By By Marty Stamper / EMG sports assistant
April 26, 2004
Sometimes good is good enough.
An even-par 71 was good enough for Jack Combest and Aaron Davidson to win the rain-drenched Spring Four-Ball Tournament at Northwood Country Club Sunday afternoon.
It was the kind of day where dry towels and dry gloves were more helpful than big-head drivers and fancy putters.
Combest and Davidson entered the final round in a three-way tie at 4-under par with the teams of Sidney Bowers and Johnny Dement and Sammy Broadhead and Rodney Scarbrough.
The Bowers-Dement and Broadhead-Scarbrough teams struggled to 2-over par 73s Sunday to finish two strokes off the pace and into a six-way tie for fifth place.
Combest and Davidson had three birdies (Nos. 1, 4, and 17) and three bogeys (Nos. 6, 9, and 10) in their final round. They had a two-day total of 138, four strokes under par.
The teams of John Rea and Lee Rogers, Bobby Espy and Walter Williams, and Willie Frazier and Billy McWilliams all finished one stroke behind the winners at 139.
Broadhead and Scarbrough had three bogeys (Nos. 2, 6, and 10) and one birdie (No. 12) to drop out of contention.
Also in the six-way tie for fifth place at 140 were the teams of Chris Petrey-Greg Rhyne, Rex Gentry-Colton Tisdale, Jason Anders-Randy Warden, and Jimmy Carle-Chuck Gordon.
Gentry and Tisdale had three birdies Nos. 13, 16, and 17, but bogeyed No. 15 and had a double bogey on No. 7. Anders and Warden had three birdies on the back nine. Carle and Gordon had three birdies (Nos. 1, 15, and 16) to go with a pair of bogeys (Nos. 4 and 7).