2021 – Week Ten
We’re half-way through the 2021 GCCGL Golf Season. Yep, you read that right. This season is flying by and with only 10 weeks remaining several things stick out of me as interesting, so let’s start with an extended version of TWIG Notes.
T.W.I.G. Notes
Despite leading the league for 5 of the first 6 weeks of the season, the Rollin’ 60’s currently find themselves in 3rd place and 22.5 points out of first. They’re in an absolute free-fall. The reason? It’s gotta be the blog. When yours truly took over the blog from George in week 6… The Rollin’ 60 were solidly in 1st place, but with every blog I’ve submitted, the Rollin’ 60’s have fallen further and further out of 1st. In fact, as I type this, I think we just fell behind by another 3 points. Maybe Morell would like to take a shot at blogging for while?
Morrell continues his stellar play and is currently the best player on the best team and the favorite to win the MVP here at the half-way point.
His team, Jerry’s Kids, have been in 1st place for the better part of month now and their lead just continues to grow. Give their captain, Jim Allen, a lot of credit for assembling this squad. He’s done a fantastic job as a rookie captain.
Or, should we blame the rest of the 5 captains for the success of Jerry’s Kids? It’s a thought worth considering…
Take for instance, Morell… Currently he is the favorite for the MVP. He’s tied for the Lead League in wins with 6 and leads the league in points with 47.5. Do you know how many players were drafted ahead of Morell? EIGHT. Eight players were taken before Mike.
Let me give you another example… Mike Ethridge is also part of the 1st place team and at this point is also in the running for the MVP. Despite missing this past week, Mike is still tied for 2nd in wins with 5, and currently only sits 6.5 points out of the league lead. Despite running away with the MVP title last year, do you know how many players were drafted ahead of Ethridge? FOURTEEN.
Another person who is in consideration for the MVP race is Oliver Livermore. Ollie was taken dead last in the draft. Of the 17 players drafted ahead of Ollie… only 5 have more wins. Of the 17 players drafted ahead of Ollie… only Morell has more points.
Maybe this becomes the season we’ll look back on and realize you don’t have to draft A players first in order to win in this league. You simply need players that go out and get points. When you look at the A players as a group… Kurt Kreyling is the only A Player to crack the top 10 in points.
In fact the A players would be dead last as a group in both points and wins.
The D players (again as a group), would have the most total wins and total points of the A’s, B’s, C’s and D’s.
Maybe the A Players just need to step it up in the 2nd half?
At the halfway point, here’s the full team standings…
Jerry’s Kids: 222.5
Dustined to Fail: 207.5
Rollin’ 60’s: 200.0
Good if Joe Shows: 194.0
Aces Ventura: 192.0
Designated Drivers: 182.0
Morell and Leininger share the league lead in wins with 6.
Morell leads the league in points with 47.5
Rich Parvesse and Serkan Freeman are tied for 1st in the money standings with $42.66 each.
Just a quick shout out to Ollie for holing out on #7 for an eagle this past week. If we had a skins game, Ollie would have gotten paid, but we don’t. Too bad Ollie.
Joe Cook’s putter was en fuego this past week. He only had to use the flat stick 11 times in 9 holes as he took the Big Donkey out to pasture 8.5 – 1.5.
Brian Roddy got his first win of the season… leaving Andy Crowe as the last man standing without a win.
We’re still on record pace for ties in a season. Just to remind everyone, the average number of ties in a season over the last decade is 26.8 and the most ties we’ve ever had in a season is 40. Half-way through the season we already have 28 ties and are on pace for 56. Fingers crossed this is last season we ever have a tie.
The A/B Low Net Winner(s): Joe Cook and Danny Roller
The C/D Low Net Winner(s): Ollie Livermore and Johnny Rayburn.
This week we move to the Back of the Willows for another Team Event… the Pink Ball Scramble.
Word on the Range
After Danny Roller changed his vacation plans last week to avoid Mike Morell and make certain he played Joe Eiser this week… Word on the range is that Boot Boy Eiser did this same thing this week simply to avoid playing Roller.
Nick Duer has missed the past 2 league nights and Jeff Capannari’s Outing this past Saturday due to his wrist injury… and his golf trip to Last Vegas also appears to be in jeopardy. However… Word on the range is that Nick Duer might not be injured at all. It was brought to my attention that Nick may have already found a new job in a new city and simply doesn’t have the heart to tell anyone, yet.
Word on the range is that we should expect Kenton County to continue to make changes to both courses in an effort to make them more playable. I’ve been told by someone close to the situation that they still have plans to take out more trees and eliminate more bunkers. The easier the course… the faster the pace of play. The faster the pace of play… the more golfers they can put on the course each day. It’s all about the money and they think they can get another 6-8 foursomes out each day.
Final Thoughts
Great Job to Jeff Capannari on his Golf Outing. Even with lots of people willing to step up and volunteer on game day, running a golf outing starts months in advance. It takes a lot of time and a lot of energy. I’ve been playing in this outing for about five years now and as always, I had a blast. Jeff runs one of the better outings I’ve been to, and if you’re not already playing in it… you should mark it on your calendar and play next June.
I’d also like to point out that 10 weeks is the deepest we’ve ever gone in a season without assigning nicknames and we still have 4 new players without them. Jim Allen, Dustin Allen, Rich Parvesse and Kevin Klein. Ben Leininger is now the only new addition to the league to have a nickname. Ben has been a great sport all year and has been the butt of many jokes on the blog… but you have nobody to blame but yourself and your gene pool for this one… “Dahm”
Last week, Peter Goldenberg sent me this picture of Ben with a machete after golf.
I think my first response was “Does he have a barrel of acid too”? For some reason, in this moment, he reminded me of a serial killer, and as looked on the internet, I quickly found that he resembles the “Milwaukee Monster”
Ben… You and Jeffrey Dahmer really do look alike, so obviously, moving forward, you will be known as “Dahm”.
As always,
Golf is Hard. If it were easy, it would be called “your mom”.
Big Donkey
BD – First, Meat is a sleeper. I was on his team last year and therefore had no reason to draft him this year.
Thank you for the shout out on the outing, it was successful and definitely is open to others to play in next year!
Dahm was showing Roller a picture of his car trunk for some reason yesterday, I was afraid to look, but pretty sure there was a bucket, rope and bags.