Four Deuces!

Remember a week ago or so when it was almost like a mini drought around here? It hadn't really rained in a month or so. I actually was contemplating buying a pump to get some water from the lake for my lawn.

Fast forward until now. Most people would agree we have had too much rain as of late...including that two inch deluge on Monday evening. Even yesterday, it rained pretty hard from 3:00 - 4:30 pm. Fortunately, all that did was delay the practice round for some early birds. Once Mens' Night started at 6:30 pm the weather was great for the 32 golfers who came to play.

A heavy rain before golf usually means that some Mens' Night scores will be really low and others will be really high. Such was the case yesterday, when several players took advantage of the soft, receptive greens to attack pins. There were quite a few others that had trouble with the soggy conditions, with many stories of chunked shots and fat approaches.

One group actually had the four lowest scores of the night with Brad Benton, Scott Maynes, Scott Martin, and Jason Gorrell scoring 37, 37, 38, and 38 respectively.

They were part of a fivesome with Dan Stokes...who wasn't among the low scorers for the night. I knew he was having some trouble during the round when the beer cart girl stopped by my group. She remarked that "Dan Stokes doesn't seem like he is having fun tonight".

Fortunately for Dan, his evening turned around later. His lone par on the eight hole found a good partner with Derek Kempthorne and they claimed the massive skin of $133.50. This win also jumped Dan to second place on the season money list.

Another sizable skin went on hole #7 when Jamie McCutchin and Stephen David combined for $83.50. The only other hole that went was #1 which was good for $20 for Milt and Cubby.

There were four deuces on the evening with John Gill, Darcy Kowalchuk, Blake Hunter, and Scott Maynes splitting the $48 pot. Blake's two on #5 and Darcy's two on #9 were the result of tee shots that gave them the closest to the pin honours for the night. Blake missed the $1500 hole-in-one prize by less than a foot. I know this because later he said that he was "11 inches from not going to work tomorrow".

Scott Maynes' deuce on five also helped him to move into the lead on the ringer board with a score of -6. There are five more weeks to post scores, with the final night August 19th.

For anyone who likes ordering golf stuff online, I came across a really good Canadian site called Golf Avenue that sells new and used equipment and offers free shipping on orders over $150. Their website is www.golfavenue.ca.

Don't forget that the Horse Race is next Saturday. Currently we are at 47 entrants with a cap of 60 players. To enter, text me at 847-0161 or by email at sdavid@mts.net.

Finally, welcome back to Jason Neufeld who played last night after being out of commission for a while.