CGHOF museum is located. The public is welcome to participate in the tournament. The $125 entry fee includes golf, carts, tee gifts and lunch. Contact Potter for more information at garytpotter59@gmail.com.(Among the Hall of Fame’s inductees — and board members — are Dan Hogan and John Gardner, pictured together at top during last month’s Denver Golf Expo.)
As for the Classic 100, Colorado Golf Hall of Fame board member Dave Richardson, a longtime regular at Hyland Hills, persuaded course officials to donate the South par-3 facility for the event, which figures to last about five hours. Colorado Golf Hall of Fame board members are invited to participate in a celebration after the golf has wrapped up on April 7.
Greg Mastriona, after whom the Hyland Hills golf facility is named, was inducted into the Colorado Golf Hall of Fame in 2014.
The Classic 100 participants have garnered pledges from more than 480 donors, with that total likely to increase. Steve Bell has 80 sponsors, with Potter (75), former USGA staffer and CWGA executive director Maggie Giesenhagen (51) and Castle Pines Golf Club general manager Keith Schneider (49) also garnering more than 45.
All of which tells Colorado Golf Hall of Fame president Scott Radcliffe — another Classic 100 particpant — one thing. “We have some really nice friends, and they believe in us,” he said.
Just Schneider and Potter, who like Giesenhagen have been inducted into the Colorado Golf Hall of Fame, have received combined pledges totaling more than $35,000. And Bell checks in at more than $13,000.
“The best part is we have over (480) sponsors,” Potter said. “That’s a broad base. Some don’t even play golf, but they support the Colorado Golf Hall of Fame. It’s amazing.”
Anyone interesting in being a Classic 100 sponsor — or for more information — can contact Potter at garytpotter59@gmail.com.
A good partnership in golf is considered one in which the players “ham and egg it” very well. In other words, when one is struggling, the other picks up the slack and plays well.
Christie Austin and Tori Glenn certainly did that on occasion over the weekend, but they ham and egg it on a bigger scale. Austin is 57 years old and has a daughter, Julie, close to the age of Glenn, who is 19. And before Sunday, Austin had won about a dozen CWGA championships, while Glenn was still looking for her first.
But whatever the case, the two hit upon a good enough complementary formula that they claimed the championship flight title Sunday at the 48th annual CWGA Brassie at the Gold Course at Hyland Hills in Westminster.
“It’s so much fun to win a state championship,” noted Austin, a former USGA Executive Committee member from Cherry Hills Country Club. “This just sort of fell into place, which is great because we were really looking forward to (playing in the tournament together). We played a practice round and everything. We made a big effort here,” she added with a laugh.
Austin won the Brassie — which features a four-ball stroke-play format — for the fourth time on Sunday. But on the previous two occasions (2001 and ’10), her partner was Colorado Golf Hall of Famer Janet Moore. Moore couldn’t play this time around, so Austin thought of Glenn, the University of Colorado golfer with whom she was paired in the Colorado Cup matches early last month. (The pair are pictured, with Austin at right.)
“I’m really happy she invited me; it was fun,” said Glenn, the 2014 CWGA Match Play runner-up who has been playing golf for just a little more than three years.
Austin and Glenn shot a 1-under-par 72 Sunday, giving them a 5-under 141 total and a four-stroke victory. But that margin gives a false impression of how close the final round was. Going into the last hole — the short par-3 16th in their case — Austin and Glenn led two-time champions D’Ann Kimbrel and Stacey Arnold of Willis Case Golf Course by just one.
But on a hole measuring less than 110 yards, Kimbrel hit her tee shot into the water short of the green and Arnold’s ball barely stayed out of the lake. That led to them taking a best-ball double-bogey 5 on the relatively easy hole. Meanwhile, after nine consecutive pars for the Austin/Glenn team, Austin closed out the round by draining a 30-foot birdie putt, accounting for a three-stroke swing on the hole. (At top, Austin gets a high-five from Glenn.)
“It’s just disappointing how we finished,” said Arnold, who won the Brassie with Kimbrel in 2009 and ’12. “D’Ann and I are both working Joes so we don’t get out (for golf) very much. It’s disappointing to finish that way but it was fun to play with those guys (Austin and Glenn). They played good, and for Christie to finish with a 2 — she had been so close with so many putts — that was nice for them.”
Arnold and Kimbrel, the director of maintenance at the Riverdale golf courses in Brighton, closed with a 73 to place second at 145. (At left, Arnold, standing, discusses something with Kimbrel.)
Deb Hughes of Green Valley Ranch Golf Club, who defeated Austin in the final of the 2014 CWGA Senior Match Play, and Sue Davis of Saddle Rock Golf Course were one of four championship flight teams to shoot a 76 on Sunday, and they finished in third place at 150.
“Stacey and D’Ann got close — it was a one-stroke difference — but we just kept grinding,” Austin said. “It was a day when neither one of us (Glenn or Austin) felt real comfortable on the course. We didn’t hit it especially pure. But we were just kind of steady and got up and down a few times. It was a grinding kind of day I’d say.”
As Glenn noted, the winning pair played much better in Saturday’s first round, shooting a 69. That round included a stretch in which Glenn went eagle-birdie-birdie, with the eagle coming on the same hole Austin birdied. Glenn also chipped in for a birdie during that run. Austin and Glenn later added back-to-back birdies on Nos. 16 and 17.
“Yesterday was so much better,” said Glenn, who plays out of the Ridge at Castle Pines North. “We’d make birdies on top of each other. It was a good day. Today (Sunday), Christie covered my butt.” (At left, Glenn and Austin confer about a shot.)
Whatever the case, Glenn was happy to claim her first CWGA championship title.
“It feels good,” said Glenn, who finished fourth as a Valor Christian senior at the 2013 4A state high school tournament. “I was second in the Match Play and I’ve always been kind of close in the CWGA events this summer, but I never came out on top. So this is good.”
For scores from the championship flight and the seven other flights, CLICK HERE.
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The group ran the gamut in terms of age (young women to senior citizens) and golf ability (USGA handicap indexes ranging from 13 to 64, and most with no handicaps at all).
But young or old, good players or not, the 44 women who gathered Saturday at the Greg Mastriona Courses at Hyland Hills in Westminster had at least a couple of things in common. They like golf and are looking to improve their games, and they love to have a good time while they’re at it.
Saturday’s outing marked the start of the fifth year of the Women’s Golf Experiences, events hosted by the CWGA that combine small-group instruction with some fun social interaction with other women interested in the game.
“I do like events like this,” said Monica Halley, who participated in some of the popular “Ladies Night Out” social golf events at Hyland Hills last year. “I’m not a brand-new golfer, but I’m somewhat new. I don’t keep score yet. But this kind of gives me a way to come out and be with other women where I don’t feel intimidated. I feel like I fit in and can learn. They teach you a lot of new skills.
“My husband golfs and my youngest son is going to school at (CU-Colorado Springs) to be a golf pro. I’ve been around it but haven’t gone out too much myself. So this gives me a good opportunity to go out. And I was just thinking about joining a women’s group here in the summer on Tuesday and Thursday morning.”
That is music to the ears of organizers of events such as these. With the National Golf Foundation reporting that the number of female golfers in the U.S. dropped from 7 million in 2005 to 5 million in 2012, making potential new women’s golfers — and golfers in general — feel welcome and wanting to play more is a high priority.
“The CWGA is helping courses take advantage of this opportunity that women want social golf,” said Kim Schwartz, the association’s director of member programs. “Women are social, so they want opportunities to go play and have fun. As the CWGA, we represent all of women (golfers) across the state. We’re not just a championship organization. If we can offer opportunities by partnering with different golf courses, that’s huge to have (programs) for women to enjoy golf.”
Over the last several years, the CWGA has placed an ever-increasing emphasis on building the base of women’s golfers through social golf activities.
At the Women’s Golf Experience events, participants receive roughly 45 minutes of small-group instruction at each of four stations — full swing, chipping, putting, and rules, then have lunch afterward. Goodie bags are distributed and drawings are held for prizes. PGA/LPGA professionals provide the instruction. Among those leading the way Saturday was 2011 HealthOne Colorado Open champion Ben Portie, now the women’s golf head coach at Metro State, along with PGA professionals Val Heim and Joe Chavez of Hyland Hills, Jeff Carter from the Broadlands and Brian Lindstrom from Highland Meadows.
Saturday was the first of three Women’s Golf Experience events scheduled for 2014, with the others being May 10 at Overland Park in Denver and May 17 at the Country Club of Colorado in Colorado Springs. Denver broadcast personality Denise Plante is expected to be a special guest at the Overland Park Experience.
But the Experience events just scratch the surface of social golf outings the CWGA organizes or participates in. This year alone, there are more than three-dozen such events, with Hyland Hills, CommonGround, Buffalo Run and the City of Denver courses among those hosting outings. For a list of events, CLICK HERE. Many include social get-togethers in addition to golf.
Saturday marked the first local Women’s Golf Experience that new CWGA executive director Ann Guiberson has witnessed firsthand, and she came away impressed.
“This is a terrific event today,” she said. “We’ve got a good mix of CWGA members and new golfers and advanced golfers, and everyone is supporting each other and having a good time.
“I talked to a few people today who said they weren’t sure if they were going to come out, but they decided to come. Once you get here, everyone is talking to everybody else and sharing experiences and helping each other. It’s a great program.
“Kim (Schwartz) has done a fantastic job putting this program together the last couple of years. Based on what I’ve seen today, it’s something we will definitely continue and maybe even take around the rest of the state.”
Among the sites that have hosted Women’s Golf Experience events in past years are Grand Junction, Colorado Springs and Loveland, in addition to the Denver metro area.
Included among the first-time participants on Saturday was Shona Eliason, president of the Women’s 9-Hole League at the Broadlands in Broomfield. She attended along with one of her regular playing partners.
“It’s one of those benefits that we get that we don’t usually take advantage of,” Eliason said of the Experience, which is discounted for CWGA members.
Eliason, a 20-handicap, enjoyed the rules instruction, along with the fact that most of the various teaching stations featured two instructors for each rotating group of 10 or 11 players.
“I like that they have different instructors at each station because sometimes if you just go with one or two instructors (total) and you do a half-day clinic, it’s not quite as interesting,” Eliason said. “I also liked that they had two people at each one. It changed it up.”
The idea is that the Experience engages the participants to the point that they’re drawn into the game long-term.
“We have two instructors at most of the stations to give somewhat personalized instruction, so everyone of every ability can get something out of it,” Schwartz said. “That’s what the goal is today. That’s why we’re drawing that broad range (of golfers). But by far, most of the participants are newer golfers or new to golf. I think why this is popular in the spring is because it’s kind of jump-starting their games.”
Drawing more women into the sport will take time, but events like the Women’s Golf Experience are part of the step-by-step process.
“We can’t just build women’s golf by ourselves,” Schwartz said. “We have to work with everyone else in the community.”
Of course, when you start with the 1986 Masters, the bar is set a bit on the high side.
That remains one of the great major championships ever — and sporting events in general — but what burned the tournament in Reilly’s memory goes beyond the fact that Jack Nicklaus shot 30 on the back nine the final day to win his 18th and final major at age 46.
“That was my first one ever. I was so scared,” Reilly said in a phone interview last week, before he made his usual early-spring trek to Augusta National for this week’s Masters. “I’d only gotten on the magazine (Sports Illustrated) the year before. They gave me the golf beat because Dan Jenkins left to go to Golf Digest.
“I had to ask Jack Nicklaus on Wednesday if he was broke. I had never met Jack Nicklaus. My dad and I used to sit and watch him; he was our hero. And the first thing I’ve got to say to Jack Nicklaus is, ‘Mr. Nicklaus, we hear you’re broke.’ I just wanted to crawl, but we had this great tip that he was broke. He said, ‘come with me,’ and he takes me up to the Champions Locker Room (at Augusta National).
“I can barely hear him talk because my knees are knocking together so loudly. I’m just gagging. I’m looking at all the (champions’) lockers and it’s amazing. And he said, ‘I’m not broke, I’m just overextended.’ He explained it all to me. But then, he goes on to win the thing (after being six shots behind with 10 holes remaining). I’ve never seen anything like it since.
“That might be the greatest thing I’ve ever witnessed in sports in terms of just sheer ‘slap your own face, spit out your dentures’ amazing. It was (like) North Carolina State dunking the ball to win the (1983 NCAA basketball) title in Albuquerque on an airball. For sheer amazement, there’s Tiger (Woods) in ’97 at the Masters beating people by 12 when he was 21 years. And probably the most amazing achievement I’ve ever seen in sports was him winning four (majors) in a row. Nothing matches that, I don’t think.”
Reilly — who grew up in Boulder, graduated from Boulder High School and the University of Colorado, and remains a resident of Denver — said he received a letter this year from Billy Payne, Augusta National Golf Club chairman, saying that the writer had reached the 25-Masters-covered milestone. That, the letter said, entitled Reilly to one free pass for the week, in addition to his media credential. So for the first time, Reilly’s twentysomething son Jake will accompany him to Augusta National.
Reilly has covered about every sports event imaginable over the last 35 years. He’s been a sports writer for the (Boulder) Daily Camera, Denver Post, Los Angeles Times, Sports Illustrated and ESPN. Along the way, he’s been named national sports writer of the year 11 times.
In June, he’ll be inducted into the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association Hall of Fame, with John Elway being his presenter at the ceremony. That puts the 56-year-old Reilly into some elite company, joining the likes of legendary sports writers Grantland Rice, Damon Runyon, Ring Lardner, Red Smith, Jim Murray, Dick Connor, Jenkins, Frank Deford, Bud Collins, Will McDonough, Peter Gammons and Mitch Albom. Oh, and guys named Ronald Reagan and John Wayne have also been enshrined.
At his request, Reilly will go part-time at ESPN on July 1. He’ll no longer write his popular ESPN column, but still will do TV work for the sports network and possibly write more books and screenplays.
Though Reilly has made a name writing about all different sports — besides his work for newspapers, magazines and web sites, he’s penned 11 books (not counting a few he co-authored) and a screenplay (Leatherheads, starring George Clooney) — he has a special place in his heart for golf. Five years ago, he and son Jake spent two days at Hyland Hills in Westminster while Rick hit 694 shots on the nine-hole, 673-yard, par-3 North course, trying for his first hole-in-one. Jake, who once made an ace barefoot during tryouts for Denver East High School at City Park Golf Course, was along to snag missed shots with a baseball mitt. Rick sometimes hit 20 shots per hole.
It wasn’t until day 2 and shot No. 694 that Reilly hit pay-dirt. It came on a less-than-demanding 52-yard hole.
“So when people say, ‘What are the odds of making a hole-in-one?’, I know: 694 to 1, not counting the rest of my life. In the same way that a woman who can’t get pregnant for years and years, then the couple adopts, and a month after they adopt they get pregnant … a month after (the Hyland Hills ace), on the way to Augusta, I made a hole-in-one.”
And it’s probably no coincidence that several of Reilly’s books are centered around golf. Asked which was the most fun to write, he doesn’t hesitate:
“‘Who’s Your Caddy’ is by far the most fun,” he said. “If that didn’t sell a single book it still would have been the most fun book I ever did. First, I love caddies. They give you the best quotes, they have the most fun, they find the best bars. I just love caddies. So to be a caddie for 12 different people — Jack Nicklaus, Tom Lehman, David Duval, Donald Trump, a blind guy, a $50,000 nassau guy, Jill McGill, John Daly … It was so fun.”
That said, it’s not surprising that the Masters is one of Reilly’s favorite events to cover.
“After 26 of them, it’s like you know every inch of it, you know?” he said. “Every year is amazing, though. I remember after Jack won in ’86, me and Jaime Diaz (now editor-in-chief at Golf World) were so pumped up and we had a bunch of stories still to write, but we had our golf clubs in the trunk of his car. And we got out just outside the gate (of Augusta National) and there was this big gravel parking lot with a big water tower there and we hit drivers off the gravel parking lot. I don’t know what we wanted to do, but I’ll never forget hitting drivers and trying to hit that water tower. Then we had to go back and write all night. I wrote until 7 a.m., I remember that. That was crazy.”
Then after finishing a 3,500-word “game story” for SI, Reilly tried to be one of 20 lucky media folks to get to play Augusta National on Monday, the day after the Masters ended.
“They said, ‘Get here on Monday; the list goes up at 7:30 a.m., and the first 20 guys to sign up get to play,'” he said. “I got there at 7:30 a.m., and 101 Japanese guys were in front of me. I think they spent the whole night out there. And I just went back and went back to sleep.”
CGA championships have been played since 1901, and until this weekend a grand total of two golfers had ever won the same CGA tournament four consecutive years.
On Sunday, Keith Humerickhouse joined the party.
The golfer who lives in Eagle and plays out of Glenwood Springs Golf Club matched a record by winning his fourth consecutive CGA Mid-Amateur, which is limited to players 25 and older.
But the feat goes beyond that. Looking at all CGA championships, Humerickhouse became just the third to “four-peat”. Now, only Humerickhouse, Walter Fairbanks (1902-05 CGA Match Play) and Rick DeWitt (1999-2002 Mid-Am) have won the same CGA championship four straight years.
Hale Irwin and Bob Byman — both of whom would go on to win on the PGA Tour — are among those who have earned three consecutive CGA championships, but only the aforementioned threesome have taken it to the next level.
On Sunday, the 37-year-old Humerickhouse had to fend off two other former CGA Mid-Am champs to earn the trophy at the Greg Mastriona Golf Courses at Hyland Hills in Westminster. Humerickhouse played the final seven holes of the Gold Course in 3 under par Sunday — making an eagle and a birdie — to card a 3-under-par 69, which gave him a two-stroke victory.
Since the former pro (pictured at left and above) regained his amateur status in 2009, his finishes in the CGA Mid-Amateur have gone third, first, first, first and first. Do you suppose Humerickhouse has this Mid-Am thing down pat?
“I feel like it’s my niche,” the left-hander said after winning his fifth CGA championship (including the 2011 Western Chapter). “I really like it. I feel comfortable out here. I feel like I can actually compete. The Publinks and the Stroke Play, it’s not that I don’t feel I can compete, but basically I’m playing a college golf tournament. These (college-age) kids are playing every day. You feel like you’re going to have to shoot 10 to 15 under to even sniff the lead. That’s how good they are.”
On Sunday, Humerickhouse finished at 6-under-par 210, while 2009 champion Michael Harrington of Kissing Camels tied Barry Erwin of Murphy Creek Golf Course at 212. Both Harrington and Erwin likewise closed with 69s, Harrington despite bogeying two of his last three holes Sunday.
The only other player to break par for the tournament was two-time Mid-Am winner Steve Irwin of Lakewood Country Club, who placed fourth at 214 after an even-par 72.
Brian Richmeier of Meadow Hills Golf Course, who held the lead after the first two rounds, struggled on the final day, playing his first 10 holes in 7 over par en route to a 5-over 77 and a share of seventh place at 217.
So while DeWitt still owns the record for number of CGA Mid-Amateur titles with seven, Humerickhouse has matched the Colorado Golf Hall of Famer in consecutive championships.
“We all know what kind of amateur Rick was (DeWitt is a professional now),” Humerickhouse said. “His name in Colorado golf history will be there forever. To be mentioned in the same category as him is pretty special.”
Unlike last year, when Humerickhouse won the Mid-Am by 12 shots, this one went right down to the wire. Harrington (pictured at left), playing a couple of groups ahead of Humerickhouse, led in the middle of the back nine, standing 6 under par overall through 15 holes.
But Harrington bogeyed 16 and 18 coming in.
“I bogeyed 18 (hitting his approach into the hazard fronting the green) because I was trying to fire at the pin,” he said. “I felt like I needed to make birdie to have a chance — which is exactly what it turned out I did need. I made bogey but it doesn’t bother me because I’d rather make bogey playing aggressive than hit it to the back of the green, two putt and find out I lose by one.”
The Colorado Springs resident also paid the price for a balky putter throughout his round.
“I hit it phenomenal, but putted terrible,” Harrington said. “You’re trying to charge, but I had 10-footers for birdie all day long and I left them short. I was shaping the ball the way I wanted to, I was ‘puring it’ all day long, hitting it long all day, but I just couldn’t make any putts.”
Unlike Harrington, Erwin (pictured at left) got about as much out of his round as he could on Sunday.
“I knew I was going to have to shoot about a 67 and that was exactly what I would have had to shoot to tie,” he said. “I really didn’t leave too many shots out there. I had one short birdie putt I missed coming in, but I’m really happy. This is my best finish in a CGA event.”
Also in the hunt on the back nine were Irwin and Ryan Axlund of CommonGround Golf Course. Irwin turned at 4 under for the tournament, but bogeyed three of his first four holes on the back nine. And Axlund still had a chance before finishing double bogey-bogey.
Meanwhile, Humerickhouse came on strong after bogeying Nos. 9 and 11. He eagled the 532-yard 12th hole for the second consecutive day, this time hitting a wedge from 170 yards to 10 feet and draining the putt.
“That was a huge putt for that to go down,” Humerickhouse said. “It turns out I really needed to make that. It got me back in charge of my round. I wouldn’t say it was a must make, but it was a huge make.”
Then on the 18th hole, after pushing his tee shot into the right rough, Humerickhouse was faced with a precarious 148-yard approach (pictured at left) to a pin tucked just over a canal that fronts the green. Again using a wedge, he cozied his second shot to 6 feet from the cup and finished with a birdie.
“I wasn’t trying to aim right at the flag,” he admitted. “It was a mistake, but it came off perfect. … It was a scary shot, no doubt.”
All in all, Humerickhouse was getting a big kick out of the competition — especially since he emerged in the top spot.
“It was so fun out there,” he said. “It’s awesome to win this thing, no matter how many there are in a row.”
CGA Mid-Amateur Championship
At Par-72 Greg Mastriona Golf Courses at Hyland Hills (Gold Course)
Keith Humerickhouse, Glenwood Springs GC, 73-68-69–210
Michael Harrington, Kissing Camel GC, 72-71-69–212
Barry Erwin, Murphy Creek GC, 75-68-69–212
Steven Irwin, Lakewood CC, 71-71-72–214
Jared Bickling, Glenwood Springs GC, 74-69-73–216
Ryan Axlund, CommonGround GC, 73-69-74–216
Brian Richmeier, Meadow Hills GC, 67-73-77–217
Jeffrey Gravina, Pinehurst CC, 78-70-69–217
Christopher Thayer, CommonGround GC, 72-72-74–218
Lamar Carlile, City Park GC, 75-71-73–219
Nicholas Nosewicz, Meadow Hills GC, 72-73-76–221
Richard Bradsby, Lakewood CC, 75-70-77–222
Sean Thomas, Indian Tree GC, 71-75-76–222
Steve Galko, Patty Jewett GC, 78-72-72–222
Robin Bradbury, Heritage at Westmoor, 73-77-73–223
Christopher Wilson, Eisenhower GC, 74-76-75–225
Adam Thoutt, Legacy Ridge GC, 70-76-79–225
Rick Kelly, CommonGround GC, 78-77-70–225
Jeff Chapman, Inverness GC, 78-73-74–225
Adam Gorjiyan, Wellshire GC, 74-76-76–226
Thomas Roos, Spring Valley GC, 70-79-78–227
Ken Cosper, Ptarmigan CC, 74-76-77–227
Wes Martin, Hyland Hills GC, 79-72-77–228
Chris Carlson, Highlands Ranch GC, 81-75-72–228
Alan Boyko, Heritage at Westmoor, 82-74-72–228
Tim Kratz, CommonGround GC, 78-75-76–229
Sean Forey, Bear Creek GC, 79-77-74–230
Chad Bell, Riverdale GC, 78-77-76–231
Robert Bedan, Wellshire GC, 78-77-76–231
Blair Matthews, CommonGround GC, 76-75-80–231
Justin Kruger, Inverness GC, 75-76-80–231
Alex Kephart, Eisenhower GC, 78-77-77–232
Grant Porter, CommonGround GC, 75-77-81–233
Bryan Cannon, Columbine CC, 76-74-84–234
Greg Michaels, Heritage at Westmoor, 80-72-83–235
Damon Dageenakis, Flatirons GC, 75-81-80–236
Michael Abrams, Lake Valley GC, 78-78-82–238
Brion After, River Valley Ranch GC, 77-78-84–239
Bryan Hawthorne, Lakewood CC, 81-75-86–242
Pat Bowe, CommonGround GC, 77-76-WD
FAILED TO QUALIFY FOR FINAL ROUND
Mark Zbrzeznj, Eagle Vail GC, 76-81–157
Robert Polk, Colorado GC, 81-77–158
Michael Knoll, The Club at Crested Butte, 77-81–158
Dan Deppen, Broadlands GC, 79-79–158
Aki Okamoto, Legacy Ridge GC, 82-76–158
Steven Fausset, Hyland Hills GC, 75-83–158
Andy Dannewitz, Meadow Hills GC, 77-82–159
Shane Unfred, Highland Meadows GC, 79-80–159
Pat Stanton, Breckenridge GC, 81-78–159
Steven Linnemeyer, Hillcrest GC, 84-76–160
Bob Cloud, Bear Creek GC, 83-77–160
Michael Love, The Club at Pradera, 79-81–160
Steve Sullivan, Bear Dance GC, 84-76–160
Chris Sellitto, Fox Hollow GC, 76-84–160
Jim Fucillo, Eisenhower GC, 82-78–160
Ryan Prew, Indian Tree GC, 83-77–160
Bob Chandler, Heritage at Westmoor, 82-79–161
Mike Chavez, Applewood GC, 81-80–161
Nick Simmons, CommonGround GC, 83-78–161
Tristan Sanders, CommonGround GC, 82-80–162
Corey Stanton, Breckenridge GC, 77-85–162
Jeffrey Johnson, Lone Tree GC, 81-81–162
Shane Houska, Collindale GC, 81-82–163
Mark Runyan, Canongate Colorado, 80-83–163
Michael Glaesel, Indian Tree GC, 79-84–163
Bert Sartori, Green Valley Ranch GC, 82-81–163
Chris Tenan, Harmony Club, 82-82–164
Nick Pederson, Coal Creek GC, 86-78–164
Steve Duran, Commonground Golf Course, 80-85–165
Scott Schoelzel, Cherry Hills CC, 85-81–166
Joel Perez, Broadlands GC, 85-81–166
Thomas Bacsanyi, Eagle Ranch GC, 84-83–167
Eric Scholl, Ironbridge GC, 84-83–167
Kelly Crone, Highlands Ranch GC, 85-83–168
David Ramsey, Lakewood CC, 83-87–170
Jake Firkins, Glenwood Springs GC, 88-83–171
Matt Mangold, Broadlands GC, 85-87–172
Paul Bersagel, Eagle Vail GC, 89-88–177
Joe Frey, Willis Case GC, 86-92–178
Gary Driber, Denver Amateur Golf Tour, 93-89–182
Arnold Hoy, CommonGround GC, 77-WD
Andy Brooks, CommonGround GC, 80-WD
Heath Andersen, Meadow Hills GC, 77-WD
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