Lone female qualifier and former runner-up Taylor Riedner earned seventh place in an effort she was proud of in light of the \u201cgreat field of players this year\u201d and the fact that it was only her \u201csecond time out (golfing) for the year,\u201d with the first having been last weekend\u2019s qualifying round.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fact that I got as far as I did, I can\u2019t be upset with that,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Other than Wagner, newcomers to the field included sixth-place finisher Jared Kuhn and fourth-place honoree Andrew Grizzell, who was eliminated by the barest of margins on a sudden-death tiebreaking chip-off against Nelson.<\/p>\n
A third generation? <\/p>\n
Kyle Nelson\u2019s son Riley Nelson came away with third place in the event for a second consecutive year after miscuing a shot when he, his father and Wagner contested a three-way chip-off on the penultimate hole.<\/p>\n
\u201cI struggled on the short game,\u201d Riley Nelson said. \u201cIt was a lot of fun. Lots of good golfers out here; some of them got eliminated early, and it took a little bit of pressure off.\u201d<\/p>\n
Prominent among the tournament\u2019s spectators was young Connor Nelson \u2014 son of Riley and grandson of Kyle \u2014 who amused himself with golf balls while riding along in his mother\u2019s cart and stepped forward to practice his own swing on a nearby hole after competition had concluded.<\/p>\n
Could this foreshadow the Nelsons\u2019 third generation in contention on the Elks Club greens?<\/p>\n
\u201cThis kid loves golf,\u201d Riley Nelson said. \u201cI think he\u2019ll probably join the juniors at some point, and as long as he plays good, he might be out here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Final results<\/p>\n
1. Michael Wagner; 2. Kyle Nelson; 3. Riley Nelson; 4. Andrew Grizzell; 5. Jerry Curtis; 6. Jared Kuhn; 7. Taylor Riedner; 8. Ben Mack; 9. Sean Dorigo; 10. Kevin Peterson.<\/p>\n
Wendt may be contacted at (208) 848-2268, or cwendt@lmtribune.com. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lone female qualifier and former runner-up Taylor Riedner earned seventh place in an effort she was proud of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-781607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}