No Pictures on a Scorecard

I saw this picture a few days ago and wanted to use it in the blog. Last night's weather makes it work well. Firstly, the high wind required that on some holes, we aimed at different holes. From the back tee on #8 we were taking a driving line toward the centre of the fairway on #5. Secondly, the high wind was doing some funny things with the golf balls and often they were not ending up where we intended.

Even on days when the wind is calm balls can go astray. Not just on other fairways, but on certain locations on certain holes. For example, if you miss off the tee on #6 and your shot goes long and over the trees onto #7, we say "It's in Dan's apartments". That is honouring former resident Dan Stokes, who had a tendency to end up in that area. By the way, Dan is visiting tomorrow for the Horse Race weekend.

Of course, as long as your ball is in play it doesn't matter. As the blog title states, there are no pictures on the scorecard. Many of us have parred holes despite being on the wrong hole on a shot. I thought about it and I have done that on every hole on the course except for #9. I have hit the eighth green once off the 9th tee but I didn't par it. Its a tough second shot into the green over all those trees beside #8.

The most errant shot that I have ever witnessed was about 12 years ago on Men's Night. A guy I was playing with hit it between the green on #8 and the tee box on #9...from the first tee. If I recall correctly, he didn't par the hole. The gentlemen teeing off on #9 did find it amusing.

Golf is a game of both common and uncommon experiences. All of us have made perfect shots but not everyone has a hole-in-one. Hitting errant shots is a common occurrence. Similarly, everyone who played last night shared the common experience of hiding out from the intense rain and wind that hit us for about 12-15 minutes. However, not all groups got to witness a playing partner snap a club after a missed second shot on #7. That experience was likely unique to my group last night.

Due to the weather, we had a very low turnout last night with only 17 golfers braving the forecast. Low numbers usually result in lots of skins being won and such was the case last night with six holes going. 

Kevin "Cubby" Bartram pulled a rare feat which will from here on in be called the "Double Dummy". He was the middle score on an evening where there was an odd number of golfers. So his card was copied as the dummy card. Then when we did the random high / low group pairings, Cubby's card matched with his own dummy card. That worked out well for him as he won two skins alone, $20.00 on #3 and $67.87 on #6.

Other winners included Stephen David / Brad Benton ($67.87 on #2), Reegan Kominko / Charlie McNabb ($20.00 on #4), Pete Ostash / Shane Kimpinski ($28.76 on #7), and Kendal Koroscil / Ron Susinski ($28.76 on #9).

Closest on #5 was Joe Shwaluk and Kendal Koroscil on #9. Neither they nor anyone else made a deuce. I will do a quick shout out to Joe who played really well in my group despite the crazy wind. He had just a single bad hole which he thought related to putting a heavy jacket on to protect him from the elements.

Well that's it for this week. Don't forget the Horse Race is this Saturday with the qualifying round starting at 9:00 am. Also only two more weeks to enter scores on the Ringer Board.