"Reid is top-of-the-league, say, Reid is top-of-the-league!"
"Reidao!, top-of-the-league, Reidao!, Reidao!, top-of-the-league!"
That's about as much of the soccer shit I call handle researching. The man who desperately wants "the press" to allow him to fly under-the-radar literally won the very next event. A Major at that.
Despite Reid's best efforts, he IS the story this season. Regardless of how this plays out. Two victories and a T3 in the first three events... any outcome at this point is significant.
Hernando Oaks was brutal. It's a difficult track in normal conditions, and I think the wind was worse last Sunday than at Glen Lakes. Just a slog all the way around... compounded by the league in-front of us forcing a 5+ hour pace.
The winning score was exactly what I predicted on the range (-2). Reid got there with consistent golf... timely pars and a birdie erasing the doubles that everyone had to deal with.
Chandler (hey, that's me!) got there by shooting the only double-free round of the tournament. It was a lot of duct table — and the usual lucky bounces — but a 38 putt performance somehow produced a 78.
Geoff seemingly came out of nowhere. That's probably because everyone's app stopped working during the round. But great finish by him with a par on 18.
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I discovered that my last five victories were TIES for first...which I'm not sure how to process. Unfortunately we can't rely (or assume) that sudden death playoffs are allowed at courses. The Board has refused to vote in "scorecard tiebreakers" for various reasons.
So here is the current winners with the T-1 percentages:
First observation... how baller is Katie with her 7 wins and zero ties? Also, it would make sense that the lower handicap guys would have more ties, as there is less margin for error. Darren with only two ties?!? The OG Mr. Sandbag!
I built another chart of wins over time. But it's kinda convoluted and pointless. Fuck it:
This is only current members. But at some point back in the day (events 57-64), Darren and Faz were battling it out for the most prolific winners on TOUR.
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Nobody this week beat any course records... Dave's 75 or Danny's 121. Holy shit! 121? Yep... it wasn't even a two-pitcher round as he got 33 strokes that day. Six more than he did last Sunday. He's growing up so fast!
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We're off this weekend, and back at the Groves on the 26th at noon. It's been two years since we've last visited the best par-3 course in our ROTA. They have league play going out before us... which means the golf recession is near.
More on The Groves later.
