By Drew Wilson

Dunphy wins Men’s Lobstick Open; match play opens Wednesday

Jun 9, 2015 | 9:36 PM

Shaun Dunphy has softened the blow from last year’s last-hole loss to Prince Albert’s Greg Swenson in the Lobstick match play championship flyte final.

The Saskatoon golfer fired an even-par-70 in Tuesday’s second round to win the 2015 Men’s Lobstick Open championship. His 36-hole total of 1-over-par-141 on the Waskesiu Golf Course was one shot better than pro and first-round leader Jerry Christiansen and Humboldt’s Mike Herperger. Dunphy said holding the trophy moments later was a thrill.

“It feels pretty awesome, I feels fantastic actually … there’s a lot of cool names on here.” 

Dunphy had to wait for the final foursome to finish their rounds before learning he was the winner, but remained calm.

“I saw on the scoreboard I was tied for the lead (after 15 holes). Jerry (Christiansen) was the one I was tied with and he is a really good player. I kind of figured he would at least birdie one of the last ones (holes), but he parred, apperently made a late bogey, I just hung in there.” 

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Dunphy said there was no turning point or defining moment in his final round.

“I just tried to play solid.” said Dunphy. “I didn’t really know where I was at (on the leaderboard), I just kept making pars. It went well for me today, I guess I got a few good breaks, it just fell in my favour.” 

Dunphy, who was second to Prince Albert’s Cliff Selander in Monday’s qualifying round, hopes the open victory is a good omen heading into Wednesday afternoon’s opening round of match play.

“It’s really good, last year in the match play final I hit not my best shot on 18 and that ended up costing me the match, so it’s pretty nice to come back and win this one here, so I’m excited for the week.”

Ashley Ziegeman of Prince Albert and Taylor Afseth of Saskatoon tied for foruth at 143, one shot ahead of Prince Albert’s Brett Henry and Doug Kozak of Regina.

Greg Swenson of Prince Albert, who came from two holes down with three to play to edge Dunphy in the 2014 final, is back to defend his title.

Kozak, Henry, five time and current Senior champion Colin Cobin of Delisle, Saskatoon’s Brad Phelps as well as former winners Warren Knam of Medicine Hat, Regina’s Andrew Zaba and Martin Ring of Prince Albert, who is also the 2014 Provincial men’s amateur champion, are also in the championship flyte.

Open Results

1   Shaun Dunphy       141

2   Jerry Christiansen  142 

T2  Mike Herperger     142

T4  Ashley Ziegeman  143

T4  Taylor Afseth        143

T6  Brett Henry           144

T6  Doug Kozak          144

T8  Brian Dueck          145

T8  Tyler Zaba            145

The first round matches in championship flyte match play are:

Cliff Selander vs Justin Magnuson

Brad Phelps vs Randy Emmons

Greg Swenson vs Ryan Timmerman

Mike Herperger vs Jason Galon

Kyle Wiebe vs Brandon Kuse

Shawn Streleau vs Dean Shaughnessey

Kelly Robson vs Mitch Rowley

Warren Gnam vs Rick Sofiak

Shaun Dunphy vs Jamie Harris

Doug Braaten vs Andrew Zaba

Brett Henry vs Jock Kriegler

Brad Meier vs Russel Robson

Doug Kozak vs Garry Hagen

Colin Cobin vs Anthony Renneberg

Taylor Afseth vs Landon Klassen

Tyler Zaba vs Martin Ring

dwilson@panow.com

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