Mens' Night...Always Improving

At the end of this blog, I am going to make a couple of suggestions to help improve our collective Mens' Night experience. You can think of them as tips to make our Wednesday's even better.

There were 27 golfers this past week. This number included 9-10 guys who showed up that rarely play.

Despite some soft conditions the scoring was not what one would have expected. The middle score was 46 which is the highest that I can recall. There were also 8-9 of the 27 scores above 50.

Skins went on four holes. Winners' included Scott Maynes / Wes Arnfinson ($20 on #1), Kevin Bartram / Robin Kimpinski ($32 on #5, $32 on #6), and Jason Hunter / Stephen David ($40 on #9).

Closest to the pin on #5 was Ron Huberdeau and on #9 was Robin Kimpinski. Robin converted his birdie to share the $43.50 deuce pot with Jason Hunter.

Scott Maynes added another birdie to move to the lead in the ringer board with -7.

I think for my first suggestion for improvement I will encourage each of you to bring a friend this week. Our numbers this year have been okay but unspectacular. We have yet to even break 40. The odd thing is we have not had big numbers even on days where the weather was perfect. I guess lots of people are busy doing lots of other things.

My next suggestion is to make sure you pay to play. We seem to be consistently short on the collection at the end of the night. This past week we should have $228 paid and only had $224. It seems that every week we are anywhere from $4 - 10 down. One week we were $22 less than what we should be. Please make sure to pay your $8 and don't take more change than you should.  It may not seem like much but over the course of a season that could mean $100 - 150 less revenue than expected. We operate on an honour system and depend on the collective good will of everyone to make it work.

While I am giving people some direction, I would also ask people to make an effort to turn in their cards when they are done the Mens' Night round. I appreciate that there are lots of big ties for snips that need to be broken. That being said, it only takes a couple of minutes to write down your snips and then drop off the card. Not everyone wants to wait around while people play 1,2 or 5, 6 extra holes. This past week, we had one group 20 minutes late followed by another 15 minutes later.