The title of a beautiful song by Sarah Brightman seems an appropriate way to announce the conclusion of the 2008 Beverly Mens Wednesday League. Also appropriate was the weather. Last Tuesday the weather was beautiful, last Thursday was perfect and Friday magnificent, BUT WEDNESDAY? Well Wednesday was like many of the Wednesday's this season and it pissed all day making for the most miserable conditions, especially, as you will see, for those players who had afternoon tee times. Under any other situation, we would have probably canceled the day and turned the course over to the water skiers to enjoy their thing but with the season, which had to end that day, and the most important matches of the season to be played and completed, we had little options but to slosh on. There were 6 of our 12 teams who were competing for anything meaningful and those 6 teams did a magnificent job of getting their players out, a credit to you all for making the effort and your team committment. To no one's surprise the 6 teams competing for anything worthwhile on the day accounted for 60 of the total 74 players who braved the elements. To those of you who didn't show up  -  I commend  you on your wisdom!!

     Congratulations to Warren Bamber's Team 2 for finally wrapping up the League title, although it was a little nerve wracking for a  while. All Team 2 had to do was to have at least 6 players show up and earn participation points to make the title official, but with several players unavailable and the terrible weather conditions, Warren left the club late in the afternoon not quite sure if he could count on getting 6 players out. Eventually by evenings end 8 players had shown up, played not very well, but nevertheless, the title was their's.

The real league competition for the day centered around the second to fifth places between Team 1, Team 4 Team 5 and Team 7. By the magic of the league schedule this has turned out to be the closest and most exciting finish to any MWL season. These  four teams were playing between themselves to determine who finished where and by virtue, how much league cash each of these teams would take home with them. By the end of the day Jason Urban and Team 5 scored a very comfortable win of  over  Pete Borkovich'sTeam 4  to take second place and move Pete's down to finish fourth and Mike Rock's Team 1 squeeked a narrow 1 shot victory over Joel Burton's Team 7 to pull themselves into a second place tie with Team 5 ,  which left Joel's Team in fifth place.

We also played the finals of the playoffs last Wednesday with Mike Turczyniak's Team 12 going against Jason Urban's Team 5. As seems to be the tradition with our league, the Playoff winners seem to always come from the back of the pack and this season was no different, as the talented Team 12, who disappointed in their league play, finally came through to take the Playoff title.

Our prize money winners this week were Team 12 with $33, Team 5 with $28 and team 1 with $22, all in Pro shop credits.

Beat the Pro.

Obviously as the rain and wind intensified for the afternoon tee times you had to know that it would be next to impossible to record any decent scores in those conditions. And so it was to be, as the best Pro score was a 45. Perhaps it would be easier for Mark to declare an open bar policy at the banquet than for me to list the names of all those who earned their free drink.

Well gentleman it almost over for another season. All that's left is to have our closing day shotgun and closing banquet this Wednesday, October 15th. The 9 hole shotgun starts at 3.30pm followed by our customary closing banquet, where we will salute our champions, pay out lots of cash and give away a tremendous assortment of fabulous draw prizes. If you cannot make the shotgun event please join us for the banquet. It always turns out to be an enjoyable and entertaining evening. No doubt Mike Flannery will regale us with his fine Irish voice or maybe spare us by keeping quite for just a few precious minutes, if that's possible!. Having just returned from his native roots I suspect we'll have to listen to his rendition of Danny Boy a few times with probable assistance from his friends, Borkovich and Marchesano. Only in Canada will you ever get a Canadian, Serbian and Italian  singing a traditional Irish love song. PLEASE no requests from the audience. It's hard enough to get Flannery to shut up at any time without having his "fan club" encouraging him!

 Sign up sheets both for the golf and the dinner are posted in the men's locker room.
We look forward to seeing you all there.

I'll sign off this this thought

           "Good,better and best.
            Never rest till the good
            is better and the better
            is best"

Thank you all for another tremendous season