Quest for the Seacoast Cup Championships 2007

Friday, October 19, 2007

Arrowood GC, Oceanside,   CA 

I hope this finds you and your family well.  I’m sure many of you had to evacuate are finally now resettling back into a normal routine.  My prayers and thoughts are with any of you who have suffered any losses. 

As far as last week’s golf outing we had a fun time.  Congrats go to Frank Sung who took low net honors by posting a 65.  Low gross honors go to Curtis Chan for shooting the low gross score of 84.  Below are the results of our match play events and how everyone placed in individual stroke play. 

Details of our Seacoast Cup  Match Play 

Our Final 4 players squared off last week and this is what happened: 

Jensen vs. Newby -  John Jensen was ready to go and realizing that he had won his first match over Coykendall, he was ready to take on Bob Newby.  Newby took an early lead and was 2 up after 3 holes.  But Jensen kept his cool and stuck to his game plan and won four straight holes and was 2 up after hole #7.  Newby made a few mental adjustments and decided to just to play within himself and play hole by hole. By the time they reached hole #10, Bob Newby was able square up the match.  Both players were now in the hunt to take command of the match.  Newby dug down  deep and was able to win hole #10 to take the lead and he never looked back.  Jensen put up a fight by matching Bob but John needed to win the holes.  By hole 15 Bob’s lead was 3 up and he sealed the match by making his par putt on the 16^th hole.  Jensen needed to sink his putt for a birdie but it didn’t go in.  The match ended and so did Jensen’s hopes for the 2007 Seacoast Cup.  Bob Newby described in the post match interview that  “John really had me worried during the front 9 holes.  He didn’t make very many mistakes.  He was making net pars and birdies on his stroke holes.  After hole 8 I began to play better.  John started to have some trouble and posted a few double bogeys.  I realized that I needed to play my game and play every hole like it was my last.  I was able to keep the ball in play and kept giving myself good chances to make par.  Once I got 2 up on John I knew I had control to finish the match.” 

Chan vs. Grow  -  Curtis Chan was victorious in his match play duel with Bill Grow.  The match was all square after 9 holes.  Bill played steady most of the way and took a 1 up lead going into hole #17.   But Curtis kept his cool and made a 8 foot par putt to win the 17^th hole and to make the match all square.  Both player’s felt the pressure going into the 18^th hole knowing that the winner of this hole would go on to the finals to meet Bob Newby..  Bill had his short game going and had been holding off all of Curtis’ attacks throughout the match.  After driving his tee shot short of the right fairway bunker, Bill decided to lay up on this hole leaving him a 80 yards to the pin.  Curtis put a great drive off the tee leaving 135 yards to the hole.  Curtis only had held the lead one time during the entire match after hole #3, and he knew he had to make something happen.  He held his composure and put his next shot just off the green.  Bill hit his third shot long onto the green leaving himself a lenthy 30 foot downhill putt.  His putt went long past the hole leaving him a 10 ft putt for bogey.   It all ended when Curtis sank his18 foot putt for birdie from the fringe to win the hole and match.  Both players acknowledged what a tough match it was.  In the post game interview room Curtis said,   “I knew I had to minimize my mistakes to keep up with Bill’s game.  He’s got an incredible consistent short game.  He doesn’t miss too many putts within 10 feet.  When he laid up on #18, I knew this was my only chance.  I had to go for it and get it in close to put pressure on him.  Fortunately I was able to calculate the wind factor that was quite strong at the time and I used a three-quarter swing with my 7 iron to get just past the pin into the wind from 135 yards.  The wind was fierce. You have all the water on18 staring at you and the wind blowing right into you.  I just told myself that this was the time to hit and make the shot. ..and I did it!   Bill was just 80 yards out on his approach shot, but he hit it a bit too long, leaving himself a difficult long down-hiller.  It was one the tightest matches I’ve ever played.  Bill is a great competitor and I’m elated that I won.   My hat is off to him for his tough competitive play today.”

Curtis Chan will now meet Bob Newby for the final match to determine our 2007 Seacoast Cup Champion  on Friday,  November 16.  Matches for 3^rd and 4^th place will take place along with consolation matches for those who made it to the top 8 positions.  All others who desire to play at our next event are welcomed to play in our regular gross and net stroke play.  Please reply to this email if you want to participate. 

 Here are the results from last Friday. 

  ● played from Blue tees – given 2 stroke differential to be equitable stroke play with the field who played from white tees.

Upcoming Matches on November 16, 2007

 Chan vs Newby – Finals

Jensen vs. Grow – 3^rd /4^th Place

Consolation Matches

Burich vs. Coykendall

Anderson vs. Spires

Next Outing

Our next outing has been scheduled for Friday, November 16, 2007.

Club Stats and Reports - An added look to our club's web site is a link to the Southern California Golfer's Association's (SCGA) web reports webpage about our club - Seacoast Christian Golf Club.  To view click on Club SCGA Reports.

Most Improved Golfers this Month

To view our yearly calendar and other news events of our club visit our main web page at: Seacoast Christian Golf Club

Any questions or comments can be addressed to Curtis Chan at: CurtisChanDDS@aol.com or to Bob Newby at: bnewby@seacoast-church.org