Inaugural BGR 2-person Scramble

Hello loyal readers! We are back after an offseason of football, family, and not enough booze golf. With bowl season and the next DPT (anxiously awaiting the official name change and logo announcement) season just around the corner, the BGR wanted to get some friends and family together for a fun event doing what we love: golf and booze.

After uncounted hours of planning, we were set for a 10-person field at Lexington Oaks on Sunday the 8th of December. Brendan spent the night before concentrating orange juice so everyone could get their vitamin C in when they arrived at the course. Aside from the OJ, the Martha Stewart-esque goody bags included a shot of fireball to be used in case of a mulligan emergency and a beer for each booze golfer celebrant. Wonderful job, Brendan.

Drink in case of two shanked drives.

The play itself was inspired, with all groups putting in some great work on the day. Pairings were made by handicaps, lowest with highest, second lowest with second highest, and so on and we ended up with the following:

• Chandler and Dub (-31.8 combined handicap)
• Faz and Brendan (-31.3)
• Ho and Ben (-31.8)
• Gary and Crum (-31.2)
• Big John and Darren (-30.9)

The official pairings sheet raw data.

No strokes given as the selected teams should have been relatively even. May the best golfers on the day win the whole pot. At least that was the plan until Chandler the cowardly sandhill crane chimed in to suggest second place gets their money back. So the pot was set: $80 to the winning team and $20 to the first losers. On to the event!

With 5 groups of 2-person teams, the pairings would be tough to manage. There was a convoluted plan to have groups switch between twosomes and foursomes during the round, but with the lead group waiting on each holes we decided to go with a six-some in there instead. Despite some yelling from the ranger, the six-some idea finished the day and fun was had by all, but mostly the group traveling with a papoose for the day.

The Brendan-Faz combo had to be told numerous times that you must take the fireball before the mulligan. I don't think a Patrick Reed-Billy Mayfair pairing would have bitched as much about not being able to take "provisional mulligans." They were solidly in contention until the Fireball blew up their round on the 12th green when a 5-foot putt just didn't want to go in for them. After that the John-Darren combo joined with the Brendan-Faz and Chandler-Dub teams in the lead six-some and got to witness the glory that was the Chandler-Dub victory lap around the field. Putts were going in from all over the greens for the heroes of the day and victory was never in doubt after the birdie on 13 from Chandler's mulligan 9-iron sticking 10-feet away and Dub draining the plinko style putt. It was a veritable clinic and the only sad part is that not all five groups were able to witness such brilliant play. John and Darren finished a valiant second place. It was hard to see the other two groups from so far out in front, but I'm sure they had fun, too.

Your inaugural BGR 2-person Scramble Participants! We even took the time to pose for a group photo.

While some played on and others went to continue the booze fun with lunch at Winghouse, we will all remember forever the Inaugaral BGR 2-person Scramble. Thanks to everyone who participated and those who put it together. Looking forward to the next BGR event. Course ratings still to come after incomplete data, but suffice it to say, it's not too tough to sneak stuff on out there.