Bretwood Pot Game Gazette: Invitational Recap

Tournament Director Running The Show

The Tournament Director Deacon was able to assemble 20 Pot Gamers for his Invitational held last weekend under perfect weather conditions.

Friday night's Pick-Em Party hosted by Sandy and his wife Kerry was a huge success once everyone was able to find their driveway which was not easy (even with directions). Several Pot Gamers passed each other going in the opposite direction back and forth on the road looking for house number 208. Penguin almost missed out on the food because he went by about 10 times before he found it. Food and beer was plentiful, including venison burgers for a little something different.

Deacon assigned heads to Cheez and tails to Bear and it came up tails giving Bear the first pick. Sandy was the first player taken, then Cheez had the next two and without hesitation took Skrocki and Jay Esh. Back and forth it went until Blue Tees wearing his Mr Irrelevant sign on his shirt was on the Cheez's team completing the rosters. Each team chose their colors and Bear took red and Cheez took blue.

The rosters were as follows:

Bear, Sandy, Tractorman, Birdie, Chimney, Bow Pete, Joey M, Rama, Deacon and Hagen

Cheez, Skrocki, Jay Esh, Billy D, TJ, Cabot, Penguin, Blue Tees, Dougie and House

The best part of any Pick-Em Party is doing the pairing for all three formats: 4 Ball, Alternate shot and Singles.

Below are all the results.

4 Ball Matches

As you can see by the pic of the results provided by Joey M, Cheez's team Blue jumped out to a quick 2 point lead after the morning rounds.

Alternate Shot

Cheez's team added to their lead by picking up 2 more points in the afternoon, giving them a commanding lead of 4 points going into Sunday's singles matches.

Singles

It was a solid victory by Cheez's team who pulled out several points on the very last hole to give them victories or halves. Nobody from either team earned 3 points but a few did make 2.5 points

Here is a list of how the points were for each team:

Bear 1 Cheez 2
Sandy 2 Jay Esh 1
Bow Pete 2 Skrocki 2.5
Rama 1 Billy D 2
Hagen 0 Blue Tees 2
Chimney .5 House 2
Deacon 1.5 Penguin 1
Joey M 0 Cabot 2.5
Tractorman 1.5 TJ 2
Birdie 1.5 Dougie 2
Total 11 Total 19

Highlights:
Little Bow Pete made a hole-in-one (his first) on the 8th hole north course Sunday with a 6 iron. It took two bounces and rolled into the cup. However all he got was a skin and a big bar tab as it was decided prior to the Tournament that because it was an Invitational instead of a regular Pot Game any hole-in-one would not count in the pool.

Deacon kept his streak alive of not being on a winning team despite shooting 76 and 75 on his own ball in 4 ball and singles. Plus he had to lug around the struggling Bear in alternate shot to earn a point.

The four white tee sluts on Cheez's team made sure Bear knew they had taken points in all but three matches over the weekend. I guess they were a little sensitive to all being on the same team and Bear not picking any of them.

With the majority of players sitting at one big table at Gino's waiting patiently for their beers and appetizers, House decides to order just for himself a big juicy cheeseburger and onion rings and proceeded to eat it in front of the other starving players. His onion rings were quickly stolen from his plate by all those around him and he was made to pony up another $20 for being so selfish.

A big thank you to Joey M for bringing his camera along and snapping pictures of the tournament and both parties before and after. Here are some selections of his work.