Team Skins Results and Boyz Preview

Today's Team Skins Game:

The teams (combined handicap in parens):
1. Wake/Norris (34)
2. Swayze/Wallace (20)
3. Byron/Byron (17)
4. Cornelius/Sheetz (23)
5. Chapman/Elliott (20)
6. D. Bird/Butcher (16)
7. K.Hudson/Lents (14)
8. M.Bird/R.Hudson (9)
9. Anderson/Kavanaugh (8)

The Skins:
#2 with a net score of 7: Swayze/Wallace
#3 with a net score of 4: Wake/Norris
#5 with a net score of 6: Wake/Norris
#7 with a net score of 4: Swayze/Wallace
#8 with a net score of 6: K.Hudson/Lents
#9 with a net score of 4: Swayze/Wallace

Following the nine hole skin match, eight golfers went out in a preview of next Tuesday's match play event involving teams from Loogootee (the East squad) and Montgomery/Washington (the West Squad). The format:

This is a match play event and low score on each hole is worth one point, with half points for ties. Three parts, Best Ball, Scramble, Alternate Shot, each part worth one point (follow this link to learn more about match play):

How Matches are Scored at Match Play

At root, match play scoring is very simple: Golfers compete hole by hole, and the golfer (or team) who wins the most holes wins the match.

1. Best Ball: players play own ball; best score of the two players is the team score with low score on the hole earning one point.
2. Scramble: players each hit and choose best ball till in the cup; each player hits a ball from each stop till ball is in the cup.
3. Alternating Shot: players decide who will hit the first tee shot and alternate till ball is in the cup; alternate shot from first shot on first hole of match till last shot on last hole of match.

Today Mike Anderson and Al Kavanaugh (West) ran all over Mike Bird and Morris Cornelius (East) to win their match 2 points to zero; one point awarded for each match of the three with Anderson and Kavanaugh winning the Best Ball and the Scramble and then tying the Alternate Shot when Mike Anderson chipped in for birdie on #9. In the other foursome, Jack Lents and Rex Hudson, on loan to the West, lost to Jack Butcher and Ken Hudson (East) on the Best Ball, then tied them in the Scramble. They then won the Alternate Shot evening their match. Thus the West won a two to zero win over the East (this was corrected from an earlier version when Jack Butcher came out to see how those guys beat them on the Best Ball; turns out they hadn't - I just misunderstood Jack Lents and Rex Hudson, who, this time, did not correct my error - the rascals). (I think we have the West right where we want them, thinking that we are going to be easy prey next Tuesday...)

Next Tuesday should be a whale of a match.