2017 MHGP Invitational

This year’s Olympic Club Invitational was played on both May 19 and 20, but in terms of weather, the days were very different. The first day, Friday, was all sun and fun. The second day was all fun, with three holes of sun. A thick fog bank draped itself over the Lakeside property for most of the day, while leaving the rest of the Bay Area alone.

Despite Saturday morning’s sweater weather, the course conditions for the tournament were truly fantastic. Fast greens, firm fairways and playable but penal rough made the event a great test of golf. Passing that test with flying colors, Rich Tuohey and Robert Warren turned in the low Gross score of the tournament. After two days, they beat par by three strokes, turning in a scorching best-ball score of 139.

Teams were divided into four flights, each named for one of the four men’s major golf tournaments. The winner of the net competition in each flight would get to play in the finale, a sudden-death three-hole playoff played on holes 7, 9 and 18 of the Lake Course.

Tim Sachek and John Lipari advanced from the Masters flight with a net score of 136. Yasuhiro Iwata and Steve Nishihura won the U.S. Open flight by shooting a net 127, the low net score of the tournament. Paul O’Driscoll and Colm Conefrey fired a net 130 to win the British Open flight. Listed last here only because it’s final major of the year, the PGA Flight was won by Clark Gilson and Mike Huey with a net score of 135.