2018 – Week 20

And the winner is…….Catalina Wine Mixer! What a comeback! Down 15 points with just two weeks left in the season and they roar back and finish in 5^th place ahead of the Ballers…Schott Callers who coincidentally was co-commissioner Cupcake’s team. Ouch. What a colossal collapse by Team Cupcake. But give some credit to CWM. Making up 15 points in two weeks is unheard of. It was a team effort aided by the fact that El Hefe decided to finally put his driver in his bag and play golf! But that wasn’t the only major collapse. The Hackstreet Boys dropped out of the money after only getting 7.5 points this week. The Process knocked them out of third place and finished in the money after winning the Best Ball Scramble.

Oh, by the way, Donkey’s Disciples are the 2018 GCCGL Champions! Congratulations to Snoodles, Boot Boy, Han Solo and Captain Obvious. They wound up winning by 5.5 points in a tight race this season. Lip Gloss’ dream of finally bringing home a GCCGL championship was crushed and so devastating to the point where he could not show his face in the office any longer. Thus, he put in his notice and left the company. That’s the kind of affect this golf league has on you folks. Is this the final piece of the puzzle for Snoodles and/or Ollie that will get them into the GCCGL Hall of Fame? Snoodles wins his 4^th ring while Ollie gets his 5^th! I think that deserves a special ballet next year. Snoodles and Captain Obvious. Let the best man win.

It didn’t take long for controversy to rear its ugly head this season as a major scandal revealed that co-commissioner Cupcake was cooking the books by forging fake documents and not disclosing that his teammates had failed to pay the 2018 GCCGL dues right before the Florida Scramble on week 1. Most trusted co-commissioner my ass! We all had reached a boiling point of sorts on week 2 but thank God for miracles! The GCC bathrooms finally opened! Syndrome nearly burned down the driving range with his driver on week 3 and then breaks that same driver when he attempts to brace himself. Mr. X also makes his first hilarious appearance. Turmoil continued in the commissioner’s office during week 4 as PW got angrier due to all the fake news being leaked by his fellow co-commissioners and Lip Gloss rips PW a new one calling him a Portuguese Weasel instead of the Portuguese Warrior during his weekly Kreyling Korner blog. Catalina Wine Mixer gets their first victory on week 5 but more importantly, the Crowe pool started to hopefully help Crowe get his first GCCGL victory. It worked! Crowe gets his first victory on week 7! New Pink Ball rules made seemingly normal people do unthinkable things like dive neck deep into a bacteria infested pond looking for lost pink balls during week 11. Week 12 uncovered more trouble for the GCCGL commissioner’s office as allegations concerning the tampering of clients for Big Donkey Enterprises, LLC. A plea bargain was agreed upon and the GCCGL had a new sponsor for the week. The fun continued on week 13 as more fake news got PW’s blood boiling and a GCCGL member was caught red-handed stealing Cupcakes headcover. Week 15 turned out to be a historic one for the GCCGL as Captain Obvious turns in the first 10-0 skunking in the 23-year history of the GCCGL. Ollie beamed at that card like a young papa admiring his newborn baby. And he let everyone know about it. You can read all about it right here. Fred Flintstone made an appearance on week 17. So, there you have it. It was another fun, successful season for the GCCGL. There were four teams competing for the top spot for most of the season with at least three different teams experiencing some time in first place until Donkey’s Disciples started pulling away the last couple of weeks.

There is a lot of uncertainty surrounding the league’s continued existence for next season and beyond. We are already losing one co-commissioner and other members have moved on to better and brighter opportunities. However, as of this moment, I plan to do everything in my power to keep this league going in 2019.

The final scramble results are as follows: 

The Closest-to-the-pin winners were Squirts (A/B) and El Hefe (C/D). El Hefe was the only C/D player to hit the green. What a shame. The Longest Drive winners were Snoodles (A/B) and Fusting (C/D). Congratulations to the winners!

I’d like to thank my fellow co-commissioners Jason Nill and Kurt Kreyling for everything they do for this league. It really is a lot of work and takes a lot of personal time running the best golf league in the region. The pay is terrible and the benefits are even worse but they help me do it anyway. A lot goes on behind the scenes including handling the finances, statistics, handicaps, tee times, surveys, Kreyling Korner (which I hope continues next season!) as well as continuing to come up with fresh ideas to keep the GCCGL entertaining, competitive and relevant. I really can’t thank them enough. Without them, there would be no GCCGL. So, THANK YOU!

Thank you to everyone who participated in the league this season. We hope to see you back next year. The trophies and money prizes will be distributed in a couple of weeks at our annual GCCGL luncheon. You will receive an email from the commissioner’s office with further details. YOU, the GCCGL members, are the ones who make this league interesting and fun. On behalf of my co-commissioners, we thank you and hope to see you back next season!

We leave you with a short video summarizing the 2018 GCCGL season. There weren’t many pictures and only one video to work with so I did the best I could. Enjoy!
 

George Almeida – GCCGL co-commissioner