CHAMPION: Laycock Wins 2016 Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic

SKIP
Steve
Laycock

Third
Kirk
Muyres

Second
Colton
Flasch

Lead
Dallan
Muyres

Steve Laycock (Saskatoon, SK) won 5-4 over Reid Carruthers (Winnipeg, MB) in the Final of the Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic, held October 7 - 10, 2016 at the Crestwood Curling Club in Edmonton, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Laycock won 7-4 over John Morris (Vernon, BC) in the semifinals of the 2016 Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; and won 8-5 over Jason Gunnlaugson (Winnipeg, MB) in the quarterfinals. of the 2016 Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada;

Laycock finished 3-0 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Laycock defeated Jamie King (Edmonton/Calgary, AB) 5-3, then won 6-5 against Bruce Korte (Saskatoon , SK) and 5-3 against Ted Appelman (Edmonton, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic Championship title, Laycock earned 60.047 world rankings points along with the $12,000CDN first prize cheque, remaining in 8th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 426.984 total points. Laycock ranks 11th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 102.972 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

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Edmonton, AB
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Harbin, CHN
2016: Steve Laycock
Steve Laycock, Kirk Muyres, Colton Flasch, Dallan Muyres
Saskatoon, SK
2015: Kevin Koe
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Calgary, AB
2014: Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe, Marc Kennedy, Brent Laing, Ben Hebert
Calgary, AB
2013: Kevin Martin
Kevin Martin, David Nedohin, Marc Kennedy, Ben Hebert
Edmonton, AB

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