Tuesday Men Come On Down Please

Tuesday Men take center stage today. And with just three weeks left in the season, do I see a little light at the top of the standings? Do George Templin and Don Nolan have any advantage at all with a 34 point lead? And how about John Drake on top of the individual standings with a 37 point lead? I imagine the odds are in their favor but this has been such a volatile year with several teams and individuals having shared the top spot, I would not be surprised at all to see a few more changes before the bell rings three weeks from tonight.

Terry Butcher and Phil Eyler start the day with big zero handicaps, Short Jeffers just one off. And where have all those young guns gone? I'm reminded of the college basketball players going from the 30 something season to the NBA where they play what must seem like every night. And no break for classroom stuff and strolling around the campus. What a shock to their system the Bigs must be! Am sure that we have not heard the last of Mitch and Weston and Trenton by a long shot.

And speaking of long shots... Load up your big driving stick and take a shot at the longest shot in the long shot competition that starts today. This will be a running competition through the rest of the season. Contestants wind up and hit the ball as far as they can off of #6 tee box. If it's the longest of all come Tuesday evening, September 4th, then you will be declared our long ball champ of 2007. Of course, you won't want to forget that your ball has to be somewhere out there in #6 fairway, not in the lake or over in #4 or on the median or the dam.

A little rain right now, but nothing like the record rain falls they had in Indy, Fort Wayne and South Bend yesterday afternoon. Ok, best get ready and head over to the golf course, see what's going on...

More of a Good Thing

Pictures: Sunday evening at Lakeview: Colleen and Opa strolling down #5; Colleen relaxing on #4 green; and a casual Ian who took the top two pictures while golfing with Opa and his mom and dad.


GeoPolitics

Good article by Peter Baker of WAPO on the attempt by Bush to spread democracy around the world. Article's closing lines, by the author of the book that helped inspire the attempt:

"I give him an A for bringing the idea and maybe a C for implementation," said Sharansky, now chairman of the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies at the Shalem Center in Israel. "There is a gap between what he says and what the State Department does," and he is not consistent enough.

The challenge Bush faced, Sharansky added, was to bring Washington together behind his goal.

"It didn't happen," he said. "And that's the real tragedy."

And of course the world didn't get behind it very much either after seeing Bush's efforts to bring democracy to Iraq. Who wants democracy at the end of a gun? What were these guys thinking!? Oh, I remember, they were thinking since we were the number one military power in the world, we had the moral duty to make the world a better place. And if that meant going in with guns, well so be it. Ah, America, beacon of hope for millions around the world.

Sports

-Ochoa wins easily at Canadian Open. Boosts her earnings to $2,636,590. Not peanuts and I'm sure she makes a bundle from off course activities and endorsements but next to the earnings of her male counterpart, it's pine nuts. (Any idea what Tiger has earned so far this year?)

-Kevin Johnson in town for a couple of weeks. You might try to catch him at the golf course and play a round with him. He finishes up PGA School this December. He promises a round of 30 for himself and a 38 for his dad, Curt. (It's public now, Kevin. Should add a little motivation to make it happen.) Expect Kevin to join Tuesday Men for league play tomorrow... Wonder if we could get Mark Potts down for another go at it? Would be a good pairing.

-Tuesday Men's League has a Long Ball Competition starting tomorrow. First of three Tuesdays where contestants' tee shots on #6 go for the long ball competition. Will mark the long ball location for each event and go from there the next time. Longest drive over the three days gets the pot of money. You got a long drive in you? Sign up and go for it.

-Tuesday Boyz go to Hidden Hills tomorrow. Start time is 8:30 our time. I think Junior is going up, maybe Ray too.

-Community League starts its final two weeks which includes a Team Tournament. BTW, Jeff Brookshire definitely benefited from his little golf goddess' presence yesterday - shot a 36. Best ever, Jeff? Meanwhile, Lucas Bird had the round of the week for the Community League with a sterling net 29 for the youngster who in the process beat his Oma by a stroke, 50 to 51.

-Wayne Souerdike shot a par round of 35 in the USG League last week. One of Wayne's best rounds of the year. (You have shot par before, haven't you, Wayne? Expect you have but don't know for sure. Excellent round in any case!)

-'nuff for now... Go play golf, it's good for you.

Mondays at the Golf Course

At the golf course and it's full of golfers getting well started before the heat of the day arrives. Senior Day here and the seniors show up in droves. Members, non members, Community Leaguers, even a young man (Todd Baker) getting in a quick nine before he starts his college classes later today. Hey, it's the place to be...

More later.

Community League

The reports are posted for the Community League and the USG League. Community League highlights:

LAKEVIEW GOLF COURSE
Community League Week ending August 19, 2007 Event 14
	Leaders
	Team:	BROOKSHIRE/SEAL			278
	Individual:	BROOKSHIRE, JEFF			497
	Round of the Week:	BIRD, LUCAS			Net 29
	Low Net Scores:
	Women	Shirley Jeffers (30)
	Senior	Patty Bowling (31)
	Men	Jim Ader, Jeff Brookshire (31's)
	Junior	Lucas Bird (29)
	Low Gross Scores:
	Men	Jeff Brookshire (36)
	Women	Kim Jones (44)
	Senior	Bob Walton (38)
	Junior	Matt Tucker (41)
	Low Net Team	BROOKSHIRE/SEAL			64
		Current Wk		Last Wk
	Avg Gross Score:	46.35		45.68	47.37	47.07	48.03
	Avg Net Score:	35.30		33.50	35.60	34.96	34.59

More Funnies

Jeff Brookshire had his own little golf goddess, Emily, to squire him around the golf course earlier today.

More Sunday Funnies

More on Rove

Guess he was on several of the Sunday morning talk/spin/rationalize/blather shows. This from Miss Laura at dKos pretty much sums up my feeling about the man:

In just a few hours, Karl Rove will be on not one, not two, but, according to Newsie8200's list, three of the Sunday talk shows.

Will he receive his usual "political genius" tongue bath, or will Hunter's explanation be creeping into the coverage?

Rove's oft-touted "genius" is nothing more than single-minded amorality. In campaigns and in the administration, he was and is unapologetically amoral in service to his own cause or that of his client: his "genius" is that he has consistently been willing to go farther, be meaner, and invent more astonishing lies than would be done by anyone in politics with a thin remaining threads of a conscience.

And let's not forget, it was ultimately ineffective amorality.

Bad man. Go away. Let us continue the recovery and renewal without all your lies and flimflam.

On a Lighter Note:

-Cubbies in first. On track for first World Series win in over a century. Go Cubs!

Sunday Funnies

Is it beautiful out there right now? Yes it is with temperatures in the 60's. My oh my what a nice nice break in the weather after those weeks in the oven of early August in southern Indiana. Heading to the golf course to get things started then back for the funny pages...

But for starters:

-Lorena up by four at the Women's Canadian Open. Going for second win in a row. The lady is feeling and looking like Super Woman!

-WAPO reporting that Rove's efforts to politicize the federal government was deep and relentless. Let's get him in court for violations of the Hatch Act.

More in a jiff...