Coyote Run Challengers Crushed By Big Dog 2010 GGW Event No. 6

Coyote Run in Flossmoor is a familiar golf course to you Golfers Gone Wild. Coyote Run has a familiar layout, with 6478 yards of well manicured fairways and greens, long par 3s and significant water hazards on 11 of 18 holes. Coyote Run has familiar surroundings, a 3 hole three warm-up, grass practice facility and spacious putting green. Northwoods Restaurant at Coyote Run is a familiar 19th hole club house with some of the South Suburbs best golf course food and drink. And, in what has become an all too familiar result for the GGW, Coyote Run produced another Tour victory for Big Dog.

On the Saturday, May 15, Golfers Gone Wild held its 6th Tour event of the season. Almost everyone was selling Wolf Tickets at the first tee. Main target was Big Dog, winner of the last two events. Challenged with prop bets left and right, the GGW put on the pressure to perform. How did he respond? Lonnie started out with birdie on #1. He made the only other birdie on the day at the long par 5 #14 and crushed the challengers; finishing with a net 68.

Four strokes back was a rejuvenated Country Strong. Coyote Run is one of his many “home” courses. You play as much golf as Ron does and almost every course can be called home. But, Country Strong had very unfamiliar, vagabond-like start to the 2010 season, carding triple digit scores in 4 of 5 events. Country Strong may have returned to form with 89 raw score, in 2nd place just ahead of TaylorMade Kid.

TaylorMade Kid had a nice round but missed plenty of opportunities to make up the 0.7 stroke difference in handicap index. Even though Taylor had his second straight 3rd place finish, he continues to impress with outstanding iron play. It’s familiar for The Kid to come up short net score because of handicaps. What was most unusual was TaylorMade Kid and Country Strong had identical gross scores 44-45, so they shared winning the Nassau bet.

The familiarity of the course also benefited the rest of the field as no player shot worse than net 80. Silent Assassin (net 73) and Quick Draw (net 74) finished in the money. Along with Way Cool (75), that threesome finished the 18 holes in what has to be a record time (3 hours and 35 minutes).

Hawk (76), Cadillac Blue (77) and Medicine Man (77) fought a duel to the death. Unfortunately, the only thing they really killed was time; as that group needed 4 hours and 50 minutes to finish.

Cadillac Blue did manage to put together a string of pars on the back nine and won 2 skins on the day. TaylorMade Kid won 3 skins and Silent Assassin won 4 skins with a solo par on #10, a 440 yard par 4. But the big winner on the day was Big Dog. Besides the two birdies, he also made par on 516 yard #6. Big Dog won a total of 9 skins on the day to vault into contention for that season long honor as well.

No Matches were played on Saturday. Will we let the defending champion go the whole year without even having to fight to keep his title? We call it Match Play Competition for a reason. Let’s compete.

Next weekend, Golfers Gone Wild Tour heads to Sherwood Golf Course in Schererville, Indiana. Kappatain Styles is the reigning GGW Titleholder at Sherwood. TaylorMade Kid is the reigning Match Play Champion. Big Dog has reigned supreme winning the last three Tour Events in a row. Which GGW Challenger will rain on the parade for those three?