So, yeah, one of my golf goals for the year was realized which is making the Rose Cup Team for Diamond Oaks Golf Course. This is the 6th time in 20 years that I've made the team and the third time that we actually won the Cup while I was on the team. We have seven wins in the 20 years of the cup. My scoring was not paramount to our win, in that I made 3 points out of a possible 8 for the team. Probably my biggest contribution was finding an errant drive hit by one of my teammates on Saturday. He was in the group in front of us and hit the trees off the 17th tee. I saw the ball hit and ricochet back near the fairway. When we were finishing putting on number 16, Steve was driving back to the tee to re-hit as they couldn't find his ball. My cart mate and I drove back and showed them where the ball was. Steve won his match and got 4 points...he won by one stroke.
We played at Sierra View Country Club on Friday. I struggled and shot 90 and Steve and I took 1 point. Steve shot 87. Our team played relatively well and we had 15 1/2 points and trailed the leaders, Woodcreek, by 2 1/2 points. We had a great dinner at Sierra View consisting of filet mignon.
We played at Diamond Oaks on Saturday and felt pretty confident on our home course. I struggled again and shot 88 for 2 points, but our team played brilliantly and we took 36 of the 120 points to win the match with a total of 51 1/2 points. Woodcreek took second with 45 points. We had a nice dinner of heavy appetizers (hey, we're not a country club!).
I may have mentioned this, or not. This is my last year as the handicapper for the club.ihave been doing this off and on for 16 years. It is a position that is appointed annually by the President of the club. The new President and I really don't get along. He was the VP this year and was trying to change the duties of the VP. The biggest duty is to set up and run the annual Christmas party . He wasn't on the job for two months when he petitioned the board to do away with the gifts for the members at the Christmas party. The VP approaches golf courses that we play and gets rounds for a group of 4 that we give away at the event. He also approaches local merchants and asks for donations for our party. His final job is to run a 50-50 raffle at each tournament. The raffles usually collect about $180 with $90 to the winner and $90 to the Christmas fund. With 24 play dates throughout the year, we raise about $2000 for the gifts for our members. He didn't like having to do that work and I called him out on it, basically telling him that was his ONLY job besides doing a quarterly newsletter. He was not happy, but agreed to do the job he signed up for. He didn't even approach me about the job and gave it to one of his cronies. I can use the break and will be willing to train the guy who is taking over for me.
The second picture is of Darla on one of her Facebook check-ins. She called it curly hair Thursday. Cute wife.
Happy to have talked to Dad and Shirley tonight and got the great news that Wayne and Marilyn will be joining us on the cruise in December. Great times ahead. That's it for this week. I hope all is well with all of you. Ciao.
We played at Diamond Oaks on Saturday and felt pretty confident on our home course. I struggled again and shot 88 for 2 points, but our team played brilliantly and we took 36 of the 120 points to win the match with a total of 51 1/2 points. Woodcreek took second with 45 points. We had a nice dinner of heavy appetizers (hey, we're not a country club!).
I may have mentioned this, or not. This is my last year as the handicapper for the club.ihave been doing this off and on for 16 years. It is a position that is appointed annually by the President of the club. The new President and I really don't get along. He was the VP this year and was trying to change the duties of the VP. The biggest duty is to set up and run the annual Christmas party . He wasn't on the job for two months when he petitioned the board to do away with the gifts for the members at the Christmas party. The VP approaches golf courses that we play and gets rounds for a group of 4 that we give away at the event. He also approaches local merchants and asks for donations for our party. His final job is to run a 50-50 raffle at each tournament. The raffles usually collect about $180 with $90 to the winner and $90 to the Christmas fund. With 24 play dates throughout the year, we raise about $2000 for the gifts for our members. He didn't like having to do that work and I called him out on it, basically telling him that was his ONLY job besides doing a quarterly newsletter. He was not happy, but agreed to do the job he signed up for. He didn't even approach me about the job and gave it to one of his cronies. I can use the break and will be willing to train the guy who is taking over for me.
The second picture is of Darla on one of her Facebook check-ins. She called it curly hair Thursday. Cute wife.
Happy to have talked to Dad and Shirley tonight and got the great news that Wayne and Marilyn will be joining us on the cruise in December. Great times ahead. That's it for this week. I hope all is well with all of you. Ciao.
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