Happy Fore-th
Saturday, July 5th
Absolutely
perfect weather and conditions for our holiday play. They even
cancelled the Scarsdale fireworks so that we didn't have to play #12 as
a live hazard. There were no excuses out there this week.
That was your chance to score. Must be the long weekend that threw us off.The President's Cup tournament concluded with a very tight final. In the end Jeremy Goldberg out lasted Steve Hertz through 21 holes of play. The regulation 18 holes were extremely tight with only one lead of 2UP and no one ever winning more than two holes in a row. Both players started tentatively, each losing one of the first two holes with a big number. Then Jeremy won 2 of the next three, including a nice par (with a stroke) on #5. Steve erased that lead by immediately winning the next two holes and they were all square after 7. They pushed #8 and #9 to end the front tied. Steve opened the back with a par on #10, but Jeremy came back to win #12. Tied again. Push on #12 and then Jeremey again came up with a 5 on a par 5 to go 1UP after 13. Steve bounced right back with a win on #14 to tie the match. Then Hertz parred #16 for win and was 1Up with 2 to play. I didn't see them play #17, but I would have loved to. Under some real pressure Jeremy squeaked out a natural par to win the hole and tie the match. That would have been fun to see.
To see the rest for yourself - click here and watch Rob Cohlan's video. If you'd rather read... read on. They pushed #18 to end regulation All Square. Two playoff holes later, they were still tied. Finally, playing #10, Steve got into trouble and Jeremy took advantage. Congratulations to our new President's Cup Champion, Jeremy Goldberg.
Looking at the scores for our Weekly I tried to make excuses for the club. I decided it had to be related to Fourth of July BarBQues and a couple extra Budweisers. Which got me to thinking about Drinking and Driving - just how much does alcohol affect the golf game? Fortunately the answer was in this month's Golf Digest. They took several golfers, plied them with their favorite drinks and monitored Blood Alcohol Content vs Driving Results. I've summarized the research below:
So two drinks can relax and even help a bit, although they probably have more effect on attitude than aptitude. And three or more will ruin your score. By those standards we had a very happy fourth.
Tom Gramolini and the Memorial Cup Committee are putting some finishing tweaks on this year's new scoring system. He says they'll be out this week, but in the meantime, why not sign up. It's our two week, total score event. It will be played on July 19th and 26th with the winner's presentation taking place at the Summer BarBQue that evening. Which reminds me - did you reply to Paddy yet about the 26th? Get your name on the BBQ list now.
Tee times move next week. First off will be in the 6 a.m. gloaming. Enjoy your extra 20 mins sleep.
Red White & Blue
Winners for July 5th
I look forward to this event each year. It
should be the perfect combination of ideal weather, ideal course
conditions and the ideal opportunity to reach those greens with shorter
clubs and deadlier accuracy. It wasn't. Whatever happened
on to us on the fourth (see DUI above) was more than enough to offset
the removal of 600 yards.
In fact the club scores really didn't reflect any advantage from the shorter course. We shot gross 94/net 76 using tee appropriate handicaps - pretty much in line with a normal week. Other than the par 3's the red tees really didn't confer much of an advantage on our scores. For instance on the first hole our club average YTD is 5.21 from the Blues; on Saturday we averaged 5.23 from the Reds. Even on #4 where we trimmed the distance from 150 yds to 125 yds the average score only dropped 1/10th of a stroke vs normal play. Seems like distance isn't the thing holding back our scores. Short game lessons anyone?
Winners this week were by flight for over/under 15 handicap index. Low round was Frank Higgins. His gross 80/net 70 were the best numbers of the day. A super 37 on the front set him up for a $25 prize. Joe Valenti managed to win from the blues - he was +5 red tees, +6 from the whites yet only +3 from the blues. He should have played them all back. His net 71 was best in high index score.
See the Scores from Saturday: Last Week's Scores.
In fact the club scores really didn't reflect any advantage from the shorter course. We shot gross 94/net 76 using tee appropriate handicaps - pretty much in line with a normal week. Other than the par 3's the red tees really didn't confer much of an advantage on our scores. For instance on the first hole our club average YTD is 5.21 from the Blues; on Saturday we averaged 5.23 from the Reds. Even on #4 where we trimmed the distance from 150 yds to 125 yds the average score only dropped 1/10th of a stroke vs normal play. Seems like distance isn't the thing holding back our scores. Short game lessons anyone?
Winners this week were by flight for over/under 15 handicap index. Low round was Frank Higgins. His gross 80/net 70 were the best numbers of the day. A super 37 on the front set him up for a $25 prize. Joe Valenti managed to win from the blues - he was +5 red tees, +6 from the whites yet only +3 from the blues. He should have played them all back. His net 71 was best in high index score.
See the Scores from Saturday: Last Week's Scores.
Match Play vs Par
Game for July 12th
Bobby Jones said it best.
"No man will ever have golf under his thumb. No round will ever be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps that is why golf is the greatest of games. You are not playing a human adversary; you are playing a game. You are playing Old Man Par."
Track your net vs par on each hole - score as if Match Play. But know who you are up against:
"Old Man Par is a patient soul, who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a buzzard. And if you travel the long route with him, you must be patient, too."
$25 to winners in over/under handicap Index 15.
Get A Scorecard for the Weekend: Next Week's Card
"No man will ever have golf under his thumb. No round will ever be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps that is why golf is the greatest of games. You are not playing a human adversary; you are playing a game. You are playing Old Man Par."
Track your net vs par on each hole - score as if Match Play. But know who you are up against:
"Old Man Par is a patient soul, who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a buzzard. And if you travel the long route with him, you must be patient, too."
$25 to winners in over/under handicap Index 15.
Get A Scorecard for the Weekend: Next Week's Card
