What Happened To Rules?

Commish On Saturday

The overcast early morning foreshadowed what was about to happen to the Saturday Pot Game.  Everyone expected a large turnout given the weather forecast for Sunday of rain, so as Mad Dog was recording names as the Pot Gamers streamed in first there was 10 , then 14, then 18, then a perfect 21.  Seven teams of three would do battle...until a new comer seconds before tee off asked if he could play.  That set off a chain of events never before seen by even the most hardened Pot Gamers.  Commish & Mad Dog violated their own rule of cutting off any Pot Gamer who fails to call or show 15 minutes prior to tee off.  Now nobody was sure whether we had 21 or 22, Was Mad Dog playing or not?  As the players collected on the 1st tee North, confusion rained.  Finally a pissed off Commish with smoke pouring out of his ears, declared we had to play quota with uneven teams totaling 22 players.  So Sandbagger Saturday was on. Half the players cried out they wanted to play 2 best balls others wanted to play quota but had no handicaps to be able to figure their team points.  Commish stole Hulslander's cart to get the handicap chart and then rode down the fairway to give the information to the threesomes that had already teed off.  The Captains figured out their teams quotas and off they went.  Two threesomes and four foursomes.  Bear's team asked Mad Dog's team on the 15th fairway how they did on the front and Mad Dog answered he didn't know what we playing so he was just marking down their scores...(Senior moment).  When the dust cleared Pudge's team won the front with +2.5 points and total with +2.5. Mad Dog somehow won the back (even though he didn't know what he was playing) with an impressive +6.  There were 7 skins worth $15 each (Pudge 2, Mad Dog 1, Bear 1, Skrocki 1, Pete 1 and Blue Tees 1).  Otis took money for a skin for his birdie on two but was informed he had been cut by the long hitting Hulslander who had reached the green in two and made a birdie as well.  Reluctantly Otis gave the money back to a loud chorus of jeers.  Low scores were Bear's 69 and Pudge's 74.