Local Sullivan County Golf leagues are nearing the end of regular season play and some have already set up their league playoff schedule. 

League play has the first winners of the 2022 campaign, with Chuck Husson IV and Chuck Husson III winning the Twin Village Monday Men’s League. Their 197.5 points were enough to best the second place team by half a point.

In the Tuesday Night Par league at the Swan Lake Golf & Country Club Tanous and Wilhelm lead the league with 110.0 wins while second place sees Fanning and Marciano with 102.5 wins.

In the Tuesday Men’s league at Tarry Brae another close race with Yaun & Gilmore in first (167.0), Green and Garcia in second with 165.0 and Bonsick & Cassevah in third place with 160.0 points. 

Another tight race in the Sullivan Travel league between Sullivan and DeVantier in first place with 188.0 wins followed by Thomas and Husson in second place with a 185.5 record. 

Makes the leagues much more competitive with the top teams battling it out for championships.

Golf Tip by Robert Menges

How to start your Downswing to become more consistent.

To start your downswing, you want to feel as though your hands stay at the top of the back swing and your front leg starts the downswing. Of course, this won’t happen but that’s the feeling you should have.

You should also experiment with a different part of your front leg to start your downswing. I recommend using your front knee or your front hip. So simply swing back as normal and then feel as though your hands do nothing because it should be your front knee or hip that pulls your downswing into action.

A good drill to get this feeling is to swing back as normal but pull your front foot in so it touches your back foot at the top of the back swing. And then to start your downswing simply move your front foot into its normal position and swing through.

This will help to teach you the correct chain of events for the downswing.

Twin Village

Monday Mens

1. Husson IV & Husson III 197.5

2. Kinne & Stabbert 197.0

3. Brock & Brock 195.0

4. Tallman & Ackerly 189.5

5. Rampe & Clancy 189.0

6. Reed & Odell 184.0

7. Thomas & Hendrickson 180.5

8. Ryder & Ryder 173.0

9. Green & Clark 172.0

10. Tucker & Smith 165.0

11. Gilmour & Gilmour 164.5

12. Townsend & Murphy 160.5

13. Murphy & Frey 160.0

14. Wood & Brosius 153.5

15. Templin & Lee 150.0

16. Harris & Spalding 129.0

Swan Lake

Tuesday Night Birdie Division

1. Bell & Freaney 147.0

2. Clifford & Hauser 140.5

3. Ditmar & Moylan 134.5

4. Hicks & Garber 126.0

5. VanKeuren & VanKeuren 123.0

6. Welsh & Duquette 120.0

7. Luczynski & Garigliano 118.0

8. Torrens & Lagatutta 116.5

9. Erlwein & Meyer 101.5

10. Williams & Divita 100.5

11. Huggler & Murphy 96.0

12. Keherley & Rhupert 95.5

13. Byrne & Byrne 94.5

14. Atkins & Festa 89.5

15. Merklin & Heisler 64.5

16. Merklin & Austin 61.0

Tuesday Night Par Division

1.Fanning & Marciano 127.0

2. Whipple & Whipple 123.0

3. Wheeler & Hamlin 121.5

4. Diehl & Bradley 120.5

4. Herzog & Clifford 120.5

6.Tanous & Wilhelm 116.0

7. Roth & Roth 114.5

7. Sazoff & Riente 114.5

9. Finn & Russell 106.5

10. Schadt & Mall 103.5

11. VanKeuren & Nieman 102.0

12. Frankie & Frankie 101.0

13. Rusin & Ellison 94.5

13. Gallo & Roth 94.5

15. O’Malley & Ellison 93.0

16. Donovan & Scheibe 91.0

Tarry Brae

Tuesday Mens

1. Green & Garcia 176.5

2. Yaun & Gilmore 175.5

3. Aymes & Sauchuck 173.5

4. Bonsick & Cassevah 166.5

5. Diffenderfer & Fleischman 166.0

6. Jester & Mullen 165.0

7. Collette & Iqbal 158.0

8. Martin & Poppo 157.0

9. Schneider & Garber 155.5

10. Kushetsky & Hinkley 155.0

11. Flores & Kukas 154.5

12. Pollock & Carey 143.5

13. Metakes & Winship 142.5

14. Simpson & Wolcott 138.0

15. Kawauchi & Altbach 137.0

16. Goldberg & Klugman 136.0

Tennanah Lake

Thursday Mens Palmer Division

1. T. Roseo & C. Tallman 184.0

2. Forsblum & Gabeline 163.0

3. Stock & Wolcott 152.5

4. Seibert & Bridges 152.0

5. Bowers & Green 151.5

6. Calkin & Schumacher 146.0

7. Parucki & Drown 144.0

8. McGreevy & Estabrook 138.5

9. Giordano & Nogin 138.0

10. Walsh & Simpson 137.5

11. Haas Tucker 126.0

12. Cassevah & Strauss 83.0