The Tournament attracted only seven players, but only 6 showed up to play on a beautiful summer day in Little Rock with temperatures in the 90s. After play, golfers were treated to a barbecue from Whole Hog Cafe with baked beens, cole slaw, and potato salad and soft drinks and water. The tournament started around 8:30. Golfers actually received a goody bag with 3 logo golf balls, a package of long tees, a tee shirt, and a few other gifts.
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Arkansas Hickory Open
The 2010 Mountain Valley Hickory Open
The Official Arkansas State Hickory Championship
of the rkansas State Golf Association
Friday, October 1 - Sunday, October 3
An optional practice round will be held Friday morning with times to be scheduled
by individual participants by calling 501.663.0854. The Tournament really begins
Friday afternoon with a par three championship on the unique nine hole par three
“Honors Course” at The First Tee of Central Arkansas. First Tee kids will serve as
caddies for the event. A reception with food and beverages will follow.
SCHEDULING NOTES. This is a “bye week” for the Arkansas Razorbacks football
team. Tee times are in mornings and accommodations will be made for travel
schedules of participants.
FORMAT. Open Stroke Play, Senior Stroke Play (55+), and 4-Ball Championships
will be contested. Anyone playing in the stroke play divisions may also participate
in the 4-Ball division with a partner. If there are enough participants entered, a
Super Senior (65+) stroke play division may be added.
TOURNAMENT COURSE. The historic War Memorial Golf Course in Little Rock,
Arkansas will be the site of the 2010 Mountain Valley Hickory Open. For more
information about this golf course, visit the Little Rock Parks and Recreation golf
course page at www.littlerock.org/parksrecreation/golfcourses/#warmemorial.
Caddies from The First Tee of Arkansas are available at $40 per round plus tip, or
golf cars may be reserved as well. Please let Breck Speed know if you want to have
a caddie at least 2 weeks prior to the tourney so arrangements can be made.
COST. $165.00, includes greens fees, opening reception and two lunches. There
will also be an informal get together Saturday evening at the home of Breck
Speed where food, beverages and amateur guitar playing will be provided. Rental
clubs will be available for $100.00.
CLUBS AND CLOTHING. Clubs, whether original or replica, must be approved for
hickory play by The Society of Hickory Golfers. For more information, visit their
website at www.hickorygolfers.com. Period clothing is encouraged but not
required. No baseball caps are allowed.
As title sponsor of the championship, Mountain Valley will donate $100.00 for
each participant in the Arkansas Hickory Open to The First Tee of Central
Arkansas.
For more information, contact:
Breck Speed, Benevolent Tournament Director
501.993.3344 ♦ bspeed@mountainvalleyspring.com
Please reserve a spot for me to play in the
2010 Mountain Valley Hickory Open
Entries will prioritized in the order they are received.
Credit Card (Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American Express)
$165.00 Entry Fee $100.00 Club Rental (Optional)
Check (made payable to Mountain Valley Spring Company)
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Its been hot this summer. Temperatures soaring past 100 degrees. Day after day. Each round of players comes back to the Club House at War Memorial Golf Course saying. "Its hot out there". Time after time golfers have been complimentary of the condition of the course. Some of you may have noticed some earth dropped along the third hole. Guess that is part of the improvement. We could use more earth on the fourth hole and the fifth under the trees and maybe to fill in the mud holes along the first hole. The cart path to the new 13th hole goes on the left side of the 1st hole, where hopefully no one hits the ball. The back nine is all messed up as far as skycaddy and other distance markers are concerned. Give it time. We haven't tried it, and don't know much about golf Global Positioning Devices, but maybe you can trick them as far as hole numbers and refer to the holes as what they used to be for 14, 15, and 16 instead of the new hole numbers. Or perhaps, we can get Bob Baker to contact the distance measurement companies to renew their efforts and redefine the measurements on the course. We have noticed that on Saturdays and maybe other days as well the holes on the other side of the road-13 and 14 tend to back up. Maybe its because players tend to hit to the right on the 13th hole and players tend to hit to the left on the 14th hole. Golf carts in case you haven't noticed are newer this year. Just recently they have an added convenience in that there are numbers hanging down in the front window on each cart in addition to the decal on the side of the carts. Our club house has fewer items to sell. There are clubs, hats, golf gloves, golf balls including Bridgestone, Callaway, Nike, Srixon, Top Flight, except Titlelist, and Maxfli. There are cleats for golf shoes, but no golf shoes. Small tubes of sun tan lotion, ball markers, and tees. This year the Club House also sells hot dogs, albeit they are a whopping $3.00 which includes the bun and fixings. There is beer also.
Upcoming events in the area are the Hickory Club Tournament which will be at the First Tee this year in early October. We'll have the Club Championship which will also be scheduled later in October.
Alex Carpenter 1st Place Winner of the 4th of July Championship Joey Nichols Second Place 4th of July Championship Sam McCallister 1st Place Super Senior Championship Nate Mosely, First Place Match Play Championship Danny Hill 2nd Place Match Play Championship
Alex Carpenter Video After Securing the 4th of July Championship
Joey Nichols, Winner 2nd Place, Fourth of July Championship Tournament July 3,4, and 5, 2010 War memorial Golf Course Little Rock, AR
2010 FOURTH OF JULY SUPER-SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIP Newspaper Report MCALLISTER, SAM, 70-65-69--204 YOUNG, DAN, 67-71-70--208 PATTERSON, LARRY, 66-70-74--210 BROOKS, RON, 78-78-76--232 HENLEY, BRUCE, 75-76-82--233 KARP, MIKE, 74-80-86--240 ROOKS, WESLEY, 91-91-81--263
Failed to Quailfy GINN, VERNON, WD
2010 FOURTH OF JULY SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIP Newspaper Report
Presentation of Trophies to Alex Carpenter for winning the 4th of July Championship ALEX CARPENTER BLITZED THE COURSE WITH SCORES OF 64, 60, AND 59 over the Fourth of July week-end. Despite Joey Nichols spectacular eagle on 18, Carpenter sizzled with a 9 under par for the three day total of 183. Joey Nichols played excellent golf, chomping at the bit with a 6 under par 186 was that close to upsetting the champion from last year. We'll have more coverage on this tournament during this week. The Course was in excellent shape and it was challenging. Because the new 14 was changed from a par 4 to a par 3, par was lowered to 64.
Sam McCallister from Bryant, won the Super Senior Championship with a three day total of 209. Stan Lee from Heber Springs, winner of the Senior Championship, shot a 2 under par 190 for the three days, and shot 2 under par for the first and the last day of the tournament. Roger Clement came in second place with a 196. Todd Martin, creamed the competition by winning the Mid-Senior Championship with a one under par for the tournament with a 191. Nate Mosely was the winner of Match Play Championship. Danny Hill finished Second. Tune in the rest of this week with more highlights and shots from the tournament. On a sad note, Jay Lester had to withdraw from the Tournament when his father Bill Lester (1920-2010) died. Our condolences sympothy goes out to Jay and his family. Once again, this report would not have been possible without the contributions of Bob Baker, the Facilities Manager and golfer in residence at the famed War Memorial Golf Course. Your Blogger, Mark Ross
July 4th at the Putting Green The 18th Green has started to breath Here are the scores for the second day of the Fourth of July Tournament. 2010 FOURTH OF JULY SUPER-SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIP
2010 FOURTH OF JULY CHAMPIONSHIP - FIRST FLIGHT WAR MEMORIAL GOLF COURSE UPPER HALF LOWER HALF Quarterfinal Semifinal Semifinal Quarterfinal 7/3/2010 7/4/2010 7/4/2010 7/3/2010
ALLAN DISHONGH 7:30 am WEBBER ENANG 7:40 am CYRIL ENANG
DOUG WEBBER 2 up 1 up JAMES THOMSON
MOSLEY 7:30 am 7:30 am 19 holes
GRIFFIN 5 and 4 DANNY HILL 7:30 am MOSLEY GRIFFIN 7:40 am MARK GRIFFIN
Sam McCallister shot a cool 65 one over par in the second day to top his 70 on Saturday to take the lead in the Super Seniors going into Monday for the Super Seniors with Larry Patterson close behind with a 126 and Dan Young third with a 128. Absent from the field this year is perennial winner Ralph Williams who is recuperating from eye surgery. So Sam finally had some time for his day in the sun.
Roger Clement who shot par on Saturday and Sunday is tied for first with Stan Lee in the Senior Division. Lee Shot a wonderful 62 on Saturday, then tripped up with a 66 on Sunday.
Todd Martin is comfortably in the lead in the Mid-Senior Division after a great 62 on Saturday and then a one over par 65 on Sunday. The Second Day of the War Memorial Fourth of July Tournament brought another humid day, but with wind. Rain cooled off the Course after blistering heat the day before. Past champions jockeyed for position for an exciting finish to the second round of the championship tournment which to say the least was anticlimactic for those watching only because there was one more day and anything can happen especially at War Memorial Golf Course. Joey Nichols, a tax lawyer with the Friday Law Firm from Little Rock, edged out Alex Carpenter, last years champion for the second day of the tournament. But Carpenter was just 1 stroke behind with a 124 for 36 holes. Tied for third were Neil Phelps and Lyle Middleton with a 36 hole total of 125. Not to be outdone, Lane Hulse and Michael Satterwhite tied for fourth place with a 36 hole total of 126.
Its going to be a dazzling finale tomorrow, even if it doesn't rain. The writer wishes to thank Bob Baker for providing todays scores in time for this publication.
The Fourth of July Tournament started today on a mostly humid day with some rain. Players talked about the two new holes and felt they were challenging and rewarding. Some players commented about the sand on 13 right around the cup which caused the ball to stop dead. Following is a list of players together with their respective scores for the first day's play. Par on today's course was 64. (It was previously 65). Match players started playing first. Then Super Seniors, Mid-Seniors, Seniors, and then the Championship players. Throughout the day phone service at the club house was disconnected. Late afternoon phone service was restored. Players can call in tomorrow to get their tee times. The Clubhouse number is 501-663-0854. Bob Baker, facilities Manager at War Memorial Golf Course said that players will be paired according to their scores and that they would play between 730 and 12:50 with the lowest scores playing last.
In match play, Nate Mosely beat out Danny Hill with 1 up. Doug Webber beat down Allan Dishongh with 2 up. Cyril Enang beat out James Thomson with 1 up. Mark Griffin beat Kevin Saxton 4 and 3.
The lowest score in the Super Senior Championship Saturday was Larry Patterson's 66 (2 over par). There were 3 sub par rounds played in the Mid-Senior Championship Saturday played by John Siratt who shot a 61, Todd Martin who shot a 62 and Austin Franks who shot a 63. Stan Lee was the prevailing champion in the Senior Championship with their only sub-par round for a 62.
There were three sub-par rounds in the Championship Flight. Lyle Middleton lead the pack with a bistering 59, followed by Joey Nicholss blazing 60 and Neil Phelps and Mike Satterwhite with commendable 63s.
Players who played well and shot a 64 a par today recalled last year when they were rewarded with red for below par rounds, black for over par rounds, and blue for even par. This year, the first day at least, even par just got blackened for all their troubles.
The local TV stations were at the tournament no doubt to check out the two new holes 13 and 14. Some comments from the players throughout the day, "some people thought they were following a PGA tour." " I was so nervous (when the camera's were rolling, I couldn't hold the club. When I missed the shot, I asked the cameraman for instant replay hoping I could get another shot." Play continues tomorrow morning beginning at 7:30am with the Match Play Championship and Consolation Contest. Weather conditions tomorrow are hot, with a 20% chance of rain. Hopefully that chance will have been washed away by tonights rain, and it won't be so humid tomorrow.
2010 FOURTH OF JULY CHAMPIONSHIP - FIRST FLIGHT WAR MEMORIAL GOLF COURSE UPPER HALF LOWER HALF Quarterfinal Semifinal Semifinal Quarterfinal 7/3/2010 7/4/2010 7/4/2010 7/3/2010
ALLAN DISHONGH 7:30 am WEBBER ENANG 7:40 am CYRIL ENANG
DOUG WEBBER 2 up 1 up JAMES THOMSON
7:30 am 7:30 am
DANNY HILL 7:30 am MOSLEY GRIFFIN 7:40 am MARK GRIFFIN
NATHANIEL MOSLEY 1 up 4 and 3 KEVIN SEXTON
Final 7/5/2010 7:30 am Champion
2010 FOURTH OF JULY SUPER-SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIP Newspaper Report PATTERSON, LARRY, 34-32--66 YOUNG, DAN, 34-33--67 MCALLISTER, SAM, 37-33--70 KARP, MIKE, 37-37--74 HENLEY, BRUCE, 36-39--75 BROOKS, RON, 38-40--78 ROOKS, WESLEY, 48-43--91
Failed to Quailfy GINN, VERNON, WD
2010 FOURTH OF JULY SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIP Newspaper Report
Ralph Williams and Bob Baker
Ralph Williams and Bob Baker
James Thomson presenting the Award to Dan Hill Champion Sr. Division
Champions and Runners Up each received a $25 gift card from War Memorial Golf Course
