June 14, 2012 Results

On what may be the last pleasant day we’ll have for a while, 110 golfers descended on Crescent Farms for another round of pasture pool. The course has really improved from 2 years ago when they lost almost all the fairways and the greens were not much better. Thursday saw us playing on a mat of good solid grass and greens that were very consistent. I won’t commit to smooth because they absolutely gave us fits in the 10-13 foot range. I think our team failed to convert at least a half dozen putts from this range which would have made us a force to contend with, at least in the mortal range of playing this game. Mr. Prather and his team proved immortal for the day with their record setting pace.

As you all know today was our latest attempt at putting the results in a flight format whereby the scores were sorted low to high and then broken up into 4 equal parts. Each part was a flight (A,B,C,D) and this had absolutely nothing to do with our recent system of flighting individual players. Each flight was paid off from the same amount of money, so the winners of A flight received the same amount of money as the winners of D flight.

And, if you looked at the pairings sheet you might’ve seen some teams with at least 2 players that we used to call A players, or some teams that had 3 or even 4 former C players. But the results didn’t necessarily reflect those abilities one way or the other. For example, one team sporting two very accomplished former A players only finished 4 strokes better than a team of 4 former C players, and the C players won their flight while the A players languished down the ladder in their flight. It is kind of a crap shoot where you end up in the standings of your flight, but that can be the beauty of this system – play so-so and win money; play lights out and don’t win anything. But then there is the Prather team….

Results:

Just a note here; Tie scores were subjected to a tie-breaker hole which was picked randomly after the round. The first team to record the lowest score on that hole, or ensuing holes, wins the tie breaker, hence first, second, or third in the flight.

In the A flight, and winning overall low score for the day and for all of the ACS play throughout the years was the John Prather team of Duane Jefts, Pierre and Chris Sans Souci. These guys scorched the course in record setting fashion no doubt led by Duane’s monster drives, John’s steady play and some of Pierre’s precision shots. Congrats guys on your astounding -14.

Next in A flight with a very respectable -10 was the Dan Snowden, Dee Ridenhour, Jack Eckhard, and John Boyd team.

Following them with a dandy -9 was the John Hessler, Randy Pratt, Steve Dierker and Joe Pfeifer foursome.

The Joe McDaniels team shot a -8. The Phil Lucido team shot a -8. The Jeff Delaplain team shot a -7. The Bob Harrison team shot a -7.

In the B flight with a nice -6 we had the Mark Gordon team, followed by the Don Wulf and Doug Nolte teams at -5.

The John Tipton team shot a -4. The Bob Franke team shot a -4. The Jerry Mullin team shot a -4. The Ken Klasing team shot a -3.

In the C flight we had the Jerry White team at -2 with the Phil Hess and Don Schmidt teams at -1.

The Joe Jarvis team shot a -1 The Rich Graeff team shot a -1. The Sam Huston team shot a -1.

In the D flight we had the Larry Knopfel team winning with an even par score, the same as the Charlie Fischer and Alex Horvat teams

The Bob Meinhardt team shot even par. The Brian Cox team shot a +1. The Bob Thibodeaux team shot a +2. The Dennis Dummeyer team shot a +2. The Paul Scheffer team shot a +5.

Awards;

Closest to the pins for the day; #3 Vince Koehr #8 Harvey Ruth #12 Al Schaeffer #15 Randy Pratt (who?)

No skins for the day. When this happens we move the money set aside for the skins to the winnings pot.

We hope you enjoyed the new format which gives more teams the chance to finish with some accolades (money if you will). Some may ask “ well how can we determine before hand where we will fall in the flighting system?” You can’t with any certainty. It’s based on sorting the scores from low to high and then dividing the number of teams equally, or as close as we can because the number won’t always be divisible equally. Then any ties are broken using a playoff hole which is randomly drawn after the outing. Money-wise there will be no more ties.

We’re going to play this format at least 3 more times to get everyone used to it. In the meantime you can email us with your feelings/observations on it. I’m quite sure that once your team wins for seemingly no explicable reason you’ll probably enjoy this format a lot more. Just ask the Commish!

One other thing, we’ve asked that the first person listed on the team be the official scorecard keeper for the team. Please, please make sure the card is completed with numbers in each box for each hole. Preferably this number reflects the correct number of strokes your team took to finish out the hole