SEATTLE INTERCITY TOURNAMENT 2011

The Indian summer came early for the Cascade Club’s Labor Day event that was held in the Tacoma area.  An unusual plus 80 degree weather greeted the over 130 golfers from Friday through Monday and even lasted a few days following Labor Day. 

 

The venues offered this year gave opportunities to test out Chambers Bay the site of the 2015 U.S. Open or a free practice round of golf at Allenmore Golf Course on Friday and the 36 hole medal play at Trophy Lake & Casting Club and Washington National Golf Club played on Saturday and Sunday respectively.  Although rod and reels were offered at Trophy Lakes, no would be old salts were seen trying their luck at casting?  On Friday, there were over 30 players at Allenmore where Dave Jung from Vancouver scored an ace and over 40 players at Chambers Bay.

 

The medal play courses played tough with only a handful of players netting less than par and where local knowledge really played a tremendous part in shooting a good or bad score.  Trophy Lakes was the tougher of the two courses as most people shot better on Washington National.  There were gross score improvements of 19 and 17 strokes on Sunday, but neither of those ended up winners!

 

The center of activities was at the La Quinta Inn and Suites in Tacoma where the host club set up their Hospitality Room and registration.  With an open bar and some very delicious hors d’oeuvres, an outside dinner was out of the question.  The BBQ pork was to die for and the Hospitality Room was open all weekend!  The festivities were culminated at the Muckleshoot Casino Banquet Room where about 160 players and guests had a well presented buffet dinner.  President Bob Tordillos and his committee members Larry Luke, Norman Locke and Aiko Tada, to name a few, should be congratulated on a very well planned and successful tournament!

 

As part of the Saturday round at Trophy Lakes, there was the Federation Team Matches (FTM) and Inter-city Team Challenge (ITC).  The former had eight five-player teams and the latter had four five-player Inter-City teams playing for the annual trophy.  Taking the best four nets, the Oakland team came in first followed by the Dragons and Hawaii in the FTM.  Seattle won the ITC using a player from each of the flights.

 

There were only 19 players who were proud enough to indicate eligibility as a senior to compete in the Federation sponsored Senior Event.  Senior winners for men and women are selected after the flight winners have been recognized.  Since the Senior Event winners were not determined at the awards dinner, the winners were Al Lim from Oakland and Gordon Gatehouse from Hawaii winning first and second nets respectively.  First and second net women were Shirley Lee and Judy Eng both from Oakland.

Portland		Seattle		Vancouver		Victoria
Brandon Lee	76	Daniel Jeung	76	Linda Chan	85	Cathy Wong	91
Laville Fendors	82	Frank Chin	75	Barry Danderfer	82	Justine Nisbet	84
John Sturges	78	Tim Sharp	81	Lily Ma	86	Marsha Mallow	90
Lawrence Lee	89	Bob Tordillos	74	Linda Ma	82	Leanne Ross	91
Pat Vongthongthip	80	Norm Locke	96	Gene Wong	74	Stephanie Williams	92
Total	316	Total	306	Total	323	Total	356
Dragons		Oakland		Tucson		Hawaii
James Hwang	75	David Yip	72	Merrill Fong	82	Johnnie Lau	76
Judy Wu	77	Hugh Lee	78	Linnett Fong	89	Gay Lau	81
Karen Fong	76	KK Tong	71	Carlton Lee	76	Gordon Gatehouse	76
Paul Lee	74	Kim Shek	75	Marion Lee	89	Gary Lee	89
Carol Lee	89	Ray Jeung	70			Erwin Young	69
Total	302	Total	288	Total	336	Total	302

MEN
	A FLIGHT		Gross				Net
1st	Paul Loui	Dragons	152		David Yip	OAK	146
2nd	Wes Chong	Dragons	153		Johnnie Lau	Hawaii	146
3rd	Brandon Lee	Portland	157		Alex Fong	OAK	148
	B FLIGHT
1st	Samuel Tong	OAK	167		Jeffrey Yee	Dragons	143
2nd	Paul Lee	Dragons	169		Steve Tsang	Dragons	143
3rd	Gene Wong	VAN	169		James Hwang	Dragons	143
	C FLIGHT
1st	David Hayasaka	SEA	173		Erwin Young	Hawaii	139
2nd	Raymong Jeung	Dragons	178		KK Tong	OAK	145
3rd	John Chik	VAN	184		Tony McNeil	SEA	149
	D FLIGHT
1st	William Wong	Marin	188		Albert Ho	VAN	143
2nd	John Sturges	Port	198		Jerry Low	Port	145
3rd	Bucky Takasaki	SEA	202		Howard Shao	OAK	151
WOMEN
	A FLIGHT		Gross				Net
1st	Kim Shek	OAK	169		Judy Wu	Dragons	148
2nd	Linda Ma	VAN	190		Joyce Shao	OAK	158
3rd	Sadie Guthrie	VIC	191		Valerie Yee	OAK	162
	B FLIGHT
1st	Karen Fong	Dragons	205		Sarah Fong	SF	149
2nd	Jeannie Yip	OAK	207		Aiko Tada	SEA	151
3rd	Jeanette Chan	SAC	209		Paulette Ciaccio	FH	162

Posted 10/20/11