Cup Playoff; Semi-Finals
Matchplay
Merion
Match 2
PARAGON 1 v PARAGON 2
Tie # 2
#108 climatic (Brenden) v #123 7Elway7 (Ray)
#1 Front pin, Ray's wedge landed at the pin but hopped back 2 yd's to leave a tester. Brenden hit a beauty In. Ray dinged his 8 footer Into the heart of the hole. AS
#2 Back pin Into a HW. Both finished a couple of yd's away & Ray was first to strike by sinking his tricky 6 footer below the hole. Brenden borrowed my RAM stick from 5 ft & deformed the hole when It went through It. Ray 1 up
#3 Back pin with a TW. Ray played the back slope beautifully & finished 2 yd's away. Brenden had an early click & lost distance as well as direction & finished 56 ft away short & left & he nearly made the putt but he just ran across the face of the hole. Ray sunk his 5 footer. Ray up 2
#4 Back pin buta HW :( Brenden went 2 yd's long & Ray left his 3 yd's below the hole. Ray just missed a ball high & Brenden pulled his putt. Hole 1/2'd, Ray 2 up
#5 Front pin. Ray hit a pearler In & rolled & stopped 1 yd to the left of the hole after using the contours of the green to roll towards the hole & nearly hole out. Brenden took the direct approach & while he landed a yd away his ball continued to roll 4 yd's away. Brenden just missed his 13 footer. Ray 3 up
#6 Front pin, Ray's ever so slight early click just cost him the yd he needed to hold the front of the green. Brenden finished on but 5 yd's short n right. Ray's pitch missed. Brenden 14 ft putt looked destined to be In from 3 ft away but just tailed off. Ray 3 up
#7 Back pin, Ray's dinged top spin wedge didn't take the sidewind much & finished 8.5 ft short left & Brenden hit his to within a yd. Ray broke a little more straight off the bat & just slid by. Brenden 2 down
#8 Front pin, Brenden's putt from 6.5 ft swerved away from the hole & Ray made his tricky 3.7 footer. Ray 3 up
#9 Back pin with a TW, Ray hit a beauty to within a yd off the tee. Brenden also hit In a gooden to 5 ft, hole 1/2's with birds. Ray 3 up
B9
#10 Right pin with a HW, Raay landed just on & It tried to roll off but stayed on to leave ray 12 yd's away. Brenden landed 2 yd's away pin high left. Ray had a fine effort from 34 foot. Brenden's Eagle putt looked In from 1/2 a foot out but again swerved away. Ray still 3 up
#11 Back pin, Ray hit his a tad long but Brenden either forgot to switch clubs or mixed up the HW as a TW as he just made the front of the green & 36 ft short & he'd a fine effort from there but just missed a cup out. Ray sunk his 11 footer. Ray 4 up
#12 Back pin, Ray hit his to 8.5 ft short left & just missed a ball high & Brenden generously conceded the 4.6 return putt for par to Ray. Brenden had 3 ft for bird but even though It was close It was far from a gimmee & that proved to be the case as Brenden hit It firm to take out the break & It ran over the Inside left of the hole. Rat conceded the 6 ft return putt for par to Brenden. Ray 4 up
#13 Right pin, Brenden sunk his 10 footer from below the hole & Ray In turn sunk his 4 footer, Ray 4 up
#14 Left pin, Brenden finished 5 yd's short & slightly left but Ray's somehow came up 20 yd's short with a slight miss-ding. Ray missed his difficult 42 footer & Brenden just missed his 14 footer. Ray 4 up
#15 Front Pin. Bit of a predicament for Ray as cos of his wedge make up he had to manufacture a shot In & boy did he do just that, He hit his 100 W underpower (83% power) & with 1/4 BS & It landed pin high & hopped just past from 74 yd's out. Brenden landed just short & rolled off but BAM Brenden pitched In for bird from 6 yd's. Ray had a tester from 6.6 Ft & down 4 above the hole but he dispatched that putt with ease to half the hole with birds but win the match
A 4 & 3 win for 7Elway& (Ray) of PARAGON 2
3 -2 to PARAGON 1 v PARAGON 2 In the overall standings at the moment