Bits and Pieces

-Nice day for a scramble or any other kind of golf.  The afternoon game would have to start at 3:30 to finish before the lights went out - I watched the sun fall over the trees last night - got dark and cool very quickly starting about 5:30.  Of course, if you insisted on starting later (or had to because of other commitments, like work), you could play two man teams with each starting on a different hole - shouldn't take more than an hour and a half, one would think.  Or play a six hole scramble - skip the par threes.  Or...

-Speaking of par threes: Jack Lents came out and played 18 holes with Jack Butcher, Ken Hudson and me yesterday morning.  He's the guy who has taken five of the six flags the last couple of weeks in the game of skins, flags and partners that we play.  Us other guys were intent on limiting his flags to about zero yesterday and for 16 of the holes we pretty much had him corralled.  He was even mumbling as we finished up hole #15 that he was having a bad day - zero skins, zero partners, zero flags.  But...  Three flags were up for grabs at hole #16 and it looked like my shot was about two or three feet just beyond the pin.  Jack's shot looked close but not close enough.  Turned out, his shot was five feet from the pin, mine ten, and suddenly his day brightened a whole bunch.  And, to top things off, he rolled in the putt for a birdie and a skin as well.  Dang.  Day ended with Jack firing a net 75 along with Kenny Hudson; Jack Butcher finished with a net 68 and me a net 69.  The Butcher man walked away with the most quarters, one more than the other Jack, two more than me and four more than Kenny.

-Looks like a nice week for golf if you can get out during the day.  Weekend looks even nicer.

-Cautionary note:  If you are an early golfer, remember to wait till all frost has cleared before hitting that first ball.  Walking on frosty greens is verboten (forbidden). 

-Hannah LaMar has joined our staff.  She will be helping out both at the clubhouse and on the grounds when she can get away from her school work and her athletic commitments (she plays both volleyball and tennis at Loogootee).  Here's a photo of her at the v-ball sectionals where the Lions succumbed to the Barr-Reeve Vikings (a team that is now 36-0 and goes to state next weekend).