Two holes won the Louisiana Golf Association's Senior Amateur Championship for Lafayette's John Davis Saturday, and ironically he played those two holes in one over par.

But he wouldn't throw either one back, because he could easily have double-bogeyed both the 10th and 16th holes at Oakbourne Country Club.

Instead, he survived a couple of near-disasters and claimed the state's top senior crown by a slender one-stroke margin.

Davis, becoming the first player in LGA history to win both the Mid-Amateur (age 25 and over) and Senior Amateur (50 and over) titles in a career, posted a one-over 73 Saturday over the 6,800-yard par-72 Oakbourne layout.

That was good enough for a one-stroke margin over Lafayette's Dennis Smith, who had Saturday's low round, and a two-stroke bulge over second-round leader Eddie Lyons of Shreveport.

The rest of the story

Dan McDonald
dmcdonald@theadvertiser.com