Oh Where Oh Where Has Our Club Champion Gone

Well, I have been lazy in doing posts this year and it's finally caught up with me.  I usually do these posts on my laptop while watching Sunday NFL games.  But my laptop is so infected with viruses it's unusable and the Bills are so pathetic I can't even bear to turn the TV on (although I hear they are actually starting to play football these days).  So it's been a few weeks since this game was played.  I can't give the blow-by-blow but I have some overall recollections.

Tom Blank sure is playing some nice golf.  And why not.  He's only won every senior club championship since he became eligible to play.  While he didn't have the mark lead he did rack up 4 solid marks.  

Doug Lyon is playing his best golf of the year, with a 6! handicap (although it turns out he was really a 5 and should not have won the 18th today).  Doug tallied 5 marks today with a birdie , greenie on #4 (shot to 2 feet), birdie on #9 (field win), birdie on #12 and sandy on #14.

Brad McAreavy sure can wallop some tee shots.  He's pretty much got driving the green on #12 down these days.  BUT he gets an asterisk for being shamed into taking a loner after driving it to 20 feet.  Doug Lyon managed to match his birdie to halve the hole for the field.

Mike Labue, our perennial king of the bad break, was having a quietly strong day.  Up $17 through 10 holes it looked as though Mike would have one of his best days ever. Then he was done in by the Lyon family.  First on #13 where Mike (as captain) and Doug Lyon, both getting a stroke, could not match a field net 3 while playing for a three hole carryover.  Then on #15 Mike and John Lyon, again both getting a stroke, were stunned by my bridie 3 with a two hole carryover in the line.  The two quick losses sent Mike tumbling all the way back to finish the day up only $.50 on the day.

Then there is the fearless Bill Schwert. Saddled with a 14 handicap Bill is generous enough to play the mark game with all the supposed hot shots.  He held up well and took down a respectable two marks with the greenie on #8 and sandy on #16.

Last but not least - Jim Mason.  Our reigning club champion has been little heard from this fall as he nurses a very sore back.  We don't miss losing money to him but I need someone else to back me up when Fries and McAreavy try to change the rules of the game; something which happens far too frequently.

Game Summary:

West Course
Players 10
Carryovers to next hole capped at 3

Mark Leader -   Doug Lyon 5
Money Leader - Doug Lyon $16.00