COVID Restricts Men's Night

There will be no formal Men's Night for the next few weeks. A new provincial health order states that organized team, league play events, or competitions such as Ladies Night, Men’s Night, Club leagues or Match Play events are not allowed at this time under Order 13 (4). Our hope is that this order ends as scheduled on May 30. 

In the interim, we will not be doing Men's Night group skins or prizes for closes to the hole, deuce pot, or hole in one.

You are still permitted to golf on Wednesday. For non-members, we will honour the reduced Men's Night rate of $10 for green fees during this shutdown. Also, if numbers warrant we will also look at running the beer cart on Wednesdays.

There are two additional current measures that impact golf. Firstly, group sizes should not exceed 5 golfers. Secondly, they have reintroduced the restriction from last year which states that you should only share a golf cart with members of your own household.

I suppose we should be grateful that we can even play given that Ontario is currently restricting all golf. This is a small inconvenience that we can easily handle for the greater good.

Last Mens' Night for a While

There were 26 golfers on Wednesday. Conditions weren't bad but a typical windy night for Shoal Lake in May. It started off warm but got progressively windier and cooler.

Skins went on three holes. Winners include Charles McKay / Brandon Cloud ($20.00 on #1), Scott Maynes / Stephen David ($20.00 on #2), and Austin Hunter / Theoren Hunter ($38.75 on #7).

Chad Tanner was closest to the hole on both #5 and #9. He was not able to covert either birdie. There were four deuces by Scott Maynes, Dawson Tanner, and Montanna Sutherland.

This will be our last Mens' Night for a couple of weeks as new public health orders will be preventing outdoor gatherings. Hopefully, we get back at it sooner than later.

Here We (I) Go Again

We have an older crowd generally at Men's Night but it is skewing younger the last year or so. Such was the trend again to start the 2021 season. I didn't do an official count but we had 22 guys for our first Men's Night and likely half were under 25. Therefore I think I need to get the Whitesnake reference in early.

On the first round of the year, we had skins go on four holes. Winners included Dawson Tanner / Logan Tanner ($36.88 on #1 and $20.00 on #2), Charles McKay / Reegan Kominko ($36.88 on #4), and high school buds Robin Kimpinski / Milt ($29.38 on #9).

Closest to #5 was Charles McKay and closest on #9 was Milt. I was going to use his last name but he is up there with those single-named celebrities such as Madonna, Adele, and Kermit. Neither Charles nor Milt made their putt and no one else recorded a deuce on the evening.

The Ringer Board started off again with Darcy Kowalchuk jumping out to an early lead at -1. He's technically tied for first but I gave him credit because he's my buddy and he's getting older and I wanted to give him a shout-out. Plus, alphabetically he is first.

It looks like a great day for golf tomorrow. The warm weather is about to begin.