Suffolk golfers tied for 30th in tourney

Published 10:22 pm Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Suffolk golfers fell out of the top 25 teams in the final round Wednesday of the 30th Virginia State Golf Association’s Senior Four-Ball Championship at Bay Creek Resort & Club’s Jack Nicklaus Signature Course in Cape Charles.

The team of George Riefler and Billy Gilpin, both of Suffolk, finished the tournament tied for 30th place with a two-day score of 149, 21 strokes out of first place.

The team of Marshall Fleming of Suffolk and Stewart Fleming of Lexington had a 152 after two days of tournament play.

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Richmond-area golfers David Partridge and Tim Kelley posted a final-round score of seven-under-par 65 to roll to a wire-to-wire 11-stroke runaway victory.

Partridge-Kelley concluded the event at 16-under 128.

Area golfers Skip Zobel (Virginia Beach) and Bay Creek member Joseph Restein (Cape Charles) returned 6-under 66, the second-lowest round of the day, to close action in a three-way tie for third at 4-under 140.

But it was a day for Partridge and Kelley to shine. Their rounds of 63-65 were the two lowest at this year’s championship. Ranked 1-2 among last year’s VSGA points’ leaders, they triumphed in their second straight year partnering together.

At the 2011 championship, they were witness to history as northern Virginians Bob Morris and Pat Tallent set the event’s 36-hole scoring record at 126. This time around, they secured their own spot in the record books. Their 11-stroke triumph signals the event’s largest victory margin, eclipsing the previous best-ever mark of eight shots previously held by 1992 champions Bob Moyers and Jim Kite.