The 17th annual MB WINGFIELD CUP results

Can you stand the HEAT (stress) this FALL

Dan Work 2022 defending Champion vs Van Smith 2016 Champion

It is my observation that both players didn't handle the HEAT real well.  The match was extremely close throughout the entire 18 holes.  Smith carried his poor warm up session directly to the first tee.  After 9 holes the match is dead even.  Work comes out on the back 9 with a nice par to Smith's bogey to go one up.  #11 Work doubles to Smith's bogey and the match is back even. Both players are fighting all types of golf demons.  Smith saves par out of the greenside bunker on #13 as the match continues to see saw back and forth.  Work lets Smith off the hook on #14 as both players double bogey.  #15 Smith has no golf swing and almost drives OB left as Work drives past the lake in the woods right.  Smith tries a simple punch to safety, but hits a tree and luckily glances right in fairway.  Work chips out nicely in front of the green and chips up to 12 feet.  Smith from 80 yards to the hole finds the left fringe to a middle pin some 28 feet away.  Smith shocks himself to the core lucking in the 28 footer for par to Works bogey.  #16 Smith hits first and somehow finds the green 30 feet short of a back pin.  Work not to be outdone hits a quality shot right over Smith's ball leaving 15 feet.   This just can't happen as Smith sinks his 30 footer for birdie and Work two putts for par.  #17  Smith hits a fair drive down right center as Work drives in right woods.  Both players lay up for short iron shots in, but Smith is down right side in the rough leaving 80 yards to carry a greenside bunker to a front pin.  Work chips nicely to 15 feet.  Smith can't hit a frigging 80 yard shot on the green and catches the right greenside bunker.  Smith comes out of bunker to 9 feet and misses par putt as Work converts nice two putt par sending the match to #18 dead even again.  It's pretty ugly out there and I can't help wondering what my riding partner (Stewart) is thinking.  (THESE PLAYERS SUCK)   #18 Work drives in woods right and Smith's tee shot catches a limb down right side not even in play leaving over 200 yards to the green.  Smith smothers a layup down the left rough leaving 80 yards to clear another one of those bunkers.  His shot barely makes it over to the front fringe leaving 35 feet uphill to a middle pin.  Work chips nicely up to 15 feet pin high.  Smith remarkably putts up the hill to 1 foot for bogey.   Work is now in a situation where he can win the match from 15 feet with a made par.  Smith has the scorecard playoff hole covered with a par on #1.  Work makes a nice stroke, but the putt comes up 4 inches short dead in the hole.  It doesn't get any closer than this.  SMITH WINS the CUP ugly in a scorecard playoff.