Local golfing pair Bryan Trottier and Ray Dowse have won this year’s men’s league golf championship at Old Drovers Run in Niverville. The final took place on Saturday, September 15.
More than 70 players participate in the league, which runs two nights a week from May through September. Each night sent 16 teams to the playoff bracket, and once eight of these teams had been eliminated a final took place to determine the overall winner.
Trottier and Dowse journeyed a long road to earn the clinching win with some difficult playoff matches again Rhett Schramm and Stacey Waldner, Michael Loeppky and Greg Petrick, and then Steve Gehrer and Joey Sawatzky in the third week of playoff competition.
The other three teams rounding out the final four were Brendan Baldwin and Collin Skoleksi, Brian Chornoboy and Kevin Stott, and Kurt Funk and Cory Funk.
In the nine-hole semifinal against Baldwin and Skoleksi, Trottier and Dowse came out victorious. The Funks defeated Chornoboy and Stott in the other semifinal.
The championship match consisted of a full 18 holes, with Trottier and Dowse defeating the Funks when they were seven up with six to play. Dowse says that he and Trottier were playing the best golf of the season, each playing bellowing their handicaps to take the win.
This is the second men’s league championship for the pair, as they also won the title two years ago.
“The league is a great way to get out and meet new people, and also have some outdoor fun in the summer,” says Dowse. “Looking forward to continued growth of the league next year.”
