Welcome to the Men's Night 2006 Season
Sep 21, 2006 | Posted by Chris RhindEVERYONE IS A WINNEREVERYONE IS A WINNER!!! The season is over! It’s done! It did end on a crescendo! TEAM 2, hung on to beat TEAM 9 by a whisker, if you consider 2 points a whisker! For 19 weeks (1rain-out) of competitive league, to have so close a finish – 304 to 302 – is really remarkable. Congratulations to Mike Rock and his team of Jim Carr, Mark Cunningham, Ian Driscoll, Jeff Fox, Bernie Hanna, George King, Jim McDonald, Martin Saleta, Don Scott, Ric Thomson and Doug Wigle Snr.. Great turnouts each week were essential to their overall success and particularly so this week when Jack (the Giantkiller) Boddaert’s Team 5 clobbered them. Just for the record, our first place team had an 83% team participation rate for the season. (And Liverpool finally won, as well!) With a slightly better win/lose/tie record, at 13 – 4 – 1 but with seven less participation points, Mike Turczyniak’s TEAM 9 came in an honorable second. While its team members will reflect on the numerous times during the season they could have closed this gap, they should be proud of their performances. Congratulations to Scott Allen, John Conti, Vince Cosentino, Ron Duda, Paul Egan, Keith Mann, Ian McCallum, Greg McMillan, Mark Sexton, David Shepherd and John Stephens. A third adventure unfolded when Gord Dowbiggin’s TEAM 10 went head-to-head with Terry Koshylanyk’s TEAM 7. The prize was sole possession of third place, held by Team 7 going into the final day, but wrestled from it by the yeomen of Team 10 with an impressive 11 stroke victory. So its TEAM 10 for the ‘bronze’ and TEAM 7 for the ‘aluminum’. The last ‘money place’ was snagged by Larry Litzgus’ TEAM 3, which again made its participation total pay off even though it lost its final game to "team of the week", Gary Smith’s TEAM 6 at 215. TEAMS 5 and 10 followed, one shot separating each team. To all three go the usual spoils. Perhaps the remarkable personal story of the week involved the leaders in the MUB bin. Paul Henderson, Don Scott and Ian Campbell were all featured and played in the same foursome, probably egging each other on. The other player in their foursome was Paul Moffatt, who featured as one of the week’s sandbaggers at net 32. I am sure that the conversation must have been *@!^&%# lovely as they (Moffatt excluded) hacked their way around the front nine. Nice finish, boys! So the league leaders will share the total MWL Prize Fund of $5,000. First place is worth $1,500; second place - $1,000; third - $750; fourth - $500 and fifth - $250. Presentations will be made at the Dinner , next Wednesday. By the way, if you can’t make the shot-gun at 4.30pm, you will be welcome at the Dinner which will start at 7.30. Just sign up in the Men’s Lounge and choose from the menu. A total of 92 players enjoyed the final league competition, bringing the season total to 1,908 outings, or an average of 106 players in each of the 18 days we actually played. This means that 74% of our registered players turned out each week. It may surprise some to know that this is about the same ratio as previous years but of course the actual number of players has increased by 30% over 2005. The weekly winnings of some $14,000, has been transferred to the pro-shop credit of 120 members, who played on winning teams during the year. The Hole-in-One Fund carries forward to the 2007 season, a balance of $1,848, an extra incentive to sign up again, next April. About half of this amount has been paid for the use of the computer system, which is charged on a per player basis. .Any remaining balance in the weekly account will be applied towards assembling an outstanding draw prize table on Closing Day. A small contingency reserve will be set aside to cover any unforeseen expenses. Several members have already e-mailed me with their thoughts about possible improvements to the MWL for next year. Good,bad or indifferent, it would help the Committee to hear from you first hand. The e-mail address is quincy@golden.net. Everything you suggest will be aired during the off-season, even compliments, if you enjoyed yourself. The committee would like to enhance the competition by including ‘per hole’ competitions of an individual nature. To do this we would like to invite a number of sponsors who would like to link their, or their employer’s name, to such things as closest to the hole on the other par three, longest drive on the third hole or similar events. We have 8 holes available for sponsorship and it would add even more excitement to our Wednesdays. If you are intrigued by this, contact Bernie Hanna to work out the details over the winter. I am hoping to produce some year-end stats which will give you a chance to compare your 2005 scores to your current season’s effort. You will be able to see the effect of your handicap based on 50% of your regular 18-hole handicap as was the case last year versus the current ‘last ten’ system, which the computer calculates. It will also show how often an individual’s handicap changed during the 2006 season. You will see that there are inconsistencies in both systems so when we sit down with the computer people and hear from the other participating clubs, we want to be sure that we know what we want. Again, your comments would be welcome. That’s about it from me. Have a great week, month, Fall,Winter and a Happy New Year. And by the way a big thank you to all members, who provided the content for these blogs. 
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| 0 Comments Sep 14, 2006 | Posted by Chris Rhind"RAIN,RAIN,GO AWAY AND DON'T COME BACK NEXT WED-NES-DAY""RAIN, RAIN, GO AWAY AND DON’T COME BACK NEXT WED-NES-DAY" "And so, we face the final curtain", as the song goes. Next week will be our nineteenth and LAST WEEK OF LEAGUE COMPETITION. Whether it will end with a crescendo or, like this week, a whimper remains to be seen. A total of 72 ‘mudders’ braved the elements to record a score and help their teams. You have to hand it to the seven teams, which did record a score. Regrettably, only one actual fixture was contended, with Boddaert’s Team 5 knocking off contender Koshylanyk’s Team 7 and, in doing so, opened up the league competition for the top spots right to the end. If Team 5 can do the same in its match with Rock’s Team 2 next week, it could still be anybody’s race. Take a look at the current league standings and next week’s fixtures and work it out for yourself. You can rest assured that captains Rock(2), Turncyzniak(9), Koshylanyk(7) and Dowbiggin(10) realize the significance of the final matches and will plan accordingly. The regrettable part of this week’s competition was that five teams failed to field the minimum six players and forfeited their match and participation points. Put another way, they handed their opponents maximum match points, uncontested. That was such a shame as a review of the scores showed that with just one more decent score, Teams 4, 8 and 11 each had a good chance of winning their matches. It has to be especially disappointing to their team captains, Geoff Scott, Jim Henry and Dave McLachlan. But enough on the downside. Once again Team 2, with 10 scorers, won the weekly competition, followed by Teams 5 and 10 which were tied for second place. A total of $647.00 has been transferred to the pro-shop credits of those team members who actually played. Because of the low turnout this week, we actually incurred a small deficit – our first of the year. On the individual side, the spotlight is on the Top Mudder, who achieved the very rare distinction of being low gross(33) and low net(30) and, as the low pro, was unbeaten for the day. You guessed it – SCOTT ALLEN, who has struggled a bit in this, his first season at the Bev, but is obviously healthy and with his game in shape. Well done! On the gross side, Scott was trailed by Gord Dowbiggin and Brian Morgans at 37 and John Whitham, Jim Carr, Carl Van Landschoot and David Miller at 38. On the net side, Glen Attridge, Ric Thomson and Bernie Hanna carded 32s, while Lloyd Nicholson, Lee Burtenshaw and John St. Cyr turned in 33s. For those of you monitoring Jim McDonald’s record this year, he joined Max Patterson, Doug Wigle Snr., Don Stephenson and (yet, again – what’s going on ?) Vince Marchesano, in the MUB bin. If you are interested, the week’s NET scores produced 12% at even par, 46% over par and 42% under par. .A similar review of the results of the 2005 season, when we used the "50% of regular handicap system" produce the following ratios – 12% even par, 4% under par and a whopping 88% over par. It begs the question, what is a handicap system supposed to produce? Which of the systems we have used serves the objective of leveling the playing field? Think on it. To the future. We are currently investigating the pros and cons of our computer system based, as you know, on the Brantford model and currently being used by several other clubs. Any member, who wishes to propose constructive improvements to it is invited to put their thoughts in writing and e-mail them to quincy@golden.net and I will make sure that they are properly aired before we finalize arrangements for 2007. The assumption is that members are generally pleased with the current MWL but may feel some changes will improve the product. Please take a minute, or two, to give us your views. Have a good week and plan to be at the Bev next Wednesday for the LEAGUE FINALE and the week after for MWL CLOSING DAY ( see separate notice and sign-up sheet, which will be posted in the Men’s Lounge a.s.a.p.)
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| 0 Comments Sep 7, 2006 | Posted by Chris Rhind" OPEN _ WHAT OPEN?""OPEN - WHAT OPEN?" Congratulations to the 100 members who got their priorities right by contributing their scores to yet another successful MWL day of combat despite the competitive distraction going on in Ancaster. For the third week in a row, Team 2 – The Rockettes – was low team of the week, with a turn-out of 10 players and a best team score of 198. Hard on their heels, with 11 players none of whom, incidentally, was a pro, was Larry Litzgus' Team 3, at 202, followed by Gary Smith’s Team 6, also without a pro on the night. All three teams also won their matches. So did Teams 7 and 12, while Teams 9 and 10 tied with scores of 219 apiece. Oh, that one putt too many!! Regretably, there were two walkovers, when Teams 11 and 4 failed to field the minimum six players. It’s extra tough on the members of those teams who did show up prepared to give it their best shot only to find that with one more player they would have counted. Perhaps the no-shows wanted to save money or did they go back to school this week – maybe? At the top of the table we still have two teams with identical 12-4-0 records and separated by only 6 participation points. They are Teams 2 and 7, which are keeping the drive alive for the top spot on Sept 20. Team 9, which faltered with a tie this week, is third with an 11-4-1 record at 264, four points ahead of Team 10 at 9-6-1. That leaves the fifth and final ‘money position’ still the target for teams 3, 1, 5 and 6 but it will be a dogfight all the way. All leave passes have been cancelled. All hands to the tiller. Leave no stone unturned etc., etc., etc. JUST BE THERE! Is it all worth it, you ask? Barring any last minute changes, the winners’ share will be 30% of the MWL entry, or $1,500.00. Second place will get 20%, or $1,000.00, third place, 15%, or $750.00, fourth place, 10% or $500.00 and fifth place, 5% or $250.00. Winning captains will arrange the ‘per player’ allocation of these funds, payable on Closing Day, Sept 27. The MWL committee has retained about 10% of the total to apply against potential programming costs if we elect to customize the computer system in 2007. Don’t forget to check the money list available on the web site at www.golfscoring.net. Wait a couple of seconds for the blog and fixture list to appear and then scroll down past the Hole-in-One Fund ( now at $1,694.00 and to be played on #4 for the last two weeks ) until you hit the money list, where all the players who have won anything this year are listed. Hopefully everyone who has visited the site is now familiar with all the detail you can get under the Player and Teams options. To put the winnings in perspective, remember that any member who has played in every match will have invested $190 in the weekly competition and $19 into the Hole-in-One Fund. It’s safe to say that there are no individual bonanzas being won, nor was this ever the intention when the MWL was established as a team event. Where we do honor individuals, in print at least, is in the low gross and low net categories. Without both groups making their 40/60% contributions to their team scores, we have no league. So, a tip of the hat to the low man of the night, Brian Morgans and his excellent 33. Right on his tail were David Murphy and James Chan at 34, just a step ahead of Mike Watson, who carded a 35. All four bested the low pro score of 36 turned in by both David Miller and Mark Cunningham, a score that was matched by Gord Dowbiggin, John Killeen and Steve Warrick. While we were using front nine handicaps on the back nine, we still had some excellent net performances including a trio of sub-30s turned in by Vic Galente (28), Jim McDonald (29) and Vito Bommarito, also with a 29. Also in low 30s net were most of the low gross players previously mentioned. I wonder if Dave Miller will get Mark to share the cost of rewarding those who beat him (them )? The MUB bin was home this week to some notables in the persons of Ian Cunningham, Vince Marchesano (???), Terry Still, Warren Bamber and John Stephens. You have two weeks to redeem yourselves or face being put on waivers for 2007. Every match is a key one from hereon in, Team 1 vs Team 3, Team 5 vs Team 7, Team 6 vs Team 8 and Team 10 vs Team 12 could all have an impact on the final two ‘money’ positions. If the ‘infrequent flyers’ of Teams 4 and 11 show up to help their teammates they could be real spoilers in their matches against Teams 2 and 9. Make a little mischief, boys! What have you got to lose? THE LAWS OF GOLF (final edition) LAW 18: The last three holes of a round will automatically adjust your score to what it really should be. LAW 19: Golf should be given up at least twice each month. LAW 20: All vows and pledges made on a golf course shall be valid only until sunset. Have a great week. Watch for the sign-up sheet for Closing Day, on Sept 27. It’s a 9-hole tournament with a 4.30pm shotgun start. The field is limited to 72 players. If you can’t make the game at least come out for the dinner and awards at 7pm. More details to follow.
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| 0 Comments Aug 31, 2006 | Posted by Chris RhindHOW THE WEST WAS WON" HOW THE WEST WAS WON "
113 cowpokes mosied up to the Bev. Corral to join in the Tombstone shoot-out, on Wednesday. It started on the first watering hole and lasted through the eleventh. At least it did for some! There were a great many grave markers on the tenth hole, creating a traffic jam around the pin such that a 7-way tie was declared for seventh place featuring Brian Morgans, Joe Fitzgerald, Steve Connolly, John Stephens, Ross Murray, George King and Chris Rhind. Each received $20 to spend on hard likker and wild women!
The winners, who made their putts on 10 and received $25, for the same purposes, included John Whitham, Jim McDonald and Vic Galante. Brent Dimen had one shot left on Hole 11 and, while being unable to reach the green from the tee, found himself alone in third place, worth $75. With such a prize it is hoped that he will aspire to greater heights than the others. Finally we reach the big winners. Lean and tall in the saddle, Keith Mann struck pay-dirt when his last shot hit and stayed on the green at #11, worth $150. Hard on his heels, in the greenside rough, where he found the second place prize of $100 was dangerous Doug Rice. Congratulations to all. It was a fun event!
Serious business was going on at the same time and on the same track where $805 was won by the lowest three teams of the week. Of course its ‘ not about the money ‘ but, for those counting, an updated money list is on the web site if you scroll down past next week’s fixture list. When you hit www.golfscoring.net/beverly/ wait a second or two for the blog to appear and then scroll down for the rest of the information the web-site contains. The money list is also posted in the men’s lounge. Remember folks, an average prize pot of $800 is up for grabs in each of the remaining 3 weeks of competition. That’s a total of $2,400 between now and Sept 20. To date 11 of the 12 teams have won some money so it can be done, if each team commits itself to show up in numbers and play well. It would be great to see the league finish in a flurry of upset wins and changing places.
It was heartening to see Geoff Scott’s Team 4 and Dave McLachlan’s Team 11 set aside their disappointment and come back to challenge whichever teams they face in the remaining schedule. It is the honorable thing to do to ensure the integrity of the league and make sure that whoever tops the table on Sept 20 deserves to be there. Team 4 was unfortunate to lose this week’s match by only 3 points in the closest match of the week and against one of the front runners. Team 11 has had 2 players resign and missed its low handicapper in recent weeks so congratulations to both teams for doing their best and who knows……..?
On the low gross side both John Whitham and Vince Marchesano matched David Miller’s even par and all three were undercut by Russell Mabini’s low of the day, a 35. Well done Russ! The low net side reads almost the same as the Tombstone winner’s list and they have already been mentioned – in – dispatches!
The rest of the league results are all available. Next week’s matches are crucial. Team 1 is going to need all its players to count if it is to beat league-leading Team 2. Team 4 has a shot against Team 3. Teams 5 and 6 battle it out for mid-table and perhaps the last money place. Team 8 has a chance to be a giant killer over Team 7 if it can repeat this week’s performance. Teams 9 and 10 both have statements to make – only 1 point separated their team scores this week. Teams 11 and 12 have been the unlucky ones this year but, if they go all out, could earn some much needed prize money. There’s a possibility that all of the top teams could be defeated next week and this would set the stage for a resounding finish to the league.
Have a great, long weekend but don’t forget next Wednesday, Sept. 6. Even if you are going to, or marshalling at the Canadian Open, please make sure you are a counter in the MWL. Its very important.
Keep Sept 27 free for our closing day special event including golf and dinner. It will be a 4.30pm shotgun start – format to be determined. Prizes after dinner.
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