by Brady Bingham
Brady Bingham is a sports writer for the Ogden Standard Examiner and a frequent contributor to Fairways.

Winter - February - 07
Lund Brereton Capture Frozen UGA Two Man Team

“I think we finished third last year, so it was great to return and play well.”

Former high school teammates at Bingham, Lund, 18, and Brereton, 19, said they compete together often in 2-man events and typically play well in these formats.

“We are pretty competitive with each other. I think that usually helps,” Lund said.

However, the twosome were a bit concerned after posting a bogey on their first hole Saturday – No.1 at The Ledges.

“It wasn’t a great start, and we were kind of slow getting things going,” said Lund.

“We just haven’t played a lot. We were pretty rusty,” Brereton added.

The duo was just 1-under-par through six holes before the rust officially cracked at the par 5 seventh hole. Lund smashed a 390-yard drive off the tee, followed with a 7-iron to approximately 10 feet and drained the putt for a round-changing eagle.

From there, the team posted another birdie to close the front nine at 4-under and went 6-under on the back nine to close at 10-under-par.

“We were good but not great,” admitted Brereton. “It really should have been better.”

It was good enough; however, to bring a two-shot lead into the following day’s four-ball round, played in much more challenging conditions.

“We’ve played a lot (in cold) like this. But never in anything this cold along with the wind,” Lund said.

“It got pretty crazy,” added Brereton. “It was at least a three-club wind out there.”

“It was really hard to hit anything close (to the pin) out there. (In that wind) you just didn’t know what the ball was going to do,” Lund said.

The difference, Lund and Brereton agreed, was the putter, especially that of Lund.

“I putted really good. I probably had five or six birdie putts today, although I never had a tap-in,” Lund said. “I just made a lot of tough putts.”

The end result was the only under-par round of the day and a four-stroke victory.

“Anyone able to shoot under par in those conditions certainly deserves to win,” Watts said.

The team of Dan Horner and Kirk Siddens, posting rounds of 64 and 73, took second place at139. In third place was the team of Richard Church and Afa Vasi, who had teamed together to win the 2-man championship for three consecutive years.

Congratulations also went out to Brett Wagner and Bret Liechty, who won the men’s first flight with rounds of 68 and 80 for a 148 total, and to second-flight champions Scott Hjelm and Kevin Hjelm, who shot 72-80 for a team total of 152.

In the senior division, the team of Richard Cropper and Dave Cropper tied for the championship-flight title with Lorin Sheffield and Fred Pehrson. The Croppers shot rounds of 65 and 77 for 142, while the team of Sheffield and Pehrson posted rounds of 66 and 76.

The senior division, the first-flight title went to Jack Stanfill and Ron Greenlee at 149 (69-80) and the second flight went to Frank Park and Harry Shinton at 146 (72-74).

Among the women, the team of Joyce Billings and Jodi White played marvelously, shooting rounds of 65 and 78, to capture the championship flight by eight strokes. Barbara Farmer and Pat Smith (75-83-158) earned a first-flight victory.