I wasn't there but it was reported to be a fine day at Marsh Creek. We only had 119 players as one poor fellow went to the wrong 'Marsh' (Marsh Landing) and missed the match.
The scores seem to be lower than usual. The conditions must have been difficult.
Much thanks goes out to Roy Gulick who did a wonderful job in filling my shoes.
Lewis Blinn, Contractor
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First place for the day was grabbed by Marsh Landing who seems to play well at any club called 'Marsh'. These fellows are making a habit of finishing in the money. As a consequence, they have a firm grip on the top spot in the Brady Cup Standings. See the standings.
Marsh Landing finished with 259 points. They were led by George Halvorsen and Joseph Aoki who each had 41 points. John Tancredi added another 38 points.
The home team, Marsh Creek was second at 252 points. Don Brockmeyer had 42 points, Rob Beebe
had 38, and three other players had 36.
Third place was taken by Sawgrass with a score of 246. SG was led by
38
points from both Bill Monteith and Tom Petrie. They had 3 other players who made 37 points.
The team from Hidden Hills, with a score of 241 won a tie-breaker over Eagle Harbor and took fourth place. They were led by 38 points from both
Steve Bona and Mark Morrison. Keith Hansen added 37 points.
CLOSEST TO THE PIN
#4 Charlie Jackson SJ
#7 Jock Ochiltree WG
#15 John White OP
#17 Bob Kastner QH
EAGLE: None
LOWEST GROSS SCORE:
75George HalvorsenML MOST POINTS:
46 Jim Dunlap QH
Those of you who keep your own personal calendar will want to make sure they are up-to-date. We have made a recent change to our MSIS calendar as follows:
The Orange Park event in June has been moved to Thursday, June 24, 8:30 am.
Please change your calendars accordingly.
SCORECARDS
Your scorecards were good this month although there were a few legibility problems. Remember, you are personally responsible for your card even though someone else kept your score.
Always remember
that you should NEVER pick-up on a hole until you have reached your maximum ESC score AND you can no longer score a point. For speed of play reasons, always pick-up at that point and enter a zero on the scorecard.
Also, NEVER stroke control your score. The computers will do that for you.
SCORING
The biggest problem here was two players
who failed to turn in their scorecards. That always slows things down!
Much thanks to all of you who helped with the scoring at Marsh Creek. Those who worked were Roy Gulick MP, Bob Hubbard OP, John Pujol QH, Bob Kerr MC, Mark Good DC, Odie Skeen MC, and Ralph Crandall MC.
COMPUTERS and OPERATORS NEEDED
We are getting near a critical shortage of laptop owners who are willing to bring their computer to the matches and help us with the after match scoring.
If you qualify, please identify yourself to me or to your Team Rep. We offer low or no wages, a lot of pressure, on-the-job training and a nasty boss.
All kidding aside, alternatives to our computerized scoring are NOT pretty. Please come forward with your offer to help.
We also need a guy who is not playing on match day, to ride shotgun on the computer set-up. He would be there about
one hour before we finish playing golf. He would make sure the table, chairs, extension cord, and power strip are in the best position for us. Then he would power up all the computers and have the flash drives in place ready to roll. Is anyone out there interested in trying this assignment? Would any of you who are mending physically be interested? Let me know. Next match is at Jacksonville Golf & CC.
Our
Google AdSense account has earned $89.35 since the last check was issued to us
by Google. We will be paid again as soon as our account reaches $100. Google issued a check to us for $101.82 on July 23rd, 2009. We
have been paid $306.27 total by Google since we opened our account in January 2007. Clicking on those ads
and doing
Google searches
from our web site both
bring in the
CA$H.
We are paid for clicks
on any of the Google
ads on our web pages. When you are on
our web
site, look the ads over.
If you see anything of interest,
by all means check it out.
Also, when you need to do a
search of the Internet, please
go to our
home page and search
from there. See the ads at the top of the column to the right. ----------->
Our
savings account balance at
Citi Bank is:
Last Month's Balance $1048.58
Deposit from Blinn ads (3-31-10) 152.00 Dep from
Marsh Creek (5-3-2010) 240.00
Software upgrade (4-25-10) - $59.95
Balance (5/3/2010) $1380.63
Of the balance shown above, $480 is reserved for the top four teams of the 2010 season. 1st
gets 45%, 2nd gets 25%, 3rd gets 20%, and 4th gets 10%.
I lost the installation files for the Scorekeeper software that I use to track handicaps, do pairings, and maintain our database of players. Mark II Systems no longer had a copy of the old software, so I was forced to upgrade. The latest version of the software has some nice new features. Bottom line: the $59.95 expense that you see above.
WEB SITE
All players
should sign up for MSIS
emails. There is a sign-up form
near the bottom of the home page
at
www.jaxsi.org with electronic
submittal....... very
easy.
We have
two local sponsors of these web pages.
The ad for
Lewis Blinn, Contractor on the
home page and Jock Ochiltree's ad on the April Results Page. Now, you see above
that Tex Blinn has purchased an ad on this page.
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. If you call him, please tell him you saw his ad here.
Jock is one of our continuing web page sponsors. Each month Jock
provides statistics and features a house on the market in the community located near our tournament site. Check it out. Just click on his ad where it says "Click here”. Also, this month, there is a 'Bonus link'. Give it a try.
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