Published: July 19, 2008 10:59 pm            

Consistent Phillip Myers wins Country Club championship

TERRE HAUTE — Consistency was the name of Phillip Myers’ golf game for three days as he won the Country Club of Terre Haute championship for the first time.

The recent Terre Haute South graduate opened play on the Allendale course with a 2-under-par 69 and finished the event Saturday with the same score. He had a 74 in the second round and finished with a 1-under-par 213 score.

Dick Vining took second with 222 and 2007 champ Dave Callahan was third at 223.

Myers went 33-36 in his final round. He started the day with a two-shot lead over Callahan.

“My ball striking was strong. I hit a lot of greens … I missed 10 in the three rounds,” said Myers.

In his senior season at South, he was No. 1 player most of the year and was medalist for the Metropolitan Interscholastic Conference and the regional at Country Oaks.

He is currently ranked ninth on the boys Masters Tour and is a member of the Indiana team that will meet players from Kentucky before he reports for freshman orientation at Purdue in August.

Gary Hosking shot 226 to win the first flight while John Lukens won the third flight with 240 and Tom Tucker the third flight with 265.

The senior club championship is scheduled for August 2-3 and the junior interclub will be played at the course August 1.

Thomas Goss had the second-low score of the day Saturday, shooting 71 as he completed a run of eight straight days in a tournament.

He edged Zach Hosking by one shot to win the boys 15-17 title in the city junior tournament on Thursday.

Goss will be a sophomore at South and qualified for the Boys State competition in August by shooting 77 at Harrison Hills at Attica on Friday where more than 80 players competed for spots in the tournament.

Hosking shot 79 and is first alternate for the state event which will be a combination of stroke and match play.



Country Club Championship

Championship flight

212 — Phillip Myers 69-74-69; 222 — Dick Vining 78-72-74; 223 — Dave Callahan 74-71-78; 224 — Jim Winning 78-71-75; 225 — Mike Toney 73-79-73; 226 — Chris Yamamoto 72-76-78; 227 — Earl Elliott 74-77-76; 229 — Thomas Goss 81-77-71; 239 — Jeff Lewellyn 74-80-85; 260 — Zach Hosking 80-90-90.

First flight

226 — Gary Hosking; 232 — Geoff Shuck; 244 — Steve Danielson; 246 — Jimm Nidlinger; 247 — Mike Goeller, Bret Holmes; 250 — Bryan Gordy.

Second flight

240 — John Lukens; 249 — Charlie Williams; 253 — Doug Grim; 256 — Tom Cummins; 261 — Ted Hazledine; 268 — Mike Woodward; 279 — Greg Conrad.

Third flight

265 — Tom Tucker; 272 — Nick Lizanich; 274 — Don Meiners.



n Junior CC championship — At the Country Club of Terre Haute, the following are results of the Junior Club Championship on Saturday:



Girls — Allie Danielson (champion) 71-57-128.

Boys 10-and-under — Cam Lewellyn (champion) 40-40-80, Jacob English 56-52-108, Zak Teffeteller 70-80-150, Chase Dinkel 58-56-114.

Boys 11-12 — Spencer Danielson (champion) 47-48-95, Mat Cooper 59-57-116, Logan Dinkel 66-65-131.

Boys 13-and-over — Sam Pollock (champion) 87-86-173, Will Pollock 92-87-179, Grant Lewellyn 94-90-184, Wes Heck 95-95-190.

        

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