July 29 Results

 

Sunny-Side Financials:

 

          Carry Forward 2023                 $     48.05

          56 golfers x $60.00                  $3,360.00

          02 golfer x $40.00                    $     80.00

                                                          $3,488.05

 

Three of Off The Tee: After having to cancel the Monday league for two weeks, three groups were shut out of the lottery bid today, (because the Sunningdale course was closed for aeration.)  Unfortunately, we couldn’t find room for all of them on the tee sheet. Bummer.

 

State of the Union: There are going to be some players pretty sad to see the month of July go by as they lit up the scorecards, (with only two dates available to be played). Once again, the humid weather led to some extreme scores!  It was probably easier to get on a France high speed rail car than reach the Huffman podium this week.

Several people were unavailable, combined with the poor lottery results led to a season low 40 golfers which included two DNF’s, (as a result of the afternoon rain).

 

The Moustache Twirl:  Remember the famed moustache-twirling characters, like Snidley Whiplash and Oil Can Harry? This gentleman had every right to twirl his moustache, right after he drained his fourth birdie putt on the day! Finding his game with a brand-new driver, woods, irons and golf bag, Mr. Ernie Miatello made consecutive birdies on both the front and back nine!  The score of 85 was pretty good but the birdies were great, earning Ernie a total of 45 quota points! Hey, super ‘stache Ernie!

 

Brucey Bruce: Making his first appearance this year on the Huffman podium was Bruce Anderson. I had heard that he was playing some good golf lately and it sure showed today as he came home with 44 quota points! Bruce had a nice split of 41/41 and he earned his quota the old-fashioned way… no birdies.  He made a quota on 17 of 18 holes today.  Well ventured Bruce!

 

Three’s Company: These three cagey Huffman veterans, Clark Leith, Steve Goodwin and David Ballingall, showed the young lads a thing or two today.  All three ended up with 43 quota points! Clark and Steve had been carefully staging their handicaps this season and made their best showing of the season today.  These were Steve’s first pay points of the season. He was so happy he left the team scorecard with his wife to mail in and hit the Pub!  Clark was part of today’s “Featured Group” on the Home page of the website, leading his group at the good ‘ol age of 86!

David finished last year pretty strong and earned pay points on his last two outings this year. He made a birdie today on the 8th hole to reach the podium for the first time this year.

Well done Boys!

 

Monday Stats that may interest only me;

Lowest round of the day: Firing a splendid 75 was Julian Oates. No birdies, 13 pars and 5 bogies. Lowest Huffman round of the year! (36/39 split).

Top Bird Dog: On back-to-back play dates we had 20 birdies! The clear-cut leader today was Ernie with those four birdies. Must be a personal best for most birdies in one round for him?

Best Played Hole by one 4-Some: On a day when we had 9 four-somes on the course, the Group of Ernie Miatello, Gerry Marcus, Sohan Samra and David Ballingall played hole #5 to minus 2.  Ernie AND Gerry made their first of consecutive front nine birdies on this hole while Sohan and David made par.  Their group had three scores of 81 today, 7 birdies and 25 pay points, Wowzah!

 

All pay points earners are listed here.  A total of 28 golfers exceeded the 36-point threshold for a total of 123 Pay Points! Crazy good.

Player                  Tee/Hdcp   Quota         PayPts        Birdies        Score

Ernie Miatello       W18            45               9                 4(#5,6,10,11) 85

Bruce Anderson    W20            44               8                 0                 82

David Ballingall    Y17            43               7                 1(#8)           81

Clark Leith           R30             43               7                 0                 94

Steve Goodwin     Y24            43               7                 1(#11)         88

Julian Oates          W11            42               6                 0                  75*

Rahul Manchanda Y17            42               6                 1(#16)         82

Terry McBride      Y19            42               6                 1(#16)         84

Alvin Krische       Y26            42               6                 0                 92

Tom Wey              W15            41               5                 2(#6,11)      81

Sohan Samra        W16            41               5                 0                 81

William Penney    Y17             41               5                 0                 82

Lyn Sartori           W17            41               5                 1(#5)           83

Roy Perovich        Y17            41               5                 1(#11)         83

Gerry Marcus       W13            40               4                 2(#5,6)        81

Sam Swaminath    Y16            40               4                 0                  82

Kent Clark            Y15            40               4                 1(#11)         82

Grant Gardner       Y20            40               4                 1(#18)         88

Denis Gagnon       W19            40               4                 0                 86

Gordon Good        W13            39               3                 0                 81

Gordon Salmon    Y18            39               3                 1(#3)           86

Dave Webster       Y15            38               2                 2(#3,11)      85

Eric Allen             Y17            38               2                 0                 85

Ian Shewan           W19            38               2                 1(#14)         88

David Broughton  Y16            37               1                 0                 85

Gerry Coffin         Y20            37               1                 0                 89

Mike Belanger      W20            37               1                 0                 89

Gregory Ludlow   Y23            37               1                 0                 92