NEMESIS SLAYED, VARGAS WINS AT ROOSEVELT
He Matches His 9-year Old Career Best Score
For First Griffith Victory
2017 GOC FINAL SCORES (par-33)
| PLACE | GOLFER | SCORE | HANDICAP | NET |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 2 3 4 5 6 WD | D. Vargas Witt Vaughan Moawad T. Joe Bird Mann | 42 50 50 45 55 56 | 12 19 16 10 19 17 | 30 31 34 35 36 39 |
QUICK CHIPS
Vargas rollin’: Vargas’s win Sunday was his 3rd win in the last 4 tournaments… Long overdue: His 42 Sunday matched his career best score in 2008. He lost the tournament that year to Armen Grigorian in an unceremonious “putt-off” playoff, the format of which was discarded the following year… What a difference a year makes: last year Vargas carded a career worst 57, highlighted (low lighted?) by a pair of 10’s. One of them (the par-4 5th) was avenged this year with a par. His tournament-high 3 pars Sunday matched his personal best… Charly dreamin’: The Charly Classic is all that remains for Vargas to complete the career slam in victories… New best: Runner-up Martin Witt had his 3rd straight top-3 finish at Roosevelt and carded a new career best score (50)… Dragon slayed: Chris Moawad par’d the #1 handicap, 336 yard par-4 8th hole for the first time in 9 career starts… Slow trickle: Gerry Vaughan’s par on 3 was his first par in 3 years at Roosevelt, and just the 3rd in 9 career starts… Tweet-tweet: No birdies, $16 now rolls over to next season’s Charly Classic.
GERRY VAUGHAN
2017 PLAYER OF THE YEAR
FINAL SHOTS
2-timer: Tour Champion Gerry Vaughan won his 2nd Player of the Year award, his first coming 7 years prior in 2010. He finished the 2017 season with 2 victories (Charly Classic and Tour Championship) and led the Tour in top-3 finishes (6 in 8 tournaments). He joins Chris Moawad (2013) as the only Tour Champions to win Player of the Year in the same season… Renaissance: A year after the worst season of his career Doug Vargas led the Tour in wins (3). Despite missing 3 tournaments, he was victorious in 3 of his 5 starts for an impressive .600 winning percentage. He ended the season victorious in 3 of his last 4 starts. It was Vargas’s 3rd 3-win season of his career… Top-2: Martin Witt’s runner-up finish at the Griffith was his 3rd of the year and 4th top-2 finish in his final 5 tournaments of the season… Inglorious 2017: John Mann’s late withdrawal at the Griffith left him with 1 appearance this entire season: 5 holes at the Masters before quitting… 8 for 8: Gerry Vaughan, Chris Moawad, and Tim Joe finished the season as the only golfers to play all 8 tournaments.
2017 FINAL RANKINGS
| CUR | PREV | PLAYER | EVENTS | POINTS | WINS | # OF TOP-3's | BEHIND LEAD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | VAUGHAN | 8 | 827 | 2 | 6 | |
| 2 | 2 | Moawad | 8 | 752 | 2 | 4 | -76 |
| 3 | 3 | Witt | 7 | 642 | 1 | 4 | -186 |
| 4 | 5 | D. Vargas | 5 | 566 | 3 | 4 | -261 |
| 5 | 4 | Crump | 6 | 425 | 0 | 3 | -402 |
| 6 | 8 | T. Joe | 8 | 383 | 0 | 1 | -444 |
| 7 | 9 | Bird | 6 | 346 | 0 | 1 | -482 |
| 8 | 6 | W. Vargas | 4 | 341 | 0 | 3 | -487 |
| 9 | 7 | Frost | 5 | 333 | 0 | 2 | -494 |
| 10 | 10 | E. Quiroz | 4 | 277 | 1 | 2 | -550 |
| 11 | 11 | Fidler | 2 | 202 | 0 | 1 | -625 |
| 12 | 12 | Grigorian | 3 | 146 | 0 | 0 | -682 |
| 13 | 13 | Mann | 1 | 16 | 0 | 0 | -811 |