October 2, 2014 Results
"What is so rare as a day in "June" then if ever come perfect days". So says the poet. Well, this was a day in October and it was far from perfect. With a dire threat of rain for most of the day, some folks opted to not even venture to Aberdeen and instead called in their cancellation ahead of time. Of course this causes all kinds of havoc at registration and lights a real fire under the Commish's backside as he scrambles about and has to rearrange teams to make things as equitable as possible. Thanks to all for your patience as he accomplished the near impossible before we set forth for the day.
Well, as everyone in attendance knows, things did not go smoothly during the round. For a long time it appeared we would escape the rain and then even when we got a few drops it appeared that would only be momentary - WRONG! Those drops became a torrent in short order. We made a decision to exit the course as soon as we could amidst the deluge. Most teams followed suit, but some did not. Some stayed the course, literally, and finished 18 holes and evidently did quite well over the remaining 4-5 holes. This action prompted the need for a decision on the committees part as to how to "score" the scores. Right or wrong it was decided to score the first 13 holes each team played and give them pars on the remaining 5 holes regardless if they were among the brave souls who stayed out and played the full 18 and possibly even scored non-par values on the remaining 5.
The decision was not unanimously accepted, and we knew it would not be. We always attempt to be equitable to the greatest extent and I personally feel the non-compensated committee does one heckuva a job week after week to provide the populace with a fun time on the golf course. So please remain patient with us while we stumble through some of these unexpected things tossed our way. We may learn some things from this outing and perhaps come up with some internal operating changes that will be more acceptable to a larger number of our golfers. One thought that occurred to me after the results were tallied was that we could've put the 18-hole teams in a separate flight and ranked them 1,2,3 but again hindsight is only valuable as a discussion tool for beer crying.
Anyway, for what it's worth, here are the Modified UnStable(ford) results from yesterdays tilt at Aberdeen.
Results:
Players: 93
Playoff hole: #14
Flight "A"
Two teams vied for first at a tidy -8(64). In First was the Phil Helm, Jack Eckhard, John Boyd team.
In Second was the Ted Isringhaus, Randy Pratt, Livingston Sykes, and Dennis Terhaar team.
In Third with a 65 was the George Keil, Vince Koehr, Jerry White and Jack Panula team.
Also with 65's but knocked out by the playoff hole were the Joe Cernich and Jim Hawkes teams.
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Flight "B"
5 teams shot identical 66's(-6). In First was the George Blaney, Tom Braun and Ed de la Pena team.
In Second was the Art Soble, Larry Riedisser, Dan Snowden, and Bill Heidbreder team
In Third was Bob Thibodeaux, Jim Akers, Harvey Ruth team.
Also with 66's but losing in the SCP were the Lou Pessoni and Dan Fergus teams. The Harold Howard team had a 67 while the Joe Jarvis and Ernie South teams shot 68's.
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Flight "C"
All the teams in this flight shot 69's (-3) .
In First was the Bill Clark, Steve Wallach, Al Rosenberg, and Roger Nikrant team.
In Second was the Ron Smith, Jim Dwyer, Don Congleton, and Dale Crittenden team .
In Third was the Bob Stephenson, Larry Amen and Ron Ruffin team
Also with 69's but out of the SCP running were the Russ Wall team, the Ted Schuessler team and the Steve Dierker team.
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Flight "D"
Three teams finished at a -2(70).
In First was the Dean Brandon, Brian Cox, Steve Comfort, and Dave Buesse team .
In Second was the Larry Willman, Rick Willman, and Stewart Pagenstecher team.
In Third was the John Dierker, Bill Houston, Harold Lindahl, Bob Haddad team.
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Individual Awards:
Because not every team managed to play all the holes we eliminated the skins award, and none of the closest to the pin markers were collected so we eliminated that award also.