Author: Jim Frenette

Pendelton Golf Club, Ladysmith, Virginia — Bobby Brunner captures his second BGA major championship title by winning the 2009 Pendleton Invitational Sunday with a final round 73. Bobby’s three round total of 229 is just three strokes shy of the American Open scoring record of 226 held by Tom Clement, 2005 American Open.

Round One Summary
BGA stalwart Frank Mejia took the early lead with an opening round 78 in his battle with playing partner Bobby Brunner, 79. Eduardo Urruttia was in third with a 77. On the fourth hole, Steve Flynn‘s 137 yard approach found the bottom of the cup for an eagle two on the par 4!

Round Two Summary
On Moving day, Frank Mejia held onto the lead, 85/81 – 155 net, followed by Bobby Brunner, 77 – 156 gross/net, and Matt Clary in third place, 95/79 – 158 net.

Round Three Summary
Sunday, Bobby Brunner eagles the par 5 fifth hole from 30 yards off the green from out off the rough with a fine chip shot that broke a good 10 feet into the hole. His final round 35/37 73 is too much for Jim Frenette to overtake despite an eagle of his own on the par 5 15th coming by way of a 225 yard 3 wood into the wind that landed and stopped within 6 feet of the pin.

Gross

Net *

* Net scores were determined using the difference between the lowest handicap in the field (Brunner @ 11 = 0) vs. the rest.   ** Unfortunately, Eduardo Urrutia had to leave after two rounds and was thus disqualified.

Eagle Club – 2009 Pendleton Invitational Eagle club: Jim Frenette (15th hole, par 5), Steve Flynn (4th hole, par 4) and Bobby Brunner (5th hole, par 5)

June 2009 — Bobby Bunner captures his first BGA Championship title winning the 2009 SPAM in typical SPAM fashion by collecting 21 of his 38.66 skins on the back nine Sunday. A great up and down for par from the green side bunker on 18 secured the final 6 skins.

BGA veteran, Roger Waters finishes in second place with 37.66 skins and Eduardo Urrutia takes third with 30.66 skins.

Round One: Friday, the scattered showers held off at Bear Trap Dunes for a mostly sunny and hot late Friday afternoon. To kickoff the SPAM on the Black Bear and Grizzly nines, Eduardo takes the early lead winning 12 skins from Bobby, Mark and Jim. Roger Waters is in second place after earning 10 skins from Tom Jewell and Steve Flynn. Charlie Daimler is in third place after his first round with the 7 skins he won from Frank Northrop and Matt Clary.

Round Two: Saturday at the meticulously beautiful Baywood Greens, the round starts off sunny. Wind picks up on the back nine and clouds are accompanied by distant thunder. Play is halted after 16 holes due to a tornando sighting some 20 plus miles away. We all get 9 hole rain checks and split the remainng skins in each group. After two days Roger Waters is in the lead with 17.66 skins. He is followed by Eduardo at 16.66 skins and Steve Flynn with 15 skins to round out the leaders group for Sunday. Frank (14), Charlie (12.66) and Bobby (8.66) will be doing battle in the middle group. Mark (7.66), Jim (7.66) and Matt play each other in the first group on Sunday.

Round Three: Sunday at Heritage Shores Club, the fast greens, wind and water would come into play. Roger and Eduardo take most of the skins in the leaders group while Bobby dominates in the second group not missing a single fairway off the tee to jump ahead and win by a skin over Roger Waters on his home turf.

Final Results

*  blue tees

** skins are worth double on the holes 7 through 12 and skins are worth triple on holes 13 through 18. To view the traditional SPAM rules, click here.