I enjoy my coffee in the morning. In fact, I am very particular about my coffee. I have perfected a brew which took me years to attain through experimentation and trail and error. I’m that fussy about my coffee. No Timmies horse p**s for this coffee connoisseur. I’d rather drink from the pond on 17 than put a Timmies to my lips.

Like my coffee, I’m also particular about the purchases I make. I think we all fall into the same category. Each of us, to varying degrees, has reached a level of sophistication and refinement when it comes to personal taste opting for quality over tolerable whether it be in the coffee we drink, the clothes we wear or in the golf clubs we play. And make no mistake about it, we deserve it. We have all worked hard in order to realize the status we now enjoy and because of it, are more than willing to pay that little bit extra in order to obtain quality.

I say what I say above to emphasis a point, that being consumer satisfaction. Because as we reach the levels I describe, so does our expectations and demands. If we are willing to pay more to get quality, then we expect quality in return. Serve us up Timmies instead of the Starbucks we anticipated and we will complain. That’s the way it works. If you fail to please the discriminating consumer or offer up excuse after excuse for your failure to provide excellence, we will walk. Plain and simple.

I sincerely hope the above message gets through to those that should listen. I think you all know what I mean. I don’t think I need to be any more specific or graphic. What we have now is unacceptable. With just a few short weeks remaining in the season, I hope things will not only get better but significantly better. That’s what we are paying for after all and should get.

Enough said. Now I want to get back to the LEAGUE and the final results. I suppose I should be embarrassed seeing what happened but in all honesty, I’m not. The guys on my TEAM played their hardest as I’m sure every guy who participated did. That’s competition for you. Some might not agree with the format we came up with for the final 3 weeks, but that’s their choice. The PLAYOFFS is where the real battle begins in any case and everyone has an equal chance.

I’ll have more to say about the PLAYOFFS before next Wednesday. But I will say this for now. The system needs to be reset owing to the way we set it up this year. Normally the PLAYOFFS are run as a 2 POOL event with the top 4 teams competing against one another in POOL ‘A’ and the bottom 4 in POOL ‘B’. This year the PLAYOFFS will be run as an elimination event with TEAMS competing against TEAMS. Because of the way the program is set, this will mean having to reset the system in order to put team against team, much like the regular season. So don’t fret when you see a whole new screen next Wednesday.. OK.

Till next week .. and as always .. congratulations to all the winners.

RESULTS – WEEK 17 – ROUND 3 – MINI TOUR EVENT

 August 31, 2011

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NOTE : for MINI TOUR EVENT prizes are awarded to 1^st place TEAM only per ROUND at 50% of TOTAL. 50% is held back per week and will be awarded to 1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rd place OVERALL WINNERS at 50%, 30% & 20% of total.