Celebrating the season's end

 Al Crist shows off his new underwear, the Team Spirit prize he and fellow members of Team Raffel received for being completely (or almost completely) in uniform every week.  A complete list of prize winners is below.

Champions:  Team Raffel

Runner-Up: Team Mack

Scramble Winners: Team Downing and Team Kraus

Low Gross Average: Tom Thieding

Flight Tournament Winners: Dave Rieves, Mike Brania, Matt Reinfeldt

Sy Brandt Award: Dave Rieves

Commissioner’s Choice Awards:

Big Baller: Jimmy Yednock (8 prize balls won)

Mr. Consistency: Matt Reinfeldt and Tom Thieding, tie

(6 stroke difference between rounds)

Mr. Mercurial: Mike Brania (18 stroke difference between rounds)

Most Improved: Team Rieves (7 strokes better)

Fore: Jeff Mautz (nearly hit the commissioner)

Lost and Found: Eric Durkee (lost a ball off the practice green)

Team Spirit: The Raffelites (such coordinated outfits)

Week 16 (August 26) results

Team Raffel won the season-ending championship match, defeating last year's champions Team Mack 5-1.  Jon Wellik birdied 3 and 8 for the Raffelites, and his match-leading 38 gross (32 net) edged Jimmy Yednock, while Al Crist defeated Tom Hidde by shooting a match-leading 30 net.

Raffel	G	H	N	+/-	Pts	Mack	G	H	N	+/-	Pts
Jon Wellik	38	6	32	7	1.0	Jimmy Yednock	44	5	39	-7	0.0
Jason Raffel	40	9	31	0	0.5	Tom Mack	41	10	31	0	0.5
Todd Robinson	49	14	35	0	0.5	Jeff Mautz	45	10	35	0	0.5
Al Crist	46	16	30	4	1.0	Tom Hidde	44	10	34	-4	0.0
				11	5.0					-11	1.0

In the scramble event, Team Kraus edged Team Rieves by one stroke.  The contest was on the line when Eric Durkee stood on the fringe of the 9th green, putter in hand.  Getting up and down would leave the two teams tied, and by the rules of the tiebreaker the scramble would be won by Team Rieves, because they beat Team Kraus head-to-head in Week 10.  Eric rolled it in for birdie, just as he had done on the previous hole.

Team Kraus	27
Team Rieves	28
Team Larson	31
Team Raymer	31
Team Hackers	32
Team Downing	36

Golfers in the scramble also competed for prize balls:

Longest drive on 1--Mark Woodruff

Closest to the pin on 2--Adam Hopkins

Longest putt on 4--Andrew Preboski

Closest chip on 5--Greg Cass

Week 16 (August 26) matchups

The league welcomes Todd Robinson back to action, just in time for the championship match.  Note that play begins at 4:40 this week.

Let's play the lower tees on 8.  Champions should be able to say they gritted it out.  In the scramble, if four guys can't land at least one ball on the green, they deserve to be eaten up by the bugs.  Also, remember that teams must use at least one tee shot from each player, and we revert to the former practice on putting: NO TWO-PUTT MAX.

Championship match (Raffel vs. Mack)
4:40 (please set out prize flags)
Jon Wellik	6	vs.	Jimmy Yednock	5
Jason Raffel	9	vs.	Tom Mack	10
4:50
Todd Robinson	14	vs.	Jeff Mautz	10
Al Crist	16	vs.	Tom Hidde	10
Scramble
5:00
The Hackers
5:10
Team Rieves
5:20
Team Kraus
5:30
Team Larson
5:40
Team Downing
5:50 (please bring in prize flags)
Team Raymer