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Dunn sank a 10-foot par putt on the third sudden-death playoff hole Saturday at the Bridges Open, outlasting runners-up Jeff Dunnum and Micheal Drugan, for his first Three Rivers Golf Association men’s championship flight win of the season.
Dunn, Dunnum and Drugan all shot 3-over 74 to force a playoff on a muggy afternoon at the Bridges Golf Club. Dunn’s par-par-par playoff finish sealed the win.
“I figured I was out of it,” said Dunn, a 2005 graduate of Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau High School. “I knew Mike (Drugan) shot a 32 on the front. I was just playing golf instead of pressing or anything and it worked out.”
Not bad for a guy playing with a 13-club set, pieced together with a borrowed driver and hybrid club, and missing a 9-iron.
“It was broken a few years ago and I lost the head to it,” Dunn said. “I’ve been playing 9-iron-less ever since. It’s probably about time to get some new clubs.”
Dunn picked up 18 points in the player of the year standings and $112 in prize money. Minutes after he was handed the check, Dunn turned around and spent his winnings on a new hybrid club from the pro shop.
His driver is still on loan from fellow competitor Keegan Drugan, who Dunn presumably returned the loaner hybrid to. With two TRGA events remaining before the TRGA-CVGA Challenge Cup and the TRGA Championship, Dunn still has time to win another tournament and replace the 9-iron.
“I hit the ball real well today,” Dunn said. “Then down the stretch I started making putts. It felt good playing well today, hopefully I can carry that over to a few more rounds.”
The women’s championship flight also needed extra golf to produce a winner.
Doris Killian of Fountain City and La Crosse’s Terry Thomas shot matching 83s to force the first sudden-death playoff of the afternoon.
With Thomas awaiting a tap-in par putt, Killian made a long birdie putt from just off the green on the first playoff hole for the win.
“We both played it well,” Killian said. “I was fortunate enough to get it in for a birdie. I had a long putt and it worked in my favor.”
