Larry LaFrance and Dustin Hurst won their third gross score title in the last four years at the recent Redwood Empire Golf and Country Club’s 55th annual Southern Humboldt Masters member-guest tournament. The team of Art Barri and Tony Agliolo captured the net title.

A record 75 two-person teams competed in the event, which took place June 19 and 20. The Southern Humboldt Masters is Redwood Empire’s biggest annual men’s club event of the year. It ranks in the top three for the number of golfers competing in men’s tournaments in Humboldt County each year.

”We were very happy with the record turnout of 150 golfers playing in the Masters,” said REG&CC’s head pro Greg Senestraro. “The course was in excellent shape and the greens running fast and true due to the work of course superintendent Jeff Arneson and his crew.”

LaFrance and Hurst completed the two-day event with a gross score of 133, or 11 under par. They tied with two other teams at 133 - Jeff Myers and Marley Dellams, and Travis Brunner and Travis Gosselin. The team of Brunner and Gosselin showed up for a playoff but fell short to LaFrance and Hurst. Myers and Dellams were not able to make the playoff.

Barri and Agliolo finished with a net score of 115.7 or 28.3 strokes under par.

The tourney featured a two-person scramble on Saturday and a single best ball of the twosome on Sunday.

In the overall two-day gross score, Hec Wood and Lowell Wallace took fourth at nine-under 135, Joseph Feierabend and Tim Crowley Sr. finished fifth at 137, seven-under, and Ken Morgan and Al Penasa - last year’s champions - took sixth at six-under 138.

In the overall team net competition, Rick Olson and Ralph Egerer took second place at 119, 25-under. Steve Bransetter and Ralph Paulson finished in third at 120.7, 23.7 under par. Rob Sirrine and John Duncan were in fourth place at 121.4, 22.6 under par. Two teams tied for fifth at 121.7, or 22.3 under: Ken Caughey and Riley Childress, and the son-father team of Scott and Steve Wheeler.