SMGA President Greg Tarr presents Bertil and Fredrik Sultan with the coveted RoadRunner Classic Saddle Trophies.
The Silver Anniversary twenty-fifth annual RoadRunner Classic Member-Guest Tournament was held April 21, 22 and 23 at the SaddleBrooke One Golf Course with guest participants coming from as far away as Florida to Hawaii to play with their SMGA partners. There were a total of 96 players entered in the tournament in eight flights.
The event included a stag dinner for participants with a $100 credit to be used at the Callaway/Adidas “concept shop,” two patio lunches for participants, a ladies luncheon for wives of the participants and the Award Dinner/Dance held in the Vistas Restaurant.
The tournament format consisted of two nine-hole match play contests for each team on days one and two and a single nine-hole match play event on the last day. Each team played the other teams in their flight one time and two points were awarded for each hole won for a total of 18 points per match. The team with the most points at the end of the third day were winners of their flight.
Flight winners were then pitted against the other flight winners in a shootout. Shootout was broken into two divisions; Flights 1 through 4 in the first and 6 through 8 in the second. The top two teams in each division were selected and a four team lowest score contest was conducted with one team being eliminated on each of the first two holes of the final shootout until only two teams remained. These two competed on the last hole with lowest net score determining the overall RoadRunner Classic champions.
The final four teams competing in the final shootout were Virgil Maynard and Bob Koerner; Fred Pilster and Greg Carey; Jim Weisbeck and Gary Larson and Bertil Sultan and Fredrik Sultan. Jim Weisbeck and Gary Larson were eliminated on SaddleBrooke hole No. 7; Virgil Maynard and Bob Koerner were eliminated on SaddleBrooke hole No. 8 and the last two teams went on to SaddleBrooke hole No. 9 where they tied with same overall net score. They went into a chip and putt playoff. Bertil and Fredrik Sultan had a total combined chip and putt length of 49’ 3” and Fred Pilster and Greg Carey had a combined 54’ 7”.
The overall champions, Bertil Sultan and son Fredrik Sultan, were each awarded the coveted RoadRunner Saddle trophy at the Saturday evening Awards Dinner/Dance.
The nine flight winners were as follows: 1st Virgil Maynard and Bob Koerner; 2nd Fred Pilster and Greg Carey; 3rd Tom Shephard and Larry McAfee; 4th Chris Toney and Bob LeClair; 5th Jim Weisbeck and Gary Larson; 6th Rocco Rossi and Jeff Lefebvre; 7th Glenn Davis and Kenlon Johnson and 8th Bertil Sultan and Fredrik Sultan. The flight winners were awarded RoadRunner pin flags signed by all the other players in their flight. The players and their wives enjoyed a fine dining experience and dancing.