{"id":1222,"date":"2009-06-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.new.grandemeadows.ca\/2009\/06\/15\/105\/"},"modified":"2009-06-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T02:30:00","slug":"105","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grandemeadows.ca\/?p=1222","title":{"rendered":"2009 Men’s Invtitational Wrapup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bob Faulkner of Bally Haly Golf and Curling Club captured the 12th<\/sup> Annual Men’s Invitational on the past weekend with a two day score of 157.  <\/span>After shooting an opening round of 80 on Saturday to sit in a tie with Joe Drake of Grande Meadows and a one shot lead over Dave Roberts of Bally Haly and Frank Blagdon of Grande Meadows, Faulkner came back with a round of 77 on Sunday to win by 5 strokes over Drake who carded an 82 on Sunday.  <\/span>Roberts shot 83 on Sunday while Bladgon had an 84 to finish 7 and 8 shots back respectively.  <\/span>It was the second win for Faulkner who picked up his first win in 2005.  <\/span>It also marks the 11th<\/sup> straight win for Bally Haly golfers.  <\/span>The only other winner was Glen Burke of Harmon in Stephenville who won the first Invitational in 1998.<\/font><\/p>\n

Bill Morrissey of Pitcher’s Pond Golf Course shot scores of 77 on Saturday and a 1 under par 71 on Sunday for a two day total of 148.  <\/span>However, since Morrissey is the Club Professional at Pitchers Pond he doesn’t accept prizes but plays for the competition.  <\/span>His 71 was one stroke off the Tournament Record 70 set by Jason Hill in 2004.  <\/span>Hill won the Invitational for 6 years in a row from 1999-2004.  <\/span>The only other golfer to shoot 71 in the Invitational was Glen Burke in the first Invitational in 1998.<\/font><\/p>\n

Edmund Antle of Grande Meadows won the B Division with a two day total of 167 from scores of 82 and 85. Jim Farewell of Grande Meadows finished as runner-up with a total of 173 from scores of 83 and 90 while Ray Gushue of Bally Haly finished third with a total of 175 with daily scores of 84 and 91.<\/font><\/p>\n

Shawn Keating of Grande Meadows won the C Division with a total of 191, having carded a 95 on Saturday and 96 on Sunday.  <\/span>Wayne Butler of Grande Meadows finished second with scores of 99 and 94 for a 193 total followed closely by Bill Buffett and Dan Walsh both of Grande Meadows with totals of 195.  <\/span>Buffett had scores of 98 and 97 while Walsh had scores of 94 and 101.  <\/span>Day one leader Keith Warren with a 93 ballooned to a 112 on Sunday to finish well back.<\/font><\/p>\n

Joe Drake of Grande Meadows won the A Divison Low Net with a two day total of 138 to finish ahead of Terry Hodder of Bally Haly and Frank Blagdon who both had totals of 147 while Butch Barron of Harmon had 150.<\/font><\/p>\n

In B Division Jim Farewell won the Low Net with a 145 total while Peter Coady finished second with a total of 148, one stroke ahead of Harvey Pike who had a 150 total.  <\/span>All three golfers are from Grande Meadows.<\/font><\/p>\n

In C Division Don Walsh and Andre Truter of Grande Meadows finished in a tie with a total of 144 while Trevor Pardy finished 3rd<\/sup> with a 147 total.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Bob Faulkner of Bally Haly Golf and Curling Club captured the 12th Annual Men’s Invitational on the past weekend with a two day score of 157.  After shooting an opening round of 80 on Saturday to sit in a tie with Joe Drake of Grande Meadows and a one shot lead over Dave Roberts of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive-pre-november-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grandemeadows.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grandemeadows.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grandemeadows.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandemeadows.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandemeadows.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grandemeadows.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grandemeadows.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandemeadows.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandemeadows.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}