Friday, August 7, 2009

Sunday August Second


It was a 6-person tourney, a goodly crew, including Linz, Roy, Vince, Derrick, Erin and myself. We played an augmented version of one-group "ready frolf", in which we all played when ready, with the exception of the tee-box, where honors remained. It was a good compromise, allowing for good pace of play and a proper hard-earned teebox line-up as well. After about 11 holes, with Linz playing great and most of us playing well, Erin judged himself out of it, and started to just go for aces. But he also seemed to make most of the challenging birdie putts he left himself. I found a way to bogie 15, which, when you think about it, is pretty hard to do. On 17, Linz left herself a very makable par putt, which would have allowed her to layup on 18 and still win. But her uphill effort missed high, and her comebacker missed and rolled all the way to the bottom, dooming her chances for a tourney win. A brutal turn of events after 16 excellent holes, but Linz took it with her usual nonchalant grace...and maybe a few extra words thrown in. This opened up the tourney to others, and we figured out Erin, Derrick and I were all tied for the lead going into 18. All three of us birdied (clutch!) to set up a three-way playoff at the top of the world! Derrick's effort sailed wide left, my effort missed wide right by a foot (!), and Erin's also missed right. All three of us bogied, and moved to the second playoff hole--a longer throw to 6--which only Erin birdied for the win! Derrick and I did a CTP to the 11th basket from the track, and Derrick edged me by a few feet for the second place money. But before you feel sorry for me, you should know that I drowned my sorrows in the delicious macaroons I won from Vince in a CTP on hole 3!


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  1. Hmmm... Does this mean Erin finally won? Hate to say I will miss tourny yet again today- I am finishing up my camping trip and in Santa Cruz (can you say "de la"?) for my niece's b-day. I will be back and not miss another tourny EVER!!! tomorrow. Ok well not for awhile at least-
    I will now attempt to update the handis using windows vista. Wish me luck

    -Park a little, save a lot

    (Erin you need to teach me how I can post handis on our blog)

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  2. I've been slammed this week, haven't been over on the blog, but I see no one wrote up last week's tourney, and it's already Sunday again. I don't want Erin to get entirely jipped, so briefly:

    It was a 6-person tourney, a goodly crew, including Linz, Roy, Vince, Derrick, Erin and myself. We played an augmented version of one-group "ready frolf", in which we all played when ready, with the exception of the tee-box, where honors remained. It was a good compromise, allowing for good pace of play and a proper hard-earned teebox line-up as well. After about 11 holes, with Linz playing great and most of us playing well, Erin judged himself out of it, and started to just go for aces. But he also seemed to make most of the challenging birdie putts he left himself. I found a way to bogie 15, which, when you think about it, is pretty hard to do. On 17, Linz left herself a very makable par putt, which would have allowed her to layup on 18 and still win. But her uphill effort missed high, and her comebacker missed and rolled all the way to the bottom, dooming her chances for a tourney win. A brutal turn of events after 16 excellent holes, but Linz took it with her usual nonchalant grace...and maybe a few extra words thrown in. This opened up the tourney to others, and we figured out Erin, Derrick and I were all tied for the lead going into 18. All three of us birdied (clutch!) to set up a three-way playoff at the top of the world! Derrick's effort sailed wide left, my effort missed wide right by a foot (!), and Erin's also missed right. All three of us bogied, and moved to the second playoff hole--a longer throw to 6--which only Erin birdied for the win! Derrick and I did a CTP to the 11th basket from the track, and Derrick edged me by a few feet for the second place money. But before you feel sorry for me, you should know that I drowned my sorrows in the delicious macaroons I won from Vince in a CTP on hole 3!

    Looking forward, my handi kicks up to 5 under, but on the bright side, Erin's kicks up to 8--a height only visited unofficially by some Dallas guy, who only played in 4 tourneys. So congrats, Erin, and I'm glad you finally won again, so the level of griping about how your handicap never allows you to win might go down!

    I can't make it today, as I've got to attend a beach party for a friend's 40th birthday this afternoon. Should be a banner day! Take lots of pics so I can live vicariously! Woohoo!

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  3. Jim, thanks a lot for the write-up. I took the liberty of adding it to the main body of the week's post to enhance the effect of the scorecard snapshot. Hope that's ok.

    Peace and Frolf,
    Linz

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