Recap Week 14

  The lesson to be learned from this week is that meteorologists are an untrustworthy lot. The next time the weather comes on TV, do something useful with your time, like watching some porn on your computer or something, because relying on the weather forecast is worse than a waste of time. Based on the forecast, we had 20 no shows on what turned out to be one of the better nights of the year.  

     Even though the weather and course were both good, for some reason very few played well, with only seven golfers besting their quota. One exception was Mike Bradley who had an impressive +5 night to win Individual and is in good shape for his Easton C.C. match play final, if only his opponent would stop ducking him. Team honors went to Mike (+5) and Scott Silvia (-2), which proves two things: it pays to be an alternate and it pays to have the right partner. High-pointer for the night was Ed Finn with 16. And it was nice to see Greg Jurgilewicz grind through a bad back for +3 and 15 points. 

    With barely a quorum, there were only five birdies on the night, and Larry Anshewitz will collect the entire pot with a lone skins birdie on Hole 2, and vault to the top of the money board. (Larry just came back from an exciting trip to the backwoods of Alabama, which was going great until the banjo music started. Now that he is safely home, he plans on putting the $100 toward his upcoming proctologist visit.) Other birds were on 4 (Bradley, Finn) and 8 (Jurgy, Dawn Weber).  

   And Jim Lyons salvaged an otherwise lackluster night with a neat approach on 8 to 4' 6" to capture closest to the pin. Jim was just outside his comfort range of 4' 3" so he missed the birdie putt. 

   With Peter Jaffe on the disabled list for the rest of the year, the call has gone down to Pawtucket for Brian Fellows, who will join oddfellows Marshal, Don and Jim on the roster for the remainder of the season. Welcome aboard Brian. 

   The people have spoken, and we will forego the 20th week of the season and put the extra cabbage toward year-end tourney prize money. Now that we are coming down the home stretch, the pool of alternates will be limited to those who have yet to win any money; trying to spread the wealth, ya know. 

    And finally, with five weeks left, the regular season leading money winner crown is still up for grabs, with Dawn Weber and Steve Lozzi close behind Larry A. This impressive trio is also battling it out for Rookie of the Year honors. In the event of a tie, the winner will be determined by either an arm-wrestling or mud-wrestling contest during the year-end banquet.  

     See you next Tuesday.