Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Tuesday Men, Come on down once again...

History (for the fun of it): Five years ago today, Doug Denson and Junior Byron had the low scores of the day, each with a 35. Junior got one of the two eagles of the day; Larry Sutton got the other; Doug, Abe Knepp, Dave Wininger and Phil Eyler each had two birdies. Tyler Walton, Larry Sutton and John Foddrill tied for the low net with 31's. For the 2003 season, no player had gotten more than one eagle in any single event and only one player had come in with a round of nine pars - Terry Butcher. Short Jeffers was the only one who had come in with four birdies on the day. There was at least one error on the scorecards that was not caught: Keith Parsons' card showed a 7 on #9 - twice par should have topped out at 6 making Keith's final score a 49 rather than a 50.

Back to today, another lovely August day in store for us. There is one change to the hole prize mix: the 'Go-for-it' contest will include daily winners as well as an overall winner. Other hole prizes are the same as last week with the long first putts on #1 and #2 supplementing the usual four at 3, 7, 8 and 9. Three golfers head into today's play with zero handicaps: Short Jeffers, Phil Eyler and Terry Butcher while Mark Sherer is close with a one handicap. Twenty-two players are over a thousand points on the season and within 200 points of the top spot. With four more events to go, who is going to end up on top is anybody's guess Last year the guy in ninth place, a 132 points from the top, came on to take the crown. That would be John Foddrill. John Drake slipped from first to third in the same time span. In Team play, Bill Carrico and Keith Parsons moved from second to first during the four last weeks of the season. Anybody care to predict the winners this year? Lot of guys playing well...