Tuesday Men - Come on Down

Hey!  It's a grand day to be alive and to be playing golf.  Why not get out there early, or stay late, and play 18!  (You all remember Ernie Banks, right?)  Expect some overcast skies and coolish temperatures and a course that is a little wet but not really all that much.  Again, not much roll in the fairways and the greens are soft and receptive.  Scores should be better just because it's well into May now and we really have had plenty of time to round our games into some sort of shape.

Week 3 of the Butcher Doyle Team Tournament.  Better start thinking about making your move if you are somewhere in the bottom half of the tournament standings.  Don't know how many points it will take to win - 160?  170?  Less, like maybe 140?  Depends on what those frontrunners do today, Walker and Ackerman, Rayhill and Potts (the young ones).  They already have 95 points with close to 60 points available each of the next two weeks.  Four teams are in the 80 range, another four in the 70's, and another four in the 60's.  Not counting anybody out just yet.

The low handicappers for the day:  Mark Potts at +2 (he gives the field 2 strokes), Trenton Kidwell and Phil Eyler, each at 1.  Expect to see some movement towards the big zero today by several of the scratch and near scratch players out there.  In fact, I expect movement by all the players towards a lower handicap whether carrying a  gaudy one or a more typical eight or a fifteen.  Remember, the group average is hovering around the forty-three mark, meaning that the average handicap is about eight strokes.

Whatever - come out and play and have fun first and let the guy keeping the scorecard worry about the numbers.  Wonder how many of you can do that?