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Meet Bartlesville's ASMGA new champ, plus other area golf results

mike tupa, bartlesville examiner-enterprise
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Few families in Bartlesville golf history, especially at the Adams Course, have earned such high esteem as has the hammerin’ Hughes clan.

Three generations still manicure the Adams links with their precision shots.

Their cumulative achievements in local golf are voluminous. Since 1991 the Hughes crew has won the Bartlesville City Golf Championship six times — brothers Terry (1995) and Steve (2008) and Terry's son Nathan (2008, 2016, 2018, 2020).

Nathan also captured the state high school individual golf championship in 2009 and later distinguished himself in college competition. Terry, who also is a member of the Bartlesville Athletic Hall of Fame, coached Bartlesville school golf, as either a head coach or assistant in five different decades until he stepped away in the early 2020’s.

Since his boyhood days, Steve Hughes has sharpened his links skills at Adams Golf Course. Hughes recently captured the Adams Senior Men's Golf Association championship during his first year in the association.
Since his boyhood days, Steve Hughes has sharpened his links skills at Adams Golf Course. Hughes recently captured the Adams Senior Men's Golf Association championship during his first year in the association.

Terry has won the Adams Course club championship multiple times and Steve earned the same title in 2021 and 2022 — and this year reigned supreme in the Adams Senior Men's Golf Association championship tourney. And, the family has recorded several other area highlights as well.

It all began with Larry Hughes.

The family patriarch introduced the sport to Steve and Terry when they were still youngsters growing up in Bartlesville. Approximately 50 years later, Larry "gets out there a couple of times a week," Steve said. "We grew up playing golf with our dad."

Steve has distinguished himself in multiple ways — the championships already mentioned above, many other impressive wins and performances, and two holes-in-one.

But his personal highlights include "playing in the Oklahoma Golf Association tournament (advancing to the semifinals) and playing in the Senior Open qualifier in Wichita. I won low amateur and they gave me a medal," he said.

Steve analyzed his best assets as a linkster.

"I hit the ball pretty straight consistently and I have a pretty good short game," he said.

"He's always had a really smooth swing and has always been a good player," Terry said. "He always stays calm on the course. ... He's my older brother and you grow up wanting to beat him."

Although a college basketball standout at Bartlesville Wesleyan College (which Terry also later attended and competed), golf has been Steve's main sports love.

"I like the challenge of it," he said. "I like the individuality of it, being responsible for your own results. If the weather is nice, a golf course is rather a good place to be."

Steve also has passed on the family legacy to his sons Mike and Tim, the former of whom is a scratch golfer.

Following are the results of the recent senior men's championship tourney and other recent local golfing competitions.

Three stingy-shooting golfing standouts at Adams Golf Course included Bill Bridendolph, David Ray and Dave Harding.
Three stingy-shooting golfing standouts at Adams Golf Course included Bill Bridendolph, David Ray and Dave Harding.

Adams Senior Men’s Golf Association

Senior Club Championship: CLUB CHAMPION (gross) — Steve Hughes (145); CLUB CHAMPION (net) — Doug Schumacher (130); A FLIGHT (gross) — 1st-Hughes, 2nd-Wendell Price (149), 3rd-Ken Moore (150); A FLIGHT (net) — 1st-Schumacher, 2nd-David Flick (134), 3rd-Frank Jordan (137); B FLIGHT (gross) — 1st-Ed John (163), 2nd-Dennis Cubbage (166); 3rd-Mark Abbott (168); B FLIGHT (net) — 1st-Stan Bennett (133), 2nd-Gary Loosen (136), 3rd-Dennis Befort (138); C FLIGHT (gross) — 1st-Farrell Oldham (174), 2nd-Craig Sarver (176), 3rd-Bill Estes (178); C FLIGHT (net) — 1st-Don Noak (135), 1st-Nate Bonham (135), 3rd-Sid Roper (137); D FLIGHT (gross) — 1st-Steve Domann (184), 2nd-Don Angle (189), 3rd-Paul Vassar (190); D FLIGHT (net) — 1st-Alvin Yearout (129), 2nd-Jim Liehr (135), 2nd-Walt Ward (135); CLOSEST TO PIN — David Flick (No. 3), Everett Williams (No. 3), Nate Bonham (No. 6), Ken Taylor (No. 6), Stan Bennett (No. 12), Mark Abbott (No. 12), Dave Williams (No. 16), David Flick (No. 16).

88-year-old golfer Ben Lewis often shoots scores that match his age, or younger, at Adams Golf Course.
88-year-old golfer Ben Lewis often shoots scores that match his age, or younger, at Adams Golf Course.

Feature (2 Man Shamble): A FLIGHT — 1st-Wendell Price and Mike Glades (130), 2nd-Doug Schumacher and Ed Johns (135), 3-Mike Tyndall and Dave Williams (136); B FLIGHT — 1st-Derek Griffin and Alvin Yearout (131), 1st-Gary Reheis and Dennis Reck (131), 3rd-Jon Hargis and Gary Jenneman (133); C FLIGHT — 1st-Bob Wilson and David Griffin (129), 1st-Ruben Anguiano and Tom DeSalme (129), 3rd-Ron Williams and Everett Williams (132). D FLIGHT.— 1st-Dennis Befort and Butch Young (132), 1st-Mark Riner and Lee Stephens (132), 3rd-Marty Lowe and Lindsey Stubbs (133); 3rd-Steve Bell and Don Antle (133). CLOSEST TO PIN — Carse (No. 3, No. 6), Shumacher (No. 12), Glades (no. 16); LONGEST PUTT ON — Meyer (No. 14); STRAIGHTEST DRIVE (Liehr, No. 9).

Shoot age or better: Dennis Cubbage (83, 83), Ken Moore (80, 73) Ben Lewis (88, 87), Gary Reheis (79, 79).

Adams Women’s Golf Association

Feature (First 3, Last 3): A FLIGHT — Feature and Low Net (Kathy Brown, 26 and 69); Low Putts (Dana Jordan, 26). B FLIGHT — Feature (Jana Marion, 30); Low Net and Putts (Jodie Porter-Brown, 68 and 29). BIRDIES — Felicia Nelson (No. 2); HOLE OUTS — Cheryl Lindstrom (No. 3), Mary Baughman (No. 9).

Club Championship: CHAMPION (gross) — Kathy Brown (175); A FLIGHT — Peggy Rider (179, gross), Dana Jordan (153, net). CHAMPION (Net) — Tammy Burke (194); B FLIGHT — Jan Castelli (196, gross), Sue Meiler (147, net). C FLIGHT — Andria McCullough (215, gross), Phyllis McWilliams (150, net).

Hillcrest Country Club

FallBlast Member/Guest: OVERALL CHAMPION — Mark Headley and Ronald Headley (plus-11); OVERALL RUNNER-UP — Spencer King and Jeff Rude (plus-3); CHAMPIONSHIP FLIGHT — 1st-Dylan Rogers and Jeremy Hensley (plus-3), 2nd-Derek Willman and David Willman (plus-2), 3rd-Shawn Barker and Curt Johnson (plus-1); A FLIGHT — 1st-Jerome Longacre and Mike Hughes (minus-2), 2nd-Jared Hale and Jeremy Fairchild (minus-2), 3-Kelly Keith and Scott Keith (minus-2); B FLIGHT — 1st-Ross Lashley and Kyle Lashley (minus-6), 2nd-Baylor Melchiori and Troy Watson (minus-7), 3-Dustin Symes and Blair Adams (minus-8); C FLIGHT — 1st-Andrew Dodson and Rusty Gott (minus-11), 2-Matt Spence and Parker Conway (minus-11), 3-Jesse Schenck and Caleb Schenck (minus-12).

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