2014 Week 1
The 2014 GCCGL season is officially on its way! The weather was perfect and so was the attendance! All 24 GCCGL members showed up last week. We didn’t need a single sub. That is very rare. Not only did we have a beautiful day and perfect attendance, but we tee’d off exactly at 5:24pm and finished with some daylight left! Great start!
The winners of the Florida Scramble were Morning Wood who finished -3 only because Matt “Gibb” McLinn made a putt on #18. MW’s captain, Big Donkey, couldn’t say enough about his “D” player. “Matt McLinn is the second best player on this team!”, said an exuberant Big Donkey at the post round interview session. This did not sit well with their other team members, Big Ed Petryk and Justin Seiter. They were later seen at a late night watering hole discussing potential plots on how they can reclaim Big Donkey’s respect and knock Barry Gibb down a couple of pegs. Will this team self implode or run away with this race? Are they overconfident or just that much better than everyone else? It’s a long season.
Tied for second were Das Boots are Made for Golfing and Carrier to the Hole and Duer who both finished -2. A very respectable score on this windy evening. Finishing in third place all by themselves were Schmuck Dynasty at -1. Meanwhile Putt Pirates actually cannot putt and finished EVEN for the round and alone in 5th place. Finally, rounding out the bottom was Balls and Dolls who finished +2.
The gallery was lively this week. Many theories were thrown about as to why B & D were struggling to shoot under par this evening. One of them was that Cletus and Syndrome hadn’t stopped for the early bird special before the round leaving them famished……..because they’re old. Of course, they could have forgotten to eat……..again, because they’re old. Another theory was that their 5:57 pm tee time directly coincided with their late afternoon / early evening nap time. These are valid hypotheses. I know what you’re thinking, “Hey George, you’re old!” That may be true, along with the fact that I just finished a whole bag of Salt and Vinegar bagel chips! Damn!
I feel the need to pontificate. No Cletus, that doesn’t mean I have to go the bathroom. As I was enjoying my seasonal Sam Adam’s Summer Ale at the post round gathering, talking with everyone and having a good time, I realized the difficulty of coming to terms with looking up one day and realizing you’re the oldest person in the room. I’m not going to lie, it kind of sucks. But then, out of the corner of my eye, I see Cletus and Syndrome and my anxiety turns to serenity. You see, there’s one more truth that can never be disputed and that is Cletus and Syndrome will always be older than me and there’s nothing they can do about that. That little fact is what makes me get up each morning with a smile on my face and spring in my step. Thanks boys.
Conditions were tough. I haven’t seen putting greens like that in a while. Those greens had more holes than Sonny Corelon. Sonny…..Corleon……the Godfather movie…..no?………nothing? My similes are wasted on today’s youth. And if the aerated greens weren’t enough, we had the wind to contend with. That wind was really howling last Thursday evening, on the tee and on the putting green; I mean it was really reeking havoc on Ollie’s hairdo. Now Ollie, I am not picking on you. Truth be told, if anything, I’m jealous. I haven’t had a head of hair like that since the Reagan administration. The last time I had to worry about the wind blowing my bangs in my eyes, I was playing Donkey Kong on ColecoVision. If I could, I’d bring back Eighty’s George in a second! But, alas, I can’t. So grow those locks as long as you could Ollie because once it stops growing on your head, it starts sprouting on your back! That’s a whole other issue. This is what happens when there’s no GCCGL material to blog about.
The winner of the Closest-to-the-pin for the (A/B) group was Kurt Kreyling and for the (C/D) group was Oliver Livermore. The hair didn’t get in the way on that shot. Congratulations to the winners! We move to the front nine of the Willows next week for the first week of match play. If you can’t make it, please get a sub. We have plenty of subs and they want to play. There’s no reason why we can’t have perfect attendance each and every week. I’m challenging this league to record 18 straight weeks of perfect attendance. We hope to see you on the course and as always, hit ’em straight!
George Almeida – GCCGL founder and co-commissioner
