Bazil Furry shot a 2-over par 74 to lead Penn to the 24-group Uebele Golf Invitational crown held Friday at LaPorte’s Beechwood Golf Course. Josh Yoder shot a seventy-seven for Penn, which crowned second-place Lake Central, 313-321. Culver Academy became 1/3 with a 324. South Bend Saint Joseph became 7th with a 333. Campbell Jones led the Indians with an 81. Other vicinity people of observation include Nick Goshrowski of Michigan City, who shot a 75, and Mishawaka’s Jacob Roeder, who had a 78.
UEBELE INVITATIONAL
At Beechwood (par seventy-two), Team scores: Penn 313, Lake Central 321, Culver Academy 324, Valparaiso 325, Chesterton 328, Crown Point 330, Saint Joseph 333, Triton 334, LaPorte 358, Adams 365, Andrean 367, LaLumiere 371, Riley 378, Marian 380, Mishawaka 381, Highland 382, Glenn 388, Lowell 395, Hobart 402, Marquette 403, Michigan City 406, Portage 413, New Prairie 421, Clay 509
Medalist: Bazil Furry (Penn) 74.
PENN (313): Bazil Furry seventy-four, Josh Yoder 77, Keenan Donze eighty-one, Josh Gaughan eighty-one, Max Clark 85. SAINT JOSEPH (333): Campbell Jones eighty-one, JP Raster eighty-two, Sean Egan eighty-four, Paxson Campbell 86, Matthew Egan 104. TRITON (334): Cole McKinney eighty-three, Keegan Westafer eighty-three, Chase Butler eighty-three, John Gardner eighty-five, Beau Hepler 89.
LAPORTE (358): Max Holmes 80, Graham Siefker 88, Mason Jones 92, Jackson Cizewski ninety-eight, Cas Pulaski 100. ADAMS (365): Ben Thoman 87, Charlie Freel 88, Josh Zahl ninety-four, Matt Weaver 96, Adam Kern 107.
RILEY (378): Nick Stewart 89, Spencer Houghton 90, Chad Hartstein ninety-three, Jacob Beebe 106, Connor Opaczewski 116. MARIAN (380): Thaddeus Horvath 88, Charlie Graham ninety-two, Josh Schmidt ninety-seven, Joey Balderas 103, Evan Trippel 112.
MISHAWAKA (381): Jacob Roeder seventy-eight, Payton Engdahl ninety-six, Ben Pamachena 99, Kyle Sears 108, Kullen Jedrzejek 108 GLENN (388): Blaine Kemp 92, Alec Slater ninety-five, Nick Frankiewicz a hundred, Jimmy Gouker one hundred and one, Brandon Becker 134. MARQUETTE (403): Romeo Bui ninety-six, Robert Pruzin ninety-eight, Charlie O’Halloran 104, Aidan Bartnicki one hundred and five, Nikko Brooks 117.
MICHIGAN CITY (406): Nick Gushrowski 75, Connor Reynolds ninety-six, Gibson Godfrey 113, Ethan Green 122, Seth Palmer a hundred and forty. NEW PRAIRIE (421): Mason Taylor a hundred and one, Nolan Szymanski 106, Nathan Middlebrook 107, James Good link 107, Dylan Pohl a hundred and fifteen. This is a beautiful and tricky golf course for every standard of golfer, from 28 handicaps to scratch.
Allis and Clark have made an admirable attempt to create a rare links course on the Costa. Stunning views across the bay to Gibraltar and hilly terrain make it a delight to play. Take plenty of balls, as the fairways are tight and unforgiving, surrounded by gorse and ravines. A buggy is needed – even for the fittest amongst us- and as you play, consider taking an extra club up on par threes because of deceptive wind.
Alhaurin Golf Course, Costa del Sol, Spain.
Alhaurin Golf Course is an 18+18+9, par 72 golf course that Severiano Ballesteros designed.
Address: Ctra Mijas-Alhaurin, (MA485) Km6, Alhaurin el Grande. Tel: +34 95 259 5970.
Tight beyond belief, difficult beyond anything I have ever seen before.
The first hole is tough, with a narrow fairway and rocks to the sides of the fairway, which send your ball bouncing high into the sky, never to be seen again. As you progress, the course gets tougher, and if you are not really on top of your game, you could easily become more and more disheartened as you progress around the course. I stopped counting shots after I lost my tenth golf ball! By the 18th, I had suffered several episodes of golf rage and was close to a nervous breakdown.
