Good Knight and the Mighty Quinn

It's been a long time sports fans but the blog is back, if only for a day.We've had some rough weather this fall but a relatively decent day (mid 40's, no rain) brought the riff raff out for a contest. Keith Knight's recently departed mother implored him to get his lazy ass out of bed and go play the game he loves. I guess it pays to listen to your mother.

Proving why he always wants to change the rule regarding alphabetical order of the captaincy; Dr. David Fries captained the first hole and lost

On #3 Knight would suffer one of his few losses on the day as he and Jim Mason could not card a net 3.

On #4 things started to get interesting. From the back tee and playing 200 yards to a back pin Schantz hit it to 15 feet and was Jim's pick. It was very tempting to take a loner but common sense prevailed.  Good thing.

Keith had dumped his tee shot in the right, greenside bunker. Playing off some firm sand he flew it to the hole, it took one bounce, spun hard and right and dropped in for the double mark. I could not convert and the field won. Yes, you read that right, Keith holed out a bunker shot and it wouldn't even be his biggest shot of the day.

At #5 Dr. Mason would lose his third straight hole as the twosome (maybe a first?) when both Fries and newest member of the flock, Bernie Quinn, knocked down birdie putts. Jim would get a little revenge with a fine birdie at #7.  However, that was only good enough for a tie.

Schantz captained #8 and took the tee to the far right of the tee to knock out the drawers of the ball. After substantial negative feedback from Mr. Knight about his chances from such a tee position Keith managed to hit it to 4 feet. I selected him and was quickly dumped for the loner chance. Dr. Mason and I were on similar lines from 25 and 25 feet respectively. After getting the free read from my miss Jim once again proved he is the best putter around by making it from 25 feet.  Suddenly Keith's birdie, greenie, three hole carryover loner became a little more exciting. Unfazed, Keith buried the putt (well, maybe not buried but he did make it).

The ninth was captained by Joe Lovallo who was getting a stroke. He was advised to strongly consider "the best iron player at Oak Hill" (a.k.a. Dave Fries). Joe passed and paid. David hit it to 4 feet to lock down the two hole carryover win for the field.

Dr. Fries again carded the lone birdie, this time at #11 and the field took down the team of Lovallo and Kevin Gavigan for a three hole win.

Keith racked up his 5th mark at #12 with a drive and wedge from 40 yds. However, there was some controversy as Keith picked up his mark after his partner had carded a 4 for 3.  An unusually lenient decision was made to allow Kieth to replace his mark and have a run at birdie.

Dr. Mason, cruising along at even par or better for most of the day took his fourth team loss on #13 as he and Keith could not match a net 3.

Bernie Quinn missed a chance to score his second mark of the day at #14 when he 3-putted from 30 feet.

At #16 the dynamic duo from Home Properties really took it to the field. Keith's second shot finished 10 yds short and right of the green.  His chip shot floated onto the green, landed softly and rolled in for an eagle 3,  a three hole win, and his 6th,7th and 8th mark of the day. Five of them due to two wedge shots!!

At #17 Dr. Mason found himself on the wrong team again as I took him as my partner and watched the last player, Bernie Quinn hit it to 8 feet (from 215 into the wind) and made the putt for two marks. Fortunately, there were no carryovers.

When the final tally was in Keith Knight had put together one of the all time C&C days with 8 marks and $74 in winnings. In fact it was a record day as Keith's $53 in mark winnings eclipses Jim Mason's $46 from 2004. 

Thanks to Joe Lovallo, Kevin Gavigan and Tom Puleo for playing in the mark game.... and contributing $19 each.  Honorable mention to 10 (cough, cough) handicap Bernie Quinn with 3 marks and $33.50 in winnings.

Lastly, let's all shed a tear for Dr. Mason who fired a one under 70 but lost $7 on the day.

Game Summary:

West Course
Players 8
Carryovers to next hole capped at 3

Total Marks 19

Mark leader - Keith Knight 8
Overall Leader - Keith Knight $74