Batavia Country Club 2011 Club Championship Results

Batavia Country Club 2011 Club Championship

BCC played its 2011 Club Championship on Saturday August 20th and Sunday August 21st, 2011.

Saturday was an All American day for golf, sunny skies and pleasant temperatures, in contrast to Sunday which was pretty much miserable with slightly cooler temperatures and medium to heavy rain throughout most of the day.

In the Men's Championship Flight, Tom Wescott clung to a one shot lead (73) over Tim Tucker (74) , and two shots over Taylor Squire (75) at the close of the day.

In the Ladies Championship Flight, Roxanne Noeth took a commanding lead over Katie Joslyn.

On Sunday, Tim Tucker shot a 77 to prevail over a hard charging Matt Smith, age 17, who shot a 74 on a day when that score seemed unlikely.

Tucker shot 151 (74 - 77) to best Smith's 155 (81 - 74). Smith has had little experience with club championship tournament play and it showed on the first day, but he bounced back nicely on day two.

Tucker, on the other hand, has had plenty of experience finishing in second place eight times over the years at the BCC Club Championship, and was happy to finally get the monkey - make that the gorilla - off his back and join the family on the BCC Wall of Fame. Tucker's brother Tom had won the BCC Club Championship once, and his father Tom, the teaching pro at BCC has won it twice.

A husband and wife were also keeping it in the family as John Pflaumer won the Men's "B" Flight and his wife, Karen Pflaumer, won the Ladies "B" Flight.

Roxanne Noeth had also won the Ladies Championship in the past and was looking to get back to winning form. She did just that, winning handily by shooting a pair of rock solid 83's (166) to defeat a game but overmatched Katie Joslyn.

In other Men's Flights, Dan Grastorf 166 (87 - 79) held off Craig Kurkowski 170 (89-81) to capture the "A" Flight; John Pflaumer dominated the Men's "B" Flight 162 (80 - 82) beating Ray Smith 177 ( 89 - 88) and Bob Reyes 177 (87 - 90); newcomer to the action Roger Stone tasted victory in the "C" Flight 199 (95 - 104) just nipping Bill Sutherland 203 (101 - 102). In the Senior Flight, Marty Krause 179 (88 - 91) defeated Frank Coppola 198 (97 - 101)

In other Ladies Flights action, Wendy Caccamise shot 187 (86 - 101) to better Nancy Powers 197 (98 - 99) for the Ladies "A" Flight; and Karen Pflaumer's 222 (110 - 112) edged out Chris Thompson 229 (112 - 117) for the Ladies "B" Flight.

After the tournament, the winners were escorted to the awards banquet and ceremony in the annual March of Champions to the tune of "When The Saints Go Marching In" by musician Don Allen.