November 2007 Tournament Results:

Gentlemen,

As always, we start off with a thank you to our sponsors. Your continued support of our association is very much appreciated.

As three of the four club championships matches were being played, the rest of us were enjoying a format called, uh, let me think, um, not sure it has a name. But our tournament director, Phil Josephson refers to it as “Six, Six and Six”.

Each competitor had to play six holes from the blue tees, six holes from the white tees and six holes from the forward (yellow) tees. (Except those low handicappers, who hit from the black, blue and white tees).

The players had to choose on each hole which tee box to play from, which made you think your way around the course trying to gain an advantage. Some interesting choices were made.

Of all the holes that were played from the Wom … er … I mean, Forward Tees, there were 41 double bogeys or higher. Only three members were able to play all six holes in bogey or less: Gino Delgado, Fernando Leite, and Tom Morrison.

Speaking of Old Tom Morris(on), if he had only parred the par-three 17th hole, he would have won the event, the first place prize money AND a two year exemption, but alas, he went on to take a 10 on the hole and fell out of contention. But in his defense, he did play it from the blue tees.

Now onto the results.
First Place, Low Net goes to Roger Huxman (70), who had to play six of his holes from the black tees. I don’t think I even know where the black tees are.
Second Place, Low Net went to Steve Conley (71) who credited his success to a good night’s sleep. (Editor’s note: Steve played his first tournament with us arriving, at the last minute, straight from a party and his second tourney straight off a red-eye flight.) Asked the reason for his change in routine Steve proclaimed, “My wife’s home this weekend.”Third Place, Low Net goes to Alan Goldberg (72) who has been practicing up in Connecticut all summer and beat out Hollis Batchelor by a matching of the scorecards. More on Hollis later on.

Closest-to-the-pin awards this month went to:
Hole 6: Jack Mesa, who calmly drained his putt for the bird.
Hole 12: Al Switzer, who didn’t even realize he had won because he was too busy losing his club championship match to Bill Cassidy. But it was nice to see Wanda again. She shows up whenever Al makes it into the championship matches to be his Seeing Eye dog. No disrespect with that ‘dog’ comment, Wanda. We love you. (Editor’s note: You know Prez, ya could have referred to her as his forecaddie).
Long Drive, Hole 14: goes to Bo “Boom Boom” Potter. You know, Randy is definitely the son of Harry! Like a Wizard, he craftfully chose to play the 14th hole from the forward tees. As a result, he (a) won long drive and (2) contributed to his Sterling Cup score (on a hole that has surprisingly tripped up our members).
And last, but not least, this month’s newly created yet highly coveted, “It’s a Simple Game, Really” award goes to Hollis Batchelor.
Hollis played this month’s format to a “tee”. Selecting to play the 10th hole from the forward tees, he went on to eagle the hole with two sweet shots which left him inches from the hole for his easy tap-in. Oh wait.... Now I remember.... Hollis hit a good drive form the girl’s tees, put his second shot in the fairway and then nailed his approach shot in the forehead, skulling it on a bee-line straight across the green when it miraculously clanked off the flagstick and dropped in the hole.

Oh well, an eagle’s an eagle, right Hollis?
That’s it for now.
See you all at the President’s Cup!
Bill Hayes
El Presidente Supremo Grande