Great Shots – Great Rounds
The Skins Game featured interesting matches and shots on a beautiful fall day at Gateway. In the Central Division match, Paul Parent dominated the day with 3 skins and $32 thru 12 holes, but Greg Kline took an upset win with a $38 super skin on the 18th hole by hitting his 2nd shot to 6 feet and winning with a conceded Eagle. Kline totaled $42 and 2 skins for the win. Ned Loving took 1 skin for $6 and Jeff Klipa was shutout.
The West game saw Scott Wilsey open with 3 straight birdies and 5 on the front nine for 3 skins and $20. Bill Gordon took 2 skins on the 10th and 18th to finish 2nd with $22. But Jeff Cubel took 2 skins and all the pushes from 11 to 17 for $38 and the win. Tim Markel got a lot of halves but no skins.
For the East game, Chris Stalo kept control of a close match and locked it up with a 5th skin on the putting green to settle the 18th hole and $40. Tom Moran had 3 skins and $22 while Rich Dunmore got 1 skin and $18. Helen Puffenberger got shutout with 3 halves.
The AllStar game was all rookie Kurt Klinker who took 4 skins and $50 to top Chuck Withey’s 3 and $22. Ken Westerman and Brian Scherrer each took 1 for $4.
Stalo, Klinker and Cubel all are first time Skins winners while Kline takes his 9th Skins win and 4th in a row.