MGA “View From The
Bunker”
September 2, 2015
Attention MGA Golfers and All the Ships At Sea:
Welcome to the first league match in September, and the
start of a new Shootout Quarter at Grand Haven. Today, we had 39 members
playing an Individual Criss-Cross game in some heavy humid weather. But, we all
made it through to the clubhouse for lunch, drinks, and camaraderie.
Golf Humor #1: A couple
has played golf every day for 50 years. One day the wife says, "Honey, to
celebrate five decades of golf and marriage, let's start off with a clean slate
and confess all our past wrongs."
"OK," the husband says. "Do you remember that blond secretary who worked for me 20 years ago? Well, I had an affair with her."
And the wife says, "That's nothing. Before we met, I had a sex change."
And the husband says, "Why you dang cheat! All this time you've been hitting from the red tees!"
"OK," the husband says. "Do you remember that blond secretary who worked for me 20 years ago? Well, I had an affair with her."
And the wife says, "That's nothing. Before we met, I had a sex change."
And the husband says, "Why you dang cheat! All this time you've been hitting from the red tees!"
As I mentioned, we played
an Individual Criss-Cross, 9-hole Best Ball game of the following: Holes 1 or
10, 2 or 11, 3 or 12, 4 or 13, 5 or 14, 6 or 15, 7 or 18, 8 or 17, 9 or 16. We
had four flights of players, and awarded prizes for 1st, 2nd,
and 3rd place in the flighted rankings:
Flight 1:
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Golfer Name
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Criss Cross
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Shootout Pts.
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Place
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Prize
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SCIUTO, TONY
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31
|
10
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1st
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$15.00
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STANSFIELD, BOB
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32
|
9
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2nd-3rd
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$7.00
|
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GOLOMB, JIM
|
32
|
9
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2nd-3rd
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$7.00
|
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MALONE, BOB
|
33
|
7
|
|
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BIANCHI, PETER
|
34
|
6
|
|
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BORER, ROBERT
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34
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6
|
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JAWORSKI, DAVID
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35
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4
|
|
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MCDOUGALL, GARY
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35
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4
|
|
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HASTY, HARRY
|
35
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4
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BUCHANAN, EARL
|
37
|
1
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|
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Flight 2
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Golfer Name
|
Criss Cross
|
Shootout
Pts.
|
Place
|
Prize
|
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BOHMUELLER, OTTO
|
29
|
10
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1st-2nd-3rd
|
$9.67
|
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QUACKENBUSH, JOHN
|
29
|
10
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1st-2nd-3rd
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$9.67
|
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MCCUTCHEON, JIM
|
29
|
10
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1st-2nd-3rd
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$9.67
|
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GEISER, LARRY
|
32
|
7
|
|
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TOSH, STEVE
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32
|
7
|
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WOLFE, BOB
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32
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7
|
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MEHL, BOB
|
33
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4
|
|
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ROGERS, HAWLEY
|
33
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4
|
|
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LORIA, JOE
|
33
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4
|
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FIGLIUOLO, LEE
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39
|
1
|
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Flight 3
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Golfer Name
|
Criss Cross
|
Shootout Pts.
|
Place
|
Prize
|
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MCRAE, WALTER
|
28
|
10
|
1st
|
$15.00
|
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SMITH, THOMAS
|
30
|
9
|
2nd-3rd
|
$7.00
|
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HINSCH, JACK
|
30
|
9
|
2nd-3rd
|
$7.00
|
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DELVAC, JOHN
|
32
|
7
|
|
|
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SAMUEL, STEVE
|
32
|
7
|
|
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FATONE, ALFRED
|
33
|
5
|
|
|
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SWEENEY, TOM
|
34
|
4
|
|
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SCHILE, STEPHEN
|
35
|
3
|
|
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PALERMO, JOE
|
38
|
2
|
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Flight 4
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Golfer Name
|
Criss Cross
|
Shootout Pts
|
Place
|
Prize
|
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ROBICHAUD, ROLAND
|
31
|
10
|
1st-2nd-3rd
|
$9.67
|
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WORSFOLD, PETER
|
31
|
10
|
1st-2nd-3rd
|
$9.67
|
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CHIDDISTER, JERRY
|
31
|
10
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1st-2nd-3rd
|
$9.67
|
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DOUGLAS, JOHN
|
32
|
7
|
|
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TEBBANO, MICHAEL
|
32
|
7
|
|
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MCNAMARA, JOHN
|
33
|
5
|
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KANTAKEVICIUS, JOHN
|
35
|
4
|
|
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BRYCE, BILL
|
35
|
4
|
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WOOD, BILL
|
37
|
2
|
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Golf Humor #2 : Two guys
are playing golf behind two really slow women. Finally, one guy offers to speed
things up and walks down the fairway to tell the women to get a move on. But
halfway to the women, he turns around and comes back to his buddy.
"I couldn't say anything," he explains. "One was my wife and the other was my mistress."
"No problem, I'll handle it," his pal says. But after going halfway down the fairway toward the women, he, too, stops. He comes back and says to his buddy: "Small world, isn't it?"
"I couldn't say anything," he explains. "One was my wife and the other was my mistress."
"No problem, I'll handle it," his pal says. But after going halfway down the fairway toward the women, he, too, stops. He comes back and says to his buddy: "Small world, isn't it?"
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Closest to Pin
|
|
|
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Hole #5
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Distance
|
Prize
|
|
Bob Borer
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9' 11"
|
$6.00
|
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Walt McRae
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10' 8"
|
$4.00
|
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Hole #8
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Distance
|
Prize
|
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Jack Hinsch
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2' 6"
|
$6.00
|
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Mike Tebbano
|
3' 7"
|
$4.00
|
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Hole #14
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Distance
|
Prize
|
|
John Douglas
|
11' 9"
|
$6.00
|
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Joe Palermo
|
12' 2"
|
$4.00
|
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Hole #14
|
Distance
|
Prize
|
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Jim McCutcheon
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14' 6"
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$6.00
|
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Tony Sciuto
|
19' 0"
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$4.00
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Golf Humor #3: A guy gets up at dawn on a
Saturday morning and heads for the golf course as usual. But it's cold and
raining, so halfway to the club, he gives up and returns home, where he takes
off his clothes, climbs back into bed and snuggles up against his wife. "It's
freezing out there," he says.
"Yeah," his wife answers sleepily. "Can you believe my stupid husband is playing golf?"
"Yeah," his wife answers sleepily. "Can you believe my stupid husband is playing golf?"
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The Wall
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Low Gross
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Low Net
|
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Pete Bianchi
|
81
|
|
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Otto Bohmueller
|
81
|
67
|
|
John Quackenbush
|
|
68
|
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Jim McCutcheon
|
|
66
|
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Walt McRae
|
|
65
|
|
Jack Hinsch
|
|
67
|
The Wisdom of Steve
“Guru” Samuel: How is it that we put a man on the moon
before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?
We had some interesting success stories today. Walt McRae is
the golfer of the moment scoring a net eagle on #12, a net ace on #5, score an
overall low net score of 65 for the game, coming in second on the Closest to
the Pin for #5, and if that wasn’t enough he places first in Flight 3 with a
criss-cross score of 28, the lowest score for the day among all the golfers in
all four flights. Kudos to Walt.
Here are more notables for your information: Net Eagles: John Douglas Hole #13, Walt McRae
#12, Jim McCutcheon #7, Otto Bohmueller #6, John Quackenbush #6,
Regulation Birdie: Tony Sciuto #17, Joe Loria #8 and Net
Ace: Walt McRae # 5 and #8, Mike Tebbano
#8, Jack Hinsch #8.
Golf Factoid: As reported this week in Golf Magazine,
drinking coffee has a significant effect of improvement for golfers. Not sure
what this means for our league, but the report can be found at this link: http://goo.gl/VONpuq.
The MGA Shootout Leaderboard begins anew this week with the
following top ten rankings for your information. Note the three-way tie for
tenth place.
|
|
Shootout Leaderboard
|
|
|
1
|
Otto Bohmueller
|
10
|
|
2
|
Jerry Chiddister
|
10
|
|
3
|
Jim McCutcheon
|
10
|
|
4
|
Walt McRae
|
10
|
|
5
|
John Quackenbush
|
10
|
|
6
|
Roland Robichaud
|
10
|
|
7
|
Tony Sciuto
|
10
|
|
8
|
Peter Worsfold
|
10
|
|
9
|
Jim Golomb
|
9
|
|
10
|
Jack Hinsch
|
9
|
|
|
Tom Smith
|
9
|
|
|
Bob Stansfield
|
9
|
Once again, congratulations to Jack Hinsch, the Shootout
Winner in yesterday’s exciting match for the 3rd quarter shootout
champion, and all the golfers that played.
Next week’s game is a 2-man team event of Best Nine, where
players select their 2 net best par 3’s, 5 net best par 4’s, and 2 net best par
5’s. The team score is the total of the two individual players. Make sure you
sign up before Monday, September 7, 5:00pm to reserve your spot to play for
Wednesday, September 9.
Join us next week after lunch when Otto Bohmueller and Lee
Figliuolol present a scene from Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
Until then, see you from the bunker.
Larry and Mike
