THERE'S A GIANT FIREBALL IN THE BIG BLUE THING

News APRIL 28, 2024

By Brian Gramolini

The Four-Ball Championship started this weekend. Four of the five scheduled matches were played. Congrats to the winners.

Also, congrats to Brendan Power, who made a hole-in-one on the fourth hole Saturday!

In this article:

• Four-Ball Championship
• Round Recap
• Submitted Scores
• Rules Corner

Four-Ball Championship

Results from Saturday are below. If you played a match and do not see your result here, please email tournaments@thesaxonyclub.com with you match result.

• Ficalora/Samuels over Ennis/Valenti, tiebreaker
• Gramolini/Gramolini over Andruss/Schumacher, 2 & 1
• Brousseau/P. Power over Logerfo/O. Zimmermann, 6 & 5
• Hastings/Herschenfeld over T. Smith/E. Zimmermann, 3 & 2
• Carew/C. Power vs W. Smith/Zappulla, rescheduled

Please send results in after your match so we can keep the bracket as up to date as possible. The full bracket is available at the link below.

BRACKET »

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Round Recap

Since I was present for it, I can give you a first hand account of the match between the Gramolinis and Jim Andruss and Matt Schumacher. Matt and Jim needed a hole to warm up, giving Tom and I the chance to pick up a quick lead on the first. After pars all around on the second, I knocked a chip in close to save par and Matt and Jim missed the chance to halve the third. On the fourth, Matt and Jim both settled their second shots in gimmie range, but I knocked in a 15-footer for birdie to extend the Gramolini lead to 3. All three players getting a stroke on 5 made bogey, and then we would trade wins on 6 and 7 before halving the last two holes of the front nine and the tenth hole. Matt turned it on over the next three holes with birdies on 11, 12 and 13. Tom made biride on 13 to prevent the match from getting to tied. Tom's biridie on 13 kicked off a string of 6 straight fours, with the Gramolinis closing out the match on 17.

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Scores Posted

Scores that have been posted through the end of the day Saturday are included in the spreadsheet linked below. Please refer to the tab labeled "Apr 27". As a reminder, we will only be accepting scores that have been posted by the end of the day Saturday using the hole-by-hole method for Saxony Events. You can post hole-by-hole scores either through the GHIN website or the MGA or GHIN mobile apps. Scores posted after Saturday will not be included in the weekly results.

SCORES »

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Rules Corner

I don't have anything to discuss this week. If there's a rules question you would like to see discussed here, please email the Webmaster at webmaster@thesaxonclub.com.

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