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The “Season from Hell” came to a fitting close last Monday when Kent Lorence (in blue shirt) staked out in the championship round with no one even close to challenging except the formidable Josh Mergler. Great game Kent.
An unnamed participant ruined Kent’s shining moment of victory by relentlessly ranting and physically threatening the champion over some silly little nonsense. Said incident put such a dark cloud over the final proceedings that we don’t even have the obligatory trophy clutching shot. Oooops. Congratulations Kent.

• 2009: Kent Lorence (3)
• 2008: Mike Doran
• 2007: Bob Gannon (3)
• 2006: Kent Lorence
• 2005: Rob Price (2)
• 2004: Carl Amorosi
• 2003: Bob Gannon
• 2002: Bob Gannon
• 2001: Rob Price
• 2000: Kent Lorence
• 1999: Bill Rupp

Other Club Tournaments:
2006 USCA Regional 9W: Doubles: Amorosi & Webber, Singles: Gannon
2004 Winterfest: Rob Gleichenhaus
2003 First (and last) Annual Greenskeeper Invitational: Tony Billoni
2003 Winterfest: Bob Gannon

2000 Spring League: Bob Gannon

(Final Standings to be posted by Mr. Mallet upon his return)
Division A:
1st : Amorosi 3pts.
4th : Price 2pts.
5th : Mergler 1pt.
8th : Rupp
9th : Cleary
12th : Roblin * (replacing Conboy)

Division B:
2nd : Lorence 3pts.
3rd : Gannon    2pts.
6th :  Billoni      1pt.
7th :  Strada
10th : Monty
11th : Pobega

bold = confirmed

• 2009: 27 players played 717 games
• 2008: 23 players played 769 games
• 2007: 26 players played 748 games
• 2006: 25 players played 832 games
• 2005: 25 players played 687 games
• 2004: 23 players played 942 games
• 2003: 23 players played 605 games
• 2002: 23 players played 577 games
• 2001: 25 players played 420 games
• 2000: 17 players played 230 games
• 1999: 7 players played 99 games

Tony Billoni closed out the 2009 regular season the way he started it, with a tour win. The win was significant in that finished the season ahead of Strada by single point, and picked up a bonus point in the playoffs by being ranked 3rd in the “Lorence” Division.
The only other players who got moved around on the final night:
Bob Gannon only got 2 points on the night, but it was enough to break his tie with an absentee Rob Price, putting Gannon into the “Lorence” Division and sending Price to the “Amorosi” Division.

Carl Amorosi seemed a shoe-in for his 4th consecutive win, but was unable to show in the Tour Game. Along with Gannon being held to 2 points, another heavy weight, Kent Lorence took only 1 point.
Thus it was, heading into the 2009 playoffs, Sunday Aug. 23rd @ 4pm.

Below are the playoff brackets, based on the final standings.
The top 3 seed in each division start with bonus points of 3, 2, 1 respectively.
Three games are played – no time limit.

The top 3 of each division advance to a single championship game: TWICE around the court.
The first to stake out gets his name on the trophy.

Games begin at 4pm on SUNDAY, Aug. 23rd.
Come earlier to help set up/ practice.

WEAR WHITES

Point system for all games:
5 points for first,
3 points for second,
1 point for third.

Three Games. Top three from each braket advance to Final
Tie Breaker between two players is season standings
Tie Breaker between three or more is a 4th game

Here is the ruling on points from the 2008 Rules committee:

Points
All games are worth 5-3-1 points, regardless of the number of players.
Four man games only award 5-3 points

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