Local golfers pick up win at Trestle Creek

A local pair took first place at a Trestle Creek Golf Course golf tournament this weekend that was largely played by out of state teams.

Jeremy and Kat Tjensvold won first place with their gross scores at the Trestle Creek Golf Course’s two-person scramble tournament Saturday with a score of 71.

Trestle Creek’s Course Manager John Douglas said that most of the 10 teams that competed this weekend were from out of state and they didn’t have as big a turnout this year as they usually do for the event.

The second place winners for gross score of the day was a pair of brothers from Florida that only gave their last name, Stillwagons. They had an overall score of 72.

In the net score category, which Douglas said is calculated by averaging the pair’s handicaps and multiplying it by .993, a U.S. Golf Association standard, Jim Jones and Douglas won with a net score of 55.2. Kirk and Keri Willhite took second place, with a net score of 57.5.

Douglas said that teams came from Post Falls, Idaho and other close-by towns to compete but overall the turnout was not what he expected.

“We didn’t have a great turnout from the local people,” Douglas said. “There’s just so many things going on.”

The winners got a cash prize from the entry fees.

“It wasn’t that much since we didn’t have that many players,” Douglas said.

The tournament was in two-person shamble, 6-6-6 style. Each hole the pairs played off of their best drive and then finished out the hole separately. They then recorded their individual scores. Also, each pair had to play six holes off of black colored tees, six off of yellow colored tees and six off of white colored tees. They could pick which holes to play each but they had to play each color consecutively.

Randy Medlock, from Post Falls, said he won the tournament last year with his son Luke, and he came back this year because he really enjoyed the course.

“It’s a tough course to play,” Medlock said.

Medlock was suffering from shoulder problems but he played alongside John Medlock and Randy Davenport who were competing in the tournament.

This coming weekend, Trestle Creek Golf Course will have two tournaments.

On Friday evening, Dan Park and Dan Noonan, both coaches at St. Regis High School, will be hosting a night golfing tournament to benefit Trestle Creek Golf Course.

On Saturday morning at 9 a.m. there will also be a Trestle Creek Golf Course Fundraiser Tournament where teams of four will compete in an 18-hole shamble.

Trestle Creek Golf Course is a public course that is owned and operated by its members. Douglas said that all of the work that is done to on the course is done by volunteers.