Happy Friday my fellow golfers. We have lots of info to cover today. First, there will be a general membership meeting on Thursday 5-17-18 immediately after our tournament. The tentative location is Santino’s Pizza, 4231 Telegraph Rd., Ventura. It’s tentative because we’re waiting to hear on the availability of their conference room. Santino’s is located just west of Ventura College. The easiest way to get there is Victoria Ave., then left (west) on Telegraph Rd. towards Ventura College.
Here’s something strange. Remember the old Twilight Zone TV show in which strange reality-defying experiences happened to regular people? Well we had a Twilight Zone moment yesterday during the tournament on the par 3 hole #17. Rich Guzik described it like this. He, Ron Laufer, Fred Rudy and Ross Carpenter, playing as a foursome, tee’d off. Three of the T shots hit the green, which is odd in itself. Ross’ ball was just off the green. He chipped onto the green ending up right next to the cup for a par. Fred putted from 20′ out and sunk his ball for a birdie. Then Rich putted from 15′ out and sunk his ball for another birdie. Then Ron putted from 6′ out and sunk his ball for the third birdie on that hole. He also had the closest-to-the-pin ball for the day. What are the odds of that ever happening again? If you feel like you didn’t have much luck on the course yesterday, it’s because these four guys horded it all on #17.
Wasn’t that a great barbecue last Friday? Richard Kohnman was kind enough to provide the following photos. I’ll post more next week along with photos from the Darrell Downey Tournament.
THE PRESIDENT’S CUP: Jack Fenelon informed me that we had 18 players vying for 16 spots yesterday. Here’s how the scoring went:
Net Score / Golfer(s)
62……. Guzik, Dinielli, Fenelon
63……. Youker, O’Brien
64……. Carpenter, Bonifield
65……. Escobedo
67……. Clark, Rudy, McLaughlin
68……. Sebedra
69……. Kehoe
70……. Wright
71……. Laufer, Escamilla
These are the 16 qualifiers. karas with a 72 and Charbonneau with an 80 are the first and second alternates if someone drops out before the next round. Below is the first round bracket. When I clicked on it, another rectangle-shaped button popped up in the lower left corner of my screen. When I clicked on it, I got a blank Excel grid with a small box. I had to make sure that “sheet 1” was highlighted, then I clicked on “OK” and the bracket came up. I also had to use the small squares or the arrows located on the right and bottom borders to move the grid around in order to see everything. If you can’t figure out how to access the bracket, find a 10 year old. They’re really good at this computer stuff.
2018 First Round President’s Cup Bracket
The top golfers of This week’s regular tournament were Rich Guzik who scored a 79 gross. The top net scores belong to Jack Fenelon, Dom Dinielli and also Rich Guzik. They all had a 62. Way to go guys.
Regards,
Robert Escobedo