Mixed League Preseason Scramble Week 1 Results

Congratulations to the winners,the Mark Potts/Noah Callahan and the Junior Byron/Kevin Byron team, each with a net score of 28.33.  The two teams also had the two low gross scores of the week.  The second preseason scramble for the Tuesday Men's League and the Thursday Match Play League starts today and runs through next Saturday.  Note:  A preseason scramble score for the Byron/Byron team was mistakenly posted last Wednesday; the two played in the Tuesday Afternoon Scramble then but not in the preseason scramble.  My bad.

	Wk1	Wk1
POS	Gross	Net	Player 1	Player 2	Team
Wk1	Score	Score			H'cap
1	31	28.33	Potts, Mark	Callahan, Noah	2.67
1	32	28.33	Byron, Jr	Byron, Kevin	3.67
3	34	28.67	Jones, Danny	Hawkins, Lonnie	5.33
4	33	29.33	Jeffers, Short	Divine, Jack	3.67
5	33	29.67	Johnson, Kevin	Burch, Matt	3.33
5	34	29.67	Walton, Tyler	Johnson, Curt	4.33
7	33	30.00	Rayhill, Tracy	Potts, Greg	3.00
8	34	30.33	Souerdike, Wayne	Allen, Joe	3.67
9	35	30.67	Brown, Dave	Lemmon, Dick	4.33
10	35	31.00	Denson, Doug	Strange, David G.	4.00
11	36	32.00	Hudson, Ken	Byron, Jr	4.00
12	35	32.33	Boyd, Jon	Hart, Paul	2.67
13	35	32.67	Bird, Mike	Lents, Jack	2.33
13	36	32.67	Wlaker, John	Ackerman, Cam	3.33
15	36	33.67	Butcher, Terry	Padgett, Colin	2.33
15	37	33.67	Graber, Stan	Graber, Marvin J.	3.33
17	39	34.00	Albertson, Mike	Jones, Mark	5.00

Saturday Golfers at Lakeview

Bird and Souerdike Win Saturday Scramble in OT with Bogey Free Round

 Photo by Pam Byron.

Mike Bird and Wayne Souerdike shot a bogey free round of four under in the Saturday Morning Scramble at Lakeview yesterday.  That earned them a place in a playoff with James Hager and Paul Hart who birdied the last two holes to get to four under.  After straight forward pars on the first overtime hole, the Bird/Souerdike team managed a par after a drive into the sandtrap guarding the green.  The Hager/Hart team, after a drive way left and on a severe downslope, pitched to just off the back side of the green from where they three putted for a bogey.  During regulation, Hager and Hart had five birds, including  the two at #8 and #9, but also found a bogey at hole #3.  Dave Wininger and Joe Allen shot a minus two which included three birds and a bogey while Kevin Johnson and Curt Johnson also shot a minus two in a round that included an eagle, three birds and three bogeys.

Bits and Pieces

-Scramble at 10 this morning.

-Reminder:  Tuesday Men and Thursday Match League players have the rest of today to get their first preseason scramble score into the system.  Tomorrow starts the second week of the preseason scramble game.  Remember, there is a prize for the first scramble, the second scramble and the total of the two (must play with the same partner each week to be eligible for the 18 hole prize). 

-Reminder 2:  The fee for the two preseason scrambles, as well as the mid-season scramble, are already paid as they are part of the league entrance fee.

Jack Lents and I will be playing after the SMS (Saturday Morning Scramble) around noon if any other team wants to join us.  I am also available to play a scramble with a Tuesday Men player later this afternoon - 6'ish.

-Friday Masters play:  Woe is Tiger with a plus three on the day and now eight strokes behind the leaders, Jason Dufner and Freddie Couples who are at -5 for the tournament.  Would say he is again lucky to be where he is and not further behind the leaders.  Note to Tiger: Bring your A game today; that would be the one you displayed a couple of weeks ago at Arnie's place.  Love the fact that Couples is playing so well - may his back hold up for him throughout the weekend.  Got to believe that The Kid is in a pretty good position at -4 and very much a factor on the weekend.  A Couples-McIlroy final pairing on Sunday would be neat.  And maybe Mickelson and Woods just in front of them?

-Did you get an invite to Sultan Run's beer tasting event at 6:30pm on the 19th of April?  Expect you can just show up, pay your money and join in if you are so inclined.  Of more interest, to me anyway, is the Demo Day and fitting with a Callaway rep from 8-2 the same day.  The right equipment does make a difference though for most of us golfers, just like in buying a suit, something off the rack is just fine.

-Jack Lents told me yesterday that Dick Lemmon, he with the hole-in-one at Lakeview after taking lessons down at Doral, is really pounding the ball.  Might want to ask him what his 'secret' to success is. 

-Karry Stoll was out with JD Simmons last night playing a round.  He had me take his camera back to the clubhouse and view the photos of his trip to Augusta (with Dave Wininger, Mike Seals and Mike Arvin).  They were there last Wednesday and did a lot of hobnobbing with the likes of Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Fred Couples, Keegan Bradley, etc.  Pretty neat as cameras are allowed on Wednesday so lots of pics of the well known.  And some of Mike and Mike and Dave.  Trying to remember if there were any of Karry - maybe his legs and feet - think he was showing the relative depth of the fairways (he later told me they were as trim as the carpet in the clubhouse) and the rough.

-Sun's coming up - hurray!  Another nice day for golf - in a little bit when the temps get up in the 50's and 650's.  We are so blessed.  Right?  Right.

-See some of you later.

Bits and Pieces

-Saturday Morning Scramble will start at 10 tomorrow with the low overnight temps.

-Medora.  Most of you know about Medora.  Go here and watch a five minute vid about a documentary being made (produced) about the Medora basketball team and their quest to win just one basketball game.  Son Marty forwarded it to me last night.  It's cool and you get the opportunity to be a backer of the project if you want.

-Another video, this one from Bangkok Bobby and has some cute LPGA players bouncing golf balls off of their clubs.  Very nifty and makes you want to be able to do the same.  My golfing skills lie elsewhere at the moment but I'm up for learning how to do that.  Think it has something to do with eye and hand coordination, timing, rhythm.

-Tiger bogeys #17 and #18 on opening day and ends up shooting par for the day.  From the stats and reports, looks like he was pretty darn good at recovering from not so good lies.  Hard to believe that he has been under par at the end of day one on only one of his 18 trips to the Masters.  McIlroy, on the other hand, birdied the same two holes and walks off at one under.  Leader: Lee Westwood at five under par.  More good stuff today from Augusta.  Note to guys playing down there:  Watch out for quadruple bogeys at the last; does nothing good for any part of your game.  Just ask Henrik Stenson (he was 'leaking oil' coming down the stretch with bogeys at 14 and 16 to go along with a birdie at 15 and a par at 17; plus four at the last couldn't have been any fun).

-Several of the Thursday Match Play League teams showed up for a 10am game but decided against going out in the suddenly and drastically much cooler weather - mid 40's (with wind).  That might be ok for most early Aprils but this year we've had summer already for several weeks.  Going from playing in 80+ degree weather the day before to something forty degrees less - hmm, gives one reason to pause and think a bit.  Five of the group did go out for fun; the rest of us, including me, put our golf off for a bit.

Photo: Stan Graber and Marvin Graber finishing up a par at #8.  The two, playing their preseason scramble for the Tuesday Men's League, finished up with a 37.  Marvin, returning from his glory days with brother Norman (they won the team championship back in 2000), will be pairing up with cousin Stan this season.

Bits and Pieces

-Holy Cow!  April like weather in April!  Dang.  Would have been nice to have a little sun and ten more degrees of temperature this morning when the Thursday Match Play Leaguers meet (at 10:00).  But isn't it also nice to have a little relief from all this early heat?  :)    The League members are reminded that they can get their pre-season scramble in the books anytime this week (through Saturday) - it doesn't have to be this morning.  Same thing next week though we will again have a 10am gathering where there will be a game - weather permitting.

-The Masters:  Want Tiger to win but he has to go do it and he has lots of other pretty good golfers out there wanting to slip into that green jacket come this next Sunday afternoon.  Robert Garrigus got off to a rough start with a +3 on the first hole (came back with a birdie on the par 5 2nd hole).  Ouch.

-Looking out the window here on the hill and the wind is really whipping the trees and bird feeders around.  My oh my.  See some of you at ten?  Off to get ready.

Bits and Pieces

-The Irish women were desperately good for about 25 minutes of last night's 40 minute championship game.  Al Lesar of the South Bend Tribune pretty much sums up what happened with just over 15 minute minutes to play in the 2nd half.

Despite the foul trouble, despite four missed open layups, despite
Griner, Notre Dame trailed by just six at intermission. Five minutes
into the second half, the Irish were down three and possessed the
ball.

Turnover. Odyssey Sims 3-pointer. Look out, the roof's caving in.

 Got to believe that roof did cave in and with all the Irish players inside the house and not being able to do anything about it.  From then on, it was all Baylor and Brittany Griner with more than able help from her fellow players.  That particular turnover was the 4th foul on Devereaux Peters, a hard pick on a screen where she raised her arm and sent the Baylor player to the floor.  Skylar Diggins scored 20 and had her game intact;  But Devereaux Peters, Natalie Novosel (zero for eleven in shooting) and Brittany Mallory were shut down.  That's not good when they were so much a factor in the Irish success.  Hats off to the Baylor team - they just kept coming and coming and coming against the Irish.  Final score: 80-61.

-Results of yesterday's Tuesday Afternoon Scramble:

	Tuesday Afternoon Scramble		Team	Gross	Net
	4/3/2012		H'cap	Score	Score
1	Jones, Danny	Hawkins, Lonnie	5.33	34	28.67
2	Jeffers, Short	Divine, Jack	3.67	33	29.33
3	Johnson, Kevin	Burch, Matt	3.33	33	29.67
4	Denson, Doug	Strange, David G.	4.00	35	31.00
5	Byron, Jr	Byron, Kevin	3.67	36	32.33
5	Boyd, Jon	Hart, Paul	2.67	35	32.33
7	Butcher, Terry	Padgett, Colin	2.33	36	33.67

-Standings in the 1st Mixed League (Tuesday Men and Thursday Match Play) pre-season scramble:
Note: League players have through Saturday to get their scramble score in; your league entry fee includes fees for both the pre-season scrambles as well as the mid-season scramble.

					Wk1	Wk1
Wk1	Team	Player 1	Player 2	Team	Gross	Net
POS				H'cap	Score	Score
1	6	Jones, Danny	Hawkins, Lonnie	5.33	34	28.67
2	10	Jeffers, Short	Divine, Jack	3.67	33	29.33
3	2	Walton, Tyler	Johnson, Curt	4.33	34	29.67
4	9	Johnson, Kevin	Burch, Matt	3.33	33	29.67
5	3	Souerdike, Wayne	Allen, Joe	3.67	34	30.33
6	7	Denson, Doug	Strange, David G.	4.00	35	31.00
7	5	Boyd, Jon	Hart, Paul	2.67	35	32.33
8	8	Byron, Jr	Byron, Kevin	3.67	36	32.33
9	4	Butcher, Terry	Padgett, Colin	2.33	36	33.67
10	1	Albertson, Mike	Jones, Mark	5.00	39	34.00

-Thursday Match Play League:  Come on out at 10 tomorrow morning and help get the season underway with the first of the two pre-season scrambles.  We'll run the pre-season scramble concurrently with a Thursday Morning Scramble - each is optional and players do not have to play their pre-season scramble tomorrow at 10 (anytime during the week, Sunday through Saturday).

-Another good day for golf.
Photos: Top: Collage of players on the course and playing in the scramble last night.  Middle: Lonnie Hawkins and Danny Jones exiting the 8th green; they won the Tuesday Afternoon Scramble with a net score of 28.67.  Bottom: Kevin Johnson just barely missing an eagle putt on #6; Matt Burch's putt did the same thing.