Last week’s Butler Eagle Amateur Open featured a rather interesting conclusion.

The overall champion — Geoff Patterson — did not have the lowest score. Yet he was credited with becoming only the second golfer — Sean Knapp being the other — to win the Eagle Amateur in consecutive years.

Patterson shot a 1-under-par 69, certainly an excellent score.

Women’s champion Paige Scott shot a 4-under-par 66, but was not awarded the overall tourney title because she played from the red tees, or the women’s tees.

While Scott — a member of Slippery Rock Golf Club, which hosted the event — often plays that course from the white tees, she chose to play the reds to compete with two-time defending women’s champion Casey Morrow. The latter also played from the red tees and shot a 69.

While Scott, an incoming senior at Butler Area High School and member of the girls golf team there, won the women’s crown, should she have been awarded the overall title?

It turned out that the Eagle Amateur has a rule that golfers must play from the white tees to be eligible for the overall championship. Scott said she will play from the whites at next year’s event in an attempt to become the first woman to win the overall title.

That’s all well and good.

But should she have to?

Women’s tees exist on a golf course in the first place to level the playing field in terms of score. Women generally don’t drive the ball as far as men — yes, there are exceptions — so they are accorded a few yards closer to the green.

A woman shooting a 66 from the red tees vs. a man shooting a 69 from the white tees — who should win?

I suppose arguments could be made either way.

Scott and Patterson both received championship trophies last Sunday.

Both deserved one.

Maybe, just maybe, Scott deserved two.

How bad are they?

The question must be asked. Where do the 2021 Pirates rank among the worst teams the franchise has ever put on the field?

I won’t compare them to the 1952 team that finished 42-112 because I never saw that team play.

The worst Pirate team I’ve seen was the 1985 contingent that finished 57-104.

This current team will have to go 17-29 the rest of the way to avoid losing 104 games. That doesn’t sound like such an ardent task. But it is.

Besides Bryan Reynolds, the Pirates do not have anyone who can remotely be considered a consistent hitter.

They do not have a starting pitcher in their rotation who can be counted on to stop a losing streak.

That’s why they’ve had so many of them.

This is a complete rebuild, a total tear-down. I get it.

But for longtime Pirate fans like myself, it’s still hard to watch.

John Enrietto is sports editor of the Butler Eagle