June 9, 2016 Results
94 of us showed up the Mystic Oak(s) golf course Thursday to spend a wonderful time on what was forecasted to be a rather toasty day in early June. They call the course Mystic Oak, and I'm not really sure since there are a lot of oaks on the premises. Perhaps one of them is mystic, anyone know which one?
Actually, speaking of hot it never really got really hot during the day, but there certainly was a lot of toasting going on at this course early Monday morning. Unfortunately for the course they lost 40 golf carts that had been parked outside their out building that mysteriously caught fire that morning. Rumor has it that a squirrel had built a nest in one of the obscure corners of the building and of course may have gnawed his way through some wiring causing the fire. For whatever reason the results were certainly devastating to the course. Luckily they had enough carts, either through their surplus, or borrowing from nearby courses to accommodate us. What a mess. And that building looked like something out of the late 19th century too what with the log and cement structure.
Anyway, we did manage to get off on time and finish the round in anywhere between 4 and 5+ hours. The course was in ok shape, nothing spectacular yet nothing atrocious. Some observers said it was in some of the best shape it's ever been, altho I can't remember it ever being in sad shape. Maybe some can set me straight on that. The fairways were ok, if not as hard as adobe, and the greens were quite good actually. But, speaking of greens, this course has some of the absolute smallest greens I've ever seen, and believe me if you've ever played the course at the US Army Depot on the east side you know what small greens are. And there's nothing tricky about these greens. You could lay a level on these babies and I don't think the bubble would make more than half way out of the lines. They're certainly not like Wolf Hollow greens where you'd have to hang onto the level if you put it on the green surface.
Our threesome began on #10 and for the first two holes we were putting from the fringe which elicited some comments akin to the fact that we were just fringe players at best. We did improve but not by leaps and bounds. On our 4th hole, #13, the multi-dog leg up hill par 5 we managed to use our longest drive, a 60 yard monster, to some kind of advantage and by some miracle eked out a par because one of us somehow hit the shot of a lifetime that gave us another near-fringe putt that we miraculously turned into a par. Such was our fate for the day - a pure scramble on most holes.
Results: Playoff hole was #13 (that multi-dogleg uphill concoction that will haunt our threesome for eternity)
Flight "A"
In First managing a wonderful -11(61) was the Dave Page, Mark Bryant, Tom Braun, and George Keil team. I watched them play their last hole, or what appeared to be their last hole, #2, that rather dinky uphill par 3. Three of them fell way, way short of the green and it was up to George Keil to come through. He did - way to go George.
In Second at 62(-10) was the Dan Snowden foursome.
In Third was the Paul Rivard squad at -9(63).
The Ron Ruffin team and the Ron Smith team both shot 63(-9) but fell out of the big bucks thanks to the computer randomly picking the wrong SCP hole for them.
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Flight "B"
Four teams shot -8(64). In First was the Bob Edwards team.
In Second was the Bill Gust team.
In Third was the Brian Kennedy team.
The Kerry Rockwell team would've finished in the money but we'd have needed 6 more players for that to happen.
The Ed Boyer team, the Steve Dierker team, and the Bob Meinhardt team all had 65's(-7).
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Flight "C"
All teams in this flight shot 66, In First was the Steve Comfort team.
In Second was the Wayne Lamborn team.
In Third was the Doug Nolte team.
Just a small complaint against the lousy computer here; we had two, mind you two, eagles for the day but could that stupid computer pick either of those holes for the playoff hole - but No, it had to pick the second weirdest hole on the course, the one on which we had the world's shortest drive - that stupid #13.
Also tied with us at a smooth 66(-6) was the John Shatterly team.
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Flight "D"
InThe top three teams in this flight had a -5(67) for their efforts. In First was the John Dierker team.
In Second was the Paul Pals team.
In Third was the Ernie South team.
Two teams shot 69's(-3), the Ralph Buettner team and the Joe McDaniels team, while the Dee Ridenhour team shot 70 and the Larry Willman team a 71. Winning Worthy Effort of the Day (WEOD) award was the Paul Villhard team. This means all teams shot par or better - way to go guys. Are we good or what??
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Awards:
Closest to the pins for the day: #2 Ed de la Pena #5 John Balog #7 Lou Pessoni #14 Randy Pratt #16 Tom Wulf