J. Wayne Franklin Wins Becomes a Chammpion in First Tournament

 
Saturday was a very difficult day to drive north and south in the Chicago area. It was almost like the Chicago area was being split in two by the weather since I-94 and I-294 were flooded. We had to drive through the flooding on I-294 and realize now why you should never drive through standing water on the roadway.
 
The rainy weather however gave way to a wonderful day around 11am and made the golf that day great. J. Wayne Franklin participated in his first tournament with America's Golf Tour and he took home the championship with a net one under par 71. He started his day out with five consecutive pars before bogeying three out of his last four outward holes.
 
Meanwhile Glen Flanagan started out poorly with a double bogey on the first but settled down and pared three out of the last fours holes to take a one shot lead after the outward nine. Glen quickly faltered on the back nine going double bogey, double bogey to start the back nine. He sealed his fate with his tee shot on the short par four fourteen that went OB ending in a triple bogey.
 
You can see the scores and result for the Balmoral Woods Challenge by clicking here.
 

July 24: Balmoral Woods Challenge Pairings

Here are the tee times for the Balmoral Woods Challenge that will take place July 24, 2010 at Balmoral Woods Country Club

Receive a FREE Platinum Membership

We have come to the time of the year were the Major tournaments are going to be taking place. Our first Major will be the Ravisloe Championship on July 17 & 18. Everyone who is in the top 30% of this tournament will receive their entry fee back in winnings. This is provided that we don't have a tie for last place in the money. Here is a sampling of our payout for the Ravisloe Championship.

 
Players
8
12
16
20
1
870
1150
1400
1500
2
435
560
700
1000
3
415
455
500
510
4
 
415
425
450
5
 
 
415
425
6
 
 
 
415
TOTAL
1720
2580
3440
4300
 
Register today for your chance at up to $1500 as a non-amateur player.
 
We think that playing for this type of money is incentive enough but we wanted to give you a couple more reasons to register today. All points will be doubled for this tournament so the winner will also earn 400 points for their effort in our Vision Cup standings.

Bonus #1
We are extending an incredible offer to the first five non - members that register for this event by 8 pm Friday, July 9. They will receive a Platinum Membership on America's Golf Tour when they participate in this tournament. That is four years of membership included in your entry fee.

For current members we will make you a platinum member and extend your membership for an additional four years when you participate in this tournament.

Everyone else who registers by 8 pm, Friday July 9, 2010 will receive a Gold Membership when they participate in this tournament.

Bonus #2
The winner of each flight in this tournament will receive a five year extension to their membership for being a Major Champion

Glen Flanagan Wins First Title of The Season

For the first time in a long time weather was not part of our story. Today was a great day to be playing golf. We're sorry that many of you couldn't make it. Blackstone Golf Club in in great shape. The greens are rolling true and fairly fast which was just what the doctor ordered.
 
Glen was striking the ball well today but it was definately his putter that was saved his bacon more than once. Glen sank several putts of more than fifteen feet to save par or bogey and on the 8th hole he was really fortunate. His tee shot on the par 3, 8th hole left him just off the putting surface on the left side of the green. The pin was located on the front right about 35 to 40 feet away.
 
Glen admitts to just trying to get the ball close to save par but the putt seemed to have eyes only for the hole. The putt broke 3 to 4 feet from left to right and fell into the side of the cup for a birdie. On the ninth hole he managed a bogie thanks to him sinking a putt from about 20 feet,
 
Glen tried to get the tournament away on the back side starting with a double bogie on the 10th and double par, as Glen likes to call it, on the 14th hole. He did manage to right the ship long enough though to hold on for a three shot win over 2 time champion Jeff Vidlak to earn his first victory of the season.
 
You can view the scores and results on the Blackstone Championship results page.
 
Our next tournament is fast approaching on July 6th. It is the Bowes Creek Classic and will feature one of the newest courses to the Chicago area. Register today for the Bowes Creek Classic and your chance to become our newest champion just like Glen.

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