It was a winner-take-all opposition on the RE/MAX World Long Drive Championship closing night. The temperature changed into within the mid-50s and the wind turned into swirling at the Wolf Course of the Las Vegas Paiute Resort. The winner might get $250k, the opposite 7 gamers would get 0. Nada. Zip.
The Vegas 8 have been playing match play -- single elimination two-guy fits -- and maximum people predicted the winner to come from the Joe Miller / Jamie Sadlowski suit for the reason that they held 3 titles between them. Miller took out Sadlowski through 2 yards... And a pair of different matches have been decided through a unmarried backyard.
Although I predicted #1 seed Matt "The Hangman" Hanger to win, he become taken out by using Jeff "The Critter" Crittenden inside the first round. The Critter turned into a sentimental favourite for me -- not only due to the fact he become the oldest participant within the discipline (43 years antique) but due to the fact he's from Greensboro NC, an insignificant 30 minutes east of in which I stay.
And then, miracle of miracles, the Critter took out Miller inside the semis... Once more, via one yard. He made it to the finals against Jeff Flagg, a first-timer who was previously a Minor League Baseball participant with the New York Mets.
Art Sellinger, proprietor of the Long Drivers of America and a -time beyond champion, helped GC's Ryan Burr and teacher Michael Breed anchor the occasion, and he said he'd in no way seen an event with so many near finishes.
In the give up Flagg beat the Critter by way of a trifling 13 inches with a drive of simply underneath 366 yards into the wind. This turned into Crittenden's final run on the identify and he will will likely turn out to be being the massive story from this event, given that no one expected him to get out of the first round, let alone knock off Hanger and Miller.
But I don't think Flagg will mind. He'll be too busy spending all that quite cash. ;-)
This turned into the 20th 12 months that RE/MAX sponsored the occasion. They had an option to renew for subsequent yr but have seemingly decided no longer to. The new sponsor continues to be to be introduced however you need to think this event has grown massive sufficient to attract somebody's attention.
The photograph came from this golfing.Com article.
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