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Just Like Last Year, Cannon-Ball Ends Following A 4-Hole Playoff

Just Like Last Year, Cannon-Ball Ends Following A 4-Hole Playoff
KEN MEYER (SHS ‘90) of Billings is a split second away from slapping this tee shot onto the No. 8 green during the second hole of what would end as a 4-hole playoff in Sunday’s Cannon-Ball finale. He nailed the shot and left it pin-high on the south side of the cup. — Leader Photo, mike
Just Like Last Year, Cannon-Ball Ends Following A 4-Hole Playoff
KEN MEYER (SHS ‘90) of Billings is a split second away from slapping this tee shot onto the No. 8 green during the second hole of what would end as a 4-hole playoff in Sunday’s Cannon-Ball finale. He nailed the shot and left it pin-high on the south side of the cup. — Leader Photo, mike
 

Scobey’s Fladager, Plentywood’s Anderson Are Champs

Just like last year’s tournament, which needed a quadruple overtime of extra holes on top of the 36 holes of regulation they had already played, the 29th annual Cannon-Ball Member-Guest Best-Ball Tournament needed the same four extra holes early Sunday evening to determine the winning team.

Played at the Scobey Golf Course July 20-21, the golfing duos of Scobey Golf Club member Robin Fladager and his guest, Dane Anderson of the Plentywood Golf Club, and Jason Wolfe of Scobey and his guest, Ken Meyer of Pryor Creek Golf Club in Billings, were knotted at 126 strokes each (66-60—126 for the former and 65-61—126 for the latter).

Both teams carded par 4s on the No. 7 hole, the first playoff link they covered stretching 344 yards. So over to the par-3, 160-yard No. 8 they went, about 25 motorized golf carts full of fans in tow taking in every shot. Both Anderson and Meyer hit pin-high tee shots about 10-12 feet away from the cup. On their putts for birdie Anderson went first and missed the hole by two inches. Meyer, who read Anderson’s putt, slid his potential game-winning putt right by the cup as well, missing by just an inch on the west side. Meyer than drained a 5-footer to keep the “overtime” in progress.

Action moved to the 315-yard, par-4 No. 9, where Fladager nearly ended the competi...

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