April 21, 2016 Results
Who needs a weatherman to tell 100 of us when it's going to rain?? In spite of all the dire forecasts we didn't get any rain on us during this round and actually the weather turned out very, very nice for our second outing. Well, that's not entirely true. On our last hole, just as I teed off, I felt one drop of rain - thinking it might be a bird looked skyward ready to curse some oblivious feathered friend only to find none in sight and to make matters more interesting heard my teammates comment that they'd experienced one or two drops themselves. But, that was the extent of it and the day was most pleasant.
As usual this course was in very, very good shape. The fairways, though cut a bit on the short side, were excellent. Our only observation would have to be that they are way too wide for a cart path only scenario, given our penchant for hitting the ball as far from the cart path as possible. We cured this issue for our only octogenarian member by allowing him to hit from just off the cart path if he had an open shot towards the green. And this is a reminder to our members; if you have someone on your team who has issues walking a distance to the ball, horizontally or vertically, we do allow them to hit from the proximity of the cart path if they so wish. It saves you time and the person in particular some extra unnecessary effort.
The greens were very good, running quite true if not a bit on the rapid side. Ironically, yours truly played another course just yesterday and they had just sanded the greens which made for some very, very slow putts. Today was just the opposite, but at least the adjustment was far easier than trying to really smack the ball to get it to move the right distance.
Once again we got to play amongst the landed gentry of Illinois. Some of those houses are sights to behold, eh? And they're all brick! Whoever has the brick concession in this part of the country has got to be in seventh heaven, or at least in a new yacht. And none of these houses are your garden variety 3 bedroom shacks either. I think some could be rented out as small to medium size hotels.
Enough of the site seeing, here are the results you've all been waiting for; BTW the scorecard playoff hole (SCP) was #11, that over the hill, downhill to the left par 4 with the pin all the way to the back left.
Results: Scorecard playoff hole was #1.
Flight "A"
In First ,All alone in first with the low score of the day -11(61) was the Bob Eubank, Ron Muse, Tom Prinzi, and Kerry Rockwell team. Congrats on a very good round guys.
Two teams tied at -10(62).In Second was the Mark Gordon team.
In Third was the Harvey Ruth team.
In Fourth was the Ron Ruffin team at -8(64).
Also at -8, but out of the top four thanks to the SCP were the Bill Heidbreder and Larry Knopfel teams.
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Flight "B"
Four teams tied for first in this flight.
In First via the SCP was the Bert Schott team at a -7(65).
In Second was the John Boyd team.
In Third was the Bill Wegge team.
In Fourth was the Howard Freiner team.
Three teams, the Joe Goines team, the Pierre Sans Souci team and the Dan Snowden team came in at -6(66).
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Flight "C"
A whole flock of teams, namely 6, came in at -5(67) but the cream of the crop
In First was the Rich Graeff team.
In Second was the Bob Gay team.
In Third was the John Shetterly team.
>In Fourth was the Pete Grouzos team.
Also at 67, but out of the top 4 because of the SCP, were the Larry Edwards team and the Steve Wallach team.
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Flight "D"
The top two teams in this flight tied at -4(68) but winning out because of the SCP
In First was was the Dave Hitt team.
In Second was the Bob Pahmeier team.
In Third was the Jack Eckhard team stole a kiss from their sisters at even par.
In Fourth was the Roger Hennen team finished out the top 4 at +1(73).
Two teams put up a +2(74) score but losing out because of the SCP was the Dave Gillett team, which actually won the most noble effort of the day.
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Awards:
Closest to the pins for the day:
#2 Dan Pfleger #6 Harvey Ruth #8 Don Giarraffa #13 John Balog #16 Joe Cernich