Saturday Scramble Start Time

10am.

A Game of Inches

Played with the boys yesterday morning.  That would be Jack Lents, Jack Butcher and Kenny Hudson.  You remember that Jack Lents, my good neighbor to the southeast, has been running up his flag count the last three times we've played together.  Yesterday he came within a whisker or two of continuing that trend.  With three flags piled up on top of each other (that means we all missed the putting surface at #3 and #7), he and I both hit the green with our tee shots.  It took three different measurements using two different methods (stepping it off and then using the flag as a measuring tool), for him to finally concede that his shot was five or six inches further away than mine.  Dang the luck.  He went flagless on the back nine as well - I picked up the ones at three and nine while Jack Butcher got the one at seven.  Though Jack finally decided to share the flag glory, he didn't walk away with out a laurel stick: his net 69 was low score for the day.  I came in with a 71, Jack Butcher a 73 and Kenny Hudson a horrendous 86.  The skins: JB had 5, MB had 4, JL had 1 and KH had nada.  Sad to say, no hole-in-ones, again.  Won't be long before we try again though.

You Gotta Love the People

They sure are having a lot of fun over in China at the HSBC in Shanghai.  Through two rounds, TigerWoods and Nick Watney share the lead at ten under but the real story is the crowd.  Golf is new in China so no real tradition or a knowledge of the 'proper way' to watch.  That means lots of moving around, lots of camera clicking, lots of cell phones ringing.  Here's an espn.com article by Dan Washburn that will give you a pretty good idea of the chaos that reigns over in the Far East.    Isn't life grand?!

Postman, Oilman and Banker, Too...

Seen at the golf course late this afternoon.

Winter Fees

We've gone to our winter fee rate schedule.  You can see them here.

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).

Double Eagle Update

Just got an email from TJ McAtee on double eagles at Lakeview:

Not sure who the guy was, but Drew Kluesner, Bubba, and Mitch Wagler were witnesses to a double eagle on 4 a few years ago.  Vague details I know…

Anybody out there know who that might have been?  So, we have at least one other double eagle at Lakeview, total of two.  Any others?

ps from TJ:

Unfortunately it wasn’t me.  I just remember them telling me about it a few years ago.  The guy was playing alone and drained it from 200 or so out.