Week 18 Pairings - August 30

Reminder: The banquet is next Tuesday night at Paisans! Please RSVP to (and pay) Brad Nelson tonight. We'll have more details posted here. Thanks.

Here are the pairings, for the week that will determine the second half champs, the flight tournament champions, the Sy Brandt Sportsmanship Award winner, and the low golfer of the year. Please make sure you tee off at your appointed time, so we don't get behind. Sunset comes early these days. Here's the early match-up:

3:52 & 4:00	Nelson vs. Weber
Matt Abraham	12		Chris Weber	7
Brad Nelson	12		Tim Coger	14
Mike Williams	8		Dave Poznanski	16
Steve McDonnell	10		Tom Weber	21

Here are the rest:

4:52 & 5:00	Molter vs. McEvilly
Ed Molter	12		Lil Pat McEvilly	15
Rob Zimmerman	24		Sub (ec)	?
Matt Raymer	10		Pat McEvilly	12
Adam Rieves	15		Herb Stanford	24
5:07 & 5:15	Warren vs. Kraus
Mike Warren	8		Lynn Paulson	6
Jeff Dvorak	10		Rich Lampe (ss)	11
Taylor DeValk	7		Andy Taylor	9
Tim Mattes	12		Mike Kraus	14
5:22 & 5:30	Wolfe vs. Miller
Mick Heberlein (pb)	18		Doug Hoerr	10
Mike Sanders	18		David Miller	10
David Wolfe	14		Ed Meachen	13
Adam Hopkins	14		Charlie Hoslet	15
5:37 & 5:46	Rieves vs. Moritz
Bob Crowe	17		Steve Moritz	9
Ron Weiss	20		Bob Moritz	10
Dave Rieves	5		Tom Hidde	12
Matt Blouin	10		Paul Schuettler	13

Tournament and Sy Brandt Standings

The tournament standings can be viewed here. The far-right column shows the sum of the best two scores for each golfer who's played at least twice. I have sorted each flight by this number. The "Score" column to the left of that shows each golfer's three-round score.

It looks like Brad Nelson has a stranglehold (cue the Ted Nugent) on the Sy Brandt Sportsmanship Award. Nothing short of an "accident" or a last-second computer glitch will vault the much-deserving runner-up to the top spot. Does anybody have Jeff Gillooly's phone number?

1. 27.64 Brad Nelson
2. 25.93 Dave Wolfe
3. 25.68 Doug Hoerr
4. 24.88 Bob Moritz
5. 24.80 Adam Hopkins
6. 24.71 Chris Weber
7. 24.56 Dave Rieves
8. 24.53 Matt Blouin
9. 24.20 Lynn Paulson
10. 24.10 Mike Sanders

Week 17 Results & Miscellaneous

I got caught up on results and standings, and will update the flight tournament and Sy Brandt standings as soon as I can. (The results assume that the "Charlie" who golfed on the McEvilly team in week 16 was Charlie Ponti. If this is incorrect, please let me know.)

With one week to go, it appears it's a three-team race (with a 4th team still alive) for the second half championship, and the right to take on what's left of the McEvilly team for the league championship. I'll have (unofficial) final standings available Tuesday night so the winning captain can schedule the championship match-ups prior to Labor Day.

• Moritz team (30.5)
• Kraus team and Miller team (28.5)
• Weber team (25.0)
  

Other news . . .

• The Nelson and Weber teams have the 3:52 and 4:00 tee times next Tuesday - the last Tuesday of league.
• The league banquet will be held on Tuesday, September 6 at Paisan's. Details to come. Please RSVP and pay $20 to Captain Brad Nelson on 8/30.
  

Week 17 Pairings - August 23

Short message today, since Internet access is spotty.

The banquet will be held on September 6 (the day after Labor Day) at Paisan's - hosted by the 2010 champions, the Nelson team. Please plan to attend. Brad will collect $20 per man beginning Tuesday.

Here are Tuesday's pairings. Note the early tee times. Depending on my return flight, I may or may not make my 4:00 tee time. I may have to join a later group.

First group - Please take out the flags!

3:52 & 4:00	Molter vs. Wolfe
Ed Molter	12		Yanbing Lu (pb)	5
Rob Zimmerman	23		Mike Sanders	18
Matt Raymer	9		Adam Hopkins	14
Adam Rieves	15		David Wolfe	15

Here are the rest.

4:52 & 5:00	Kraus vs. Weber
Andy Taylor	8		Chris Weber	7
Steve Smith	13		Dave Poznanski	16
Lynn Paulson	7		Tim Coger	14
Mike Kraus	13		Tom Weber	21
5:07 & 5:15	Miller vs. Rieves
David Miller	11		Dave Rieves	5
Charlie Hoslet	15		Bob Crowe	17
Doug Hoerr	11		Matt Blouin	11
Ed Meachen	13		Ron Weiss	20
5:22 & 5:30	Nelson vs. Moritz
Steve McDonnell	10		Steve Moritz	10
Brad Nelson	12		Paul Schuettler	13
Mike Williams	8		Bob Moritz	10
Matt Abraham	12		Tom Hidde	12
5:37 & 5:46	McEvilly vs. Warren
Pat McEvilly	12		Taylor DeValk	7
Herb Stanford	24		Tim Mattes	13
Lil Pat McEvilly (dd)	15		Mike Warren	8
Sub (ec)			Jeff Dvorak	10

Results & Next Week Tee Times

Results will be a bit delayed this week, as I leave for vacation this morning. They'll be posted no sooner than Thursday.

Next week, the Molter and Wolfe teams will take the early tee times (3:52 and 4:00). Everybody else moves up one spot earlier. Check the tee times in the upper right corner of the blog if you want to know your tee time.

Here's Tuesday's early match-up. Having not heard otherwise from the captains, I assume they can all golf early.

3:52 & 4:00	Warren vs. Miller
Taylor DeValk	7		David Miller	11
Tim Mattes	13		Ed Meachen	13
Mike Warren	9		Doug Hoerr	11
Jeff Dvorak	10		Charlie Hoslet	16

The rest of us better golf faster than last week or we'll be in the dark.

4:52 & 5:00	Moritz vs. Wolfe
Bob Moritz	10		David Wolfe	14
Steve Moritz	10		Mick Heberlein (pb)	16
Paul Schuettler	13		Adam Hopkins	14
John Gillich (th)	17		Mike Sanders	18
5:07 & 5:15	Kraus vs. Nelson
Lynn Paulson	7		Steve McDonnell	11
Steve Smith	14		Brad Nelson	13
Andy Taylor	9		Mike Williams	8
Mike Kraus	14		Matt Abraham	13
5:22 & 5:30	Rieves vs. McEvilly
Dave Rieves	5		Pat McEvilly	12
Ron Weiss	20		Herb Stanford	24
Matt Blouin	12		Ed Corcoran	15
Bob Crowe	18		Lil Pat McEvilly	16
5:37 & 5:46	Weber vs. Molter
Chris Weber	7		Ed Molter	12
Tom Weber	20		Adam Rieves	15
Tim Coger	14		Matt Raymer	9
Dave Poznanski	16		Rob Zimmerman	23

Here are updated Sy Brandt Sportsmanship Award rankings:

1. 24.67 Brad Nelson
2. 22.80 Dave Wolfe
3. 21.58 Chris Weber
4. 21.39 Mike Sanders
5. 21.08 Doug Hoerr
6. 20.92 Dave Rieves
7. 20.85 Matt Blouin
8. 20.79 Lynn Paulson
9. 20.64 Bob Moritz
10. 20.50 Ed Molter

This will be week two of the flight tournament. The stuff below probably won't display real nicely, but is all I have time for now. The first number after a name is the tournament handicap. The second is the raw score and the third number is the net score.

				Gross				Net
Tournament			Handicap	15	16	17	18	15	16	17	18	Score
Flight 1 Handicaps 11 & Under	DeValk	Taylor	7	38				31
	Dvorak	Jeff	11	41				30
	Hoerr	Doug	11	45				34
	Molter	Ed	11	46				35
	Moritz	Bob	10	43				33
	Moritz	Steve	10
	Paulson	Lynn	8	35				27
	Raymer	Matt	10	39				29
	Rieves	Dave	6	37				31
	Taylor	Andy	9
	Warren	Mike	9	42				33
	Weber	Chris	7	42				35
	Williams	Mike	9	39				30
Flight 2 Handicaps 12 - 14	Abraham	Matt	14	41				27
	Blouin	Matt	12	44				32
	Coger	Tim	14	41				27
	Hidde	Tom	12
	Kraus	Mike	13	47				34
	Mattes	Tim	13	45				32
	McDonnell	Steve	12	36				24
	McEvilly	Pat	12	48				36
	Meachen	Ed	13	46				33
	Miller	David	12	43				31
	Nelson	Brad	14	44				30
	Schuettler	Paul	13
	Smith	Steve	13	51				38
Flight 3 Handicaps 15 & Above	Crowe	Bob	18	49				31
	Hopkins	Adam	16	44				28
	Hoslet	Charlie	16	45				29
	McEvilly	Lil Pat	16	49				33
	Poznanski	Dave	16	46				30
	Rieves	Adam	15
	Sanders	Mike	18	51				33
	Stanford	Herb	24
	Weber	Tom	20	58				38
	Weiss	Ron	20	52				32
	Wolfe	Dave	15	42				27
	Zimmerman	Rob	22	57				35

Week 15 Pairings - August 9

The Warren/Wolfe match-up is going with a 3:52 start this week (except for Hopkins, who will join a later threesome or turn the last group into a fivesome). Here are those pairings.

3:52 & 4:00	Warren vs. Wolfe
Mike Warren	9		David Wolfe	15
Jeff Dvorak	11		Mike Sanders	18
Tim Mattes	13		Adam Hopkins	16
Taylor DeValk	7		Sub (pb)

Here are the rest.

4:52 & 5:00	Kraus vs. Moritz
Lynn Paulson	8		Tom Hidde	12
Andy Taylor	9		Paul Schuettler	13
Steve Smith	13		Bob Moritz	10
Mike Kraus	13		Steve Moritz	10
5:07 & 5:15	Nelson vs. Rieves
Mike Williams	9		Bob Crowe	18
Steve McDonnell	12		Ron Weiss	20
Brad Nelson	14		Dave Rieves	6
Matt Abraham	14		Matt Blouin	12
5:22 & 5:30	Weber vs. McEvilly
Chris Weber	7		Pat McEvilly	12
Dave Poznanski	16		Herb Stanford	24
Tim Coger	14		Lil Pat McEvilly (dd)	16
Tom Weber	20		Sub (ec)
5:37 & 5:46	Miller vs. Molter
Doug Hoerr	11		Matt Raymer	10
Charlie Hoslet	16		Rob Zimmerman	22
David Miller	12		Ed Molter	11
Ed Meachen	13		Adam Rieves	15

Flight Tournament

If you're looking for week 14 results, they're below.

During the last four weeks of regular season play, the league-wide Flight Tournament will be held. The rules are as follows.

• To be eligible to win your flight, you must golf at least three of the final four weeks of the regular season.
• At the end of Week 14, the league shall be split into three relatively even flights, based on handicap at that time. (The ideal composition would be flights of 13, 13, and 14 golfers, but it may not be possible given the handicaps.) For example, Flight 1 may be golfers with a handicap of 11 or less, Flight 2 those with a handicap between 12 and 15, and Flight 3 those with a handicap of 16 or higher.
• For purposes of the Flight Tournament, each golfer's handicap shall be frozen at their Week 15 handicap. That means that if your handicap is 11 for Week 15 matches, your Flight Tournament handicap will be 11. (This does not affect a golfer's weekly handicap for regular season match-ups, which may continue to change, based on their last 8 league scores.)
• Each golfer's weekly Flight Tournament scores are calculated by subtracting his Flight Tournament handicap from his weekly raw scores.
• Each golfer's total Flight Tournament score is the sum of the three lowest weekly Flight Tournament (net) scores.
• The golfer within each flight with the lowest total Flight Tournament score is the tournament winner for that flight.

Here are the three flights for the tournament.

Flight 1 (Handicap < 12)

• 6 Dave Rieves
• 7 Taylor DeValk
• 7 Chris Weber
• 8 Lynn Paulson
• 9 Andy Taylor
• 9 Mike Williams
• 9 Mike Warren
• 10 Matt Raymer
• 10 Bob Moritz
• 10 Steve Moritz
• 11 Ed Molter
• 11 Doug Hoerr
• 11 Jeff Dvorak

FLIGHT 2 (Handicap 12-14)

• 12 Pat McEvilly the Elder
• 12 David Miller
• 12 Tom Hidde
• 12 Steve McDonnell
• 12 Matt Blouin
• 13 Mike Kraus
• 13 Steve Smith
• 13 Ed Meachen
• 13 Paul Schuettler
• 13 Tim Mattes
• 14 Brad Nelson
• 14 Matt Abraham
• 14 Tim Coger

FLIGHT 3 (Handicap > 14)

• 15 Adam Rieves
• 15 Dave Wolfe
• 16 Charlie Hoslet
• 16 Dave Poznanski
• 16 Adam Hopkins
• 16 Pat McEvilly the Younger
• 18 Bob Crowe
• 18 Mike Sanders
• 20 Ron Weiss
• 20 Tom Weber
• 22 Rob Zimmerman
• 24 Herb Stanford

Here are the updated Sy Brandt Sportsmanship award standings:

1. 22.50 Brad Nelson
2. 20.42 Mike Sanders
3. 20.34 Dave Wolfe
4. 20.20 Doug Hoerr
5. 19.83 Dave Rieves
6. 19.82 Chris Weber
7. 19.79 Matt Blouin
8. 19.63 Ed Molter
9. 19.15 Pat McEvilly
10. 18.83 Mike Kraus

Week 14 Results

Results for Week 14 are now posted. The Kraus team put a little distance between themselves and the 2nd place McEvillies, beating them head-to-head 4-2. This Tuesday was our lowest league average so far this year - 43.3. Having Travis back didn't hurt that cause!

A few reminders:

1. The league banquet will be held on Tuesday, September 6 at a location to be determined by the 2010 league champion Nelson team. Look for more information soon from Captain Brad.
2. The flight tournament begins next week. For more information on our own "Fed Ex Cup" read here about last year's tournament.
3. Days are getting shorter, and we're less and less likely each week to get all 10 foursomes before it gets dark. Beginning in week 15, the first tee times will be at 3:52 and 4:00 rather than 4:52 and 5:00. All other groups will move up two tee times. That has a pretty significant impact on six teams (shown below). Please let me know if it is not possible for you to do the 3:52/4:00 tee times and we'll see if someone else can. It is at times like these that I will adhere to the number one rule passed down to me from Hall of Fame Commissioner Dave Rieves: "Be flexible."

• August 16: Warren and Miller teams will be at 3:52/4:00.
• August 23: Molter and Wolfe teams will be at 3:52/4:00.
• August 30: Nelson and Weber teams will be at 3:52/4:00.