PIPESTEM — Princeton golfer Tyler Blankenship followed a round of 71 with a 73 on Sunday and captured the first renewal of the Pipestem Passholders Golf Championship at Pipestem Resort State Park.
He finished at even par for the two rounds on the 18-hole course, and at the top of a field of 22 participants. Jerry McKinney was in second place, two shots back at 146.
Danny Martin was the First Flight winner with two rounds of 80. Jim White of Athens topped the Second Flight with rounds of 86 and 75. The junior champion was J.J. McPherson of Princeton (83-83).
The event, for those holding season passes to the course, will now be held every fall.
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VSGA Mid-Amateur
NELLYSFORD, Va. — Nick Biesecker of Staunton drained a 42-yard par putt on the 18th hole Sunday to beat Keith Decker by one stroke and win the 32nd Virginia State Golf Association Mid-Amateur Championship.
Buck Brittain of Tazewell finished with 223, in a tie for ninth, recording rounds of 73, 74 and 76 in the three-day contest at Wintergreen’s Shamokin and Tuckahoe nines (6,924 yards, par 72).
Local Sports
October 12, 2008
Golf roundup: Blankenship captures Pipestem tournament
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