By Matt Wiley
Although it may have initially gotten rained out, there was no shortage of sunshine during the Greater Wesley Chapel Chamber of Commerce (WCCC)’s inaugural golf tournament, which was rescheduled to kick off Memorial Day weekend.
Under clear skies, more than 80 players teed off in a scramble-style golf tournament on May 23 at the Lexington Oaks Golf Club off S.R. 54. After a light lunch, the players were off, including this writer.
Having not hit the links much in the previous few months, starting off on the hole designated for the “longest drive” challenge was, indeed, quite a challenge. However, Chris Salicco of American Consulting Engineers and Valerie Rudmin of Everlasting Beauty ended up walking away with the men’s and women’s longest drive trophies at the end of the day.
Mike Bua of Fifth Third Bank long putted his way to a post tourney put-off against teammate and American Consulting Engineering and Chamber president Jeff Novotny for the “best putting” title. There also was a “hole-in-one challenge” sponsored by Volkswagen of New Port Richey (which could have allowed the winner to drive off in a shiny new Beetle) and a “closest to the pin” challenge, which was awarded to Jim Willis of The Willis Agency.
The amount of money that was raised for the tournament still was being calculated at our press time, but half of the amount is to be donated to the Lions Club of Wesley Chapel, which provided more than 15 volunteers to help with the event.
By dusk, all the carts were in and the strokes were tallied. Congratulations to Team Central Bank’s Mike Carr, Steve Bozman, B.A. Arnot and John Morrell for their first place victory and Team Everlasting Beauty’s Valerie Rudmin (again), Roger Townsend, former Wharton High and USF golf star Shena Yang and Brian McDaniel for finishing second.
Special thanks to all of the sponsors who helped make the first of (hopefully) many tournaments possible, including American Consulting Engineers; Volkswagen of New Port Richey; Cornerstone Air, Heating & Plumbing; Outback Steakhouse; Centra Care; Danny Burgess For State House; Lions International; Everlasting Beauty; Wesley Chapel Self storage; The Sevelius Group of Wells Fargo Advisors; Grow Financial Federal Credit Union; Spinner Law Firm; Home Buyers Marketing II; Central Bank; Moonlight Cleaning; Dixon Golf Challenge; Newlon & Piersall; Local Wraps, Wesley Chapel Nissan,; Mike Moore for County Commissioner and Chapel Cigars!
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