This year's Memorial was a two round marathon requiring something rarely seen at Saxon Woods:  one good round followed by another.  Most of us are capable of breaking net par on one Saturday, but the next is most frequently a journey to the dark side of golfdom.  This year both Andy and Tom managed to get net under par two weeks in a row.  But Tom's second round was three strokes better than Andy's and that was his margin of victory.

Tom shot a wonderful gross 77/net 67 to go with last week's net 69.  No matter how you count the points that's a back to back performance to be proud of.  Brian has put together all the scores and you'll find links below.  But even without all the scores in we didn't have to wait to congratulate Tom on that great performance.  Well done, Mr. Gramolini.  Tom adds this major to his 2011 President's Cup victory.

The new scoring system assigned points to each hole's score, but the principle was the same as usual: par is one better than bogie, birdie is one better than par....  In the end points produced the same results as medal play:

Player	Round 1	Round 2	Total Pts		Total Net
Gramolini, T	38	40	78		136
Eisenberg	38	37	75		139
Ennis	32	42	74		140
DiFiore	35	38	73		141
Herschenfeld	38	34	72		142
Sigona	35	35	70		144
Valenti	35	34	69		145
Leopold	33	36	69		145
Smith	31	37	68		144
Goldberg, A	30	38	68		144
Brandwene	35	33	68		144

BrianG did a great job collecting and summarizing the Memorial results.  They are in the available at the links below:

See the Scores from Round 2:      Round 2 Scoring
See the Scores from Round 1:      Round 1 Scoring
See selected statistics as summarized by Brian:    Stats on Memorial

We tried to Katch Kyle - and in the end a couple of us did.  Five of us posted positive points both days: Andy, Alan, Ron, Antony and Kyle.  Antony Sigona had a great round of +6 for a tournament total +7 and it looked like it would take one heck of a finish by Kyle to top that.  He tried - needing a par on #18, Kyle failed to get up and down from the right side trap and ended with +5 overall.  So Anthony held the lead for a couple of hours.  

Then Ron Halpern turned in a 19 point round (+7 vs quota) on a gross 90 score - his second best round in the last two years.  That boosted his two day total to +10.  Ron has been on a tear lately - 11 of his 15 rounds in 2013 have been under 100 - last year he only posted double digits three times out of 25 tries.  

The key to Ron's win was a natural birdie on #15.  Those +4 points in the stretch boosted him past Sigona and into the Champion's circle.

Congratulations to our defending Champion, Ron Halpern.