April 19, 2018
So, you thought just because it was April 19th when the average high temperature is 68 that today would've been a great absolutely wonderful day to play your first round with this august organization - wrong of course. Little did you realize that this is actually the 98th of January and it can be darn cold and miserable on this day - right? Live with it!
In spite of the lousy conditions, temperature wise, we had 115 brave souls come to swing away on tax day plus two. Congrats to all who showed up and to those who didn't, you were some kind of wise. Actually, the only things affected on this day were probably our normally long drives that were shrunken by the cold balls (the round dimpled ones guys), the wind, and the 9 layers of clothes that some of us squeezed into to give the impression that we were actually warm beneath our shaking exteriors. For sure the wind didn't help but personally it was just the slightest murmur compared to what we witnessed yesterday as some of this group attempted to play at Wolf Hollow - now there was a wind.
Anyway, again thanks to all who showed up, you are some kind of dedicated golfers and you can inform your better halves that in spite of your minor case of frost bite you had the times of your lives playing this game that you love. If there was one drawback to the day it was the tiny delay at the end of the day when unfortunately Randy had issues with his laptop when it refused to keep track of all the data he so diligently enters into it (score per hole per team). We are not sure what happened but the computer at times would belch a bit, lose some data, do some silent farting and lose some more data, until finally Randy and his accountants moved to a quieter environment only to realize that we had to re-enter a few entire scorecards not just once more but at least 3 times! The computer is one of those new fancy ones that lets you move the cursor via touching the screen and whether that affected the loss of data we're not sure. Perhaps Randy is losing his touch - let's hope not. I think suicide is preferable to the job he's doing.
Enough of the small talk, here are the results of the day; oh yah, the playoff hole (SCP) was #8, one of those dead downhill par 3s.
Results:
Flight "A"
Winner of this flight had a low score for the day (64!! -7).In First was the Jim Lammers, Ed de la Pena, Ken Knarr, and Ron Martens team. Quite an accomplishment considering these conditions.
In Second was the Jerry Mullen, Rick Bonnet, Kevin Walsh, and Rick Hastings team at 66.
In Third was the John Boyd, Wayne Lamborn, Calvin Britt, and Ralph Buettner team also at a 66.
In Fourth was the Tom Fichter, Steve Smith, and Paul Sawchuck team.
Also in A flight but out of the money were the John Prather team at 68, and the Jerry Kent team also with that score.
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Flight "B"
The first four teams shot identical 69's (-2)
In Firstwas the George Keil, Ward Klocke, Gary Turner, and Pete Grouzos team.
In Second was the John Dierker, Bruce Schnell, and Frank Vien team.
In Third was the Paul Rivard, John Strebeck, John Ross, and Darryl Rue team.
In Fourth was the Howard Freiner, Livingston Sykes, Ernie South and Tom Prinzi team.
Also in B flight but out of the money was the Steve Comfort team with a 69 because of the SCP. The following teams all shot 70(-1) and out of the money; The Mark Gordon Team, the Sonny Javier Team, the Bob Thibodeaux Team, the Bob Hickey Team, the Bob Pankey Team, and the Harold Lindahl Team.
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Flight "C"
As with the previous flight, the first four teams in this flight all shot the same score; 71 (even par you sister kissers).
In First was the Larry Riedisser, Dan Snowden, Don Moschenross, and Bob Checkley team.
In Second was the Bill Heidbreder, Dan Edmiston, Paul Villhard, and Dale Crittenden team.
In Third was the Ted Schuessler, Dan Fergus, Joe Cernich, and Randy Pratt team.
In Fourth was the George Eickhoff, Eric Erkkinen, Charley Wilson, and Roger Nikrant team.
Shooting 73's and out of the money were the Dave Gillett Team, the Bob Foeller Team, and the Dean Brandon Team.
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Flight "D"
Low score for this flight was 74(+3)
In First was the Del Lohmann, Bill Clark, Mike Deveraux, and Dennis Terhaar team.
Two teams shot 75(+4)
In Second was the Earl Phillips, Norbert Loebs, and Bill Wegge team
In Third was the Rich Graeff, Ron Muse, Jim Frost, and Bob Braun team.
In Fourth was the Dee Ridenhour, David Hall, Jim Zweifel, and Pick Williams team with a 76(+5).
Shooting a 78 and out of the big money for the day was the Larry Knopfel team.
With the EOD (effort of the day) award was the Max Saunders team with a score which will remain anonymous.
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Awards:
Closest to the pins for the day: #2 Livingston Sykes!!! Very nice shot Mr. Sykes #6 Ken Knarr #8 Ken Knarr #14 Dan Winter (welcome aboard Dan) #17 Ralph Buettner