Picture: Tulips Blooming in Diane's garden.
We had our first manager's scramble of the new season this morning. There were seven of us so I suggested that the 'old guys' take on the young guys plus Curt, that being Curt Johnson who technically qualifies as an 'old guy' for today. I was a little concerned about the fairness: the 'old guys' were Dave Wininger, Mike Kidwell and myself; the young guys were Trenton Kidwell, Weston Muessig and Josh Butcher. Thought the odds were with the old guys on this one so Curt went with the youngsters to add balance and experience and maybe just the little bit that would make the game fair and balanced. Curt said go with it; so did Trenton. So we headed out as the Trenton gang was unloading and getting all their weapons in order.
Old guys rock, or at least we thought we did. Not today. Had trouble hitting the green and, in some cases, the fairways. Birdied hole #2 with Dave's drive on the collar and my chip to a gimmie putt. Birdied #6 with Mike K.'s drive and iron to the corner and my chip to another gimmie putt. But that was it for excitement though we did have to scramble for a couple of pars.
The young guys, meanwhile, were tooling around taking care of business, coming in at 5 under and also getting three of the four hole prizes, the fourth being left on the table (none of us were able to hit #7 green - oh my). There was that one bit of real drama out there when we were just off the dam after hitting our shots on #8, walking along as jauntily as we could, trying not to let on that our bag of birdies was swinging pretty easy. Trenton's gang was just finishing up with their last guy, Josh Butcher, hitting into #6 from just across the way when they all at the same instant started yelling something unintelligible (not the usual FORE!). Old guys rock, and they move pretty fast too when faced with a white hot rocket coming there way from just down yonder. THUNK! It landed on the dam just behind us. Got our adrenalin pumping in no time at all. We figured it was Josh doing his little bit to rattle us as we headed for the finish line. Didn't make a whit of difference; we finished up with a couple more missed greens and a lengthy downhill slider of a putt for par on the 9th. Congratulations to the young guys, each of whom took home a hole prize as well. You taught us a thing or two today - darn it all.
More fun next Saturday; more players, too, I would expect.
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Yep, things were jellin' pretty quickly Saturday with the young bucks (I'll take the liberty of including myself in that group for now...). We were off to a good start when when we were looking at a 15 foot or so birdie putt on #2 and Trenton said he had a good feeling about it and wanted to take the first shot at it. Dead on. We decided then that if he had a good feeling again that we'd just go with it. Holes 4, 5, 6, and 8 proved to yield those good feelings for one or another of the group. Definitely a good day on the course!
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