Michigan Golf Journal October 2021

Michigan Golf Journal Tournament Results Dan Ellis, Jimmy Dewling Repeat Winners in GAM Four-Ball Championship LANSING – Brighton’s Jimmy Dewling said the GAM Four-Ball Championship is circled on the calendar each year. “It gets us together to play golf,” said the Brighton High School golf coach and real-estate broker of teaming up with former MSU golf teammate Dan Ellis, now the associate head coach for the MSU men’s golf team. Dewling, 30, and Ellis, 31, a pair of overpowering long ball hitters, shot a winning 8-under 62 at Country Club of Lansing, winning GAM’s Four- Ball title for the third time overall and second consecutive year. A pair of junior golf standouts, Carter Housler of Lansing and PJ Maybank III of Cheboygan, teamed up to shoot 63 and finish second to Dewling and Elli. “We’ve played in a few things, did the USGA Four-Ball (earlier this season) and we get together in this,” Ellis said. “It’s fun to get the juice going and to play and see how lowwe can go.” MGJ By Greg Johnson Tournament Results Lorenzo Pinili, Lauren Timpf Win GAM Junior Invitational Titles EAST LANSING – Lorenzo Pinili of Rochester Hills and Brother Rice High School – and Lauren Timpf of Macomb and Lutheran North High School – finished the summer golf season as GAM Junior Invitational champions at Forest Akers West. Pinili, age 17, won on the first hole of a playoff with Jack Zubkus of Ada. They were tied after regulation play at 1-under 143 with Pinili shooting a closing 73 and Zubkus coming from behind with a 4-under 68. Pinili parred the first playoff hole, No. 18, while Zubkus hit a second shot from a fairway bunker into a pond and couldn’t save par. In the girls’ competition, Timpf, who soon after turned 15, rallied from behind with a closing 71 for 148 and slipped past Adie Maki of Canton, who shot a 74 for 149. Timpf said back-to-back birdies on holes No. 6 and 7 were critical to the win and she credited improved putting in the second round. “I found I was focusing too much on the line on the ball and just tried to focus on visualizing a line into the hole,” she said. “That really helped. My putting was a lot better.” MGJ