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STATISTICIAN’S NOTES
WARDHAMMER SCORES HIS FIRST DUFFER WIN! Brian joined the league in 2024 and played 11 rounds, with 1 top 5 and 3 top 10's. He won this week by shooting a fantastic 84 gross and outpacing the field with a 62 net. Second place was Champagne with a 67 net. Then Diane Henninger (sometimes spelled Hettinger) and Krepps tied for 3rd with 68's.
We had 14 Duffers play the reprised course of Flying Hills south of Reading. Chuck Micklosky joined us as the 14th player but had to drop out on the back 9 after becoming fatigued on the rolling hills in the 90d heat and humidity. Duffers have not played this course in well over 30 years. Many players had never played it before or have not played it in a long time. It is a narrow, hilly course with townhouses along most fairways. Fairways look like they have not been cut in days or a week with long sprigs of grass/weeds shooting up here and there. Trees galore, hills, a few creek crossings, and hole 18 has a 100 yard wide pond to hit over. Greens were OK. Tough course. The best part about the course was the cart paths, and we never say that. But they seem to be putting money into rehabbing their cart paths, and were actually paving about a half dozen holes as we were playing.
USGA and the online scorecard did not have gold tees listed. But the course had blue, white, gold and red tees. The scorecards at the course had blue, white and gold tees, but no red. So we were bewildered what pars to use because the white/blue and the gold had different pars. And I personally thing the gold tees were the red. I dunno.... Here is what I ended up using for those of you keeping score at home: Hole 5 is a par 5, hole 15 par 5, hole 14 par 4. Gold rating of 66.1/115.
DIANE HETTINGER MOVES INTO FIRST PLACE IN POINTS! She picked up two points this week. Last week's points leader McFeaters missed the top 10 cutoff by one friggen stroke and got a goose egg this week for points. McFeaters, Champagne and Rubright are one point back. Diane is not playing next week, so....who wants it?
We have 5 weeks in the books for points, and 5 different winners! I like it.
A shoutout to Gary Trythall, our newest member. He plays Flying Hills fairly regularly and shot a gross 81, tying Champagne for low gross. We are currently guessing at Gary's handicap as being 12 until he gets enough scores to get a Duffer handicap. He came in tied for 5th with Rubright with net 69's. You'll see an X in front of his name as XTrythall. This is to sort him to the bottom of the names on the Summary sheet since we added him mid-season. It's a stats spreadsheet thing...
Leary got the hard knocks award again this week for the most "rick o'shays" off of the hardwood trees and the highest net score. Las Vegas set the odds of him losing the most balls and shooting a high score as 2 to 1 odds. He has also played just about every week and has no points yet. Poor guy.
Bonneville holds the lowest average net score of 67...and chose not to play the past 2 weeks. hmmmm.
Dinner was at Memmo's, in the air-conditioning! Dinner and service were so-so, pleasant, but just OK. McDevitt and Mitch H joined us for dinner even though they did not play. Diane brought vanilla & Bailey's cupcakes. Everyone took 2 home! With the long round of golf and slightly slow service at Memmo's, we did not get out of there until about 7:30.
Next week we head toward Pottstown and Raven's Claw.
Peace out, stay cool Statman BeerZ
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Notable "Net" Scores
Flying Hills - June 5, 2025
Wardhammar - 62, 7 pars, 1 bird
Champagne - 67, 8 pars, 1 bird
Hettinger D. - 68, 4 pars
Krepps - 68, 1 pars
Notable "Gross" Scores
Flying Hills - June 5, 2025
Champagne - 81, 8 pars, 1 bird
Trythal - 81, 8 pars
Beers - 84, 5 pars, 1 bird
Wardhammar - 84, 7 pars, 1 bird
Points Leaders
Hettinger D. - 9
Rubright - 8
McFeaters - 8
Champagne - 8
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