Mystery Golfers

Picture: Mystery golfer #1.

Over the next several weeks, I'll be posting a mystery golfer, one of our very own. Once ten are online, you can email me your guesses. An appropriate prize to the one with the best guesses. If you want to be part of the mystery golfer ranks, send me a picture of yourself, or bring it into the clubhouse. Picture should be of you as a young person, either as a child or as a teen or as a 20 something. Feel free to make your guesses public in the comments section but do not send me an email with your answers till we have the first ten mystery golfers.

Tuesday Shot of the Day

Pictures: Joe Allen waiting on #1; Larry doc Sutton waiting on #8 while Mike Breeden was celebrating his hole prize winning long putt on the green; Don Nolan after just missing a four foot sliding-to-the-left putt on #9; his chip to that position was a beauty though.

Early golfers for league include Virgil Harper and Gary LaMar, Joe Doyle and Dave E. Strange, Mike Smith and Tom McAtee. Mike's in with a super 38. Weston Muessig's in with a very nice 34 which includes a chip in on #6 for eagle; Trenton Kidwell with a 38 (net 28). Good day for golf. More later.

Update:

-Low gross for the day: a young turk, Weston Muessig; and a familiar face, James Hager. 34's
-Low net for the day: Trenton Kidwell, who had a few choice comments on last week's high handicap winner before going out and shooting a gross 37 and a net 28. The 38 is more like the Trenton we expected. And Charlie Lyon with a net 29 continuing his torrid early season pace. He remains on top of the heap for the third week in a row.
-Sharpshooters include Phil Eyler on 3, Mitch Jeffers (another one of those young turks who is doing very well) on 7; Mike Breeden on 8, and Joe Doyle, who left instructions at the clubhouse after his early morning round that he didn't want anyone messing with his hole prize on #9. Hey, nobody did. The power of the man...
-Bill Carrico had another good day though a putter which was downright cranky at times: on #4 it caused him to 4 putt.
-Couple of subs, Dave E. Strange and Mark Anderson, shot net 32 and 31. Big help to Terry Butcher and Brent Courter. BTW, where is Brent?
-Low net team scores: 59 for Muessig and Kidwell; Boyd and Hager 61. The youngsters are flexing their muscles. (Hey, thanks to Hager and Boyd for brightening our day with the two lovely young ladies they brought to the golf course!)
-Bryant Trambaugh and Tim Miller had good nights, shooting in the low 40's rather than the high forties. About where they belong.
-Tony Wease and Phil Hardwick had a terrible night, coming in with a net team score of 88. That, folks, is a good basketball score, something you don't want on the golf course (especially in Butcherville!).
-The Byrons had a not so good night; hope Pam was full of cheer.
-More stories out there; I just haven't heard them, or can't think of them at the moment. Add your two cents in the comments section.

Super Monday

Pictures: Traffic along the highway, and next to it, Sunday evening.

At the golf course where the grass keeps on growing. Eric and I were out there early nipping it. Lovely day - already a lot of golfers taking advantage of all this goodness. In case you missed it, Tiger won yesterday but not without some drama on the back nine where several golfers found bogies and double bogies. Pretty tough layout there. Good for those who gobbled up those plus par scores and made the game a whole bunch more interesting. Darren Clark's dictum: fairways, greens, make a putt every now and then. In the end, Tiger did that, and won yet again. Amazing athlete. Amazing young man. Nice having all those top ranked players at the same venue competing against each other. And the young man playing with Tiger, Rory Sabbatini? Read Saturday night how he really wanted to be paired with Tiger; had a certain note of over confidence in his words, seemed to me. Boy, you do not know what you're in for, me thinks. Remember how he started yesterday? Parred all holes on the front nine, going from one up on Tiger to three down. Playing with Tiger is like playing with, well, a tiger, an untamed one. Good stuff.

Lakeview's Community League starts in a week. Get yourself a partner and sign up today. Remember, this is a league where you play at your own convenience. Otherwise, format is same as our Tuesday League. Golfers of every stripe are welcome. Go here for a full description of the league, or call or stop in at the clubhouse.

update: If you were watching the golf on tv yesterday, did all those balls dribbling into the creek alongside #18 fairway remind anyone of play along our own #2 fairway? and how about #16, a 211 yard par three with water on three sides? That's a nice hole. Would love one of those out here.

Sunday Funnies

Picture: West Boggs Boat People - taken in the gloaming last night as I waited for the last golfers to come in before the dark.

-from an ad for a Nora Ephron book in the May 7 edition of The New Yorker: "When your children are teenagers it's important to have a dog so someone in the house is happy to see you." Of course one could take up golf - golfers are a happy bunch and always happy to see other golfers.

-from the same issue, news that the Mayor of New York City has proposed a "congestion tax". Those wishing to drive into congested areas are going to have to pay for that privilege. But what struck me was data supporting the Mayor's request: average speed of vehicles on 42nd street from 10am to 4pm is 4.7 mph; down near the approach to the Queens Midtown Tunnel that drops to 2.5 mph. Hey guys you will get there faster if you walk! I would suggest they ban all private vehicles.

-from the online edition of the magazine, article on Presidential primaries and this on doing something about the Electoral College:

"...Sometime in the next few weeks, Governor Martin O’Malley, of Maryland, will sign a bill making his state the first to pledge itself to the fledgling National Popular Vote plan—a proposed interstate compact that would confine the electoral college to a ceremonial role, like the Queen of England’s...." And make our vote count no matter where we live. Good idea.

Time for breakfast with Diane. It's sunny and beautiful out at the golf course. Head on over and play a round. It's good for you.

Saturday Scramble and Skins

Pictures: Ian and Lucas, Eric's boys, at the Cabin Friday morning.

First the nine hole scramble which was decided on the cards. The results:

1st: Junior Byron-Trenton Kidwell-Kevin Byron-Kent Summers (-4)
2nd: Derek Gilbertson-Jon Boyd-Jake Strange-Morris Cornelius (-4)
3rd: Mike Kidwell-Tyler Kidwell-Joe Allen-Joe Doyle (-3)
3rd: Mike Bird-Wayne Souerdike-Adam Lundy-Curt Johnson (-3)

Hole Prizes to Jon Boyd, both #1 and #5; Kevin Byron on #7; and Derek Gilbertson on #9.

Surprising low scores for the caliber of the teams. Of course, the course is very wet, soggy.
Jon Boyd had the hot iron though he stole Morris Cornelius thunder on the first hole. Morris stuck one within 4 feet and then saw Jon, his teammate, put one a few inches closer. And that was after Morris had to save his team with a tee shot that ended up down the left side of the fairway and some 125 to 130 yards from the hole.

In the skin match that followed, there were eight players and four skins taken: Mike Kidwell, with only one stroke, made the most of it by being the only one of eight to par the first hole - the net bird gave him a skin that many thought might be the only one to be gotten (would have been awfully nice for Mike). Trenton Kidwell had a birdie with a stroke on two (which negated two honey putts by Tyler Kidwell and me for birdies). Derek Gilbertson sank a nice 12 foot putt on #5 for an actual birdie and a net eagle for a skin; and Kent Summers had a par and a net bird on #8 for a skin - he's got Tyler Kidwell and me (remember the honey putters on #2?) to thank as the two of us three putted the green.

More next week.

Reminder: One more week before Community League gets started. Get yourself and your partner signed up now.

More Friday Shananigans

Tiger shares lead at Wachovia at -6. He's already in the clubhouse; lots of golf still going on down there.

Mavs are gone. Too bad, I've always had a soft spot for them with their owner being an IU grad. Ragtag Warriors? Number 8 seed? Whooee! What a ride for Don Nelson who's been around seemingly forever, at least as long as I can remember.

The US Attorney scandal: More bad stuff from the NYT. And this has to do not with one of the fired ones but rather with one who stepped down while investigating a US Representative and then took a job at the firm representing said representative. From the article:

"...If the United States attorney scandal has made one thing clear, it is that the riskiest job in the Bush administration is being a prosecutor investigating a Republican member of Congress. Carol Lam, the United States attorney in San Diego, was fired after she put Randy Cunningham, known as Duke, in prison. Paul Charlton, in Arizona, was dismissed while he was investigating Rick Renzi. Dan Bogden, in Nevada, was fired while he was reportedly investigating Jim Gibbons, a congressman who was elected governor last year.

Ms. Yang was investigating Jerry Lewis, who was chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee. Ms. Lam and most of the other purged prosecutors were fired on Dec. 7. Ms. Yang, in a fortuitously timed exit, resigned in mid-October...."

Hmmm. Remember, truth will out. Right now coming out in dribs and drabs but looks like the floodgates are about to open. In more than one arena.

Did you catch the picture of the group of ten suited white men at the Republican debate last night? Patriarchal. Nice if you like that sort of thing.

I have pictures of the boys at the Cabin - food was delicious as usual and the place is under new managemant - Nick Strange and Pete Smith were out mixing with a very full house when we were there. Bunch of Catholics there from church. Friday church. I did check and they insist they are still praying for us. Life is good.

Will post pictures of the boys later. Little darlings.

Friday Shananigans

Going to the Cabin for breakfast with Diane, Eric and the boys, Lucas and Ian. Golf Course is being left in the hands of our old friend, Mz. Inclementina Weatherspoon. More shananigans a little later.