Scramble Results of the 7.14.18 Weekend

Another awesome weekend of Golf at the Mainlands Golf Club just wrapped up.  I have to say that even though we had some serious rain dropping the course is draining well.  Thank you to our Superintendent Aaron May for finishing up some rather large drainage projects last week.  The project certainly helped  #1 and #9 drain pretty quickly this weekend.

The Saturday Scramble scores are in and have been tabulated in our Golf-Tabulator-9000.

First Place – Kevin, Jim, Steve, Whit, and Stuart at -13

Second Place Kevzie, Jess, Angie, Bama and Paul at -9

Third Place Darrin, Frank, and Rex at -8

Closest to the Pin  was Team #4

Thank you to everyone for coming out. The winning teams have money deposited in their respective club credit accounts.  Golf balls are behind the counter with Team #4’s name on it.

The Sunday Scramble went off at 4pm for the first time this week.  The start time will be 4pm until we wrap up the series at the end of September.  The conditions were rather soggy.  Not the worst I have played in here by far but definitely some standing water making it a ‘lift, clean, place’ type of day.  I am super excited about all of the new faces we are seeing from week to week.  This week was the largest outing yet with 34 golfers! ! !

First Place – Mike and Tyson at -1.  Mike made an eagle all by himself on our last hole (#7) to put us one under for the day.  It was about time he started contributing.  However Since Mike and I are the ‘House’ team we relinquish any claim to prize winnings and so the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place teams split the pot.

Second Place – Rita O’neil and Steve Hensley at Even Par (This was their second week in a row on the leader board.  Congratulations ! ! !)

Third Place –  Matt Easterman and David Lent at Even Par

Fourth Place – Donna Dorsey and Ken Thompson at +2

Closest to the Pin was hole #16.  This was won by Mainlands Employee, Mainlands Resident, and all around awesome human being . . .’Uncle’ RON WALTON! ! ! I guess he held his team together this Sunday.  If you know who his playing partner was you already know I am gonna catch some hell for this.  : )  Ron has some golf balls behind the counter with his name on them.

I’d like to give an Honorable Mention to Stewart Elder.  Stewart was a single who got paired up and played with Mike and myself and I just wanted to give a shout out.  It was a hot day golfing in the mud and we all just laughed and laughed all day.  Anytime you are laughing while you golf you are doing it right.

This week I am sorry to say I have another DIS-HONORABLE MENTION.  In two words . . .

SUNFLOWER SEEDS.

I am hereby banning sunflower seeds at the Mainlands Golf Club in perpetuity.  It is not so much as the vile snack forces the consumer of said snack to chew on the shell of the seed and then spit it out in a filthy, gross, and all around unsanitary method.  That would be reason enough to institute a ban of the bird food.  But on the 9th hole, the 10th hole, the 12th hole, 14th, and 15th hole I am lining up a putt, or pulling the pin, and I find several pieces of the shells all over the green.  Remember when Sergio spit in the cup about 5 years ago.  Imagine if he did it on every green?  Imagine your golf ball bouncing back and forth off of these shells like PLINKO on the Price is Right.  Bottom line the game of golf has a rule; Leave it Better Than You Found it.  Spitting one’s food waste all over a shared space is pretty much a flagrant violation.  Maybe someone in government could put a tariff on Sunflower Seeds.  I don’t know.

So can I get a witness from some you out there?  Do you have any sunflower seed stories?  I do know the next time I see them on the course some one might have to sedate me.

 

Thank you to all and I wish you a lovely sunny, yet sunflower-seedless, week,

 

-Tyson

 

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