Recap Week 19

 Week 19 was the late-season debut of "The Paul Raynard Show" starring Paul Raynard, who came pretty darn close to a clean sweep of the prize money. Raynman, who buys his underwear at K Mart, exploded for a +6, which was good for team and individual honors, along with closest to the pin on 6, and a $45 birdie on 4. And teammate Dwayne Snell rode his coattails to get on the money board for the first time. Not to appear too gluttonous, Paul left some scraps for the 99 percenters, so Mike McNeice stepped up and pocketed $45 with a nice bird on 2.

 

    Again, most performances were sub-par (which actually means way above par) but T.J. had another good round and finished strong with birdies on 8 and 9 for 18 points. A noteworthy round was also turned in by Bob Frick, who started with a double bogey, and then proceeded to reel off 13 straight pars on his way to a 76. However, as soon as Frickie hiccupped, steady Eddie Finn swooped in to claim an 11-hole skin on 15 with a nifty up and down par that drained the morale of his victims, along with fattening his wallet. And Dan Szczurko had one of his better rounds of the year with 15 points and a birdie on 9.   

 

   It was nice to see that Bino was able to make it last night. The Post Office (new slogan: To get the mail out, we need a bailout) released him for the afternoon, although they made him wear an ankle bracelet and ordered him not to leave the state. And it was also nice to see that Steve Peterson is able to salvage a couple of late-season rounds.

 

   Unclaimed Property Department:  Jim Egan and Rob McElman - pick up your envelopes.

 

   One more night of the regular season and then the year-end tourney on Sunday, 9/23 at about 11:30.  Aside from those who have already informed us, if you will not be playing you must let us know now because we have to make a commitment to Easton C.C. If you don't let us know, and then don't show, we have to pay for you, and you will then be billed by the league. We won't be able to do a bonus week, so all remaining funds will go into the tourney, banquet, and prizes.

 

   It looks like we'll have enough money left to do it like last year:  Remaining league funds will cover golf carts, box lunch (maybe), banquet, two drink tickets, and cash and merchandise prizes. Each golfer will pay his own greens fee at the desk. There will be two optional birdie pools:  $20 skins birdie pool, and a $5 pay-all birdie pool. Playing teams, quotas, and tee times will be announced next Tuesday.