Greetings Fellow Duffers
Banquet Information
Its hard to believe we have almost completed another incredible season of golf. It certainly seemed to fly by. And it's doubly amazing how much everyone's game improved since April 😊. That being said, its time to get our year end banquet organized. Attached is a sheet that will provide you with all of the pertinent details. Please take a look.
In the mean time here are some of the highlights: The banquet will be held on Sunday November 9. We will be holding the banquet again this year at the YR Club in Wyomissing. The YR Club is a great venue that fits our group quite well.We would be hard pressed to find someplace else that would afford us the privacy and quality of food and service for such a reasonable price. Thanks to all of our Duffer friends who are YR members which allows us to use the facility (especially Ken Rick who helped secure the venue this year).
There is an overview of the menu, sign up, selection and payment instructions on the attached sheet. Please note the deadlines for these. October 15 for response October 31 for payment The best way to respond for this event is via the website. Please go to the "Sign up Pages" tab at the top of the page . From there hit the "Sign up Form for Annual Banquet" That will take you to the appropriate place to enter your RSVP.(Or if you are more comfortable just shoot me an email with guest and menu choices.)
The Duffer Banquet is always a very enjoyable event. The secret to its success has been great participation by the entire group. We are hoping everyone can join us, regardless of how much golf you were able to play this year. Its always good to see everyone and enjoy their company. Also....Can't wait to see who's names go on the trophies this year!!! If there are any questions or concerns please don't hesitate to reach out to me.
Looking forward to seeing you all there on the 9th.
Jim
Open
STATISTICIAN’S NOTES
DIETRICH AND BEERS SPLIT THE BELLA WIN WITH 63's. Dietrich got his win with a couple of pars and lucky shots. Beers got his via a generous, bogus handicap, which is under investigation with the stats keeper BeerZ (no relation). Dietrich shot a 63 last year to come in second behind Flott. This year Flott was recuperating from a tripping accident on a walking trail (non-golf injury) and could only muster (get it?*) a 66. [*Flott puts mustard on everything, including his golf game, don't make me explain all the hidden jokes]
It was Beers' second win of the year, Dietrich's first. Dietrich was the highest points without a win. That honor now goes to Goserud in 9th place without a win. Goserud only missed a win by 4 strokes this week. Right behind that is Price, who is usually in the points running each year with no wins yet this year, came in 3rd only 2 strokes off the pace.
We had a nice even 12 Duffers play the Vista, and all 12 got points. Rubright, McFeaters, and Wurster tied for 10th at 75.
Course was green all over. But there were some mysterious puddles in the fairways, perhaps from sprinklerhead leaks? Tee boxes were soft and the turf tore up easily (McFeaters described it as playing on toilet paper). Greens were hard to read (for our group 2), soft, and average speed. The course played a bit long, it felt like. A few par 4s hard to reach in 2 shots. Creeks and sand where you didn't want them to be!
Dinner was at the course, outside on the patio. We had one pink haired waitress that was on top of it and kept our drinks coming, and brought all the food out at nearly the same time. Weather was nice to sit outside, once the sun went down behind the barn to keep us from all going blind.
It was a slow day, slow play and slow dinner. We did not head home until 7:30. Us Lebanon guys got home at 9:00.
Points leader Champagne took the week off to rest and celebrate his green jack Master's win last week. None the less, his 5 point lead was only reduced to 4 points. Diane, Rubright and Beers still fall in line behind the leader. Deitrich moves into 5th with the win, jumping over Wardhammar by a point.
For the final 5 rounds of championship play the points will be 11 for the winner, 9 pts for 2nd, 8 for 3rd, etc to 1 pt for 10th. All weeks count. We will not do "best of" like we did last year, using 3 of best 5 championship rounds. This year's spreadsheet is not setup for that.
Month-end handicaps are posted. We are trending in the wrong direction. Only Champagne, Dietrich, Diane, and Price improved their handicap. Beers??? I dunno. Don't kill the messenger....
Lady Diane is leading the semi-men's league Net Scores at 67. She was nailing them off the tee again this week! The sand kept swallowing her ball, though.
Speaking of Diane, she did a trick shot on hole 12, the "island" hole par 3. She hit a low drive that skipped on the water and bounced just high enough to stop on the fringe. Whew! Dietrich then had to do a similar trick on the 9th hole tee shot over the goose pond, but did better with 2 skips and then into the rough.
By the way, Bella Vista staff had us play the course backwards, back 9 first. They said they had to mow the front 9. OK.
Next week is back in Lebanon at Fairview. I love this schedule! Bonneville is promising to return and kick our butts!
Over and out,
Statman BeerZ
El Presidenté - Jim Rubright
jr2924@comcast.net
Cell Number 610-823-6905
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