Huron, Ohio- The Golf Channel Am Tour of Cleveland hosted its season opening event on Saturday, April 30th, at the Sawmill Creek Resort. Playing in cold and damp weather, it has not been the ideal conditions that most Northeast Ohio golfers wanted in the beginning of their season. The course had taken on 3 inches of rain in the last 10 days and 2 inches of it came at once on Monday before the tournament. Thanks to the great effort of the course's maintenance staff to mow the rough and pump water out of the bunkers all morning, the tournament was enjoyable to the 30 participants that played in 5 divisions.
Starting with the Palmer Flight Dustin Cramer fired an 83 to beat Tom Betras (84) by 1 stroke. Tylor Davis (86) finished in 3rd place. It was Betras who led by 1 on the 18th tee but Dustin Cramer pulled it out by making a par.
In the Hogan Flight Abram Boyd (87) won by building a large lead on the front nine in route to shooting a 42 and then held on to defeat Ed Ruper (91) by 4 strokes. Dave Hout (94) finished in 3rd place.
Sarazen Flight winner Matt Blum (88) was looking for redemption as last week in Pittsburgh he held the lead going into the last hole only to lose by 1. This time he held the lead early by shooting a 39 on the front and went on to defeat Justin Petty (90) by 2 strokes. Ed Newland finished in 3rd place shooting a 92.
Redemption was also on the mind of Jones Flight winner Ted Heindel (90) who lost in a playoff the week before in Pittsburgh. Once again Heindel found himself going back out onto the course after being tied with playing partner Scott Cummings (90). It was a back and forth match between the two players. Neither player had led in the match by more than 2 strokes and Cummings had taken a 2 stroke lead into the last hole. On the 1st playoff hole Ted Heindel had hit the green in 2 and 3-putted for bogey which defeated Scott Cummings' double bogey. Greg Argenti (97) finished in 3rd place.
In the Snead Flight, Daniel Schivitz (93) won by 6 strokes over Greg Nemchick (99). Going into the 15th hole the match was tied and Daniel played the last 4 holes in 1-over par, including a birdie on the tough par-3 17th hole. Ronald Shoemaker (102) finished in 3rd place.
The Golf Channel Am Tours of Cleveland and Pittsburgh are joining forces to hold a 50-50 raffle at each event to benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. At this weeks event, 130 dollars were raised. 65 dollars went to the winner of the drawing, Greg Argenti, and the other 65 dollars will be put with the donations from all of the events this year. To date this season a total of 220 dollars have been raised for the JDRF. Thank You!
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