July 17, 2014 Results
127 of us gathered at Jack Nicklaus' creation on the east side and shot ourselves either in the foot or a wonderful game of golf. I can attest to the former but that's a whole different story. This is about you guys and how much fun, or frustration, you had on a truly wonderful July day that was without the usual miserable humidity and stifling heat. Wouldn't it be great to have many more days like this when we can swing the clubs without wringing out our shirts in the process. The weather just never got in the way today and that was truly fortunate for us.
As usual this course was in great shape, although the fairways were cut a bit close to my liking and some of the greens were a bit pockmarked and a bit scuffed in spots. Still, everything was in good shape and it was just great fun to be out there.
One unavoidable thing occurred today and that was the pace of play which at times was a bit tedious especially when we found 4+ teams on the same hole causing some frustrations in the necessity to wait. But all in all, we finished in just over 5 hours which is pretty normal for this group. Unfortunately, all it takes is for one team to have trouble negotiating a hole and it slows up everyone behind. It's the nature of the game and the folks who play it and no amount of coaxing is going to accelerate matters. I'm sure everyone is playing as efficiently as they can.
Results:
127 Players
Playoff hole: #18(not the easiest on the card
Flight "A"
Tying for first at a very tidy -11 were the Frank Greening, John Prather, Bruce Schnelle and Max Saunders team, and the Paul Pals, Joe Mullins, Paul Rivard, and Dave Buesse team. Franks team won out on the playoff hole, or somewhere after that.
In Third was the Phil Helm, Bill Gust, Glenn Morgan and Ted Isringhaus team with a very respectable -10 (61).
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Flight "B"
The Randy Pratt, Russ Wall, Don Moschenross, and Harvey Ruth team came away with honors in this group with a fine -5 (65) while the Ron Muse, Dan Bronczyk, Tom Braun, and Pierre Sans Souci squad nosed out, via the SCP, the Bob Eddy, Joe Cernich, Frank Vien, and Dave Kunz team with 66's. Three other teams shot 66's but were eliminated by the SCP; the Charley Wilson team, the Doug Torrie team, and the Harry Trammel team.
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Flight "C"
Ten teams shot the same score; -4 (67) In First but coming out on top due to the SCP was the John O'Toole, Bob Meinhardt, Don Schmidt, and Mark Gordon team
In Second was the Rich Graeff, Jim Hawkes, Art Soble, and Bob Gay team
In Third was the John Dierker, Bert Schott, Jack Panula, and Tom Gill team.
Rounding out the amazing -4 group were the Joe Jarvis team, the George Blaney team, the Roger Henning team, the Livingston Sykes team, the Steve Comfort team, the Steve Wallach team and the Ron Smith team.
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Flight "D"
Three teams tied for the top spot in D flight at -3 (68) In First was Don Giarraffa, Dale Crittenden, Dan Emiston, and Ed Boyer squad according to the SCP
In Second the Joe McDaniels, Harold Howard, Ron Martens, and Alex Horvat team
In Third the Ron Ruffin, Larry Willman, Joe Pfeifer, and Dan Fergus team.
Also in D flight was the Bill Clark team (69), the Paul Kinser (70) team, the Lee Readus team (70), the Steve Dierker team (71 + a big kiss from their sisters) and the Lou Pessoni team at a miniscule +1 (72).
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Awards:
Closest to the pins for the day:
#2 Max Saunders
#3 Don Giarraffa
#6 Lou Pessoni
#13 Larry Riedisser
#17 Jack Eckhard
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