Bear Invitational: A wire-to-wire victory
10/21/2007 | by
see also: The Bear Invitational, Cimarron Hills Golf & Country Club
Farren Keenan and Will Haddrell never trail, finish at 14-under-par
GEORGETOWN, Texas (Oct. 21, 2007)-- The team of Farren Keenan and Will Haddrell completed a wire-to-wire victory at the Bear Invitational, held at Cimarron Hills, with their nearest competition trailing by four strokes.
Keenan, an Englishman who attended the University of Texas, and Haddrell, a Texas Tech alum, opened the best-ball competition firing a 63, and never looked back en route to a 14-under-par 202 finish..
Jeff Shell and Joe Fox finished in second place at 10-under 206 after shooting an opening round 64, but faltering with a second round 75.
Full results follow:
| Bear (Championship) Flight | |||||||||||
| Team | Rd.1 | Rd.2 | Rd.3 | Tot. | |||||||
| 1 | Farren Keenan | 63 | 69 | 70 | 202 | ||||||
| Will Haddrell | |||||||||||
| 2 | Jeff Shell | 64 | 75 | 67 | 206 | ||||||
| Joe Fox | |||||||||||
| 3 | Gene Black | 64 | 72 | 73 | 209 | ||||||
| Rick Gorbell | |||||||||||
| 4 | Dean Lundquist | 67 | 73 | 70 | 210 | ||||||
| Wayne Smith | |||||||||||
| 5 | Richard Hare | 70 | 70 | 71 | 211 | ||||||
| Steve Moran | |||||||||||
| T6 | J.D. Stubbs | 69 | 74 | 72 | 215 | ||||||
| James Stubbs | |||||||||||
| T6 | Jeff Munden | 68 | 75 | 72 | 215 | ||||||
| John Ironside | |||||||||||
| 8 | John Perez | 71 | 74 | 74 | 219 | ||||||
| Phil Thomas | |||||||||||
| Outlaw Flight | |||||||||||
| 1 | Larry Lilly | 67 | 75 | 74 | 216 | ||||||
| Paul Palmer | |||||||||||
| 2 | David Bondy | 69 | 76 | 75 | 220 | ||||||
| Mike Dzienny | |||||||||||
| 3 | Jeff Carr | 76 | 73 | 76 | 225 | ||||||
| Rickey Carr | |||||||||||
| T4 | Josh Wiles | 71 | 87 | 75 | 233 | ||||||
| Terry Ray | |||||||||||
| T4 | Duane McGlauflin | 76 | 85 | 72 | 233 | ||||||
| Mike Shevlin | |||||||||||
| T6 | David Burger | 78 | 82 | 75 | 235 | ||||||
| Perry Ash | |||||||||||
| T6 | Chad Arcaria | 76 | 80 | 79 | 235 | ||||||
| Shawn Arcaria | |||||||||||
| 8 | Charles Spong | 79 | 81 | 79 | 239 | ||||||
| Mike Mcanich | |||||||||||
| Cimarron Flight | |||||||||||
| 1 | Johnnie Felps | 73 | 72 | 72 | 217 | ||||||
| Marshall Turnage | |||||||||||
| 2 | John Bamonte | 74 | 76 | 75 | 225 | ||||||
| Sam Baker | |||||||||||
| 3 | Drew Ragland | 78 | 85 | 77 | 240 | ||||||
| Kevin Metz | |||||||||||
| 4 | Danny Nardecchia | 80 | 84 | 79 | 243 | ||||||
| Mike Stout | |||||||||||
| 5 | Andrew Markus | 83 | 83 | 79 | 245 | ||||||
| James Falconer | |||||||||||
| 6 | John Tobias | 81 | 84 | 85 | 250 | ||||||
| Sonny Painter | |||||||||||
| 7 | David Svajda | 81 | 82 | 91 | 254 | ||||||
| John Svajda | |||||||||||
| 8 | Dennis White | 84 | 81 | 91 | 256 | ||||||
| Lee House | |||||||||||
| 9 | Ken Durfee | 88 | 87 | 82 | 257 | ||||||
| Rick Birkman | |||||||||||
| 10 | Dan Raley | 87 | 90 | 89 | 266 | ||||||
| Tim Cowing | |||||||||||
| Presidents Flight | |||||||||||
| 1 | Chris Hartenstein | 69 | 78 | 68 | 215 | ||||||
| Ian Ball | |||||||||||
| 2 | Jack Tyson | 68 | 80 | 71 | 219 | ||||||
| Scott Smith | |||||||||||
| 3 | Grady Bruce | 71 | 76 | 74 | 221 | ||||||
| Ron Tallant | |||||||||||
| T4 | Jim Bechtol | 72 | 76 | 74 | 222 | ||||||
| Mark Scott | |||||||||||
| T4 | Duane Miller | 70 | 78 | 74 | 222 | ||||||
| Jim Hurd | |||||||||||
| 6 | Jason Felps | 74 | 76 | 73 | 223 | ||||||
| Ken Patterson | |||||||||||
| 7 | Jay Pumphrey | 69 | 78 | 77 | 224 | ||||||
| Mick Brethower | |||||||||||
| 8 | John Ellett | 73 | 77 | 77 | 227 | ||||||
| Robert Ball | |||||||||||
| 9 | Jeremy Branch | 71 | 87 | 70 | 228 | ||||||
| Jordan Jay | |||||||||||
| 10 | J.D. Stovall | 77 | 77 | 77 | 231 | ||||||
| James Reid | |||||||||||
About the The Bear Invitational
54-hole two-man best ball event held at one of the finest clubs in central Texas. The event is named in honor of Jack Nicklaus, who designed the course at Cimarron Hills. Teams are composed of either one Mid-am & one Senior, two Mid-Ams or two Senior...
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