The top four contenders for the gross score Club Championship pose for a photo prior to teeing off on hole #1. Pictured L-R: Me (Bob Escobedo), Earl Clark, Mark Gerry and Jack Fenelon. Mark ended up taking the gross score win. I took the net score win. Photo by Rick Karas.
Mark and Rick Karas walk towards the 18th hole T-box for the final drive of the tournament.
Mark tees off on the 18th hole en route to winning the gross score Club Championship.
Greetings Fellow Golfers,
What a tournament! I don’t know about you guys, but the golf Gods were really messing with me today. I had numerous two-foot putts lip out time and time again. This game is going to drive me to drinking. Among our foursome, there was one hole that stood out as far as changing the outcome of the gross results. It was on hole #12 (par 5) that Rick Karas drove his ball into the treeline to the left. We saw the ball go into the top of the trees, but we never saw it fall. We looked all over the area but couldn’t find the ball. I was in a cart and drove to the middle of the next fairway (#13) looking for his ball, but couldn’t find it. Rick had to take the two-stroke lost-ball penalty. On the way to the #13 green, I hit a 3-wood right, towards the trees. En route to my ball, I found Rick’s lost ball. The tree he hit must have launched it high and to the left onto the far side of the adjacent fairway. Rick’s final gross score was just one stroke above Mark Gerry’s, the gross-score champion. As a consolation, Rick did get the best gross score for the regular tournament.
The winner of the Club Champion Gross-Super-Senior’s division was none other than Richard Wibbleman. He had a 92 for the first round and a 91 this week for a total gross score of 183.
2018 SUPER SENIORS GROSS CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP
The top golfers of today’s regular tournament were Rick Karas with an 83 gross score and Earl Clark with a 67 net score. Congratulations to all of today’s winners. Don’t forget about the Club barbecue next week on Friday the 28th at the Mountain View Golf Course. Happy hour starts at 5PM with dinner at 6PM. I’ll be providing the music as in years past. Hope to see you all there.
Regards,
Bob Escobedo