PHAT tour event 5- Rush Creek

Rush Creek hosted the 5th leg of the PHAT tour on July 10th.  Another beautiful weather day keeps the tournament streak alive at 4 events in a row.

I was finally paired up with Jiovanazzo.  Love it.  He is such a fun person to play with.  It was his day.  He ended up running away with the event and won his first event of the year.

Nick tees off on the first hole while Dan, Matt, Bill, Ryan, Chad, and Jeff watch in envy.  Look at that balanced follow through!

Michael tees off on the par 5 second hole.


Jeff opened his round with a solid birdie, birdie start!

Jeff, wearing his red power  shirt, drives through the divot his ball was in on the approach into the elevated fourth green..

The bunkering protecting the shack behind the 5th green.

After Jeff jumped out early with 2 birds, he gave them back on 6 and 7 with back to back bogeys.  Still with 5 pas to complete the nine he shot an actual even 36 on the front.  Not bad at all!

Jeff tees off on 10. One of the few bad shots he had today.  His ball leaked right into the marsh.  He still managed to finish with just a bogey.

I managed to hit a good drive and a good second shot, hitting the green but bouncing across to just near the marsh behind the green.

Jeff sizes up the tee shot on 13.  No problem here for him with an easy par.  Me?  Well I scored a 7.

The approach into the 16th.

And into the 17th.  We were all in the fairway here but hit onto the mounds behind the green.  Jeff  and Michael made bogey, I doubled.

For me, a 7th place finish.  A few bad holes on 6, 8, 13, and 17 spelled the end of my day.

Jeff ended up with a 4 over 76 and a net 67 to win by 2 strokes.

In the match play, it was the semi-finals.
Jason defeated Dan and Chad beat Ryan.  So the final match play event is Chad playing Jason.  Talk about 2 Mr. Consistents playing.  Should be an interesting match.

Here are the full results (gross/net scores):
1 76/67 Jeff Jiovanazzo
2 77/69 Brad Opsahl
3 77/71 Chad Meschke
T4 89/73 Matt Oelschlager
T4 86/73 Nick Smith
6 81/74 Bill Starken
7 87/77 Kris Halsrud
8 84/79 Ryan Winterquist
9 88/80 Jeff Heil
T10 92/82 Jason Simek
T10 93/82 Todd Heil
T12 94/84 Dan Magnuson
T12 107/84 Michael Vigen
DNP Scott Loe
DNP Eddie Rymer
DNP Jim Crowley