The team without a celebrity — the Breakfast Optimist Club foursome of Tony Langston, Charlie Boykin, Lee Mooring and Vic Watkins — proved to be overall champion for the North Carolina Baseball Museum’s 24th annual Celebrity Golf Tournament on May 13 at Wedgewood.
The Breakfast Optimist quartet posted a score of 57 to clip runner-up Justin Murray State Farm’s foursome of Matt Figg, Charles Matthews, Jack Wagamon and Brock Godwin by a shot.
The defending champion Padres, who had won four of the last six Celebrity Golf captain’s choice superball tournaments, were third with Jerry Dellinger, Allen Boyette, Bill Boles and Joe Whittington.
Team Eddie Boykin, featuring Barton College men’s basketball head coach Joel Zimmerman playing with Dwayne Rye, Tom Pittman and Jim Barrow, won the second flight over runner-up Team Brent Walston featuring Raleigh sports media personality Joe Giglio and third-place Team Worrell led by former Hunt High and East Carolina star Bryson Worrell.
The Southern Bank tandem of Wesley Case, Bill Wright, Justin King and Garrett Stancil ruled the third flight ahead of Baker’s Pro Construction, featuring former Hunt head coach Russell Williamson, and Dick’s Hot Dog Stand that included former high school coaches and long-time buddies Wayne Doll, Ray Barger and Eddie Gwaltney.
Barger won the big cash prize as the closest ball to the hole in the ball drop raffle while Williamson, Charlie Boykin, Rashad Rahmaan and former All-ACC quarterback at UNC, Paul Miller, were the closest-to-the-pin winners.
The Celebrity Golf Tournament is one of two major annual fundraisers for the N.C. Baseball Museum, along with the annual Wilson Hot Stove banquet in November.