Great action and a beautiful day of golf yesterday at Oxmoor.
Kickoff Results:
Brown over Camomot 3&2
Geer over Nett, 2nd hole playoff (story below)
Quintana over Herp 3&2
Gibson over Buzz, 1 up
Walton over Boeving 5&4
The following groups need to get their Play-in matches scheduled and completed before May 9th or risk forfeiture:
Wolf and Corso
Deetsch and Irwin
Weining and Holtzmann
Additionally, the following can schedule their Round 1 matches at their convenience, preferably by May 9th:
Rone vs Geer
Cummins vs Quintana
Nacrelli vs Watson
Geer vs Nett Match Summary:
Having not drawn a match for Sunday, I was still hoping to be part of some serious Tournament golf action and the Geer/Nett billing provided endless drama until the final putt dropped- well, actually until the final drive hooked hard OB… Geer came out firing- Birdie, Birdie, Par- to instantly go 3up. Undeterred, Nett began to grapple back and a rifled 7-iron from 190 out over the trees and onto the green at #5 signified “game on!”. Nett would take 4 straight holes and eventually finish the front 1 up.
The back and forth continued on the second nine- Geer showcased his short game and putter and prevented Nett from gaining any separation on the scorecard. When Geer dropped another birdie-birdie barrage on 14,15 the match was brought back to all square. A strong 2 putt for Par on 16 had Joe back in the lead, when the real drama began to unfold- Geer’s round had been relatively error-free until his 17th tee shot dove hard left and out-of-bounds. With Joe threatening to close out the match Geer managed to get his second tee shot down the left hand side and then busted his fourth shot to just short of the green. His chip shot came bounding up the slope of the green and then barreled right into the hole for a Par save! Joe’s 12ft birdie putt just missed the edge and it was on to the 18th!
Paralyzed by Geer’s stunning Par, Nett promptly blew, not 1, but 2 drives OB left and the match was set for extra holes. Both players played #10 like semi-professionals: Joe tapping in for Birdie and Geer draining another steely 6ft putt for a matching Birdie- his 5th of the day! On 11 Geer laced another drive down the middle and Nett blew another one hard left and OB to finally end the match- well played, with 7 birdies on the day between the two players- well worth the price of admission!