Stirring Back Nine Comeback Gives Branhams C.C.C. Title
Published: August 11th, 2008
By: Patrick Newell

Stirring back nine comeback gives Branhams C.C.C. title

FLIGHT WINNERS – Above are the championship partners by flight from the 50th Annual Canasawacta Country Club Men’s Member-Guest Tournament. In the front from the left are Mark Matott and Richard Lathrop, International; Mike Branham and Bob Branham, Masters; and Bob Tenney along with Tom Driscoll, Bay Hill. In the middle row are Earl Halaquist and Sal Testani, Doral; Tom DiNoto and Tom Muserilli, Heritage; and Memorial flight winners Adam Collins and Lynn Nearing. Standing in the back from the left are Colonial winners Steve Jones and Jim Williams; Westchester champions Terry Hagenbuch and Ed Holmquist; and Kemper victors Kevin Rivenburgh and Gary Muserallo.

NORTH NORWICH – Anyone thinking the Branhams’ time as a Canasawacta Country Club men’s member-guest champion was a thing of the past was most definitely mistaken.

Nowhere near title contention two of the past three years, a brilliant back nine display allowed Bob Branham and son Michael to capture the 50th annual tourney’s top prize here Saturday afternoon edging second-place Tim Carson and Scott Seiler by a stroke.

“I think this kind of validates what we did here in 2004,” Bob Branham said after the victory.

It’s was Bob Branham’s 10th overall C.C.C. member-guest championship, and 10 was indeed the magic number. After the first nine holes on Saturday, Branham and Branham stood at five-under-par – just halfway toward the team’s pre-round goal. “We thought that we needed to get to 10-under-par, and that would give us a chance,” Bob said.

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