Holy Smokes!

Since Men's Night is in one day, I need to do this writeup for last week. As I type away, I see that the forecast for tomorrow is "Mainly cloudy. Widespread smoke". Interestingly, the layer of smoke will knock the daytime high down to 22 Celsius despite a humidex of 30. Other than the smell, the smoke doesn't bother me but I am sure that there are others who don't fare so well. It is likely not a fun time to be asthmatic.

Manitoba golf conditions are so varied. We hit balls with snow still on the ground while also playing during heat waves. Wind is so frequent that it throws you off a bit when it is calm on the course. But smoke is a whole different thing. From what I have read, it is relatively safe to be out golfing in such conditions as long as you don't have a pre-existing condition or vulnerability.

On a positive note, it has rained fairly steady today and that has the potential to reduce the smoke in the air. Let's hope it continues raining through the night to clean the air and to give farmers a much needed soaking.

Last week, we had a season high of 40 golfers. One neat thing was that the middle score was 44. There were six of them and three went up and three went down. Then after the random draw, all the 44's paired with another 44.

Skins went on four holes. Winners included Jason Gorrell / Ron Huberdeau ($25.00 on #1), Joel Ostash / Troy Chwaluk ($46.25 on #2), Robin Kimpinski / Darren Ostash ($88.75 on #6), and Ron Susinksi / Mike Susinski ($66.25 on #7).

Charles McKay was closest to the pin on #5 while Nathan Nowasad was closest on #9. Charles converted his birdie to share the $75.00 deuce pot with Troy Chwaluk.

Anyone interested in signing up for the Horse Race, please let me know.