Bohlman shoots 66 to win city golf title
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Brad Bohlman lines up a putt on the 4th green during the Men's City Golf Tournament final round at Riverside Golf Course in Janesville, Wis.
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Matt Behm flips his club in disappointment after missing a putt on the 5th green during the Men's City Golf Tournament final round at Riverside Golf Course in Janesville, Wis.
JANESVILLE — Brad Bohlman figured he’d have to bring his “A” game Sunday to win the Janesville Men’s City Golf Championship.
Turns out Bohlman brought his A-plus game instead.
Bohlman blistered Riverside Golf Course with a 6-under-par 66 to finish at 2 under with a 213 total for the 54-hole event.
The city title is Bohlman’s third overall and first since 2001. Matt Behm shot an impressive 68 in the final round but finished two shots behind Bohlman’s birdie machine.
Bohlman shot a 4-under 32 on the front nine and finished his round with eight birdies. He two-putted from 40 feet for par on No. 18 to wrap up the title.
“I got on a hot streak off of (Nos.) 1 and 2, and I thought then, ‘this might be a pretty good day,’ ” Bohlman said.
“The key to playing out here is the par 5s. You can reach them all in two and you have to make birdies on them.”
Bohlman was 3 under on the par 5s, and a three-putt for par at the par-5 14th cost him a fourth birdie.
With Bohlman, Behm and Ryan Coffey playing in the last group, Bohlman birdied the first two holes to take a 2-shot lead over Behm and a 5-shot lead over Coffey. Bohlman added birdies at four and six to move to 4 under after four holes.
“My driver was nowhere to be found the first two rounds,” Bohlman said. “I went to the driving range with Braddy (brother) right before my round today to try and make some corrections.
“I got through the ball better today (driving), and the driver came back.”
Behm made a late rush at his third city title but saw putts lip out for birdie and eagle on 15 and 17. He narrowly missed a hole-in-one on 15 but could not make the birdie putt, and at the par-4 17th, Behm drove the green but lipped out his eagle attempt.
Despite coming up two shots short, Behm was happy with the way he played.
“I really thought 68 would be enough to win this, but Brad got off to a hot start and kept it going,” Behm said.
“Today is a day that you just have to tip your hat to Brad because he got on a roll and didn’t make too many mistakes that gave me an opening.
“And missing that short birdie putt at 15 really hurt because that would’ve tied me with Brad and given me a lot of momentum for the last three holes.”
Bohlman made a 45-footer for birdie on No. 16 to push his lead back to two. Behm and Bohlman both made birdie at 17, and after Behm left his approach shot short on 18, Bohlman only needed to three-put to win the tournament.
“It was a fun three days,” Bohlman said. “I don’t think you ever go into a tournament expecting to win, but it’s always nice when you do.”
Mike Reid fired a final-round 78 to win the A Flight, while David Bitter captured the B Flight.
Steven Hiser and Dennis Raabe won C Flight and D Flight, respectively.
As it turned out, seven former champions played in the this year’s Men’s City Tournament. Steve Babcock, who won in 1976 and 1981, joined former champions Jeff Bruegger, Behm, Bohlman, Coffey, Brent Kern and Sam Van Galder in the field of 140.
Bailey records hole-in-one
Joel Bailey didn’t win the Men’s City Golf Championship, but he gained the distiction of nailing a hole-in-one during the tournament.
Bailey notched his ace using a 6-iron at the 185-yard second hole at Glen Erin on Saturday. Greg Galvan witnessed the shot.
Bailey finished in a four-way tie for eight place at 252 in the B Flight.
Men’s City
Championship
FINAL RESULTS
Final Round at Riverside (Par 72)
CHAMPIONSHIP FLIGHT
Brad Bohlman 73-74-66—213
Matt Behm 76-71-68—215
Jeff Bruegger 74-76-72—222
Ryan Coffey 76-73-76—225
Michael Kleitzien 77-78-71—226
Braddy Bohlman 77-76-76—229
Sean Halvorson 76-82-76—234
Sam Van Galder 81-80-73—234
Charlie Roherty 82-77-77—236
Bobby Kennedy 78-82-77—237
Blair Schmeiser 77-83-78—238
Matt Kersten 83-81-76—240
Aaron Coffey 83-82-76—241
Brent Kern 78-87-76—241
Andrew Tearman 77-88-77—242
Sam Larson 80-87-75—242
Jeff Farrell 80-86-77—243
Steve Babcock 82-84-77—243
Teegan Jacobson 80-78-86—244
Jerry Rabbach 82-80-82—244
Bill Kennedy 79-84-81—244
Doug Sheridan 79-88-78—245
King Clark 84-84-78—246
Rob Ackerman 81-86-80—247
Jake Downing 89-81-78—248
Mark Thomsen 86-87-74—249
Eric Birkholz 86-85-79—250
Jon Phillips 85-83-83—251
Justin Ferguson 85-88-86—259
Michael Spiegler 96-100-98—295
A FLIGHT
Mike Reid 82-84-78—244
Steve Caya 82-82-82—246
Matt Stried 81-85-80—246
Shannon Dooley 85-83-80—248
James Crawford 84-83-82—249
Pat Campbell 84-84-81—249
Al Herbst 85-84-77—246
Dan Brown 87-85-80—252
George Larson 88-81-84—253
Tom Collins 87-83-82—253
Curt Goodwick 88-84-82—254
Gary Merk 85-89-81—255
Dale Sopher 94-83-82—259
Rick Berry 94-88-79—261
Gary Neumueller 91-84-88—263
Dave DeGarmo 84-92-88—264
Dale Bladorn 94-92-78—264
Brent Corey 93-90-84—267
Gil DeCremer 90-91-89—270
Larry Schumacher 96-96-86—278
Craig Folk 107-90-87—284
Dan Milz 93-99-96—288
B FLIGHT
David Bitter 81-77-80—238
Mike Mead 81-82-77—240
Dave Herr 79-87-78—244
John Zimmerman 80-82-84—246
Tim Millis 82-85-81—248
Matt Kempfer 85-79-84—248
Mike Johnson 86-86-78—250
Joel Bailey 90-78-84—252
Jake Hassinger 83-81-88—252
Steve Thurner 88-86-78—252
Bill Wipperman 85-85-82—252
David Huibregtse 83-90-80—253
Greg Galvan 87-83-84—254
Chad Sullivan 87-81-88—256
Brian Dunk 89-86-82—257
Brian Rogula 92-84-81—257
Jeff DeGarmo 93-83-83—259
Brian Cherry 88-91-81—260
Randy Krueger 86-86-88—260
Robert Kennedy 90-91-81—262
Tom Noll 91-95-77—263
James Tullis 89-91-84—264
Steven Gelbach 96-83-86—265
John Husen 86-90-90—266
Ron Pumila 97-86-86—269
Bryan Holder 91-93-87—271
David Brown 94-92-91—277
Lance Miller 100-94-92—286
C FLIGHT
Steven Hiser 77-84-80—241
Greg Mullen 77-88-79—244
Dan Hermanson 81-85-82—248
Jeff Adams 80-87-85—252
Kevin Riley 88-82-82—252
Eric Scherdell 82-84-87—253
Gary Dulin 85-89-81—255
Larry Kotwitz 90-81-88—259
Cory Shea 87-86-86—259
Scott Shadel 92-88-79—259
Efren Blanca 95-83-82—260
Bill Hassinger 83-90-87—260
Jeff Sheldon 88-84-89—261
Todd Sitter 86-86-89—261
Bryan Thorson 90-88-89—267
Bryant Schaffer 89-92-86—267
Dean Hendrickson 93-90-85—268
Tim Ryan 91-86-93—270
Scot Hudson 93-89-88—270
Mike Tearman 91-92-88—271
Keith Trembula 90-90-94—274
Brian Garey 100-85-89—274
Mohammed Kahn 95-91-88—274
Tom Vogt 100-91-86—277
Shawn Gagg 99-98-84—281
Jerry Shere 97-96-96—289
Paul Burkholder 100-100-89—289
Jason Jenson 102-87-103—292
D FLIGHT
Dennis Raabe 83-87-83—253
Matt DeWitt 89-89-82—260
Steve Thurler 86-84-92—262
Carl Howard 92-80-94—266
Jim Hudson 91-87-90—268
Dave Langowski 90-90-90—270
Chad Salmon 93-95-83—271
Steve Weiss 89-95-91—275
Richard Moore 94-93-88—275
Daryl Rosenbaum 93-99—86—278
George Pritchett 90-104-84—278
Bob Hendrickson 97-98-84—279
Steve McNally 99-95-86—280
Craig Anderson 96-96-91—283
Stephen Monroe 89-102-92—283
Craig Anderson 96-96-91—283
Chris Campbell 99-97-88—284
Ken Creek 99-91-91—286
Mike Berg 93-100-93—286
Nate Punzel 102-93-91—286
Loren Mathison 93-94-101—288
Greg Tanko 101-99-96—296
Ronald Johnson 99-110-98—307
John Hutchinson 104-104-101—309
Joe Sprecher 109-107-99—315
Dale Wright 110-110-104—324
Bob Mussey 118-106-112—336
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