August 6, 2015 Results
One hundred and one of us turned up at the Norman K. Probstein Golf Course in Forest Park on this overcast, darn near rainy day. Fortunately, the darn near missed us. It did get a bit muggy as promised but it certainly was an easy day to play compared to some recent outings. And by the way, anybody know who Norman K. Probstein was? The internet just keep referring me back to the golf course when I did a search on his name. Wikipedia says, "do you mean norman protein?" This guy has to be famous for something, why else name a golf course, let alone 27 holes, after a person?
And speaking of 27 holes, I've never been able to easily navigate around this layout. Luckily I stayed up an extra 3 hours last night studying the layout from an online scorecard in addition to referring to some excellent Google imagery to figure out where we were on which course. The way it's laid out just defies description. The only course I can recall that has as much confusion built into it is the infamous Pomme Creek which shall forever remain in our minds as one of the wilder Keystone Kops layouts. But, as far as we know, everyone finished today and we actually got through with all the post game three ring circusing about 1:30 or so, which is not bad.
The course was in its usual good shape. The fairways have always been very nice and the greens were not far behind. Considering the heavy play that this course gets, the grounds crew does an outstanding job keeping this course in the very good shape that we found it to be in today. One further note, I still get a kick out of #7 on Redbud. The hole is of moderate length and hitting up to the green from far below it is always tricky because the green is further back than you think. And the big surprise is when you get to the green - the thing is rectangular in shape!! Whoever thought this up is either diabolical or humorous. But it's still a green and you still have to putt on it. But the shape is definitely out of the norm.
Speaking of putting, it was the bane of our team's existence today. Fortunately we didn't rim out any of our missed putts because that would've made it even more frustrating because we just couldn't hit the bucket from almost any distance. We even asked the beer girl if she'd putt for us but she said she'd never played golf before; wonderful, she'd have done better than us I'm sure.
Results:
101 Players
Playoff hole: #7 (Dogwood)
Flight "A"
In First with the low score for the day (-13; 57) was the Stew Pagenstecher, Charlie Fischer, John Loscuito, and John Boyd team. I'm sure with Mr. Boyd bombing it from the tees this team was in good position on every hole. Very nice shooting guys.
Two teams shot a very nice -10 (60) for the day.
Next in Second was via the SCP hole determined that the Paul Rivard, Bob Meinhardt, Dave Page, and Mark Bryant team
In Third was the Tom Braun, Dennis Shannon, Wayne Warneke, and Bruce Schnelle team
In fourth at a tidy 61, was the John Prather, Harold Lindahl, and George Blaney team.
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Flight "B"
5 teams in this flight shot -8(62) for the day. In First via the SCP was the Livingston Sykes, Erle Craig, Darryl Rue, and Larry Riedisser team
In Second was the Ernie South, Pierre Sans Souci, Larry Amen, and Ron Muse squad
In Third was the Doug Torrie, Don Giarraffa, Jim Zweifel, and Tom Wulf team
In Fourth was the Ron Smith, Don Schmidt, Howard Freiner, and Jerry Mullen team.
The Bert Schott team also shot 62 but lost out because of the playoff hole. Following them at 63 was the Roger Nikrant team. Three teams finished at 64; the Ken Knarr team, the Lou Pessoni team, and the John Dierker team.
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Flight "C"
Three teams vied for first in this flight with identical 65(-5) scores. In First was the Dee Ridenhour, Bill Wegge, Art Soble, and Gene Erard team
In Second was the Bill Tapia, Paul Kinser, and Joe Mullins team
In Third was the Ed de la Pena, Lew Rosenbaum, Del Lohmann, and Phil Hess team.
In Fourth shooting a 66(-4) and falling to fourth place was the Lea Readus, John Balog, Tom Murphy, and Joe Pfeifer team
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Flight "D"
Three teams tied at 68(-2) at the top of this flight.
In First coming out on top via the SCP was the Bob Foeller, George Eickhoff, Dennis Terhaar, and Joe Cernich team.
In Second was the Ted Isringhaus, Jack Reiner, Frank Greening, and Lee Hanson group
In Third at the 68 score was the Max Saunders, Harvey Ruth, Dan Ottoline, and Steve Dierker team.
In Fourth shooting 69 was the Don Moschenross, Bob Pahmeier, Phil Helm, and Bob Thibodeaux team.
Also at 69, but out of the top 4, was the George Keil team.
And working the hardest for the day, but getting in some good practice, was the Bob Stephenson team, who, by the way, shot even par for the day and got big sister kisses at the finish line.
This is one of those rare outings where all teams shot at least even par. We don't see that very often, if ever.
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Awards:
Closest to the pins for the day: Dogwood #2 Warneke Dogwood #5 Sykes Dogwood #8 Knarr Redbud #3 Loscuito Redbud #6 Giarraffa