Club champions compete in Brunswick County

In a closely contested 36-hole event, Bill Calhoun of Sandpiper Bay and Debbie Holsather of St. James Plantation won the seventh annual Tournament of Champions at The Members Club at St. James Plantation recently. Calhoun also won the Tournament of Champions in 2006.
The tournament was open to male and female club champions at Brunswick County golf courses. Players must have won without handicaps in either medal or match play.
Calhoun, who has won the championship at Sandpiper Bay five years in a row, shot 73-78 to win over Sam Siciliano of St. James by one stroke. Monte Beebe of Sea Trail came in third with a 155 total, and David Mambro of Brunswick Plantation and Mike Verhoosky of Lockwood Folly tied for fourth 156s.
In the women’s division, Holsather shot 85 in the first round and entered the second round in third place, two shots behind Mona Dye Boob, a three-time winner of the Tournament of Champions.
Holsather shot 41-40--81 in the final round to earn her first Tournament of Champions trophy.  Billie Elwanger of Farmstead/Meadowland and Jean Maxon of Ocean Ridge Plantation tied for second at 167.  Mona Dye Boob of Brierwood Golf Club finished fourth at 172, and Joan Mason of Sea Trail and Judy Nicoletti of Sandpiper Bay tied for fifth at 174.