Round 5: Charlie Geraets' 62 and a Three-Way Logjam
Round 5, last night — back on Dutch 27: White/Blue, par 70. Warm evening, a full field of 23, and a finish so tight that three teams walked off tied for fourth.
🏆 The Winners
🥇 Scott Bender + Landon Snider + Charlie Geraets + Michael Martin — −14
One name on the marquee: Charlie Geraets. 79 gross, net 62 off a 17 — the lowest net of the night and the lowest single number anyone's posted all season. The league's net assassin struck again. Michael Martin added a tidy 70 (two birdies, nine pars), and even Landon Snider — longtime Hall of Pain tenant — turned in an honest 73 net to land on the right side of a recap for once. Wire to wire.
🥈 Jared Hoppe + Tate Motschenbacher + Mark Pietig + David Anderson — −12
Jared Hoppe led off with a 71 net and three birdies, the low gross (76) on his team. Mark Pietig (72) and David Anderson (71) kept the machine that's carried them all year humming. Two back.
🥉 Peter Dahl + Luke Ostrowski + Nick Anderson + Jim Bender — −11
Peter Dahl off a 2 again (77 gross), Jim Bender's steady 75 net, and Luke Ostrowski's 70 net dragged this one onto the podium. Three off the lead.
🪢 The Logjam at Fourth
Three teams finished knotted at −9, splitting the points: Neitzke / Asche / Clough / Johnson, Moser / Ferguson / Jackovich / Miller, and Heitkamp / Sourdiff / Thomes. Ryan Neitzke (76, three birdies) and Justin Heitkamp (74, eleven pars) turned in the best individual cards of the bunch and have nothing but a shared scrap of points to show for it. Welcome to team golf.
🐦 The Birdie Board
- Jared Hoppe — 3
- Ryan Neitzke — 3
- Michael Martin, Justin Heitkamp, Jason Sourdiff, Tate Motschenbacher, Phil Ferguson — 2
🔥 The Hall of Pain
Jerad Clough — 99 gross, eight doubles
Your webmaster, back in his natural habitat. Eight doubles, three triples+, and a 99 that the scorekeeper (also me) would dearly love to quietly misplace. The 105 from Round 2 finally has company. The handicap is the only thing on this card working overtime.
Dave Thomes — 94 gross
The Team Points co-leader picked a rough night for the gross column — six doubles and a triple — though his 76 net kept the team in the logjam. Even the guys at the top have weeks like this.
📊 The Grinder Award
Justin Heitkamp. Repeat winner, and the low gross of the night at 74 — eleven pars, zero doubles off a 3. The same surgical, boring, beautiful golf that takes this award home every time we hand it out. One of these Thursdays his team is going to catch up to him.
🤝 Heads Up
Round 6 is Thursday June 4 — Dutch Blue/Red. Team Points through five rounds:
- Charlie Geraets — 42
- Dave Thomes — 38
- Mark Pietig — 38
- Michael Martin — 34
- Ryan Neitzke — 33
Charlie's 62 vaults him back to the top of the board he basically lives on now. Five down, fifteen to go. Best eight weeks count — see you Thursday.
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