Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Week 4 Recap

Now that's more like it. The weather was gorgeous for Tuesday night's round, and the beer was flowing like wine. Results and standings are now posted.

There are many things to discuss.
  • The NELSON team strengthens their first-half lead with four points, and now lead the field by five points.
  • Giving hope to all those looking up at the leaders, the KRAUS team swept their way from 5th into a 2nd-place tie in one week. There are still 8 teams who could be no worse than 2nd place with a sweep next week.
  • The DVORAK team is still in need of two permanent golfers. Please help us recruit so we don't have to use up the available subs to fill those vacancies.
  • I have received fees from all but two golfers, who missed the first week when I collected most of them. I will email those two separately about the $25 fee. I also am unable to collect fees from the two vacant positions, so at this point our budget is $50 light.
  • In this week's pairings post I incorrectly billed the Weber-Rieves match as being "a match-up of the league's two best golfers." Chris Weber's subsequent 46 made me question that, so I went back to the spreadsheet where it clearly shows that Lynn Paulson and Dave Rieves had (and have) the two lowest handicaps in the league. This explains why Rieves so easily dispatched of C-Web. (Lynn was seemingly not driven to success by the potential bulletin board material, however.)
  • On that note, congratulations to Mike Kraus and Dave Rieves, for their league-leading 39's on Tuesday night. Mike also had the league-low net score of 25.
  • There were only two birdies this week - Paul Barnett on #1 and Steve McDonnell on #4. (On the positive side, there was only one septuple-bogey!)
  • I have many prize balls to give out next week. I am in the first foursome, so when you finish, look for me and I will be distributing prizes. Here's a list of those who have earned prizes this year:
  • Ed Corcoran (Low Net Score, Week 3)
  • Adam Hopkins (Longest Made Putt, #5, Week 4)
  • Mike Kraus (Low Net Score, Week 4)
  • Rich Lampe (Closest to Pin #8, Week 3)
  • John Loescher (Closest to Pin #6, Week 1; Closest to Pin #3, Week 2)
  • David McLean (Longest Made Putt, #9, Week 4)
  • Steve McDonnell (Longest Drive in Fairway #4, Week 2; Longest Drive in Fairway #5, Week 3)
  • Ed Meachen (Longest Made Putt, #6, Week 2)
  • Ed Molter (Closest to Pin #8, Week 1)
  • Steve Moritz (Longest Made Putt, #9, Week 3)
  • Lynn Paulson (Closest to Pin #8, Week 4)
  • Dan Ruder (Longest Drive in Fairway #9, Week 2; Closest to Pin #6 in Two Strokes, Week 3)
  • Doug Smedema (Low Net Score, Week 1)
  • Andy Tomaszewski (Longest Made Putt, #9, Week 1)
  • Brendan West (Longest Drive in Fairway #4, Week 4)
  • Mike Williams (Longest Drive in Fairway #5, Week 1)
  • I'm going to try to start reporting the Sy Brandt Sportsmanship Award race next week. I still have some tweaking to do to the formula in order to give myself the best chance to win.
  • Just a reminder that the league scramble is June 29. I'll have details soon about the cookout. (It will likely be around $11.)
  • Any time you know you'll have a sub, please let me know ahead of time. It helps me set more appropriate match-ups if I know who will be playing and what their handicaps are.
  • Another reminder - this time to League Champion Captain David Miller and his team - planning of the location and details of the league banquet this year are
Chris Weber comment expected in 5 . . . 4 . . . 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . .

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