McDermott Clinches Audi Memorial Title at Lakeshore

In what became a head-to-head battle between two Tuscarora members, Tim McDermott snagged the 2025 SDGA Audi Memorial title at Lakeshore Yacht & Country Club on Thursday. 

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After each throwing up 71’s for Wednesday’s first round, McDermott and Thomas Fletcher entered the final round sharing the top of the leaderboard, four strokes clear of the nearest competitors, Randy Young (Bellevue Country Club) and Kenneth Ryan (Rogues Roost Golf & Country Club). 

Fletcher’s first 18 holes were consistent and cerebral, aside from one large mistake on the par-four 11th hole, where Fletcher carded a triple-bogey. With two birdies in the round previously on holes one and nine, the 11th hole took his score from two-under to one-over. Still, Fletcher fought back with two birdies across his final three holes to finish the round under-par. 

McDermott, on the other hand, converted three birdies (holes three, seven and eight) to one bogey (hole five) on his front nine. His score was brought back down to even-par after a double on the par-three 15th. But he was able to jar one more birdie two holes later to become just the second player in the field to card an under-par round across the 36-hole competition. 

Fletcher struggled to start the second round, with three bogeys across his first four holes. McDermott went birdie-par-birdie-par to remain at one-under and open a three-stroke advantage. Fletcher would gain a stroke back, however, on the par-five fifth with his first birdie of the day.

The now two-stroke deficit would remain that way until the eighth hole, where McDermott dropped a shot with a four on the 148-yard par-three to bring Fletcher to within a stroke. Though the ninth hole would end with a two-shot swing in favor of McDermott, who birdied the 345-yard par-four while Fletcher bogeyed. 

McDermott started the back-nine with three consecutive pars to remain at one-under, while Fletcher kept fighting back with a birdie on the 11th to get back down to one-over. Still maintaining a two-stroke lead headed into the 13th, McDermott bogeyed the 515-yard par-five while Fletcher jarred his second birdie in three holes to climb back into a share of the lead at even-par with five holes remaining. 

On 14 and 15, two holes Fletcher had parred in the first round, he would make back-to-back double bogeys. McDermott went par-bogey but quickly erased it with his first birdie on the back-nine on the 16th. That proved to be the hole that sealed the championship for McDermott, despite a birdie from Fletcher on the 16th.

With a three-stroke advantage going into the 35th and 36th holes, McDermott parred out to conclude a three-stroke win, finishing at even-par overall. 

Fletcher took home runner-up honors at three-over (71-76), while Young finished in third at nine-over (75-78). Steve Berdan (McConnellsville Country Club) placed fourth at ten-over (79-75) , while John Sierotnik (Tuscarora Golf Club) rounded out the top-five at 14-over (80-78).