Week 14 Results & News

So much to talk about . . . please read to the end.

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It's getting pretty dark out for the late tee times. We finished in the dark last night and it was a pretty nice day out. There are two points to be made about this.

1. Let's try to speed up the pace of play. Get to your ball, be ready to hit, limit yourself to one practice swing, and hit.
2. Captains of the teams with 5:53 and 6:00 tee times over the last four weeks may want to look for alternate tee times.

For next Tuesday (Miller and McEvilly teams) there is one reserved tee time before the league ahead of us. I think it is at 4:00 p.m. The last foursome next Tuesday is Miller, Hoslet, Corcoran, and Delveaux. If you (or the other foursome of Hoerr, Meachen, McEvilly, and Stanford) can take that early tee time, please do so and let me know. Captains, please arrange with Glenway.

For subsequent Tuesdays, I have reserved 3:52 and 4:00 tee times for the 5:53/6:00 matchups. Captains, if your golfers can't make these times, let me know. Here are the matchups:

• 8/18: Nelson/Kraus
• 8/25: Nelson/Williams
• 9/1: Thoeny/Williams

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For the safety of league golfers, I may look into purchasing and assigning this book. I'm also looking into whether there are sequels entitled "How to retrieve thrown clubs" or "Why you don't take lessons in the middle of the season."

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Other administrivia:

• The Commissioner has lost his balls! Last night, while I was delivering the flagsticks and some prize balls on cart, I lost a partial box of the prize balls - probably between the 1st tee and green. If you happened to find it and have it, please let me know. Thanks.

• Two wrongs sometimes make a right - or a really wrong. Rich Hoebel may have been surprised this morning if he looked in the paper and saw that he shot a 39 (actual score 41). Dave (in the clubhouse) showed me the 39 and asked me who Rich was and I told him Hoebel, since I had seen him on the course. Turns out it was Rich Lampe whose scorecard showed 39. I refuse to apologize to Rich Lampe, though, since his scorecard should have read 40 - adding error!
• The flight tournament starts next week. I'll have a separate post about it later this week.
• Mark your calendars - The banquet is coming up, on Tuesday, September 8. The location is still TBD. If you have any requests let me know.
  

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Oh, yeah, Results and Standings are now posted. Travis Thoeny shot another 32 (yawn), Chris Weber shot his season low (35) and nearly swept the hole challenges (3 out of 4), and the Kraus team continues to increase their second-half lead, in their futile quest to end the Wolfe dynasty.

On the Sy Brandt Sportsmanship Award front, last week's #3 Dave Delveaux took it to slumping former leader Dave Wolfe, in a 1-point head-to-head victory, enabling last week's #2 to wrest away the top spot. Here is the updated top 10. (Chances are good it will be won by a Steve or a Dave.)

1. Steve Smith - 24.125
2. Dave Delveaux - 23.375
3. Dave Wolfe - 23.000
4. Steve McDonnell - 21.250
5. Lynn Paulson - 20.500
6. Andy Taylor - 20.500
7. Paul Schuettler - 20.250
8. Mike Kraus - 20.125
9. Mike Williams - 20.000
10. David Miller - 19.875