Oct 17,2017
We had a light turnout for this makeup round at Whitmoor, probably because a lot of the golfers had already high tailed it to warmer climes with the onset of the cooler weather. And, probably their better halves had told them that their passionate golf season was too %^*&($ing long and they'd better make some time after the scheduled last outing for some beach time, or whatever. Anyway, 70 of us guys that stay around the area for the colder months decided to play the makeup at Whitmoor and to have fun just one more time.
It certainly wasn't the warmest of tee offs, that's for sure. I personally was in cold shake mode for at least the first 3 or 4 holes and focusing on the ball took some time since I figured the vitrous humor in my eyes was probably in the slush stage and peering through the near crystalline solid was a bit disconcerting to say the least. At this time I probably could've used some anti-freeze of some sort even tho it's verboten on most courses. Not a real fan of the hard stuff but perhaps under those conditions even it might've been welcome.
This course was in tremendous shape. Perhaps they had a glimpse of my comments about the lousy holes at Far Oaks because these guys had made a special attempt to get the hole cuts just perfect, even to the point of painting the dirt above the cup to make it look like the cup itself - a wonderful job and the grounds keepers are to be lauded for their efforts.
The greens were great albeit a bit large and for some reason we don't remember all the undulations they presented. In many cases there were more contours on them than you'd encounter on a topo sheet of the Grand Canyon. This became frustrating at times and for sure upset our confidence when we'd miss by the smallest of margins, something I'd call a "No Cigar" putt. Believe me, we had plenty of those, as did the majority of the teams, no doubt.
The fairways were great also, not cut to within a micron of their lives and for sure fairly lush with minimal bare spots - unless I didn't look in the right areas.
Results: The scorecard playoff hole was #7, that uphill/downhill par 5 that's guarded pretty well by bunkers (what hole isn't?). Not a difficult hole but again it depends on the amount of "No Cigar" putting that you do.
Flight "A"
In First with overall low score for the day (-8/64) was somehow attained by the Joe Cernich, Steve Haase, and Mark Gordon threesome who evidently were not aware of the "No Cigar" hex levied by this course. One thing tho, they were the last group in so we might assume they had ample time to telepathically figure out what was needed to embarrass the rest of the field. Good shootin' Joe and company!!!
In Second was the Jerry White team fashioned a -6(66)
In Third was the Darryl Rue team with a -4(68)
In Fourth was the Dee Ridenhour squad with a -4(68)
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Flight "B"
Five teams finished with -3(69)
In First because of dumb luck and the good fortune of hitting it right on the playoff hole and carefully placing our "No Cigar" putts was the Doug Nolte, Randy Pratt, Ron Ruffin, and George Mosinski team
In Second was the Ron Muse team
In Third was the John Boyd team
In Fourth was the Tom Prinzi team.
The Lou Pessoni team also shot 69 but evidently wasn't as careful about their "No Cigar" putting.
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Flight "C"
Four teams tied at the -2(70)
In First was the Bob Hickey, Paul Kinser, Paul Pals, and Bob Braun team
In Second was the Kerry Rockwell team.
In Third was the Ted Schuessler team.
In Fourth was the Larry Willman team.
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Flight "D"
Two teams turned in -1(71) scores
In First was the Bob Foeller, Joe Pfeifer, Dave Buesse, and Larry Edwards team.
In Second was the Larry Riedisser team.
In Third was the Bert Schott team wikth a warm welcome from their sisters with a perfectly even par round (72)
In Fourth was the Paul Rivard team with a +1(73).
The Art Soble team finished with a +3(75) but no pink balls, since that supply was depleted last week by the Closest-to-the-pin winners.
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Awards:
Closest to the pins for the day: #2 Ron Muse #8 Ted Schuessler #12 Dan Snowden #14 Bob Foeller #17 Ron Muse (again??)
Thanks to all for a great season and once more a special thanks to Randy who somehow does it all.