Butcher-Gee Scramble Update

Dave W. filled me in a bit more and told me Jack's team was made up of two Swartzentrubers but that they were Mike and Dean, not Mike and Brian. Still a very strong team. And still they did awfully well to get to 19 under. Congrats to them and all who participated in the scholarship event.

TBC at Lakeview

Picture: TBC at Lakeview after the game; winners on left and front: Mike Bird, John Chapman, Leroy Streepy.

Results of today's TBC scramble at Lakeview:

1. Mike Bird-John Chapman-Leroy Streepy-Susie Spareski (-9)
2. Mike Anderson-CV Burgess-Jerry Robinson-Ray Shaw (-6)
3. Tony Burnside-Danny Thomas-Don Miley-Morris Cornelius (-4)

Signs of the Times

As promised, pictures from earlier today. Kim Jones, Cara Allen and Shirley Jeffers were the female element of the K of C scramble, bundled up against the cold.

Jackie Robinson Day. Cool. I missed the 50 year celebration back in 1997. Brooklyn is my birth city and I am proud to be connected in this very indirect way to the momentous and courageous action by Jackie Robinson and the whole Brooklyn Dodger organization.

LPGA update: Lorena Ochoa - plus six over the last six holes; Laura Davies - plus 5 over the last two holes; Brittany Lincicome - bogey on the finishing hole and the winner by one. Brutal, brutal, brutal ending that left Annika on top of the ladies rankings at least for a little while longer. Long live the queen.

Braving the Elements

Twenty-seven gutsy golfers showed up this morning to take on the wind and the cold in the Knights of Columbus first scramble of the year. Winds gusting to 30 mph (?), temperatures hovering right around 40; golf skills dormant or non existant or waiting for another day to make an appearance. All of the above make for an enjoyable outing, really. Winners were Terry Butcher, Brandon Smith, Kevin Downey and Will Trout with a score of, now get this, 65. That's 5 under. That's less than half of what it would normally take to win a scramble out here. Second place was decided on the cards with two teams coming in with a nifty 67, that's 3 under. Wow. Somebody call the sheriff - they're shooting the lights out up north of town today. The winning 67 belonged to Dave and Lee Wininger along with Mark Jones and lil ole me. It's cool. (Diane took a couple of pictures which I will post this evening.)

LPGA update: Thru 13, Laura and Lorena, who are also braving the elements, tied for first at -13.

K of C Scramble

Another one of our golf goddesses: Erin, Jim and Wilma's granddaughter.

Loogootee K of C will have its first scramble of the year tomorrow out at Lakeview. Nine am start. Note that this event is starting the roll towards fair weather, a bunch of which hits us during the next several days. About time, let me say; seems like it's been forever.

Dinner at the Batemans. The women have solutions for the Iraqi thingee: get out, leave, stop now, drop everything. Sounds good to me. You know that there are historical and/or literary precedents for women stopping silly man things. They all just agree to cut them off from the things they like; for instance, hot meals, friendly chatter, warm bodies. Doesn't take them long to come around to "mama's way of thinking". Another possible solution is a return to the ways of real men in times long ago when kings and princes and leaders personally lead their troops into battle. Too easy for the men of today, in order to prove their manhood or something, to sit around some very comfortable conference room and casually send the young to faraway places to shoot and maim and kill and to be shot and maimed and killed. Ms. Gram Pelosi, and Harry Reid, going to meet with George Bush next week. Representatives of the people, and the children, of these United States.

On a lighter note: Food was great, company even better.

Come play golf tomorrow or in a day or two - it'll do wonder for your spirits.