Veteran duo claims two-ball championship

By Padraic Duffy, Journal staff | Monday, June 16, 2008

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RAPID CITY — Rapid City’s Mike Brummer and Brookings’ Pat Lockwood fired an 8-under-par 64 on Sunday for a two-day total of 19-under 125 to win the South Dakota Golf Association Two-Man Championship at the Golf Club at Red Rock.

The win was Brummer’s 13th SDGA title, tying Mark Amundson for the most all-time among South Dakota men, and it was Lockwood’s 10th SDGA title. Lockwood has won the two-man event seven times - five with Amundson and twice with Brummer.

Brummer and Lockwood won the event by five shots over Sioux Falls’ Ryan Jansa and Steve Reiter and the Brookings duo of Charlie Jacobson and Trent Peterson. Two Red Rock regulars, Jeff Salter and Jon Lesselyoung, finished in fourth place with a two-day score of 132. 

“You’d think that after you win a couple you’d relax a little,” Lockwood said. “But it’s kind of been the opposite for me. I was really nervous out there. Fortunately when I hit bad shots Mike responded, and I hit a few good iron shots, too. When you’ve got somebody on your team like Mike it really helps, knowing that he’s there to kind of clean up.”

Brummer and Lockwood made just one bogey over the two days of the event — best ball on Saturday and Chapman on Sunday.

“To shoot 19-under is just unfathomable to me,” Lockwood said. “I really thought that if we got to 10-under we’d have a chance. But we had pretty good conditions and the greens were rolling very nice and not having a lot of wind helped lower the scores. There were just a lot of really, really good players out here.”

Defending champions Brett Steen and Todd Hofland of Brookings finished the tournament with a two day total of 156.

The next SDGA event on the calendar is the Two-Woman event beginning Saturday at the Madison Country Club. Kati Scholten of Brookings and Chelsea Cadwell of Sioux Falls won the 2007 Championship at Hillsview GC in Pierre.