Pre-Season Fodder

Greetings from the post-UW basketball season. Sigh.

I've gotten the sign-up sheet from Glenway Golf Course, and I've emailed the team captains to confirm their team rosters, and the course will start drying out this week. I took a bike ride down to the course last Wednesday night. I'm afraid to report that all those hooks off the second tee took their toll on a very large branch between the 2nd and 3rd fairways, as it was laying horizontally on the ground. I walked through the course and there are quite a few large branches down. I'll still manage to hit the remaining ones.

Expect lots of information to appear here over the next few weeks - schedules, rosters, etc. Meanwhile, here's a recap of the 2009 season.

• LEAGUE CHAMPS: Dave Miller team (Dave, Doug Hoerr, Charlie Hoslet, Ed Meachen)
• Runners-Up: Dave Wolfe team (Dave, Paul Barnett, Adam Hopkins, Mike Sanders)
• Tournament Winners: Lynn Paulson, Pat McEvilly, & Andy Tomaszewski
• Low Average: Travis Thoeny
• Sy Brandt Sportsman: Dave Wolfe

Here are some stats and trivia from 2009 . . .

1. 673 total rounds of golf were played (although some probably barely resembled golf).
   
2. Only one golfer (who golfed 10 or more rounds) never scored a snowman or higher - Travis Thoeny. Travis also had only one snowman in 2008 (hole 1).
   
3. Chris Weber had only one snowman this season - in the last week on number 5.
4. Scott Gomez had zero snowmen in 2008 and none in 2009 . . . until August 11, that is, when he managed a 9 on the first hole and an 8 on the last hole.
5. The best combined score on the four par 3 holes was 10 (2 under par) by Dave Rieves.
6. The worst combined score on the four par 3 holes was 32 (um, 20 over par) by somone who I'm not going to rat out.
7. The best combined score on the five par 4 holes was 20 (par) by Travis Thoeney (three times) and Dave Rieves (once).
8. The worst combined score on the five par 4 holes was 44 (beat a quintuple bogey!).
9. Best start (1st three holes) was 9 (1 under) by Lynn Paulson, Dave Rieves, Travis Thoeny, and Mike Williams.
10. Best middle three holes was 10 (1 under) by Chris Weber, who scored did it the hard way: par, par, birdie (on 5).
11. Best Finish (last three holes) was 9, (2 under) by Will Nagel, who birdied 7 and 9.
12. Season Low Round: 32 by Travis (twice).
13. Non-Travis Season Low Round was 34, by Dave Rieves and Chris Weber.
14. The season's only Eagle was by Bob Moritz on number 9. He must have been thirsty and trying to get to the clubhouse.
    
15. Highest head-to-head winning percentage (minimum 10 rounds) was 81% (13 out of 16) by Dave Delveaux
16. Lowest head-to-head winning percentage (minimum 10 rounds) was 23% (3.5 out fo 15) by someone whose captain has probably relieved them of their duties.
17. Largest spread between high and low scores was 20, by Mike Kraus. Two other golfers were one stroke off that spread, and another two were two off.
    
18. Smallest spread between high and low scores was 6, by Ed Meachen, who shot between 42 and 48 all season.
19. Biggest rebound from one week to the next was Pat McEvilly who went from a 53 (week 3) to a 38 (week 4).
20. Biggest drop-off from one week to the next was an angry golfer, who went from a 37 (week 4) to a 52 (week 5). Another golfer went from 42 to 59, but had two weeks off in between.
21. Holes on which we scored more double-bogeys-or-worse than we did bogeys-or-better: FOUR, 4, 5, 7, and 9 (which is the same as 2008, but we were within two bogeys on #4).
22. Most birdied hole was number 8 - 18 times. In 2008, it was number 6, 24 times.