The Hangover - Spring 2025 Recap

"The Others" hosted us at O'Brien's on Saturday night, for an evening of cheap beers and weird people watching. Over half the field showed up and were entered into the Hangover side-pot. There was lots of good discussion about the state of the game, courses we should visit, and the upcoming reduction of our membership. When other Clubs are desperately trying to grow, we lean into streamlining and efficiency!

 

Unfortunately, as you can see from the photo below, we got a lot of work to do and need more GLP-1 meds if we are going to properly thin the herd:

 

Not pictured: Chandler and Gary, who are already streamlined.

The golf on Sunday was also good — except for the pace of 4:35 by the members somewhere in front of us. It felt excruciatingly slow. Unlike the greens which were excruciatingly fast downhill. Putting seemed to be the biggest challenge. In any case, Big Cypress continues to deliver the best value in our rota.

 

Mike Ho played the tips - and shot a very impressive 78 with nothing worse than a bogey. He picked up his 6th victory, and first in two years. And thanks to the Hangover pot, his winner's share was almost that of a full-field Major.

 

Chandler (c'est moi!) had another epic collapse (aka: choke) on the final two holes, but was able to hold off Reid for the 2nd place Hangover cash. He's finished in the top-4 in six of our seven events so far this season.

 

Reid carded one too many double-bogeys, while Moostie struggled keeping the driver on the planet. John co-led at the turn, but imploded with a +14 (gross) on the final five holes! In an effort to avoid reflecting on his own swing issues, Gary has officially taken up the case that Gorecki (and only Gorecki) should be allowed to play tees under 5,500 yards. Gorecki ended the day with one par, which was one more than Geoff. And Topor maxed out his potential with four max scores.

 

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Moostie, Casey, and Chandler are still separating themselves from the pack in our standings, but twelve guys are mathematically eligible to win the Cup. We have another difficult course in two weeks at Huntington Hills.

 

More on this later, as we're off for "Spring Break." We'll be back on March 23rd at 8:30am!

 

See you then.