Burnaby’s John Gallacher finished 11-over par over three days to place second overall in the B.C. Super-Senior Men’s golf championships last week at the Shuswap Lake Estates Golf Club.
The 65-year-old began the three-day tourney with a week-best 74, including four birdies in the division for 65 and over golfers.
Last year’s B.C. Senior champion, Gallacher would record only one more birdie over the next two days, posting scores of 76 and 75 to finish up at 225.
He trailed Super-senior champion and friend Gudmund Lindbjerg by 11 strokes.
Lindbjerg, of Port Moody, ended up tied for first place for the senior title, losing to Invermere’s Harry Ferguson in a one-hole playoff. Gallacher’s score put him tied for 11th among the 55-64 age group.
Gallacher and Lindbjerg teamed together to finish in a three-way tie for first in best-ball duo, ending up with 10-under 204.
In the B.C. senior championship, for those 55 to 64 years old, New Westminster’s Brian Graham, who like Gallacher golfs out of the Vancouver Golf Club, ended up tied for 41st overall after a three-round total of 235.
Each day saw Graham snare one birdie, but unable to hold back the bogeyman.
Paul Batchelor, also of New West, placed tied for 63rd with 239.
