Bird Team Trumps Lents Team in Senior Game

In the Senior Game this morning, the Mike Bird, Leroy Streepy, Dave Strange and Vic Wallace team defeated the Jack Lents, Joe Gray, Ray Shaw and Diane Bird team by a score of two to one in singles match play. The particulars with the Mike Bird team players being listed first:

1. Mike Bird and Jack Lents - all square.
2. Leroy Streepy defeats Joe Gray.
3. Vic Wallace defeats Diane Bird.
4. Dave Strange beaten by Ray Shaw.

Wife Hammers Husband to Win Golf Game...

Well, she, along with Morris Cornelius and Dale DeLong's scramble win, combined for the win. The results of the match play event this morning with Diane Bird's Team being listed first:

1. Diane Bird beats husband Mike in singles match, 4 and 2.
2. Morris Cornelius and Dale DeLong beat Leroy Streepy and Joe Gray in a scramble match, 2 and 1.
3. Herb Roach and Clyde Wake defeated by John Chapman and Ray Shaw in a scramble match, 2 and 1.

Match and prize money to Diane Bird, Morris Cornelius, Dale DeLong, Herb Roach and Clyde Wake.

Thursday's Match Ends in Tie

The game: Foursomes - Alternate Shot.
The Results: Souerdike Team ties Bird Team
The particulars:
Match 1: Wayne Souerdike and Jack Butcher (S Team) lose to Mike Bird and Junior Byron (B Team), 3 and 2.
Match 2: Ken Hudson and John Chapman (S Team) beat Rex Hudson and Morris Cornelius (B Team), 1-0.
Match 3: Richard Barber and Joe Gray (S Team) beat Dale DeLong and Clyde Wake (B Team), 1-0
Match Four (Singles): Diane Bird (B Team) beats Pam Byron (S Team), 3 and 2.

Thursday Senior Golf Games

Reminder: we play a nine hole game starting at 9 am tomorrow; additional nine for those who want to stay or join us at 11 am.

Souerdike, Barber, Wallace, Shaw and Bird Triumph

In the Thursday Senior Games this morning, the Wayne Souerdike team managed to birdie each of the par threes and get an eagle on #6 and added another stray birdie along the way to triumph over three other teams. Diane Bird started the winners on their way by chipping one in for birdie on #3. Vic Wallace took care of #7 all by himself and Wayne Souerdike did the same on #9. The results:

1. Wayne Souerdike, Dick Barber, Vic Wallace, Ray Shaw, Diane Bird (-6)
2. Mike Bird, Ken Hudson, Dale DeLong, Joe Gray (-4)
3. Jack Butcher, Bob Elliott, Morris Cornelius, Leroy Streepy, Wilma Bateman (-2)
3. Junior Byron, Jim Bateman, Pam Byron, Bob Norris, Clyde Wake (-2)

Thursday Senior Games

Tomorrow's games will start at 9am and are open to all who care to join us:
-First nine holes: scramble/alternate shot format: two person teams with first five holes being a scramble, next four being alternate shot.
-Second nine holes for those who stay (or join us at 11): skins match with handicaps: no strokes on par threes, no carryover of strokes, maximum strokes per hole two.

The Final Days, Thursday Games, The War

As I have finished A Thousand Splendid Suns, I am now ready for another good book. Looked through Diane's collection and nothing jumped up and grabbed me by the collar and said: "Read me!" So I went to the bookshelves that contain some of the books we have had for decades. What did jump out at me was Woodward and Bernstein's The Final Days, a 1976 book that I had purchased and read in February of 1977. You remember, it covers the final days of the Nixon presidency, something Woodward and Bernstein were instrumental in bringing about with their investigative reporting of the bungled Watergate caper and resultant cover up that exposed how devious and downright illegal Nixon and his henchmen were in their many shenanigans as they tried to govern. I was intrigued by it all back then and now, with the Bush presidency beginning its final days, I just might find it informative and illustrative to revisit those momentous times again. And, after the first dozen pages or so, it has not failed - I'm still intrigued and it sure does paint Nixon as a psycho case, at least early on. Should be fun...

Looks like the rain has stopped. Got two inches in our neck of the woods.

Reminder: Tomorrow morning: 9am - 9 hole skin match using existing handicaps with the following restrictions: no strokes on par threes, no carry over of those strokes, maximum handicap per hole: two strokes.

BTW, Ken Burns new documentary on WWII, The War, is excellent. Been on PBS these last three nights.

Fox, Butcher and Gray Win Big; Fox Big in Skins

Thursday Scramble

In this morning's scramble, Jim Fox, Jack Butcher and Joe Gray continually helped each other out around the course to shoot a five under and take the first place prize. The results:

1. Jim Fox, Jack Butcher, Joe Fray (-5)
2. Wayne Souerdike, Morris Cornelius, Richard Barber (-4)
3. Mike bird, Leroy Streepy, Diane Bird (-3)
4. Junior Byron, Dale DeLong, Pam Byron (-1)

Thursday Skins

Jim Fox, Mike Bird and Jack Butcher went out for a second nine and traded punches till in the end it was a matter of who could make or get the short putts. Jim got a skin on #2 with a nice sideways putt for birdie and then watched Mikey miss a short one; Mike got a skin on #6 with a beauty of a pitch shot that gave him a two foot putt for birdie; and then Jim repeated with a nice chip on #9 that gave him a gimme putt and then watched Mikey again miss a putt, this one looking good all the way till Jim willed it to turn at the hole. That rascally ball. Jack muttered something about a lesson as he walked back to his cart. Such fun.

Thursday Scramble and Skins

Today you might as well come on out and play some golf. The weather is still fine, dry and close to warm. Nine o'clock start for the scramble; we'll choose teams then. The skins, using one's handicap, will have a few wrinkles this time around: no strokes on par threes, no carryover of those lost strokes to other holes, and a maximum handicap of 18 (which converts to a twelve with the no strokes on the par three rule). Skin match starts right after the scramble is over, about eleven.

Bring any old game you want and lets have some fun with the crooked sticks and the little orbs and each other.