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Club record broken at FrameTech August Classic

Saskatoon’s Scott Allan is the winner of the 2015 FrameTech August Classic after shooting a TS&M Woodlawn Golf Club record 63 in final round action at the tournament last Monday.

Saskatoon’s Scott Allan is the winner of the 2015 FrameTech August Classic after shooting a TS&M Woodlawn Golf Club record 63 in final round action at the tournament last Monday.

“The course conditions were perfect,” said Allan, who entered final round play after shooting a 75 and 71 in the first two rounds. “I had a couple strokes to make up. I made up three or four on the front nine and just kept it rolling. I had an eagle on 11. I think I was 6-under through 11 and thought ‘keep it going and see what can happen.’ At that point there were leader boards and everything out there, so just try and go as low as possible. That’s by far my lowest tournament round.”

With the 63, Allan broke Scott Blackstock’s record of 64 he shot at Woodlawn on August 4, 1986. He said the plan wasn’t even to stick around this weekend after working the 104th Saskatchewan Amateur Men’s Championship July 27 to 30 for Golf Saskatchewan, but watching the amateurs play the course and hearing all the good things about it from TS&M Woodlawn Golf Club general manager Kyle Mulligan and club members made him change his mind.

“This is the tournament record, coarse record since the flood, since the redesigns,” said Mulligan. “A 63, I did not believe that run was out there today the way we had the course set up. Scott proved me wrong. He shot a 63 and he had a bogey on his card. It could very well have been a 62 or 61. Unbelievable.”

Mulligan said the FrameTech August Classic is the flagship event for TS&M Woodlawn Golf Club members and attracted 121 golfers to the Aug. 1 to 3 tournament for the senior men’s, men’s and women’s championships. He said the Classic is the last real competitive tournament of the season for Woodlawn, but it did have a light-hearted aspect to it as well with the Price Property Management Horserace playing out on the back nine Sunday evening.

“The top 12 scorers (in the first round) we put out in an event we call the horserace,” he said. “All 12 guys play and the highest scores are eliminated all the way to the final hole. So on the first two holes you eliminate two players, then 3 onto hole 9 you eliminate one guy per hole through ways like chip offs and things to get to an eventual winner.”

This fun yet serious event for the hundreds of people who turned out for the horserace to cheer on their chosen golfer or horse bet on the Sunday night proved a major attraction. From the 10th hole to the 17th, screams of joy and cries of defeat could be heard as the 12-man field was whittled down to two for the all important 18th hole.

“For a lot of these guys, I think this is the best time of the year,” said Nolan Rohatyn, who won the horserace over Brett Blackstock for a second year in a row by hitting his drive into a hazard, taking a drop, hitting a fourth shot from 100 yards out and making a 10-footer for the victory. “It’s a lot of fun. Saskatchewan Amateurs was last week. It’s a super serious golf tournament. The classic is a little more fun. It’s still competitive, but I think even if you ask Brett and all the guys in the horserace, it’s what Brett and I play for.”

Rohatyn didn’t make the win easy for himself or the many betters cheering him on. He faced a chip off on 11, hit a tee shot in the bush at 12, and had a chip off on 14 and 16, before he needed Blackstock to go long on a putt on 18 to get the win.

“That’s how you have to win this thing,” he said. “It’s not going to be great golf. It’s just getting lucky, have some guy make a big score and hopefully you’re not the worst guy on the hole. That’s kind of the whole thing.”

In the other two divisions of the FrameTech August Classic, Dale Reed took the Championship Senior’s Flight and Meghan Betnar won the women’s tournament.