Rustic Carnage Caught On Tape: 60 MPH Gusting Santa Ana Winds For SGCA Championship
/I’m not sensing a good time was had by all at Monday’s SCGA Tournament of Club Champions.
The event was held this year at Rustic Canyon where I spent over 200 days on site and never experienced the Santa Ana’s that in recent years prompt course closures on days like this. But I digress.
Christopher Powers at GolfDigest.com wraps up the Tweets and video postings by some, including the postings by 100-shooter Andy Ho, the club champion at The Vineyard who enjoyed the course during Sunday’s low 70s, wind-free practice round (just saying).
Powers writes:
The wind was so bad that it caused 24 players to withdraw, in addition to one DNF (did not finish) and one NS (no start). It's hard to blame them after hearing what it was like from someone who played in the event. Andy Ho, who won his club championship at The Vineyard GC and shot 100 on Monday, tweeted out some inside info:
The full, agonizing video of the antics at 16 green were posted here by Ho.
And there was this:
Incredibly, Ho's 100 was not the high score of the event. Six players shot higher scores, including a 51-over 123. Just two players broke 80, the winning score a six-over 78 from Silver Lakes CC's Ricky Montanez. In another tweet, Ho claimed that there was just one birdie carded in his foursome the entire day, and it came from a player who also made a 10, 12 and an 18. That player is Grant Beachley, who shot the 123:
But a huge tip of the cap to Beachley for finishing the round and posting. You have my full admiration and the Golf Gods must some day reward your persistence.
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