NAPLES, Fla. – Kevin Hammer and Meghan Stasi earn a second Summer Mixed Championship win in wire-to-wire fashion at Vineyards Country Club. Eric Chavez and Jo Ann Feindt erased a three-stroke deficit after round one to capture the Forward Division.
Championship Division
The team of Meghan Stasi, of Oakland Park, and Kevin Hammer, of Boynton Beach, played a strong first round to take the lead by one stroke. Stasi and Hammer carded ten birdies to post the tournament low round of 62 (-10). Following close behind was the team of Kim Egozi and Ryan Vega who lit up the back-nine with six birdies to finish with a 63 (-9). Kristin Bell and RJ Nakashian rounded out the top three, three strokes back, with a round one 65 (-7).
Stasi and Hammer, 2017 Summer Mixed champions, did not let the lead out of sight in round two. The duo posted three birdies on both the front-nine and back-nine to finish with a 66 (-6). An impressive 16-under 128 secured victory for Stasi and Hammer by two strokes. Bell and Nakashian moved up the leaderboard to secure second place after a second round of 65 and 130 (-14) total. Egozi and Vega took third place with a second round 69 and 132 (-12) finish. This marks Hammer's third Summer Mixed win after being crowned champion with his daughter, Alexa, in 2015 and 2016. Stasi and Hammer hoisted the Summer Mixed trophy for the second time in five years.
Forward Division
David and Kim Tassell, of Jupiter, posted one of two under-par rounds to take the lead on Saturday. The Tassell’s finished in first by two-strokes after a round one 69 (-3). The other under-par round of the day came from Jack and Peggy Sheehan. A first round of 71 (-1) secured second place for the Sheehan’s followed by three teams tied for third place. The team of Eric Chavez and Jo Ann Feindt, Jim and Jacqueline Shelly and Greg and Ronda Hendrix tied for third place at even par.
Round two saw a change at the top of the leaderboard as Chavez and Feindt posted a string of birdies. Turning at two-under, Chavez and Feindt finished with four birdies to capture the lead at six under-par 138. The Tassell’s finished with another round in red numbers, 71 (-1), to finish two-strokes back in second place. Colleen Dold and Lon Lugten tied the Hendrix’s for third place at two under-par 142. Chavez, of Saint Petersburg, and Feindt, of West Palm Beach, both captured their first FSGA championship win in Naples.
Championship Net
1. Kristin Bell / RJ Nakashian – 130 (-14)
2. Alan Temple / Susan Temple – 131 (-13)
3. Lee Booker / Mary Jane Hiestand – 131 (-13)
Forward Net
1. Edward Grendys / Jennifer Bevins - 131 (-13)
2. Diane Bertrand / Steve Bettenhausen – 135 (-9)
3. Liz Boudreaux / Robert Flanagan – 135 (-9)
