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Jake Slayer, Jack Vanderburg won the 53rd partnership by Buster
Frenship graduates Jake Slayer and Jack Vanderburg hold the Golfer PGA Tour Sean O’Hair and the major lubbock champion David Bolen several times by 1 stroke.
Jack Vanderburg and Jake Slayer went through periods of burnout after careers at high school decorated in Frenship, Vanderburg in Golf, Salyr in baseball.
Now, at 30 and 28 years old, they rekindle their love for competition.
Vanderburg and Salyrier won the 53rd partnership by Buster at Lubbock Country Club on Saturday August 2, holding the PGA Active Tour PGA Sean O’Hair and the double amateur champion in western Texas David Bolen.
It was their first big victory in tournament in partnerships. Last year, they were tied for the head with 11 holes to go to the Lakeridge Stampede and finished tied in the second row, three shots of Thumper Galy and Brady Shivers.
This time, their 48 to 4 under the final ball was good enough to do so.
“Beyond excitement,” said Vanderburg. “So much pleasure. We knew that we could do it. We played the Stampede well enough last year. We were in the final group and almost won and we did not let it slip, but the guys took it. So we knew that we were there. It is good to do it today so great.”
The winners pulled 19 under three days in the annual showcase event of the Lubbock Country Club, a better than O’Hair and Bolen, who closed with a 66. The margin was three strokes going to the last hole, where Bolen did Birdie and the winners did Bogey.
Vanderburg and Salyrier started the day to come by three and increased six after Vanderburg played the first four holes in 4 sous.
“Today was all Jack,” said Salyrier. “My God, his nine before was phenomenal, leaving by, Aigle, Birdie, Birdie. It has just launched our turn.”
“We were a couple under early,” said Bolen, “and they picked up on us early, so they played well.”
Both knew that winning the feeling often during their career in high school. Salyrier was the newcomer of the year of the 2-5A district as a first-year baseball player in Monterey, then transferred to Frenship and was a three-year-old to stop the tiger teams who made the playoffs. It was good enough to be offered an opportunity for a favorite meeting in Texas Tech.
“I was a baseball player growing up,” he said, “and I sort of put myself in the university just to keep the competition fire.”
Vanderburg went to four consecutive golf tournaments from the Uil State, his first -year student through the junior years with the Frenship team and, in his last year, qualifying as an individual. He played Tech, but for only two years, then finished the school. Vanderburg said the last tournament he had won was in his last year in Frenship, “but I haven’t played much since.”
“I am more eaten with that now than I was at the time, definitively,” he said.
More than at Frenship and Tech?
“Very good,” he said. “It’s much more fun for me now. I appreciate it. I don’t get angry. Whenever I play, it’s a good time, and I appreciate competition more than before. I don’t know what I can attribute this. It’s just something that I look forward to now.”
Salry shares the feeling.
“Playing in baseball every summer, you just have this pressure,” he said, “and that wears you a little, trying to meet expectations. I think we are going out here and we were having fun.
“I loved entering golf,” he said. “It just brings out a fire and competitiveness that I haven’t had for 10 years.”
The leaders started on hole n ° 10 and had an advance of five strokes after Vanderburg hit an iron at 3 to 20 feet and sorted out on Par-5 n ° 1. O’Hair reduced the three-time gap with consecutive birdies on holes 5 and 6.
Bolen deplored to miss a few short putts early over the nine seconds, adding that O’Hair “launched approximately three putts to come”.
“We have had opportunities and we did not capitalize,” said Bolen, “and they took care of business.”
