Perfect weather and a perfect golf course greeted us at Sawgrass. The greens were very fast but they were smooth as a pool table. We had 120 players for the match. I heard no complaints from any of them.
AND THE WINNERS
WERE:
With four matches (5 team scores) to go in the season, we have a very tight race for the Cup. Sawgrass has opened a comfortable lead but Hidden Hills is only 34 points back, Eagle Harbor 41 points back and that pesky team from Jax Golf & CC is looming in 4th placeat 57 points behind the
leaders. At a minimum, the top 6 or 7 teams have a good shot at winning this thing. Others are not mathematically eliminated, but they are long shots. Don't forget, the last match of the season is played for twice as many points so a lot of ground can be gained on the leaders! In the final match, the leaders will be paired together.
Marsh Landing took first place with a
modest score score of 249.
That reflects how difficult this course can be. ML was led by Team Rep, John Arnold with 41 points and George Halvorsen with 39 points. With this win, ML is keeping their hopes for a Brady Cup Championship alive. They are only 67 points behind the leaders. Closing that gap is very doable with 5 more match inputs to go in 2009.
The host team, Sawgrass, took second place with a score of 247. Continued strong play by
SG moved them into first place in the race for the Brady Cup. These guys are for real having finished in the money in 7 out of the 8 matches this year. SG
was led by Charles Romain with 42 points and by
another 41 points from both Dennis McCarthy.
Third place was taken by
San Jose with a score of 246. SN was led by 39
points from both Doug Dickey and Steve Vining.
Ponte Vedra, with a score of 232 was fourth.
PV was led by 36 points from
each Jim Bryce and Mike Peacock.
CLOSEST TO THE PIN
#3E Bill Miller (ML) 2' 6"
#6E Bob Stickler (DC) 4' 3"
#3W Dennis McCarthy (SG) 7' 6"
#6W Tom Petrie (SG) 7' 11"
Speaking of closest to
the pin, we are just about out of prizes. A few clubs have been very generous with prizes.
Has your club contributed? We need four prizes
each month. Please HELP! We do not have enough prizes
to see us through the season!!!
EAGLE: None
BESTS:
Lowest gross score: 78 Joe Wolke (PV), George Halvorsen (ML), & John Vogelpohl (PV)
Highest point total: 42 Charles Romain (SG)
You
players did a very good job with the cards this month.
I only audited 1/2 of the cards but it appeared that the legibility was good and I spotted no Xs on the cards.
We need to remember to NEVER stroke control a score. If a player holes out, give him what he took, even if it is ridiculously high. If a player does not hole out, give him a zero (0)! Our computers do all the stroke controlling. If you do stroke control a score, a player may get points where he doesn't deserve them.
SCORING
The scoring committee did an good job this month, but we did make a few errors and I want to thank you all for reporting errors when you think something is amiss. All errors were corrected except for one. The correct teams were awarded the prizes.
Thanks for all the help with the post-match scoring at Sawgrass. Those who helped were Larry Dismore (HH), Dennis McCarthy (SG), Glenn Dobrick (SG), Bob Hubbard (OP),
Tom Petrie (SG) and Bill Swerbenski (SG).
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: None
Does anyone have any ideas about prizes for the John Brady Cup match in December?
NEXT MATCH
Hidden
Hills CC, Monday September 28,
2009,9:00
am shotgun start. White tees, rating 70.3, slope 128, yards 6237.
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We have
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The ad for
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Jock is one of our continuing web page sponsors. He has added a new feature to his ad. Each month he is going to
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Lewis 'Tex' Blinn is one of our players. He is also a very good contractor ready to serve your remodeling needs. Please give him a try.
Remember, keeping our sponsors happy adds money to our prize fund. Keep Jock happy by looking at his featured homes. This month's homes are great! Not ready to buy? Call Tex Blinn for your remodeling needs.
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or hear things at our matches
that would be of interest to us
all. Funny stories about things
that happen on the course. They
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