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Monthly Newsletter January 2008
To all MSIS Addressees,
We had a perfect weather day for the John Brady Cup match at
Deerwood. The course was in great shape and the greens were fast.
The course probably set up a little short for us but in accordance
with our rules, the tees closest to 6000 yards were selected. The
short course would have been perfect had the weather been cold and
blustery like it can be in January. Lunch was good and the
scorecards and scoreboards were good.
Thanks
to all the people who helped out at Deerwood.
That includes Scott
Grospitch (Head Pro), Glenn Dobrick, John
Pujol, Gary Owensby, Greg
Howard, and Ray Fox.
WINNERS: Brady Cup
Jacksonville Golf and
Country Club (JG&CC) won the
2007 Championship and will hold
the John Brady Cup until
December 2008 when we have the
next Brady Cup match. This was
the 2nd time in the past 3 years
that JG&CC has won the cup.
JG&CC did it with a very strong
finish the past two months.
By taking 2nd and 3rd those two
months they were able to
overcome Orange Park's large
lead and beat them by two points
for the entire season. Wow!
That was close!
Playing this match for JG&CC
were
Bob Curry, Wayne St Clair, Skip
Lunsford, Jim Trado, Rick Cottey,
Ray Fox, Al Boyce, and Wib
Finch. Others who
played for JG&CC in 2007 and
helped win this championship:
Bill Emminger, Rod Fullerton,
Bill Gesdorf, Tim Mylod, Jim
White, Bill Devine, Marvin
Harris, Larry Jordan, Frank Di
Graci, Russell Sell, John Darin,
and Jerry Glowe. You may see a
picture of the winning team by
clicking
here.
WINNERS:
January match
Team Competition:
1. Ponte Vedra G&CC. with 572 points. Al
Stevens led the PV
team with 49
points
followed by Jim Bryce's 46 point
performance.
2. Marsh
Creek took 2nd
with 566
points. MC
was led by Bruce
Brown's 48 point
performance.
3. Jax
G&CC took third place
with a score of 548. JG
was led by Al
Boyce who had 42
points.
4. St Johns was fourth place
with a score of 546. SJ was led
by Doug Aird with 51 points.
Closest to the pin winners:
#2 Doug
Aird (SJ), 6' 9",
won
a doz
Titleist NXT balls courtesy
Magnolia Point
#8 Bob
Stickler (DC) (12'
1") won a round for 4
at World
Golf Village
#12 Bob
Marshall (MC) (2' 1")
won a doz
Nike balls courtesy
Gary Hill
#15
Paul Rothstein (DC) (?', ?")
won a wedge, courtesy of
San Jose
Long drive: hole #18,
Roger Tedder
(OP)
BESTS:
Eagles:
Jim
Trado
(JG), #1, 441 yards, par 5
Tom Wallon
(HH), #7, 432 yards, par 5
Lowest gross score: 72 Tom
Wallon (HH)
Highest point total: 51 by Doug Aird (SJ)
SPEED-OF-PLAY
Not
great.
SCORECARDS
The
cards were very
good,
but there were couple of scoring
errors due to poor legibility.
SCORING:
We tried something new this month.
Only two computers were working the
scorecards. The third computer was
doing the totaling for us. It was
particularly helpful in this Brady
Cup match as it doubled the points
and gave us the season totals. We
had a few hitches but not too bad.
If it works well, we will use it
from now on. We will still have a
manually prepared scoreboard, but we
will provide the totals. The new
spreadsheet totals the best 7
scores, gives the lowest score in
the field to no-shows, and does the
tie breaker for us. I would like
your opinion on this change which we
will use for a few more months at
least.
NEXT MONTH
Magnolia
Point Golf & CC, Monday, February
11, 2008, 9:00
am shotgun.
FINANCIAL NEWS
Our Google AdSense
account has
earned $(Not available. The AdSense web site is
down. The last time I looked, about a week ago,
it was around $27). We
were paid $102.99 through Nov 1, 2007. Keep
up the good work
clicking on those ads
and doing
Google searches
from our web site.
We are
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site, look the ads over. If you see
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out. Also, when you need to do a search of the
Internet, please go to our web page and search
from there. We are also paid for all Google
searches from our pages.
Our
savings account balance at
Citi Bank is:
Last
Month's Bal
$231.99
Interest 12-21-07
.51
Balance
$232.50
WEB SITE
The
Results
Archive web
page has been redesigned to make it more
useful. It now shows not only the year and
month but also the host club abbreviation. It
should now be more useful for research. Check
it out
here.
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There is lots of
information on
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there!
SUBMITTED ARTICLE
(none from you
guys this month)
ARTICLES
Articles of
interest to MSIS members are accepted and will
be published in this report. Just email your
article to me. You must sign it.
I am sure
that you all see or hear things at our matches
that would be of interest to us all. Funny
stories about things that happen on the course.
They don't have to be the absolute truth! Brag
about a great hole you played or a great shot
you hit. Here again, you may stretch the truth.
Write them up and send them to me. It would
make this a much more interesting publication.
TEAM REPS
MEETING
Annual Team
Reps meeting: Wednesday Jan 16, 2008, 10 am at
Magnolia Point. If you have items you want to
be discussed, tell your Team Rep to have them
added to the meeting agenda.
Barney Poston
Handicap and
Tournament Chairman
Please visit
www.jaxsi.org
for all the latest MSIS information.
P.S. Rant back if you
want. Your inputs are always appreciated.
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