After four individual tournaments and
two months into the 2020 ASGA golf season, the singles standings for
the Grand Prix is headed by a familiar figure but a first time
leader. Gabriel Padilla is leading the point standings with a 316.7
total and averaging 79.2 points for each tournament that he has
entered. For those not aware of the Grand Prix point system this 79
represents something like a second or third place finish on the
average with a first place thrown in.
Padilla
has several players nipping at his heels and will have his work cut
out for him if he is to continue at the top. Lewis Lynds is only 7
points behind Padilla with 309.4 points and Bob Davis is only 5
points behind Lynds having 304.3 points. William Boyd has settled in
at fourth place at 302.1 and is within easy distance of Padilla. trailing him by only 14 points.
Gary
Otting holds down fifth place with 293.2 followed by Jerry Newton and
Larry Smith, both only two points back of Otting with 291.7. In the
eighth spot is Ralph Villela with 285.9 points just three points
better than John Hirsch at the ninth spot and 282.5 points. Frank
Mang rounds out the top ten with 279.3 points. Check out the complete
list of all players click here.
A
hundred and five teams are in the Grand Prix Team competition and
after six team tournaments two veteran ASGA members, Michael Cahoon
and Jerry Horton, are leading and for now running away from the rest
of the pack. Cahoon and Horton have piled up 402.9 points and are
comfortably ahead of their nearest competitors by more than 38
points. Chasing
the two leaders is a pair well acquainted with being in the running
for the Team Championship. Travis McWhorter and Don Visness are
perennial contenders for the team trophy and are again in the hunt
with 364.3 points. Keith Lewis and Andrew MacFarlane have racked up
358.8 points and are a solid third place team while two big hitters,
Dale French and Bobby Johnson, are close behind with 345.0 points.
Former winners, Bob Rankin and Cliff Rierson, are clinging to fifth
place holding a three point lead over Lee Lambert and Lewis Howell,
327.3 to 324.1.
David
Brader and Richard Spigarelli will have a say as to who will
eventfully be the winner as their strong games will keep them in the
top ten throughout the season. Right now they hold a 321.6 to 294.4 lead over eighth place
holders, Charles Kelley and Waymon McLamb. The teams of Alex Brown
and Carlos Ortiz (286.8) and Lee Jefferson and Sam Matthews (282.4)
round out the top ten. Click here to see the complete list of team and their points.
