Weekly Golf Stories to end the first half

Drizzly weather didn’t hamper play this week as we were able to send a couple of groups off of 17 and the rest off of 10.

We did end up having two 5 somes because of no shows. I guess Steve King was too embarrased to show up after losing to Joan Wilson last week and Skip Gray didn’t want to walk through the tall grass on the hill on 14 close to his house and get wet. (Joan we did get permission to play 5, so don’t fret, LOL)

Congrats to Glenn Acciard as he slipped into the MVP slot by sinking a short putt on 18 to halve holes against Rick Maloney. Bob Cairns’ steady play of late catapulted him to close out the first half one point behind. I wonder if I didn’t go to DC in week 7 if I could have taken four from George that week. Oh well, we’ll never know. Congrats Glenn for a great first half as you and Bob Cairns were the only players to score points every week.

In other matches Ed English screwed up his round with a tricky 14 on 10. He was telling Trottier about his 14 and Trottier commented back “on one hole”? LOL Some days you just work nights. Too bad Ed, hopefully next week will be better. Imlach showed another strong round as I look to see him having a great second half. Too bad he will miss next week.

Well with much fanfare I finally received Jim Marnie and Norm Comeau’s card from last week and they filled the scores out on the card and even signed it but failed to put their name on the card to who’s round was who’s even tho they both shot 41. Too funny…

The match of the day would have to go to George Vigneault as his lazy smooth swing and pin point accuracy carded him a one under 34 against a near flawless round by Jim Waterman who shot a respectable 39 and didn’t even win a hole. I’m glad it was Jim and not me as that would have been frustrating for sure.

Paul Comeau and sub Brian Steeves had a close match as Comeau stormed back as he was down 3 holes to one and made a great comeback by winning 4 of the next 5 holes. It helped getting three strokes in the last 5 holes and Paul took advantage of it by shooting 5 over par down the home stretch.

McGill and Hale had a typical nip and tuck match until they came to the 14th tee as Hale knocked his tee shot into Skip Gray’s neighborhood and took a triple and then Hale followed up nicely with a double on 15 to only come storming back with a great approach shot on 16 to take that hole from McGill and being only down 1 hole and two strokes going to 17. Then the wheels really fell off as Hale knocked his tee ball into the tall grass on the hill on 17. After 4 minutes and 59 seconds McGill found Hale’s ball buried in the narly tall grass. Hale took an un-playable and still finished the hole with a respectable bogey. McGill parred and closed Hale out on holes.

Trottier and Norm Comeau went toe to toe as Comeau jumped out to a quick 2 up and 3 stroke lead as Comeau birdied 11 and stuck it to with in a few feet. Too bad Norm didn’t get in closest too as he may have been able to win. Trottier played 12 well and won that hole and then Comeau pulls his driver out on 13 and we all just shook our heads as Comeau tries to pull a Wilson and draw it around the bend and swings a little too hard and buries it up against a rock at the beginning of the tree line. Their match is tied with one bad swing of the club. Comeau recovers on 16 as he pulls the big boy out again and faded it close to the waters edge on 16. I wonder if it was dry out if he would have splashed. Comeau makes a nice chip and birdies and off we head to 17. Well, Comeau follows Hale to the tall grass and has to use his provisional and ends up tripling 17 and then on the 18th green Comeau leaves his birdie putt on the lip and he and Trottier par but Comeau gets a stroke and salvages a split.

Mike Landry and Dave Murphy’s match while looking at their card shows Landry winning 10,11,12,13 and they halve 14 but Murph storms back and wins the next three holes. But, on the dreaded 17 Landry becomes the next victim as he either fell asleep or he started on 17 and just had a bad first hole. But, looking at the card if 17 was his first hole and 16 being his last he did not start and finish very well as the 16th he doubled and that is where he lost the opportunity to at least take three points.

Norm Pelletier made the skeptics think differently as he tripped up Jim “where’s my scorcard” Marnie by shooting a smooth 37. I guess that’s what happns to your game after losing to Joan Wilson. Not to be embarrased in his last two rounds.

Bill “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde” Wilson shoots 75 from the blues on Sunday. While mumbling a bunch of stuff in the parking lot while donning on all his rain gear and wrestling with his stuff in his trunk to get his sticks out Wilon then proceeds to shoot a 4 or a 5 on all the holes until he reaches 18 and double bogeys. One thing I can say about Bill is at least he is honest. I heard he played the last two holes by himself. I wonder if his shoe laces were tied or did he have shorts on underneath his rain pants? Nevertheless, I am sure when he walked off of 15 not being able to win closest too that must have sent him spiraling to bogey ville.

Steve Maddox hung around waiting for Mr. Gray and we told him when turns the corner on 14 he should tee it up in the fairway out in front of Skip’s back yard and let it rip towards the back of the house and aim for one of the sliders that are possibly there and see if he can wake Skip up. Steve was probably happy Skip was a no show as Steve shot an unlike Maddox round of 52.

Well the dog bitten Appel and the “where did my golf game go” Glynn played a decent match but it looks like Glynn couldn’t capitalize on Appel’s 8 on number 10, as Glynn quadrupled 11 and tripled 13. Where oh where has Glynn’s game gone? Looks like brother Dennis needs to let him have more time off so he can gather his thoughts and play more golf. Practice practice practice…

Could the bad rounds of Maddox and Wilson be contributed to the fivesomes? I wonder…

Well last week May 28th Norm Pelletier has been vindicated as Joan Wilson trounced Stevie King. Joan is undefeated this year and against A players. So, if you are looking for a sub you don’t need to be a genius to figure out who to call.