Night of the Ostash's

Well, we didn't crack 50 golfers last night. We only had 34. But we sure had a lot of Ostash's. It seemed like there were around 30 of them. Someone suggested the number was more like 10 or so. But still, when almost a third of the guys playing are from the same family that is noteworthy. When we paired off scores later there were 3 of 17 groups that had two Ostash's. I thought that their family reunion was not until Saturday. Maybe I was wrong.  It had to be on Mens' Night. Or maybe it was Tuesday...during the Jack and Jill, when there must have been 7 or 8 female Ostash's as well.

Not surprisingly the low round of the night was an Ostash with Matt Ostah carding a 35. One of the three skins were won by an all-Ostash team. Pete and Milt teamed up on #6 for the $48 prize.

The other skins went to Ryan Merasty / Mike Susinski ($48 on #2) and Scott Maynes / Wes Arnfinson ($20 on #4).

There were three deuces with two of them made by the same guy. Congrats to Blair Neal who won 2/3 of the $51 pot as a result. The other two was by Mike Susinski who won $17 for his efforts. Blair has closest to the pin on #5 while Mike just missed the ace on #9.

Robin Kimpinski added a birdie to the ringer board to take the lead at -5. Milt Ostash was really excited about adding scores...but then became distracted and forgot to tell me which holes he was entering.

Next week there will be no fireworks and probably fewer Ostash's. However, the 8th hole should be worth around $130. Many other pots are building as well. Plus it's July. If you are male and not golfing on Wednesday evening...you need to be.

I will see many of you at tomorrow's Fundraising Tournament. For those playing, best of luck for low scores and lots of fun. For any asthmatic players, the forecast for tomorrow is "smoke"...so best of luck for clear airways.

Environment Canada even has a new weather icon for such conditions (shown above). The actual forecast states "Mainly cloudy. Widespread smoke. High 28. UV index 6 or high." Let's hope none of those Ostash's have respiratory issues.