Results For July 26, 2016

Temperatures were in the 90's and the humidity was off the chart, but all but one person completed the round.  Cold water was in high demand. Ed Davis and Fred Cross were as hot as the thermometer. Ed fired a net 61 while Fred was close behind, having a net 63.

There has been some concern that the prize money has not been equally divided between the three groups. If you look closely at the summary below, you can see how the money winners were divided by A, B, or C. There is an indication to the left of each name.

There were three President's Cup matches completed Tuesday.

Ed Davis defeated Roy Alkire; Jerry Hurst defeated Mike Poling; and Mike Siddall defeated Dave Zoller to move into the semi-finals along with Willis Hughes.

My mistake, Mike Siddall will face Willis Hughes with the winner moving on to face Jerry Hurst in the semis. While the other half of the semi-finals will have Mike Bailey facing Ed Davis.

Also on August 9th we will be having individual play with ABC skins, but there will be a slight change. As an experiment, we will divide the field into thirds. Instead of dividing the field along exact handicap lines, we will divide it into equal portions. This may mean that some people with the same handicaps will be in separate groups. The division will break along with your index number rather than along equal handicaps. Prize money will then be split equally among the three groups. This will be just a test and we can see how the results work out.

I want to mention again, If you have signed up and barring an emergency please don't leave us hanging by being a no show. This creates havoc among the pairings. This caused a log jam after a few holes with threesomes trailing foursomes that they thought were slow. That and the heat caused some tempers to flare. All of it could have been avoided if the players had been present or at least called early enough for us to have made better placement of players.

This coming week we will be having a Texas Scramble which everyone seemed to enjoy several weeks ago.

Results of Fox Ball Scramble July 19, 2016

We had 70 players out yesterday for our Fox Ball scramble. It was uncomfortably hot and humid. Afterward everyone seemed to enjoy the air conditioned comfort of our All-American lunch consisting of Hot Dogs, Hamburgers, Corn-on-the-cob, Apple pie, and Ice Cream. Everything was there except the Chevrolet. The hot rods were on the course as two teams burned it up with 10 under par 60's. The winning team of Jim Bussey, Mike Hayden, and Dave Zoller won it on a 17th hole tiebreaker birdie over the team of Pat Stoneking, Don Swisher, and Banks Smith.

Jerry Hurst sank the long putt on number one. Joe Cross,  Ed Davis, and Pat Stoneking won the closest to the pins on numbers 2, 12, and 18.

Amazingly there was only one skin among the 18 groups. The team of Mike Poling, Jerry Kern, Olaf O'dell, and Earl Havens will split the skins money with an eagle on number 13.

Both of the top groups returned their fox ball and will split the fox ball money with the third place team Bob Forbes, Joe Cross, Larry Pfieffer, and Barney Poole.

  

Mingo Senior Challenge Results

We had a fine day at Mingo today lead by our war horses Mike Poling, Randy Walters, and Butch Powell. Our net average was 69.714 against a par 72 golf course. As good as it was, we were not able to overcome the home team - Mingo Bottom who had a net average of 66.286.

Our second place effort today moved us into a tie with Oxbow for first place after two events. The next event will be at Oxbow and with a good turnout and another good effort we well could find ourselves in first place with the final event in front of us.

If anyone sees Warfield or Stidham remind them that they owe me $28 each for the green fees, cart, and awards. They tried to have breakfast at the Mountaineer and arrived just as the carts were leaving and they left just as fast when the round was over. I think they might have left part  of their breakfast on the table and were heading back to finish it.

Listed below are the individual results. Thanks to all who participated.

Below are the individual results

Tuesday July 12, 2016 Results

Today was high adventure day - survive heat and humidity and complete a golf round; brave the wild beasts. But there were 70 brave and unyielding golfers unwilling to let the conditions beat them. We don't know what the beast was but it was last seen with Roger Crowley in hot pursuit. We argued whether it was a mink or a ferret, but it was certainly a member of the weasel family. The coat was a golden color, it was about 30 inches long and estimated to weigh about 3 to 4 pounds. If you know what it was let us know.

As for the golf, there were some very good rounds. Mike Riggs lead the day with an 80 coupled with a 19 handicap.

Don't forget we have another Senior Challenge at Mingo this Friday. Starting time is 8 AM with registration at 7:30 AM. The signup sheet is on the bulletin board (a yellow signup sheet). I need to complete the pairings with the other clubs on Thursday at 4 pm.

Don't miss this coming week, we are in for a lot of fun with the Fox Ball Scramble and the All- American cookout consisting of hamburgers, hot dogs, corn on the cob, apple pie and ice cream.

John Blazosky

As most of you are aware we lost John Blazosky last Sunday. What some of you might not be aware of is that John started our league many years ago. Until the last two years John was a stalwart player with us. Last year he started to frequent our outings less as his physical capabilities became diminished. John loathed the tree to the left of the number 2 green and looked forward to the day it would die or be cut down. Many of us initialed golf balls and placed them around "the Blazosky tree."

Thanks to Denny, those golf balls were made into a garland and strung around the tree along with a plaque memorializing John through that hated tree.

Shown below are pictures of John's memorial.

John hated that tree but I doubt if he hates it now.

July 5th 2016 Results

Our Red, White, and Blue outing was saddened with the news of the passing of league founder and dear friend John Blazosky. Many of us placed golf balls that we initialed around the Blazosky tree. Denny has offered to drill a hole through the balls so that we could attach them to John's tree to provide a memorial for him. If you haven't submitted a ball and wish to do so, get them to Denny as soon as you can.

Jim Reynolds came back from a devastating defeat in the Presidents Cup to lead his team to a thrashing of the rest of the field with a 9 under 61 for first place.

Fred Fenton recorded an ace on hole number 5 which obviously gave his team a skin. Congratulations Fred.

We had 70 golfers participating and braving the threat of rain which held off until after play was completed.

The result of the vote on the number of putts on hole 11 was in favor of putting until the ball drops into the hole. Hole 11 is now like all of the other holes on the course - putt them out.

Play will resume next week with individual play and 2nd round play in the President's cup. Don't miss the play on July 19th for an all-American cookout of hot dogs, hamburgers, corn on the cob, apple pie, and ice cream.