Notes: Life Lesson: I hope that the pandemic has made everyone appreciate the little things that people do for you. The paper that is delivered to your house, the food that is being prepared for you if you go to a restaurant on those nights you just want to eat out, the cashier who has been there through it all, the workers who answer your calls or just anyone who makes your life easier or more fun. You can just say thank you, more than complaining about what is not done. It never makes you feel bad to say thanks or hello. Try it and see what happens. So thank you to all the staff who made the HFCC member-guest tournament happen. Despite all the rain and wet conditions, you made it happen for 84 golfers to have a good time. Now onto golf. After trying a different format for my last article, I went back to the old way. Sometimes change is not a good thing.
Leaders: So it has been 3 weeks since the last article. A rain out and then a 3-day tournament kept the data from being processed. Still leading Flight A are Joe Gerwin and John Newkirk. Joe and John have won 5 out of 6 weeks in the second half. It’s good to have Joe back and playing. Kevin Weeden and Peter Martin III are still in second place. They have won 9 straight weeks. Billy Potter and Kyle Woodard hold the second longest win streak at 3 weeks as they try to climb the standings. Currently, the wild card teams are Bob Hunt / Skip Russell and Dan O’Rourke / Mike Marpe. In Flight B, Jeff Maynard / Darryl Lee hold a half point edge over Mark Tate / Ruppert Smith. The Harrington brothers, Gerry and Chris, and the Vogt family, Tom and Dave, are within 5 points of earning the second half automatic playoff bid. Currently Ron Caron / Kyle Gardner and the Vogts hold the 2 wild card spots. Nick Diotte / Dave Jones, Garth Duclos / Henry Rose, Peter Martin III / Kevin Weeden and Jeff Hull / Dale Dearstyne are already in the playoffs. These 4 teams came in first or second in their flight for the first half of the season.
Week Fourteen Results: Jeff Stevens had a season-best 7 pars shooting 37, net 32. His team tied for the low net for the week with Rod Squires and Dean Becker with a 69.
Rod Squires had a net score of 30 and tied his season-best with 4 pars on the night. Leon Rosko had a solid night, tying his season-best with 5 pars. Bret Seiler shot 38 and birdied the tough par 3 hole #1. Darryl Lee had a solid net score of 34 and was the only player to birdie the par 3 hole #3. Ruppert Smith and Dave Putnam both had solid nights, netting 34 from the tougher blue tees.
Week Fifteen Results: Skip Russell / Bob Hunt shot a net score of 64. Skip had pars and birdied hole #9 and Bob had a net score of 30. Bret Seiler was the only player to break 40 on this tough night. Bret shot a 36 with 5 pars and 2 birdies. He had a rare feat with 3 pars on the three par threes. His partner, Howie Akin, netted 34, giving their team a second-best net score of 67. Kyle Gardner also had a net score of 34. Danny O’Rourke helped his team with 5 pars on the night. Kyle Woodard picked up his first birdie of the year on the par three hole #3. Darryl Lee shot a net score of 33 with 3 pars and bagged his third birdie of the year (second in 2 weeks) on hole #8. Mr. Tom Vogt Sr shot a net score of 32. Ruppert Smith shot a net score of 33 and bagged his second birdie of the year. Marsh Ogert tied his season-best with 3 pars on the night. The league had 5 birdies on hole #8 for the night.
Week Sixteen Results: Joe Gerwin and John Newkirk played great from the tougher blue tees. They had a net score of 64. John had a net score of 31 with 3 pars. Joe had 6 pars and a net score of 33. Joe had the rare feat of parring all three par threes. Hopefully those handicaps will be coming down! Bret Seiler has started to heat up. He shot a 37, net 35 with 3 pars and 2 birdies. He has strung together 6 straight weeks with a birdie and 4 in the last 2 weeks to take the birdie lead for the year. I know he is making Rik proud 🙂 Kyle Woodard kept the hot streak going by picking up his second birdie in as many weeks. Kyle shot a net 34 and birdied the tough par three hole #9. Teammates Joel Frisino and funny man Dave Putnam had a solid net score of 67. Dave birdied the tough par three hole #1. Keith Shannon had a net score of 32 with 4 pars. His partner, Jeff Stevens, picked up 5 pars on the night. Nick Diotte had 4 pars and a birdie. Dave Jones, Dave Clark, and Jeff Maynard all shot 1 under their handicap from the blue tees. Kevin Weeden shot 38 with 6 pars. He could’ve used some of them in the HFCC member-guest tournament. God gives and God takes away.
Skins Update : Easy Eddie Powers won the 5-week pot in flight A and Mark Tate won the 4-week pot in flight B. Congrats to both players for banking triple figures for their $2 entry.
Closest to the Pin Winners Week Fourteen Rain out
Closest to the Pin Winners Week Fifteen
Hole 1 -> Bret Seiler 10ft 10in, Hole 3 -> Nick Diotte (4-time winner) 14ft 9in, Hole 9 -> Skip Russell (3-time winner) 6ft 3in
Closest to the Pin Winners Week Sixteen
Hole 1 -> Dave Putnam 15ft 7in, Hole 3 -> Gerry Harrington 45ft 5in (wow, the wind must have been howling), Hole 9 -> Kyle Woodard 6ft 11in