Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
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A turnout of 18 golfers participated in Sunday’s One-Person Scramble held at the Four Wind Golf Course, and Mitch Brown emerged the winner with his round of 53, using a 100% handicap system for all golfers. Dustin Bowron was runner-up with his round of 54 with Dave Lukassen 3rd with the same score of 54 and Doran Bush was 4th with 55. Those running the tournament would have like to have seen a larger turnout, but still felt it was a success and the weather was nice. --------------------------------- More tournament play on tap this Sunday as F...
Shawn Nagel, Kimball High's most illustrious wrestler of all time, who went onto wrestle for the University of Nebraska on scholarship, is still competing! The young man who now resides in Lincoln after graduating from UNL, has decided he still has a fire to compete on a National Level and has gone into Cross Fit Training, which is running, lifting, and biking. This past weekend he completed a Spartan Iron Man Race in Breckenridge, Colorado, and finished 16th out of 104, in one of the toughest...
The High School Fall Sports action opened up full force this past week with Kimball High competing in Girl’s Golf, Cross Country, and Football. You will find stories on all in this week’s Observer Sports. --------------------------------- I want to say congrats to Lila Moore for her career best round of golf at the Western Trails Conference and Bayard Golf Invite. The Kimball High senior shot 108 to finish seventh in WTC play and ninth in the Bayard Invite on a day where both events were held in conjunction. Congrats to Kimball as a team as...
Still a lot of golf being played in our area and it is going to get even busier now that the Kimball High girls opened up their season this past Tuesday and have a total of four tournaments in August alone. Today, Thursday, the Kimball High ladies are at Bayard and next Tuesday, August 29, they will host their own tournament. August 31, they go to the Creek Valley Tournament. Make note that on the 29th, the Four Winds course will be closed to open golf until 2:30 p.m. Coach Katie Culek has six girls on her golf team, at least at the time of thi...
The 26th annual Kimball Hospital Foundation Golf Classic was held this past Saturday at the Four Winds Golf Course and was termed "A Huge Success" by Kerry Ferguson, the man in charge. A total of 112 golfers, or 28 four person teams, enjoyed the nice day that dampened a free golfers at the tail end of the day when a brief rain storm swept through, but there were no complaints. This year's winning team was the team of Randy Bohac, Steve Linn, Bert Linn, and Gary Haack shooting a winning round of...
Congrats to organizer Kerry Ferguson and the Kimball Hospital Foundation for another very successful Golf Classic Tournament held this past Saturday at the Four Winds Golf Course. A great turnout with 28 four-person teams made up of 112 golfers. The weather was nice with a bit of rain right at the tail end of the day. See all of the results in another story in this week's sports. The Thursday night Men's Golf League has completed nine weeks of league play and now will begin their season ending...
Congrats to organizer Kerry Ferguson and the Kimball Hospital Foundation for another very successful Golf Classic Tournament held this past Saturday at the Four Winds Golf Course. A great turnout with 28 four-person teams made up of 112 golfers. The weather was nice with a bit of rain right at the tail end of the day. See all of the results in another story in this week’s sports. ------------------------------- The Thursday night Men’s Golf League has completed nine weeks of league play and now will begin their season ending tournament pla...
Some exciting local golf news this week. Let’s start with Dillon Wise and his Hole-in-One this past Saturday July 29. Dillon, at age 16, and heading into his junior year of High School, scored his first Hole-in-One, and did it on Hole number 15, which is a par four! I don’t recall anyone else ever doing this on a par four hole at least since the course has been expanded to the current 18 holes of play! Dillon was playing with Ethan Greenwood when he got his ace. He said “I looked all around the trees and the grass before I looked in the hole,...
A field of golfers turned out for the Ladies Panhandle Senior Golf Tournament Monday at the Four Winds Golf Course. The format of the day was a 4-person scramble and some of our local Kimball ladies fared well. Alene Schilz was a member of the winning team that shot a handicap score of 56.98. Jean Barrett and Judy Brighton were both on the second place team that shot 60.50. Dee Buddecke was on the 3rd place team that shot 60.70 and Shirley Crossman was on the 4th place team that had a 61.60 final tally. I might mention that there were some...
The Kimball Junior Golf Program has been busy attending Panhandle Junior Golf Tour events. At Torrington in the boy’s 10-12 grade division, Tristen Zitek emerged the winner with his round of 69 with Dillon Wise second with 71 as both shot under par with some great golf played. Tayten Zitek was also a winner in the grade 6-7 division with a 51 over nine holes. Payton Wise once again moved up to play with the high school age girls and finished third with her round of 96. On Monday of this week Kimball took several of their young golfers to the S...
The eighth annual Vince's Corner ABCD Double Draw Golf Scramble was termed a success once again by all involved in the event held this past weekend at the Four Winds Golf Course. This is not only one of the largest events held at the Four Winds each year, but it also a big attraction to bringing home many former Kimball residents, along with golfers from out of town, and out of state areas who want to be included in the golf and the fellowship. Henry Heeg, the Head Man, shut down the entries at...
Kimball's Jordan Greenwood has been winning golf honors for many years dating back to his elementary school days in the local Junior Golf Program, but the latest honor he received is one he had his heart set on according to his dad, Kenny. This week, the Kimball High grad was named the Star Herald's All Region Golfer of the Year! This is certainly an honor he earned as his accomplishments for not only this year, but for all four years of his Kimball High career can support. Along with all of...
Another big weekend of golf now in the books and the Vince’s Corner ABCD Two Day Blind Draw 4 Person Scramble had a great turnout and two days of good weather. It is a sight to behold when you drive out to the Four Winds Golf Course and see all the cars and campers sitting there with license plates from all over. What a boost of our golf course and to our community. Henry Heeg promotes a great tournament and Four Winds Pro Chad Wise makes sure it runs smoothly and Jeremy Williams has the course groomed to where it draws lot of favorable c...
The very popular Vince’s Corner Golf Tournament weekend has arrived and the Four Winds Golf Course will come alive with golfers this Saturday and Sunday with many former Kimball residents returning home to share in the fun and fellowship of this favorite golfing event. It is also the largest with 128 golfers already signed up at the time of this writing on Monday, according to the man in charge, Mr. Henry Heeg. You haven’t seen any writings about this tournament prior to this week because unlike other tournaments where we are trying to get peo...
It took a 4 hole, score card playoff, to determine the winner of this year’s TeamMates 4 person scramble held at the Four Winds Golf Course this past Saturday. The team of Chuck Christensen, Jeff Greenwood, Jordan Greenwood, Landon Smith won out over the team of Chad Wise, Dillon Wise, Payton Wise, Bill Wallace with both teams shooting 56! The third place team of Colton Daum, Jake Daum, Henry Heeg Jr., Anthony Osborne was just one stroke back with their round of 57, and the fourth place team of Zane Anthony, Izaac Reuter, Andrew McCloud, K...
The 2017 Father's Day golf Tournament attracted a Nebraska sports name known by all. The noted Husker football kicker Drew Brown, who will be doing the kicking for the Big Red in his final season this fall. Brown, along with his father, Hobert, shown above, joined up with local golf standout Gary Haack for a weekend of golf in Kimball. The Browns have local ties to Kimball as Hobert's wife, and Drew's mother, Terri, is the daughter of Sylvia James who still resides in Kimball, giving them a reas...
What does a Wise family do to celebrate Father's Day? If you are a member of the Chad Wise family, you spend it at the golf course, just like dad, Chad, does almost every day since he is the pro at the Four Winds golf Course. So, if you want to spend Father's Day with dad, you pack up and join him. Chad not only set up the two-day tournament and made sure it was ready to go for the organizers of this year's event, but he and his staff had to make sure everyone had carts and welcomed the golfers...
The team of Heeg, Heeg and Heeg emerged as the champions of the 2017 Father’s Day Golf Tournament held this past weekend at the fabulous Four Winds Golf Course. It was Vince Heeg, Jr., Henry Heeg Sr. and Henry Heeg, Jr., scoring rounds of 61-59=120 to take top honors from the field of 33 three-person teams that enjoyed the weekend of golf and fellowship despite a very strong wind on the first day. The Heeg team had to battle back and fight hard to secure the win as the team of Nate Dvorak, Steele and Maser shot the best score on Saturday w...
The 2017 Kimball High Boy's Golf Team had a record setting season, and you can expect more of the same for the next two years it would appear. The Longhorns had two tournaments cancelled due to bad weather, but swept through their season with eight wins, including capturing the championships of both the Western Trails and SPVA Conference Tournaments as well as the C-5 District and was just one place shy of going undefeated on the year, finishing runner-up at the State Tournament! Hard to ask...
A big weekend of golf is on tap at the Four Winds Golf Course as it’s time once again for the Three person Father’s Day Scramble. Golfers will be teeing off at 12 noon on Saturday and 9 a.m. on Sunday, so open golfers be sure and call the Pro Shop for open golf times. Golfers participating in the Father’s Day Tournament will also enjoy an evening meal at the Wind Break Restaurant on Saturday evening, and the Kimball Cheer Leaders and Dance Team will be serving lunch each day as well at a minimal cost. Cost to enter the tournament is $95 per p...
Ben Aarestad has been hired as the new Head Football Coach at Kimball High and this past week arrived to start implementing his plans for the program which includes open weight room nights. Coach Aarestad will also serve as Kimball High’s Physical Education teacher and has a Master’s degree in P.E. Coach Aarestad brings to the program an impressive background dating back to his playing days at Valley State University in Valley City, North Dakota, where he played from 1998 to 2001. He was a 3 time 1st team All Conference linebacker, and is the...
The Kimball High golf season is over, but the Kimball High golfers are still busy with their game, and will be all summer. This group is dedicated to the sport! At the Panhandle Junior Golf Tournament held at Gering this past week, Zane Anthony captured 1st place with his round of 75, which, by the way, included 5 birdies. Tristan Zitek of Pine Bluffs, who plays for Cheyenne East during the school year, but plays for Kimball during the summer tour, tied for 2nd with his 75. Andrew McCloud shot 78 for 6th, Dillon Wise shot 82, and Izaac Reuter...
The Kimball High Boy's Golf Team brought home their share of honors from this year's Nebraska State Class C Golf Tournament held at the Meadowlark Hills Golf Course in Kearney this past week. As a team, Kimball finished in second place with their two-day score of 648 to earn the runner-up trophy presented by the NSAA, trailing only the winning team from Lincoln Lutheran that shot 639. On this note, the Lincoln Lutheran team is made up of all five seniors, while Kimball will lose only one senior...
What a great showing by the Kimball Boy’s Golf Team at the State Tournament, and I was there to help them celebrate their runner-up performance! Day one wasn’t all that much fun, for players, or fans, as it way very windy and rather cool. but day two was nice and warm and a beautiful day to watch all of the Kimball players put on a show. Now we all know that all of the golfers are never satisfied with how they played, and what their final score was, but truly, under the conditions they had on the first day, and with how they battled hard to...
The Kimball High boy's golf team notched another win in their undefeated season in defending their District title of a year ago in District play at the Cross Creek Golf Links Course in Cambridge. The Longhorns had a winning round of 315 to finish 16 strokes better than runner-up Perkins County with 331, and a Southern Valley was 3rd with 339. The top three teams and top 10 individuals all qualify for this week's State Tournament being held at the Meadowlark Hills course in Kearney. Rounding out...