Season-long Net Four-Ball Match Play tournament culminates with Final Weekend at The Home Course

The final weekend of the inaugural WA Golf Net Four-Ball Match Play tournament takes place this weekend, October 1-3, at The Home Course in DuPont, Wash. The event, which started earlier this spring, featured a Men’s and Women’s division with four regions of two-person teams competing in a Net Four-Ball match play format at 85% handicap allowance.

Players in each region were provided their matchups at the beginning of each round and were required to schedule and play their match on their own time at a course of their choice. Each winning team would report their match results and move down the bracket in a March Madness-like format.

After nearly six-months of competition, just two teams from each region remain. The two remaining teams in each region will square off on Friday at The Home Course in the Regional Finals. Winners from each match will then face off in the Semifinals on Saturday, with the Final matches to follow on Sunday.


NORTH SOUND WOMEN:

Janene Fogard + Kathleen Byers

Janene Fogard (left) and Kathleen Byers

Janene Fogard

  • Hometown: Lake Forest Park
  • How long have you played golf: 40 years
  • Club: Inglewood Golf Club
  • Relation to teammate: We are both members at Inglewood and play in the ladies division there. We met through the club and our husbands who often play golf together

Kathleen Byers

  • Hometown: Kenmore
  • How long have you played golf: 30 years
  • Club: Inglewood Golf Club
  • Relation to teammate: Long time friend and golf buddy

Chris May + Kathy Hopp

Chris May

Chris May

  • Hometown: Kent
  • How long have you played golf: 16 years
  • Club: Riverbend Ladies Golf Association (RLGA)
  • Relation to teammate: Golf buddies

Kathy Hopp

  • Hometown: Auburn
  • How long have you played golf: 20 years
  • Club: Riverbend Ladies Golf Association (RLGA)
  • Relation to teammate: Friend

SOUTH SOUND WOMEN:

Cathy Kay (left) and Karen Johnson

Cathy Kay + Karen Johnson

Cathy Kay

  • Hometown: Burien
  • How long have you played golf: 26 years
  • Club: Riverbend Ladies Golf Association (RLGA)
  • Relation to teammate: Friends

Karen Johnson

  • Hometown: Auburn
  • How long have you played golf: 23 years
  • Club: Riverbend Ladies Golf Association (RLGA)
  • Relation to teammate: Friends
Wanda Synnestvedt (left) and Janewill Peoples

Wanda Synnestvedt + Janewill Peoples

Wanda Synnestvedt

  • Hometown: Port Townsend
  • How long have you played golf: About 35 years
  • Club: Discovery Bay Women’s Club
  • Relation to teammate: We’re friends who play a lot of golf together

Janewill Peoples

  • Hometown: Port Townsend
  • How long have you played golf: 12 years
  • Club: Discovery Bay Women’s Club
  • Relation to teammate: Friend and mentor

EASTERN WOMEN:

Susie Luby (left) and Bobbi Jo Rathvon

Susie Luby + Bobbi Jo Rathvon

Susie Luby

  • Hometown: Spokane
  • How long have you played golf: 30 years on and off
  • Club: Esmeralda Ladies Club
  • Relation to teammate: Golfing buddy

Bobbi Jo Rathvon

  • Hometown: Spokane
  • How long have you played golf: I got my first set of irons in May 2005
  • Club: Indian Canyon and Esmeralda
  • Relation to teammate: We met through ladies league golf and became friends. We are both members at the same club
Susan Conard (left) and Valarie Hartfield

Susan Conard + Valarie Hartfield

Susan Conard

  • Hometown: Spokane Valley
  • How long have you played golf: 16 years
  • Club: LPGA Amateurs
  • Relation to teammate: Friend

Valarie Hartfield

  • Hometown: Spokane
  • How long have you played golf: 10 years
  • Club: Esmeralda Golf Course
  • Relation to teammate: Good friend and great golf buddy

CENTRAL WOMEN:

                             Julie Scassa

Julie Scassa + Samantha Gillett

Julie Scassa

  • Hometown: Sumner
  • How long have you played golf: 25 years
  • Club: The Home Course
  • Relation to teammate: Friend

Samantha Gillett

  • Hometown: Auburn
  • How long have you played golf: 15 years
  • Club: The Home Course
  • Relation to teammate: Friend
                             Sharon Bradley

Sharon Bradley + Sandra McBride

Sharon Bradley

  • Hometown: Mattawa
  • How long have you played golf: Started when I was about 12 years old
  • Club: Desert Aire Golf Course
  • Relation to teammate: A mutual friend helped put us together for a two person team tournament in 2019. We took first place and have remained friends and occasional playing partners since then

Sandra McBride

  • Hometown: Mesa
  • How long have you played golf: 22 years
  • Club: Sun Willows Golf Club
  • Relation to teammate: We meet through a mutual golfing buddy on a girls trip outing

NORTH SOUND MEN:

Hunter Williams (left) and Michael McCahill

Hunter Williams + Michael McCahill

Hunter Williams

  • Hometown: Seattle
  • How long have you played golf: 45 years
  • Club: West Seattle Golf Club
  • Relation to teammate: Neighborhood friend

Michael McCahill

  • Hometown: Seattle
  • How long have you played golf: 33 years
  • Club: West Seattle Golf Club
  • Relation to teammate: We were randomly paired in 2018 by West Seattle Golf Club the first year we both signed up for the club four-ball tournament. Turns out that while we had never met before, we’d both been living and raising our kids in the same neighborhood in Seattle for many years. Great friends now and successful golf partners for three years and counting!
Brent Taylor (left) and Lew Brunhaver

Brent Taylor + Lew Brunhaver

Brent Taylor

  • Hometown: Kirkland
  • How long have you played golf: 44 years
  • Club: Willows Run
  • Relation to teammate: Close friend and fellow board member at Willows

Lew Brunhaver

  • Hometown: Kirkland
  • How long have you played golf: 41 years
  • Club: Willows Run
  • Relation to teammate: Brent and I have known each other since 2009, competing in the Willows Run Men’s Club

SOUTH SOUND MEN:

Kameron Trout (left) and Ryan Mitchell

Kameron Trout + Ryan Mitchell

Kameron Trout

  • Hometown: Lake Tapps
  • How long have you played golf: 12 years
  • Club: Tapps Island
  • Relation to teammate: Ryan is a family friend I have been golfing with for the past 3 or 4 years

Ryan Mitchell

  • Hometown: Lynnwood
  • How long have you played golf: 20 years
  • Club: Inglewood Golf Club
  • Relation to teammate: Good friend
Danny Kim (left) and Matty Huynh

Danny Kim + Matty Huynh

Danny Kim

  • Hometown: Lacey
  • How long have you played golf: 16 years
  • Club: Golf Club at Hawks Prairie
  • Relation to teammate: Friend

Matty Huynh

  • Hometown: Lacey
  • How long have you played golf: 9 years
  • Club: Olympia Country Club
  • Relation to teammate: A good friend of mine from Lacey moved to Hawaii to attend pharmacy school where he met Danny. After Danny graduated pharmacy school, he somehow randomly got residency for a job here in Lacey. My said friend, set up sort of a blind date for us to meet on the Capitol City putting green and we’ve golfed together ever since

EASTERN MEN:

Alex Hutton (left) and Zach Rearrick

Alex Hutton + Zach Rearrick

Alex Hutton

  • Hometown: Spokane
  • How long have you played golf: 7 years
  • Club: NW Golf Guys Players Club
  • Relation to teammate: We became friends in college after competing against each other in intramural sports

Zach Rearrick

  • Hometown: Spokane
  • How long have you played golf: I have casually played golf since high-school. However, it wasn’t until this year that I started taking lessons and learn how to truly “play” golf.
  • Club: NW Golf Guys Players Club
  • Relation to teammate: We’ve known each other since college and played on many softball teams together. Recently we found ourselves in the same city and both taking golf lessons from the same instructor and decided golf would be a great way to hang out more

Bob Ames + Jim Petree

Bob Ames

  • Hometown: Troy, Idaho
  • How long have you played golf: 25 years
  • Club: Bryden Canyon Golf Course
  • Relation to teammate: Good friends and league playing partners

Jim Petree

  • Hometown: Asotin
  • How long have you played golf: 26 years
  • Club: Bryden Canyon Golf Course
  • Relation to teammate: Good friend and golf buddy

CENTRAL MEN:

                             Devon Reese

Devon Reese + Jordan Brown

Devon Reese

  • Hometown: Kennewick
  • How long have you played golf: 20+ years
  • Club: Meadow Springs Country Club
  • Relation to teammate: Good friend from my home course

Jordan Brown

  • Hometown: Richland
  • How long have you played golf: 33 years
  • Club: Meadow Springs Country Club
  • Relation to teammate: Members at the same country club and we play in the same summer golf league
Michael Talley (left) and John (Jack) Snyder

Michael Talley + John Snyder

Michael Talley

  • Hometown: Chelan
  • How long have you played golf: 30 years
  • Club: Lake Chelan Golf Club
  • Relation to teammate: Longtime friend

John (Jack) Snyder

  • Hometown: East Wenatchee
  • How long have you played golf: 40 years
  • Club: Wenatchee Golf & Country Club
  • Relation to teammate: Friend