July 26, 2012 Results
Eighty-four of us made the trek to Wood River’s Belk Park to tee it up on their municipal golf course that’s always had good ratings from the local golf gurus. The course didn’t disappoint as the fairways and greens were in very good shape. The greens, though a bit pock-marked from ill-repaired ball marks, and a tad slow because of being allowed to grow in this heat, ran quite true
From a personal standpoint my putts were all unbelievably true and many were headed right for the center of the hole only to stop a few inches short, which unnerved my teammates no end. Fortunately on several holes at least one of the guys putting after me trusted my line and dumped the ball where it was supposed to be, in the bottom of the cup. But to be consistently short all day gave me a bit of a complex. I was concerned that I might be referred to as “short” for the rest of my ACS golf career. Ask one Larry Willman about that.
Fortunately for us the weather held out and we only suffered some overpowering heat when the sun appeared for the last few holes. But the breezes helped and the mid 90’s temps didn’t feel too bad. Winter must be just around the corner, eh?
Results:
Flight "A" the John Boyd, Rich Graeff, Mark Hagler, and Harold Howard team won by virtue of a scorecard playoff and their 9 under par 63 was enough to nose out the Walter Smith, Bob Meinhardt, Larry Amen, and Joe McDaniels team who also carded the 63. In third place was the Bob Day, Bob Pahmeier, Dan Snowden, and Bob Edwards team with a 64 which beat out the Jeff Delaplain, Randy Pratt, Bob Eddy, and Jim Hawkes team by virtue of a scorecard playoff. The playoff by the way began on hole #17.
Flight "B" the winning score was a 65 but 5 teams recorded that. The John Dierker, Mark Bryant, Dennis Dummeyer, and Bob Gay team won the flight in the playoff, beating out the Ken Klasing, Jack Panula, Pierre Sans Souci, and Bob Brewer team which in turn beat out the Lou Pessoni, Bill Neukom, Alex Horvat, and Larry Willman team. Also finishing with 65’s but missing the boat on the scorecard playoffs were the Ed de la Peña and Jerry White teams. Finishing last in the B flight with a 66 was the Charlie Pope team
Flight "C" the Phil Lucido, Dave Buesee, Dan Fergus, and Harry Trammel team eked out the victory over the John Prather, Jerry Mullen, Art Sobel, and Dennis Terhaar team with a scorecard win at 5 under par. In third place was the Ron Maniscalco, Tom Murphy, Pat Reed, and Dave Rapp team with a 68 which was better than the 68 by the Steve Dierker and Earl Phillips teams because of the scorecard playoffs.
Flight "D" the Joe Jarvis, Frank Vien, George Eickhoff, and Bert Schott team with a 69 beat out the Don Giarraffa, Bob Haddad, Doug Torrie, and Larry Willman team because of the scorecard playoff. The Joe Cernich, Mark Gordon, bill Wegge, and Bob Foeller team nosed out the Dan Ottoline and the Paul Rivard teams via the scorecard playoffs with a 70.
Ernie South’s team came in at even par and took home a special prize for the day.
Awards;
Closest to the pins for the day; #3 Bob Meinhardt #8 Bob “again” Meinhardt #12 Ernie South #17 Pierre Sans Souci (so close, Pete, so close)
Skins: None