After being quiet for a while, it has been quite a week for rookie Greg Paone who led his team to victory in the Easton C.C. VJL Cup on Sunday, and last night exploded for 22 points, on the back of 4 birdies, to take Individual at +7. All Greg needed to sew up Team honors was to have a partner who broke even, but, not mentioning any names (Johnny Mac) was one of the few to have a poor night and was as much under quota as G.P. was over, finishing even as a team.
Our favorite car man, Gentleman Jim Egan has been firing on all cylinders and turned in his best performance of the year at +5. Sean Costello, who seems to have the luck of the Irish with him lately, came in with a solid +1 to partner with Jim for the Team prize.
And good guy Steve Lozzi feathered a nice one in to 7'3" to prevail for Closest to the Pin on the 4th hole.
SIGL sharpshooters were throwing darts at the pins, and there were what might be an all-time record (the SIGL research department is on it) 20 birdies on the night. In fact, the only holes not to be birdied were 1 and 5. As usual, 8 and 9 gave it up easily for a combined total of 7 birds. With so many birdies, it was only natural that a lot of them were covered, and when the dust finally cleared, there was only one left standing. And that, fittingly, was the 7th hole, so the whole pot will go to the red-hot Mr. Paone, resulting in a very profitable $133, enough maybe to by his playing partners a beer. Even more impressive was the fact that he birdied 7, which had an extreme back pin with a RED flag! Hard-luck players of the night were Bob Loring and John Tracy, who covered each other on the difficult back pin 6th hole.
As noted, there were plenty of outstanding scores turned in and honorable mention goes to our favorite dentist, Saul Payne at +5 with two birdies but no luck of the Irish, always dependable Mike McNeice with a 37 good for +4 and 18 points, playing partners Steve Dasaro (+4) and Terry Moore (+3), and Paul Begley at +3. (Steve and Terry are warming up for an Irish golf trip in about a month, but don't forget that you have an 8:00 AM tee time on Sept. 28th at Easton C.C.).
From the Lost and Not Yet Found Dept.: On the way back to the clubhouse, the Closest to the Pin weapon, I mean marker, mysteriously disappeared. I refuse to believe the rumor that the placard was pilfered by Donnelly Advertising, who plans to use it as a small billboard. One fan of the marker seems to be our still favorite dentist, who hit the CTP stick a few weeks ago, and last night took dead aim at it again. Saul, next week, we will provide instructions on how Closest to the Pin works.
Also missing is Bino's Taylor Made Burner pitching wedge, and so whoever turns it in will get 5 points taken off your quota for a week. (Don't try taking some piece of shit wedge from your basement and giving that to him, because that won't work.)
And finally, as you saw last night, Easton sanded the backside greens last night and will do the front this week, too. Their next project is to sand the bunkers.
See you next week.
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