By Brennan Stebbins (For OzarksSportsZone.com)
Eighteen holes weren’t enough to decide a winner at the 29th Annual Joplin Invitational golf tournament on Thursday.
Joplin’s Harry Satterlee (38-41) and Nevada’s Owen Swearingen (41-38) came to the clubhouse tied at 79, and, after all the other medals were handed out, headed back out to the 18th hole to settle things.
That wasn’t enough to break the tie, either, with each golfer needing just three strokes. But Swearingen – even after driving into the rough – made par on the next hole to take home individual honors right as the rain started on a cold, windy day at Twin Hills golf course.
Joplin still took home the team championship, beating the field by eight strokes.
“It was a rough day for them. It was a rough day for everyone with the cold and windy conditions,” Joplin coach Jack Pace said. “We overcame it and that was a good tournament win. Harry was the defending champion and got beat today in the playoff but that happens. It got worse as the day went on. When we teed off at 8:30 this morning it wasn’t bad, or not as bad as it was when we came in.”
Swearingen’s tee shot on the second playoff hole landed left of the fairway, but he followed up with a long shot onto the green. Satterlee, meanwhile, opened with a long drive down the middle of the fairway but his second shot sailed over the green and landed out of bounds. Swearingen needed just two putts to seal it.
“Harry never thinks he should be in that situation,” Pace said. “He’s just an exceptional golfer. He’s still mad about that 79 but a 79 in these conditions isn’t bad at all.”
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Joplin’s Wyatt Satterlee shot 41-39-80, Hobbs Campbell shot 44-41-85 and Ian Surbrugg shot 46-47-93 for a team score of 337.
“Harry’s brother Wyatt tripled his last hole and if he had just gotten a bogey he would have won with 78,” Pace said. “The woulda-coulda-shoulda’s of golf. All around I’m pretty happy with the win.”
The battle for second place in the team standings also required a tiebreaker, with Carthage and Carl Junction each shooting 345.
For Carthage, Britt Coy shot 40-40-80, Owen Derryberry shot 42-45-87, Ben Nicholas shot 43-45-88 and Max Templeman shot 44-46-90. Carl Junction was led by Jack Spencer’s 82 (42-40), while Zach Wrensch shot 42-45-87, Noah Williams shot 46-42-88 and Jacob Teeter shot 46-44-90.
And so it came down to the fifth man for each team to break the deadlock, and Carl Junction’s Tommy Walker shot 94 which was 12 strokes better than Carthage, giving the Bulldogs the trophy.
Webb City finished fourth at 348 and was led by Braxten Cahoon and Levi Lassiter, who each carded an 85. Logan-Rogersville was fifth at 365 with Tyler Davis leading with an 87. Seneca was sixth at 404 and was led by Eli Olson’s 98. A second Joplin team took seventh at 405, led by Ethan Satterlee’s 89. Lamar was eighth at 439 and led by Koen Littlejohn’s 98. Nevada didn’t field a full team.
Individual medalists
1 – Owen Swearingen, Nevada (79)
2 – Harry Satterlee, Joplin (79)
3 – Britt Coy, Carthage (80)
3 – Wyatt Satterlee, Joplin (80)
5 – Jack Spencer, Carl Junction (82)
6 – Hobbs Campbell, Joplin (85)
6 – Braxten Cahoon, Webb City (85)
6 – Levi Lassiter, Webb City (85)
9 – Zach Wrensch, Carl Junction (87)
9 – Owen Derryberry, Carthage (87)
9 – Tyler Davis, Logan-Rogersville (87)
9 – Keegan Dill, Webb City (87)
