Fairy Tales Can Come True

Golf, what a great way to test your wide range of emotions. Each week, Men’s day gives some an opportunity to shake off the daily dust of mediocrity to become a momentary spectacular sparkle. Tonight there were a number of momentary sparkles walking around with a brew or two to help celebrate their moment.

 We find team two one point ahead of team seven in the championship pool. Last night Brian Blowes and Miles Tourigny were witnessed walking with a spectacular gloat strut.  Have a look at the results next week and see what captain is still strutting around in a super superior gloat strut. Who knew that George Brown, captain of team three,  would turn out to be a super play-off drafter. His team has a twenty-four point lead over team five in the other pool. George “Sparkle” has the ability to pick the right players to rocket to the top of the  chumpionship division.

 Individually, we witnessed Jack Detriech come within an inch and a half of sinking the pot of gold putt. Here is a golfer, who has not sunk a putt of more than six feet in three and a half years. It was his spectacular sparkle moment last night. Maybe Jack should putt in the dark more often. Bob Shepherd dusted off his mediocrity to shoot a net of thirty and wind up on the closest to the hole sign. If you want to see a spectacular sparkle strut, just witness Bob and ask him to tell you about how he birdied hole four. We find the Pontificator with a major spectacular sparkle strut after moving ahead of Dave Lee on the low-gross average for the year. Could life get any better? Even low–scoring Tyler Devereaux is strutting his sparkle with a fabulous low gross of 31. Most of us would be sparkling with a low-net of 31. Talking about low, we notice Terry Boyce broke through the thirty barrier in net scoring. He successfully out-sandied the rest of us with a net score of 29. He probably shot a gross 52. Even Perry Hill, who is this week’s most useless bastard with a net score of 44 was strutting. He finished waking the Appalachian Trail. I think it took something like twenty years to walk, one summer trip at a time. Congratulations Perry, you might match Bob Shepherd and become next week’s most improved golfer. In “Beast The Pro”, there was no Pro to beat. He became the phantom. Come to think of it Dave will be strutting “spectacular sparkle” as he did not have to sit passing out a pail of beer this week.

 Next week is our last week of play-offs and our last week for Men’s day 2010. There will be a closing dinner and prize presentation on Monday September 14^th. There will be a sign-up sheet . Please let the staff know that you will or will not attend. The cost of the dinner is included in your dues.

 The closest to the hole today on hole four was Bob Shepherd and hole eight was Ian MacLean. We also recognize those golfers who landed closest to the markers on the hole-nine drive. Today’s winners were Jim Veitch, Terry Boyce and Harry FarmerAgain, we thank our sponsors who, each week, have stepped up to make this a super event for our members. Next week play starts or play-off season and the pot-of-gold putt off will be held at 8:12.

Ken Hundert