Monday, February 11, 2019

Match Play - Spring 2019 Recap

Bloomingdale is a brutal grind, that never lets up from the opening tee-shot through the final approach. A handful of guys were under par early, only to eventually eject on the back nine.

Danny in particular, was 6-under-par (net) after 10 holes... and finished +12. JW was bucking his head, threatening to end his winless drought, and then shot +10 (gross) on a four hole stretch starting on the ninth. Big John set a record with +29 net, one stroke away from our first ever TRIPLE PITCHER.

When the dust settled, even par was all you needed to win. Reid's 39 on the back was impressive to watch, earning him back-to-back victories on Tour. He now controls his own destiny with a very large lead in the DPT Cup standings.

While many people have been mathematically eligible to win a season late in the schedule, only two guys — Reid and Dave — have had it ripped from their hands in the final event. It'll be interesting to see if  Reid can hang on.

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We're off this week, and play next at Grasslands in Lakeland on the 24th. The following people owe John $42:

JW, Geoff, Brendan, Ben.

Pay the man his money.

We have two guests that will make the pairings go out in a slightly different order. However we are still grouped in order of standings, matching up players and throwing in the guests where applicable. #playbetter or #playworse perhaps.

11 comments:

  1. I’d like to note that I paid John before this was published. Please fix this error in reporting.

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  2. John isn't a very good accountant.

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  3. My Kunta Kinte feelings are back...

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  4. I paid John at 10:15 or so this morning, so you probably had already written that portion of the post. I figured y'all had hive mind and just knew with stuff like that, though.

    No one called you Toby, Reid. I'd tell you to quit winning and let some other people have a chance, but I finished 8 strokes back so I don't really care about stuff that much higher on the leaderboard.

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  5. Lol... Good to now JW, Chandler is the chaser here, by putting it out in the universe. "only two guys — Reid and Dave — have had it ripped from their hands in the final event. "

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  6. 4 events left with 3200 points just for wins only, so it's not in my hands yet. I will have to earn this on.

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  7. While you are correct, there’s only 2,200 points left for wins. So you’re better off than you think! One more win and it’s all but a lock.

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  8. Good win Reid, keep the cup away from chandlers little grimey hands

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  9. How does John shoot 29 over par and move up 3 places on World Golf Rankings? Gorecki is #1? Does this ranking system need to be reviewed?

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  10. Gorecki becoming #1 triggered an automatic review from World Golf Rankings smartest minds. It's unfortunately correct, as in the last rolling 18 league events, Gorecki has TWO 1st place finishes, TWO 2nd place finishes, and TWO 3rd place finishes. Some of those will drop off before rankings lock for the Rapture, so we'll see if he can maintain the position. But right NOW... he's number one.

    As for John... the rankings only keep your BEST ten finishes. So his +29 doesn't do anything. His moving up is more because Katie and Tall Mike dropped off some good finishes and moved down. And someone else ejected from the standings completely due to less than 10 rounds recorded in last 18.

    We good here.

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