The trip notebook — how it all shook out.
Three rounds, eleven teams, one wire-to-wire winner. A read on every card in the field — the champs who never blinked, the chase that went down to the last group, and the worst-to-first 89 that stole the final day.
Tank and Jeff Johnson wired it from the first tee.
Wire-to-wire, never threatened. Tank's 80 and Jeff's 82 keyed the Shuksan 90 that blew the trip open, and a clean closing 99 at Lake Padden brought it home at 284 — six clear of the field.
Six shots up with one to play, they did the only thing a lead like that asks: play tidy and don't give it back. They didn't. The overall championship and the $350 top check are theirs.
And spare a thought for Terry Boyle and Mark Schoonover, drawn alongside on Sunday as the trip's emotional support animals — not in the Calcutta, just along for a front-row seat to the runaway. Bring the cart, hold the clipboard, applaud politely.
Clogston's heroics weren't quite enough.
Chris Clogston's individual 74 at Shuksan — low round of all 22 players — had dragged the team into the cash. But a closing 99 left them at 297, five short of third.
The best individual round of the trip, and no check to show for it. Fourth place, and a Monday that got away by a whisker.
Fisher and Haughian banked it early and hung on.
They opened with the goods — 95–96 to sit second through 36 — then rode that cushion through a wobbly closing 101 to finish third outright at 292.
A shaky Lake Padden card would have cost a lesser lead; theirs was big enough. Third place and $100, banked up front.
The Fagans held second from Saturday on.
Once Tank ran off, the brothers' race was for the silver — and they never let go of it. A steady 96 at Lake Padden capped a 290, two clear of third.
Second place and $250 for the most consistent card behind the champs — 98–96–96, no round worse than the last.
The Uhlars topped the non-cash pack.
Matt's individual 77 at Shuksan — second-lowest of the day behind only Clogston — had them as the last live chasers, and they finished it off in style.
A 97 at Lake Padden left them fifth at 299, first team outside the money and the clear best of the rest.
The race for the cash
5Shots short
2 · 3Cash spots
First was never close. Second and third went to the wire.
With the title settled by Sunday night, the live money was the $250 second prize and the $100 third. Three teams started Monday inside seven shots — Fisher/Haughian (191), Fagans (194), Trevor/Clogston (198). The Fagans surged with a 96 to grab second at 290; Fisher/Haughian backed up to a 101 but held third at 292; Trevor/Clogston (297) came up five short. The closest call of the trip, and it paid out to the teams that kept their Monday cards cleanest.
Bangasser and Rossi held their ground.
A clean opening 101 set the tone, but a middle-and-late 104–102 settled them into the pack — a tie for seventh at 307.
Never in the cash hunt after Shuksan, never far off it either. A solid, unspectacular trip.
Hayenga and Colleran never found the gear.
The team the numbers liked on paper all weekend just never made it pay — 102–104–102, ninth at 308.
The differential everyone projected stayed projected. A flat-line trip from a team built to climb.
Mahaffey and Kibbee finished the way they should've started.
After an opening 111, they reeled off 99 and 97 — the back two-thirds of a real team, with both Kibbee and Mahaffey carding 83s at Shuksan. The late surge lifted them into a tie for seventh at 307.
Imagine that Saturday. File it under "one day too late."
Berger and Mischke stole the final day.
From ninth and going nowhere, they torched Lake Padden for an 89 — the low round of the entire tournament by six shots. It rocketed them from ninth to sixth at 301 and turned a quiet trip into the closing headline.
The best card nobody saw coming. Two days in no-man's-land, then the round of the weekend when it no longer counted for cash — pure pride, fully earned.
Steel and Kelly salvaged the finish.
Sunday's 112 had been the collapse of the trip — Steel signing for an individual 100 — but they answered with a 95 at Lake Padden, second-lowest round of the day. Too late to climb out of tenth (309), but they walked off on a high card.
Stonich and Tarr saved their best for last.
Last all weekend, but they closed with a 99 — a dozen better than either of their first two rounds. It didn't move them off the bottom at 320, but the final card was easily their cleanest. KP money and pride, claimed.