Dave Wininger Loses Bet, Leads Team to Scramble Win

The Tuesday Afternoon Scramble:

Dave Wininger, after watching his four teammates miss a five foot putt on #6, saw his own roll off to the right and announced to anybody who might be listening that you just don't win when you miss your birdie on that hole. Dave was so sure that that would be the case again that he did something he rarely does: he made a bet. I was listening and I took him up on the bet, not that I was sure that we would win but that we still had a good shot at it. Four under at the time, three holes to go; the plan: birdie the last three and come in at seven under. That would win for sure. Darn if we didn't miss seven. But we did get eight and nine when my putter became golden and rolled in a couple of long ones, one from off the green on #9. That turned out to be more than enough as the other two teams came in at -4 and -3. Dave, always gracious, took his betting loss in stride and very quietly pocketed his winning share of the purse. The results:

1. Dave Wininger, Mike Bird, Larry Hembree, Mark Jones, Don Nolan (-6)
2. Mark Jeffers, Doug Denson, Lee Wininger, George Templin (-4)
3. Mike Kidwell, Tyler Kidwell, Curt Johnson, Joe Doyle (-3)