Cypress Creek is a course that proves the length of a golf course is overrated. Elevated undulating greens, 15-yard wide landing zones and deep bunkers are a much better test of your golf game.
Unfortunately... most of you suck when faced with those obstacles.
The Creek "skinned" half of the field alive producing 16 double-pars. Geoff, Guest and Darren were particularly awful throughout the entire day (Geoff had zero pars, and he's the #1 ranked golfer in the world!). Dave had the most painful day, as he went from "brilliant" on holes 6 through 13 (2 under!) to "bollocks" on the final 5 holes (+10 with a par!!).
While it's fun to watch the train-wrecks, the real story of the day was Faz who shot gross 79. He played out of his mind on the front-nine, despite recording a triple bogey on the 5th hole. Faz picks up 500 points and his 2nd win of the season. Only once has someone won 3 times and NOT captured the cup (Geoff in 2013 Summer). The leaders in Faz's group better start heckling more.
Tall Mike earned back-to-back 2nd place finishes, jumping over Darren in the standings. Dan finished 3rd from the tips thanks to an impressive -1 on the final three holes. Dave, Chandler and Brendan rounded out the remaining guys who earned points.
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High handicappers cleaned up the skins portion of the game, earning 6 of the 8 paid out. If it wasn't for Faz's 3 greenies and a sandie, he would have been the first ever tournament winner to LOSE money. I'm pretty sure this result proves why we handicap skins at 80%.
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Countryway is next week. Pairings are listed and it looks like 11 of the 13 league members will be playing. I had to get a little creative with the groups due to non-league guests (not to be confused with our league Guest). But for the most part you're grouped with people next to you in the standings.
Tee time is 9:18am on Sunday. Get there by at least 9am so we can start collecting money and whatnot. See you there.
Oh... forgot to mention that Tall Mike finally has enough league events to make his debut on the Official Golf Rankings.
ReplyDeleteHe joins the list at #5 of 7.
5 spot..whoop whoop. I know I read it before when you first posted it, but how many events do you need to participate in to qualify for the rankings?
ReplyDeleteYou need 8 events in the past 18 events.
ReplyDeleteSo JW and Brendan should make the list after Countryway. I think.