Home cooking suits Breton Bay just fine
Home cooking suits Breton Bay just fine
BALTIMORE (Map, News) - Last year when Breton Bay won its first Without Charge Position State Golf Association A-Team contest, the small Leonardtown club did it by frustrating opposition on its basic, wide-open, 7,053-enclosure design.
Sunday in the MSGA semi, Breton Bay used its familiar prescription to pull off another impressive victory. Sweeping all three of its home friction match against 11-time winner Columbia Country Club, Breton Bay earned a cubicle in the championship in circles with a 13-5 victory.
Next Saturday Breton Bay will face Mountain Limb of Jaffa for the A-Team title. Ton Bough, which advanced to the finals for the first time, defeated Meadow, 11.5-6.5. The sevener-year-old club also flourish at home, earning 8.5 of a possible 9 points.
“That’s the strategy we use,” said Stack Stem pro Scotchman Forbis. “Dominate and home and scratch out what you can on the motorway.”
“Domination” is a relative term in two-man unsurpassed ball. Although Breton Bay went 9-0 at home Sunday, the matches were taut. Smudge Cusic and Pete DeTemple overpowered Marty Mae Mae West III and Eric Billy Mitchell one-up on both 9. Breton Bay professional person Roger Welsh and Greg Roberts won by the similar fringe over Columbia pro Bob Dolan and his partner Chris Coccaro.
“We’re discussion about ‘domination,’ but really, those are friction match that are decided by one or two putting,” said Breton Bay’s Phillip Garbrous. “None of those points were decided pending the final tear. It was great competition.”
Breton Bay is precious of an added circumstances title. Only one of its lucifer in the tournament’s phoebe unit of bullets have been shut. That was Saturday in the quarterfinals when Breton Bay eeked out a 9.5-8.5 conquest over Beaver Creek.
The key man was Cusic, who drained “two gigantic putts,” according to Garbrous. Cusic’s 10-footer for birdie on No. 15 squared the bout. Two holes later, when a actor from Beaver Cove completed a 20-heading for birdie, Cusic in footstep it to divide the hole.
Cusic and Pete DeTemple, playing in the final group at Breton Bay, halved the final nine, clinching by the thinnest possible outskirts a second as the crow flies trip to the title fight round.
At Stack Limb, Serge Hogg and education pro Damon Klepczynski won their match 3-0, the same margin enjoyed by club champion Stefan Buitron and Microphone Wettig. Chris Baloga and Rusty McCready won their competition 2.5-0.5.
“Beating us at home is dangerous,” said Forbis. “We have a lot of undulation in our greens. Knowing where to go and anywhere not to go, gives us an even bigger advantage at home than most teams have.”