Forty-four golfers enjoyed beautiful weather and an evening of karmic occurrences. Despite seemingly perfect conditions, high scores abounded, with many golfers venturing into the unfamiliar scoring territory of high 40's and low 50's. Most of those whose scores were elevated have been mean to Milt in the past...so you see what I mean by the karma thing. Strangely enough, Brad and Robin did not score in the 60's...given their history of abuse toward Mr. Ostash.
One of the nicest guys in the Shoal Lake area, Mr. John Gill, shot his lowest score since 1978, and shared the deuce pot with Cody Cornwall. This is the way karma works...with good things happening to good people.
Another renowned nice guy, Chris Kimpinski, had a funny experience with karma...which you will have to ask him about privately. He will likely relate how quickly karma can come back at you.
The closest to the pin awards could not have worked out better...or more karmic. The previously mentioned John Gill, who lives closest to #9, claimed the prize there. And Robin Kimpinski, who is one of the few male golfers who regularly dyes his hair, won the Trendsetters prize for closest on #5.
So the message here is obviously two-fold. Firstly, remember what goes around comes around, and, secondly, don't be mean to Milt. He is a nice guy and he has great hair and his talking to himself can be somewhat charming under the right conditions. It would be great if someone told Terri I wrote this because this karma thing has me spooked...and I don't want to shoot another 48 next week.
In other, non-karmic news, skins went on five holes. The winners included Jason Hunter and Cody Cornwall ($21.50 on #1), Brad Benton and Nick Gill ($41 on #4), Joel Ostash and Austin Hunter ($99 on #5), Rob Eastcott and Wes Arnfinson ($175 on #6), and Robin Kimpinski and Mike Susinski ($77 on #7). There were some murmurs that sandbagging may be occurring. While making his regular weekly review of the scorecards, our in-house auditor noticed several guys in the high pot followed birdies with a string of maximums. It is even being suggested that Wes Arnfinson will be investigated. After several well-scored holes, he lost five balls off the tee on holes #1 through #3. This is a glaring discrepancy given Wes' straight ball flight and high percentage of fairways in regulation. We will await the word from Chris Kimpinski to see where this all ends up.
What else do we have? Austin Hunter self-reported that he went over the trees on #7 with his tee shot. Austin also told me that his dad Blake was seven off the tee on #3. A word of advice to Blake would be not to try and swing harder when you play with longer hitters. It can mess up your tempo. Blake was nice enough to bring a guest from Roblin. He spent the evening golfing with him, let him join us for some cards, and then let the guy go swimming off his boat at 2:00 am.
Scott Maynes proved himself not only a fine golfer but an able-bodied Mens' Night organizer and presenter. Thanks to Scott for your help this week as well as next week, when my two colleagues are away.
With the shortening days, we will be rolling back the tee time to 6:30 pm starting next week. For those of you enticed by the possibility of cash prizes, the skin for #9 will be well over $200. And there is always that nice little hole-in-one prize.
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