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.

Results From June 28, 2016

The Presidents cup is now off and running. Eight first round matches were played yesterday to form a second round of 16 players.

Mike Siddall defeated Joe Tucker; Mike Poling over Roger Goddard; Jerry Hurst defeated Joe Cross; Mike Bailey over Ralph Olander; Denney Cosner over Bob Forbes; Ed Davis over Jim Reynolds; Bill Hupp over Fred Fenton; and  Roy Alkire over Jim Stidham. 

Willis Hughes and Ron Warfield decided to play their second round match early with Willis Winning over Ron to move to the quarter final round.

We have the Red, White, and Blue scramble next week so second round play in the President's Cup will resume on July 12th with the following matches - Siddall vs reigning champion Dave Zoller; Poling vs Jerry Kern; Hurst vs Jim Kennedy; Bailey vs. Roger Crowley; Cosner vs. Barney Poole; Davis vs. Jim Taylor; and Hupp vs. Alkire.

We had 73 golfers out yesterday with hot but beautiful conditions. Results were as usual great for some and not so great for others.

Jack Jones must have been full of excitement over his upcoming cruise to Alaska as it carried over to his golf game with a scintillating  83 gross and 58 net. John Beckett had a great round of 85 with a 26 handicap netting to 59.

Roger Crowley wanted me to remind everyone about the 1st Wood Lions Senior Golf Tournament on Friday July 8th here at GCWV.

It will be a two man team with a shotgun start. Entry fee is $100 per team. Front nine will be best ball while back nine will be a two man scramble. It will be flighted with payouts to the first place team in each flight.

Just a reminder. There seems to be some confusion that I will be gone next week. I will be gone only on Monday July 4th. I will do the pairings on Sunday and have them done by 5 pm. If you want to be included in the pairings make sure I know it by Sunday at 5

President's Cup

We currently have thirteen golfers signed up for the President's Cup match play tournament. If you have never played in a match play event it is a lot of fun. In match play you play to win the hole. The golfer winning the most holes wins the match and advances to play another opponent in the next round. Play continues until the champion is the last one left.

We will start play this Tuesday. The nice thing about this tournament is it is played within the framework of the regular league play. It doesn't take an additional day or round.

The last day to sign up will be 5 pm this Sunday June 26th.

If you want to sign up contact me by e-mail at jcmcelhinny@gmail.com or by phone at (304) 850-4369.

You can also use this webpage comments to signup.

 

June 21, 2016 Results

The thunderstorms stayed away but the heat and humidity stayed with us and made it uncomfortable.

The heat didn't hurt those with handicaps of 19 or higher. Maybe they were the cause of the high temperatures as they were on-fire. I wouldn't call anyone a sandbagger but Mike Poling would.

Congratulations to Danny Quisenberry who broke out of a beginners slump to record a fine 89 for a 54 net (bet your handicap will come down.) Other handicaps that are sure to drop are Ed Davis who had a lifetime best round of 76 with a 55 net, Guy Lynch with a net of 58, and Ken Grose who also had a net 58.

We had 71 Golfers participating with a payout of $213 and 14 skins splitting a pool of $140. 

Memorial Tournament Low Gross Winner Butch Powell 

Low Net Memorial Tournament Winner Joe Cross 

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Handicaps 0-13

Handicaps 14-18

Handicaps 19 -36

June 17th Senior Challenge Results

I want to thank each one of you for participating with a special thanks to the first timers. We played great but came up slightly short.

The highlight of the day was Jim Taylor winning both proximity and a skin on hole 18 with an ACE. Yes, that's right Jim had a hole in one on 18. The result of that shot was $15 for the proximity and $25 for the skin. So the tee shot won him $40. Nice effort.

Standings after the first event are:

                    AVG         Points

Oxbow         64.833         4

GCWV        66.500          3

Woodridge  68.071          2

Mingo         68.571          1

This is the fourth time in the last five events we have finished second. Take heart guys our day is coming when we will break through. One of the comments made when we were making up the pairings was "gosh, you guys sure have a bunch of good players."     Other clubs are acknowledging the quality of our play.

The next event is Friday July 15th at Mingo. The sign up sheet will be on the bulletin board soon. If you haven't played before, give joining us a lot of thought      

Week 11Results

The Texas scramble is over, the pizza has been eaten and the results are complete.

Mike Poling and company steamrolled the group and anyone that got in their way (hitting Bill Jones on the 6th green with an errant tee shot). So much for intimidating your competitors. By the way they shot an amazing 233 or 47 shots below par.

We had 78 golfers playing and conditions were great, Thanks again to Domino's Pizza (Vienna Store). The pizza was great and right on time.

There were 11 skins dividing $154 44 ways. Each skin would be worth  about $3. Harry Callandar knows when to win and when to hold back. Right Harry?

Talk about greedy, Ron Warfield replaces Joe Cross as the biggest sandbagger we have. Ron hits from the silver tees and still uses a 14 handicap, but that isn't all. He tried to take another stroke on number 16 for a 15th unauthorized and unearned stroke. Nice try but you got caught.