The day of the Chesapeake Semi-final brought the nicest weather of the week. Practice rounds were played in extreme heat with thunderstorm delays or in constant drizzle (and sometime actual rain). Saturday was beautiful with a high temperature in the 80’s and eventually lovely sunshine. With a great day to play, the challenge for the ladies at the semi-final was definitely the golf course. Cart path only requirements as a result of heavy rain over the past week, slowed things a little, but all the golfers worked hard to keep up the pace of play and things moved along smartly.
Extremely hot weather in the Washington DC area in July and August had taken its toll on the golf course and the conditions were not optimal, players even putted around the burrowing holes of cicada wasps on a couple of greens. A number of players had great success on a very difficult course. The 2 top players in both the championship and first flights scored between 82 and 86 and 3 players in the field had net scores below par. The first and second flights had ties for low gross and the scramble team winner was determined by a match of cards, with Greater Philadelphia beating out Central Pennsylvania by half a stroke.
Kimberly Korbel, the Chief Volunteer Coordinator, turned 4th Flight player on Saturday, had recruited a great group of volunteers. She turned the reins over to Stacey Breslin on Saturday who, with the help of Jennifer Flather, Krish Mayatt, Susan Lamar, Clair Hollady, Cathy Johnson, Sheila Chittms, Donna Wood, Lillie Thomas, Anela Winstead, Sharon Dillon, Kimberly Litherland, Patricia Bost, Maureen Gilmore, Cardel Saunders, Melvin Campbell, Claire Hollady, Debbie Smith, Pat Brockway, Dan Warren, Meredith Ingram, and Sheryl Wilkerson, ensured a successful event.
Special thanks also to our Rules Officials, Kathleen Matthews of the Baltimore chapter and Jim Carr of the VSGA.
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