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On Sunday June 26, 2016, the two top seeds in this year's Waterfield Cup met at Garrison to battle it out for WF supremacy. Here's what happened:
First the headlines:
BOBBY/DAVE TAKE 11 FEWER SHOTS THAN KEN/GMcD ON THE FRONT
BOBBY MAKES AS MANY BIRDIES AS KEN/GMcD PUT TOGETHER
DAVE MAKES SOME KILLER PUTTS
GMcD PLAYS 10-15 IN EVEN PAR BUT IT'S NOT ENOUGH
Ken/GMcD never really had a chance. Or did they ... ?
Now the details:
1. GMcD only one on in reg but Dave makes superb chip and matches him with net birdie. All Square.
2. GMcD and Ken have tap in pars. Dave needs to two putt from 60 feet. He does. All Square.
3. Bobby is on. GMcD is gone left never to be seen again. Ken makes a great up and down to tie Bobby with pars. All Square.
4. The wheels start falling off for Ken/GMcD as McD takes 3 putts from 20 feet for net par, losing to Dave's net birdie. D/B 1 up.
5. Bobby makes a fine chip for easy par beating a bunch of bogeys and it's D/B 2 up.
6. Abortion must be legal in Canada because K/McD make two - both double to par/net par and it's D/B 3 in a row and 3 up.
7. GMcD gets one back with a 15 foot birdie. D/B 2 up.
8. Dave and Bobby both make pars. Ken and McD don't even come close. D/B 3 up.
9. It looks like It will be a push with bogeys until Dave rolls in a 20 footer for par. D/B an almost insurmountable 4 up at the turn. ALMOST insurmountable.
10. GMcD makes a good chip and a 10 footer for net birdie and a win despite Bobby's two putt par. D/B 3 up.
11. Ken and McD both make 1 putt pars. Dave matches them with a 3. Then Bobby delivers the coup de grace. Birdie from 15 feet and it's D/B 4 up with only seven to play.
12. Bobby hits his drive a good fifty yards past the front tee and left into the bush, finds It and takes a drop then shanks his third. Highly un-Bobby-like. But Dave is up right of the green with Ken and McD. Ken chips long, McD chips short and Dave chips to 5 feet right on McD's line. Incredibly, , McD makes, Dave misses and it's D/B 3 up.
13. Ken takes three putts from long distance. Dave takes a 7. But Bobby makes a fine up and down par. Then Ken gives McD a read and he rolls in the 22 foot birdie. D/B just 2 up.
14. Bobby makes yet another double bogey. Dave makes 5 but Ken plays it perfectly, rolling in a 3 foot second putt for par and the win. All of a sudden there is a match afoot. D/B a mere 1 up.
15. Everybody stroking. Dave bounces his second off the paving stones just over the creek then sticks his third close. Ken is toast but McD also has a birdie putt. So does Bobby. Dave and McD both miss and make net birds. Bobby does not miss making a superfluous birdie and it's the first push in 12 holes. D/B 1 up.
16. Everyone is on in 3. Bobby and McD make bogeys. Dave is 12 feet above the hole. if he misses he could be off the green. He doesn't miss! Par and a dagger to the heart. But wait! Ken is 11.9 feet below the hole. He gets it close but has he given it enough? Yes! Another push and it's D/B 1 up with two to go.
17. McD is stroking but puts his second in the trap front left. Bobby is 55 feet below the hole. Dave tells him it breaks left to right. Bobby doesn't agree, puts it out a little right and brings it in to gimme par. McD makes a good sand shot to 12 feet below and needs the putt to tie up the match. It ends up just left. Net par. Push. D/B Dormie one.
18. Bobby and Dave both make two putt pars. Ken and McD both have a chance for bird. Ken is just off, left, comes within an inch but no cigar. McD is 20 feet above the hole. With the match on the line his putt slips by right and what would have been a comeback for the ages falls just short. D/B win it 1 up. It turns out to be the last time Ken/GMcD lose all season.
Bobby 78 net 72
Dave 84 net 71
Ken 86 net 74
GMcD 83 net 68