WEEK 16 RESULTS

1ST TEAM:                            JIM SHANNON                 +6               $25
                                                RICK KEATING                  +5               $25

                                                                                             +11

2ND TEAM:                        DANA WILLARD (alt)      +4                $15
                                               LEN LIMA                          +3                $15

                                                                                              +7     

1ST IND.:                              SAUL PAYNE                     +7               $25

2ND IND.:                             PAUL MCDERMOTT        +7              $15

CTP-8TH                               DAN SVIRSKY                  1'2"              $25

SKINS:                                  RICK WALSH                     3RD            $37
                                               PAUL MCDERMOTT        7TH             $37
                                               JIM SHANNON                  9TH            $37

COVERED:                           4   6   8

B9 SKINS:                            TERRY THOMPSON        14TH          $70
                                               ED FINN                             16TH          $70

COVERED:                           11   12   13

HIGHPOINTER:                 DAN SVIRSKY                   17 pts.
                                               STEVE LOZZI                     17 pts.

WEEK 17 CTP:                     9TH HOLE

 We're coming down the homestretch, and for the second week in a row, put up some pretty good numbers, with only 12 SIGLers failing to meet quota, and 16 posting 3+ or better. 

  Saul Payne is back in the golf routine after spending the last few weeks as a home healthcare aide, and made quite an impression with a sterling +7 over quota. Likewise, Paul McDermott is starting to play his best golf and matched Doc with his own +7. So we went to the card, which shows that Saul's par on the fifth will earn him 1st Individual. 

 Saul's partner, who was Superman last week, went back to being Clark Kent this week, so that opened up the Team competition. That void was more than ably filled by the red hot Jim Shannon who returned an outstanding +6 and was partnered with veteran Rick Keating who had one of his better nights and chipped in with a fine +5 to take 1st Team at +11. 

  There was a traffic jam for 2nd Team at +7 involving Len Lima (+3)/Dana Willard (+4), Paul McDermott (+7)/Brian Murphy (E) and Dan Svirsky (+6)/Chris Sullivan (+1).  

  Len's original partner Mark Nolan, who is currently on a golf tour of the Emerald Isle, tried to phone his score in from Ballybunion, but Section 42; Paragraph 9 (a) of the SIGL by-laws prohibited  that, so Len was timely paired with alternate Dana Willard who produced a clutch +4 and who won the tie-breaker with his par on 5.   

 The 8th Hole usually produces a tight CTP result, but this week Dan Svirsky just missed an eagle two, and easily takes the prize with his ball at rest 1' 2" from the hole. 

  The greens are coming around and we had a respectable 11 birdies on the front, with eight of those cancelling each other out. When the dust cleared, that leaves Rick Walsh's long-range birdie bomb on 3, along with a nice 3 on the 7th by Paul McDermott, and surprisingly only one bird on 9, and that by Bulldog Jim Shannon. Birdies on 4 (Lozzi, Keating), 6 (J. MacNeil. McNeice, Payne), and 8 (Svirsky, Keating, G. Willard) did not survive. 

 We had a healthy 28 bettors in the Back Nine skins pool, with nine birdie attempts finding the mark. The productive Terry Thompson recorded a deuce on 14 and the almost unplayable pin placement on the top left of 16 did not stop Ed Finn from securing his own 2 so those fine gentlemen will split the $140 pot. Birdies on 11 (Doonan, Silvia), 12 (Svirsky, Finn), and, surprise, 13 (Lozzi, James, White) were smashed. 

 With so many good scores this week, many notable will not be getting envelopes. Posting +3s were Simmons, Meyer, Lozzi, Begley, Mattes, and Turchette. Ed MacNeil had a fine +4, and the real hard-luck golfer of the night was Jay Chapman who posted an impressive +6 but was unfortunately shut out. Highpointers this week were Dan Svirsky and Steve Lozzi at 17. 

 And finally, Easton has changed Sunday, October 13th from a shotgun start to tee times. Therefore, our year-end tourney will be tee times starting around 8:30, and we will simultaneously go off the front and the back. Either this week or next a tourney sign-up sheet will be at the front desk. To play, you MUST sign up. Thanks. 

 See you next Tuesday. 

             YEAH, I HAD 20 POINTS AND 3 BIRDIES
                      TODAY AT BALLYBUNION

                   OKAY FRANK, .... I MEAN MARK