14th Annual Senior Four
Ball Championship
Hampton Hall Club - Bluffton
March 20-21, 2007
Shimmin & Verity Break Away From the Pack
The local team of Gary Shimmin from Okatie and John Verity from Bluffton shot a
second consecutive 65 for a two day total of 130 and four shot victory in the
2007 SCGA Senior Four Ball Championship. Randy Johnson of Goose Creek and Joe
Padgette from N. Charleston finished second at 134.
Shimmin and Verity teamed to win, but it was more like a one man highlight show each day with Shimmin making six birdies the first day and Verity making seven birdies in the final round. The tandem combined for nines of 31 – 35 for their seven under par winning score of 65.
In the First Flight Hilton Head’s Tommy Bell
and Bluffton’s Joe Vignati took the top place with a total score of 138. After
a long first day, Defending Champions Vic Hannon from Camden and Bob Stringer
from Blythewood came back to win the Second Flight with a total of 142.
The 2007 SCGA Senior Four Ball Championship was played on the par 72 – 6,662
yard Hampton Hall Club in Bluffton, S.C. The field consisted of 64 two-man teams
playing Best Ball format conducted over thirty six holes. The Senior Four Ball
Championship is one of 18 Major Championships conducted annually by the South
Carolina Golf Association.
Full Results:
| Championship Flight | G.C. | ||||
| 1st | Shimmin, Gary (Okatie) - Verity, Jon (Beaufort) | 65 | 65 | 130 | $400.00 |
| 2nd | Johnson, Randy (Goose Creek) - Padgette, Joe (N. Charleston) | 67 | 67 | 134 | $300.00 |
| t-3rd | Baker, Neal (Charleston) - Smunk, Bill (Kingstree) | 68 | 67 | 135 | $150.00 |
| t-3rd | Hambly, Dave (Bluffton) - Palmer, Bill (Bluffton) | 67 | 68 | 135 | $150.00 |
| t-3rd | Martin, James (Columbia) - Whetstone, Robert (Columbia) | 66 | 69 | 135 | $150.00 |
| Grant, David (Chester) - King, Don (Rock Hill) | 65 | 71 | 136 | ||
| LOM | Guise, Keith (Okatie) - Knapp, Sandy (Okatie) | 69 | 68 | 137 | $50.00 |
| Hamilton, Jimmy (Aiken) - Hardy, Bill (Aiken) | 69 | 69 | 138 | ||
| Gause, Bobby (Lexington) - Pierce, Dan (Columbia) | 69 | 69 | 138 | ||
| DiPasquale, Bernie (Beaufort) - McCarty, Belton (Beaufort) | 69 | 70 | 139 | ||
| Patti, Jim (Bluffton) - Thiess, Albert (Bluffton) | 68 | 71 | 139 | ||
| Burgess, Jim (Kingstree) - Hammersla, Bob (Greenville) | 67 | 72 | 139 | ||
| Aldous, Rick (Lexington) - Gross, Gerald (Irmo) | 65 | 75 | 140 | ||
| Correll, Sr., Lanny (Pawleys Island) - Hawkins, Jimmy (Irmo) | 69 | 71 | 140 | ||
| Spencer, Gene (Blythewood) - Weiner, Mike (Kiawah Island) | 68 | 72 | 140 | ||
| Agner, Dave (Bluffton) - Hencken, John (Bluffton) | 67 | 74 | 141 | ||
| Moran, Chuck (N. Charleston) - Potter, Bob (N. Charleston) | 69 | 73 | 142 | ||
| Smith, Russell (Columbia) - Williams, Vince (Columbia) | 67 | 75 | 142 | ||
| First Flight | |||||
| 1st | Bell, Tommy (Hilton Head) - Vignati, Joe (Bluffton) | 71 | 67 | 138 | $300.00 |
| 2nd | Alchermes, Brian (Columbia) - McDougall, Bill (Columbia) | 72 | 67 | 139 | $200.00 |
| t-3rd | Dawson, Koot (Blythewood) - Edwards, Linnwood (Spartanburg) | 70 | 70 | 140 | $125.00 |
| t-3rd | Lyon, Geoffrey (Hilton Head) - Magruder, Jim (Hilton Head) | 70 | 70 | 140 | $125.00 |
| LOM | Benenhaley, Harry (Columbia) - Oxner, Freddie (W. Columbia) | 70 | 71 | 141 | $50.00 |
| 5th | Emory, Mike (Lake Wylie) - Schwarz, Scott (Summerville) | 70 | 71 | 141 | $60.00 |
| Cisle, Dan (Elgin) - Wise, James (Columbia) | 71 | 72 | 143 | ||
| Hendley, Ryan (Greer) - Lever, Tommy (Greer) | 71 | 72 | 143 | ||
| Hogan, Al (Conway) - Rabon, LeRoy (Irmo) | 71 | 72 | 143 | ||
| Padgett, Ted (Hollywood) - York, Mo (Isle of Palms) | 70 | 73 | 143 | ||
| Collar, Bob (Hilton Head) - Spadafora, Bill (Bluffton) | 70 | 74 | 144 | ||
| McKain, Joe (Charleston) - Vincent, Thad (Beaufort) | 72 | 72 | 144 | ||
| Batts, Jeff (Irmo) - Truluck, Ken (Irmo) | 72 | 72 | 144 | ||
| Shumway, Pete (McCormick) - Walker, Nick (Aiken) | 72 | 72 | 144 | ||
| Colella, Mick (Hilton Head Island) - Eichenberger, David (Hilton Head) | 70 | 75 | 145 | ||
| Pratt, Wally (Bluffton) - Wright, Raleign (Bluffton) | 72 | 73 | 145 | ||
| Rickman, Bob (N. Augusta) - Zipf, Bud (Aiken) | 71 | 74 | 145 | ||
| Ebert, James (Aiken) - Western, Bill (Aiken) | 71 | 74 | 145 | ||
| Buie, Bob (Columbia) - Kirkner, Gary (Elgin) | 72 | 73 | 145 | ||
| Gifford, Bob (Columbia) - Tothill, Jim (Columbia) | 72 | 74 | 146 | ||
| Parnell, Bobby (Camden) - Williams, Mackey (Camden) | 72 | 75 | 147 | ||
| Taylor, Bob (Greenville) - Townsend, Bill (Aiken) | 72 | 75 | 147 | ||
| Grice, Bucky (Columbia) - Jordan, Lee (Columbia) | 71 | 77 | 148 | ||
| Second Flight | |||||
| 1st | Hannon, Vic (Camden) - Stringer, Bob (Blythewood) | 73 | 69 | 142 | $300.00 |
| 2nd | Dean, Danny (Hollywood) - Morris, Urquit (Charleston) | 75 | 68 | 143 | $200.00 |
| 3rd | Byrd, Jim (Elgin) - Huggins, Marvin (Columbia) | 73 | 71 | 144 | $150.00 |
| t-5th | Saine, Steve (Blythewood) - Turner, Richard (Columbia) | 75 | 70 | 145 | $80.00 |
| t-5th | Ford, Tommy (Mt. Pleasant) - Swanson, Charlie (Mt. Pleasant) | 74 | 71 | 145 | $80.00 |
| Burns, Bob (Charleston) - Kaushagen, Gary (Charleston) | 73 | 73 | 146 | ||
| LOM | Hanrath, Mark (Huger) - O'Keefe, Tucker (Mt. Pleasant) | 76 | 71 | 147 | $50.00 |
| Boswell, Bill (Greenville) - Dauber, Steve (Simpsonville) | 73 | 74 | 147 | ||
| Kinsey, Bob (Murrells Inlet) - Raimondo, Nelson (Myrtle Beach) | 76 | 72 | 148 | ||
| Cecil, David (Spartanburg) - Cowley, Bruce (Spartanburg) | 76 | 72 | 148 | ||
| Calkins, Mike (Columbia) - Callahan, Ron (Little Mountain) | 73 | 75 | 148 | ||
| Thompson, Rick (Bluffton) - Zachary, Bill (Bluffton) | 76 | 73 | 149 | ||
| Arrants, Ray (Bethune) - Bradham, Jimmy (Sumter) | 75 | 74 | 149 | ||
| Eisenman, Bill (Greenville) - Woodruff, Jerry (Greenville) | 76 | 73 | 149 | ||
| Godfrey, Dale (Spartanburg) - Hayes, Bill (Spartanburg) | 77 | 75 | 152 | ||
| Hines, Bill (Greenville) - Sullivan, Heyward (Greenville) | 80 | 72 | 152 | ||
| Harris, Robert (Okatie) - March, Dennis (Beaufort) | 75 | 78 | 153 | ||
| King, Doug (Columbia) - Stork, Billy (Columbia) | 77 | 77 | 154 | ||
| Lardi, Marco (Pawleys Island) - Rogers, Larry (Andrews) | 81 | 73 | 154 | ||
| Bishop, Calvin (Chesnee) - Camp, Ron (Spartanburg) | 79 | 77 | 156 | ||
| Cloud, Thomas ((Hilton Head Island) - Johnston, Clyde (Hilton Head Island) | 82 | 74 | 156 | ||
| Munger, Andy (Seneca) - Sheriff, Scoot (Seneca) | 85 | 80 | 165 | ||
| Filiatreau, Bill (Pawleys Island) - Filiatreau, Frank (Murrells Inlet) | 73 | 0 | 73 |