EDEN'S WALKER EARNS EGOLF PROMOTION
Posted: 6/7/2009 11:21:25 AM
Bob Christensen (Champ) Ben Shipley (A Flight) David Schmanke (B Flight) Chris Walker (C Flight)
EDEN'S WALKER EARNS EGOLF PROMOTION Graham, NC (June 6, 2009) - The Challenge Golf Club has always lived up to it's name when hosting an Egolf Tour event over the past ten years. High scores are generally the norm in Tour play. That's one of the things that made Chris Walker's round so impressive Saturday. Playing in the C Flight, the Eden resident, who in 6 Tour events this season had a scoring average of 90.2, fired a 79 to run away with 1st place in the field. Walker's margin of victory was an amazing 9 strokes better than the 2nd and 3rd place finishers - Winston-Salem's Austin Craven and Mark Harders of Raleigh. As a matter of fact, Walker's total was lower than that of the B Flight champ, David Schmanke of Apex who shot an 80. "This is Chris' 1st year on-Tour, it just took him awhile to catch his stride", stated Tour Director Bruce Hallenbeck. "He strikes the ball like a real player. He'll be displaying that ability in the B Flight for future Tour competition". Bob Christenson of Fuquay-Varina and Winston's Mark Robinson had to play a little extra golf to determine a Championship Flight winner. Playing from the back tees, they both turned in regulation scores of 77. Christenson made short work of the playoff, as Robinson failed to make par from the middle of the fairway on their 1st playoff hole while Christenson did par from out of the rough. Burlington's Ben Shipley shot the lowest score of the tournament (76), and nipped 2 Raleigh players, Greg Grabus and William Gwinn by a single stroke to grab top honors in the A Flight. "The season is approximately halfway over with this event", said Director Hallenbeck, but we had six new members "tee-it-up" today. There's still a lot of golf left to be played this season. Any amateur interested in playing in a Tour event can call me at 336-495-6556, or email me at behgolf@aol.com". THE EGOLF AMATEUR GOLF TOUR THE CHALLENGE GOLF CLUB EVENT TOP FIVE SCORES BY FLIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP (6,801 yds) Bob Christenson, Fuquay-Varina 77 Mark Robinson, Winston-Salem 77 Jacob Arlington, Apex 78 Jim Arlington, Apex 78 Todd Pritchard Apex 79 A FLIGHT (6,335 yds) Ben Shipley, Burlington 76 Greg Grabus, Raleigh 77 William Gwinn, Raleigh 77 Josh McCain, Morrisville 78 Steve Cummings, Reidsville 78 Ted Ciesla, Apex 78 B FLIGHT (6,335 yds) David Schmanke, Apex 80 Mark Cobb, Fayetteville 81 Don Joyner, Greensboro 83 Mike Germain, Raleigh 84 Chris Kempf, Raleigh 84 Darren Martin, Winston-Salem 84 You Jung, Clemmons 84 Steve Tracey, High Point 84 C FLIGHT (6,335 yds) Chris Walker, Eden 79 Austin Craven, Winston-Salem 88 Mark Harders, Raleigh 88 Rus Rilling, Madison 90 Keith Thomas, Greensboro 92 Don Pollock, Greensboro 92 Ray Schenkel, Reidsville 92

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