The Green Lea club championship came down to the par-5 17th between Andy Petersen and Phil Schmidt with both in position to eagle the hole. It was Schmidt who made his putt, a pin-high, 15-footer that moved from right to left while Petersen’s putt from above the hole missed.

Schmidt went 1-up in the nine-hole match play tournament and won the tournament on the next hole for his fourth club championship.

It capped a memorable week of golf for Schmidt, who participated in the Minnesota Golf Association state amateur tournament at Mendakota Country Club in Mendota Heights. Schmidt finished tied for 10th and earned an exemption for next year’s tournament. It was exactly what he set out to accomplish when he teed it up for the first round last Monday.

“Usually it ends up coming down to one hole,” Schmidt said. “Rarely do you see anyone run away with it, because we’re all capable of birdieing every hole we play.”

Early on it looked as though Petersen might have a chance to run away with the championship. Petersen went 1-up after the first hole while Schmidt was left to scramble to keep pace through the first three holes.

Schmidt’s tee shot on No. 11 went errant to the right behind a line of trees, but he was able to recover to halve the hole with Petersen. On No. 12 Schmidt’s tee shot went right but he again recovered to keep the deficit at one.

On No. 14 Schmidt broke through with a birdie to make the match all-square and the time for either player to gain an edge was dwindling.

Petersen got a chance to go 1-up on Schmidt on No. 16 when Schmidt made bogey, but a three putt from Petersen erased the opportunity.

“He doesn’t make very many bogeys out here,” Petersen said. “When he does you have to take advantage of it and I didn’t.”

All square and on the second to last hole Schmidt stuck his approach shot from 165 yards out to 15 feet and pin high. He made his putt and Petersen didn’t, that was the difference.

“Seventeen — that’s kind of a swing hole because you can make three there,” Petersen said. “We all know what he did in the amateur so to be able to hang in there with him— that’s good. To finish second to him, there’s no shame in that.”

Other flight winners included: Terry Peterson, first flight; Paul Linnes, second flight; Rod Tharaldson, third flight; Cal Johnson, fourth flight; Tim Kaasa, fifth flight; Dave Lundak, sixth flight; Chris Koenigs, seventh flight.

Val Nicholas won the women’s championship while Melissa Bakken won the first flight and Marlene Overgaard won the second flight.