Geriatric vs Pediatric
Geriatric vs Pediatric
Week 15 will be remembered as the week where the lowly bottom dwellers rose up from the depths of the GCCGL basement and played the spoiler role bringing down a couple of top-rated contenders. It was only last week that 11 points separated the top four teams for the 2018 GCCGL Championship but after week 15, that margin has DOUBLED to 22! Talk about your movement week. And this was just straight-up match play. No special event, no scramble. It just goes to show you that anything can happen in this crazy league on any given week. There is plenty of golf left (5 weeks) The dog days of August are where champions are made. Three of the last five weeks include special events that could blow this thing wide open. Hold on to your hats ladies, this should be fun.
Can you believe it? There are only five weeks left in the 2018 GCCGL season. This puts me in a very depressed state of mind, not because golf will be over but because it’s week 15 and I’m running out of things to blog about! Seriously, this is harder than it looks. Lip Gloss knows what I’m talkin’ about. Speaking for myself, I’m actually kind of happy golf is winding down. PW is getting old and yes, it’s my own fault. I know I’ve let my beautiful physique go over the last few months which I’m sure is contributing to the various ailments I’ve been enduring all season (back, elbow, shoulder, heel). I wish I was kidding, but I’m not. If you’ve been wondering why PW hasn’t been walking the course, this is why. I’m hanging on by the thinnest of hairs left on my bald head.
As I sat home icing my elbow, rubbing icy hot on my lower back and popping Advil like tic tacs, it made me think about the changing landscape of this crazy golf league of ours. The league is getting younger. Sure, we still have some old-timers like the Portuguese Warrior. I’m at an age where my back goes out more than I do. ¹ And what about Cletus? He’s so old that when he went out for breakfast the other day and ordered a three-minute egg, the waitress asked for the money up front. ² And then there’s Captain Obvious. Ollie is so old that when he goes food shopping, he doesn’t even buy green bananas. ³ But hey, I’m not saying these things to poke fun at us older guys, I’m actually complimenting the older half of the league. Take a look at the leaders for points, wins and money and you’ll notice more geriatric members of the community than pediatric.
But I digress. Perhaps the GCCGL veterans have reached the pinnacle of the GCCGL and it’s time to pass the torch to the millennial generation and the likes of Scratch, Fatone, Squirts, Marge, Han Solo, Captain Hairy and Swiper. For Pete’s sake, I have hemorrhoids older than most of these guys.
It won’t be long before us old farts are depending on these kids to help us with our golf shoes, walk us to our cars and carry our bags. But until then, we’re going to use every trick in Cletus’ book to gain an edge, so don’t start digging those graves yet.
I had to post the picture below. This is something I can’t ever remember witnessing before (Snoodles walking instead of riding). I know he’s walked before but it has been so long, I honestly don’t remember the last time he walked. Who knew he even owned a pull cart. Lookin’ good Snoodles….lookin’ good!
By the way, I’m asking that all of the GCCGL members keep their phones ready and start taking pics and/or videos of memorable moments in the coming weeks. If we have enough at the end of the season, I’ll try to put together a little collage video for the last blog of the year. I also uploaded some new pictures to the photo album in case you wanted to take a look.
The big winners this week were Catalina Wine Mixer who flat out crushed first place Hackstreet Boys (26-14). They were led by Potter who took an impressive 8 points. It seems like “The Process” is breaking down. Donkey’s Disciples destroyed The Process (25.5-14.5) led by Captain Obvious who scored the first ever 10 – 0 match play round in GCCGL league history against Syndrome’s card. This has never happened in 23 years. Not even against the card but even so, we’ll stick a little asterisk on that baby since Syndrome wasn’t there to put up a fight. Man-o-man was Ollie proud of his 10-0 skunking or what? After he posted his bogey on #9, he came over to the gallery and pulled a mic-drop moment with his 10-0 scorecard and declared his dominance and how his low net of 28 was unbeatable. Then he stuck around all night drinking, mingling and boasting. Hmm, how about displaying a little modesty Ollie, besides don’t you have some backup tapes to change? Unfortunately for Ollie we had to break the news to him that Captain Hairy shot a low net 27. Ollie breaks 40 for the first time in his GCCGL career and doesn’t even get low net. Poetic justice I suppose. By the way, is it just me or are some of these handicaps a bit inflated? It should be a very interesting Pot Luck this season with all the strokes being handed out. Oh, I almost forgot, Ballers…Schott Callers! defeated another contender, Putter Face, (23.6-16.5). They were led by Gobstopper who grabbed 8.5 points over an injured Senator.
The low net winners were Big Donkey and Potter (A/B) with a low net 30 and Captain Hairy (C/D) with a ridiculous low net of 27! Great rounds everyone and congratulations! We stay on the Pioneer front this week for the Pot Luck event. It should be fun! We hope to see you on the course and as always, hit ‘em straight!
George Almeida – GCCGL co-commissioner
Footnotes and Credits
¹ – Phyllis Diller
² – George Burns
³ – Claude Pepper
