Wednesday Wonderment

With a forecast of near 80 degrees, 16 Pot Gamers came out to tee off in fog and play a little 3BB on the South course.  Mad Dog scheduled Valley Seniors for a 9am shot gun on the back nine which lead everyone to conclude this could be another of his "Bright Ideas".  They got more nervous when the Dog announced he wasn't playing (another retirement).  But in the end his logistics worked out and the two groups never collided.

Chuckie created four groups to do battle.  One of the participants Commish had to re-introduce himself as no one has seen him in over a month.  Bear had texted him the night before to challenge him to show up while the weather was still warm and he did.

Team #1 Triple N, Molasses Boy, 99 and Rod P went red on the first hole but couldn't hold it as they crept up to +4 at the turn.  Triple N shot a very impressive 33 on the front on his own ball which was good for the second best score of the day.

Team # 2 Pudge, Skrocki, Billy D and House were rolling along until they reached the 7th hole when the best they could do was +4 which kick started them on their way to shoot +9 on the front.

Team #3 Sandy, Otis, Fireman and Commish were able to ding/dong their way to a +3 score when players B-D all broke 40.

Team #4 Bear, Walt, Birdie and Skooger were rolling along until they had to take a triple bogey 7 on the 4th hole which sealed their fate.  Bear threw in 4 birdies to shot 32 and Walt shot a tidy 37 but they couldn't get lower than +4.

Team # 1 drifted into bogey land when they shot +10 on the back followed close behind by Team #3 who shot +9.  Teams #2 and #4 fought it out ending in a tie at +3.  Team #2 went birdie crazy when Pudge and Skrocki birdied the last 6 holes in a row.  Team # 4 had three birdies on the 16th hole to put them -2 but couldn't hold on losing 5 shots on 17 and 18.

Team #4 ended up with 1 1/2 sides, Team #2 1/2 and Team #3 1 side.

Low scores of the day Bear 67, Triple N 74, Pudge 74, Otis 76, Walt 76 and Sandy 78.  There were 8 skins worth $10. (Pudge 4 (Roy Boy x 4), Bear 1, Triple N 1, Billy D 1, Skrocki 1)

Sandy who has been clipping Bear on a regular basis in their automatic dollar a hole match forked over a record $15 to Bear.  Pudge and Bear also have an ongoing match and despite Pudge making four birdies he still lost $10 when Bear posted 7 birdies.

Cheez update.  He is stuck in NC grandchildren mode which does not allow playing golf.  He won't make The Villages until Sunday night.  Lots of rust on his game.