Last year, after they shot a best-ball 64 in the Middle Atlantic Golf Association Father-Son, Tom and Charlie Winegardner (Old South) left Worthington Manor Golf Club confident they had wrapped up a title.
But later, when John and Jeffrey Long (Evergreen) arrived at the clubhouse with the same score, they were declared the winners, as the Winegardners, on their way back home to Lothian, were unable to compete in a playoff.
Thursday in the 70th Maryland Father-Son at Elkridge, the Winegardners stuck around long enough to compete in a playoff and won. Beating William and Billy Wingerd (Mount Pleasant) with a par on the second playoff hole, the Winegardners captured their third Maryland Father-Son in the last five years.
Six years ago, Billy Wingerd beat Tom Winegardner in the finals of the Maryland Amateur.
In the alternate-shot tournament, the Winegardners fired a 2-under 68, making five straight birdies from holes No. 6 through 10. But they undid a lot of their good work at No. 12 with a double bogey before making pars the rest of the way in.
Tom Winegardner, 49, is a former player on the Hooters Tour. Charlie, 20, a junior at Coastal Carolina, won the Bubby Rickets Memorial the previous week. Their home backs up to the first hole at Old South. They are also members at Congressional.
The Winegardners have a way to go to catch the tournament’s all-time duo, Richard and Justin Klein (Baltimore Country Club), who won seven Maryland Father-Son titles between 1990-2000.
