Greetings Fellow Duffers

Tom Goserud goes out with a bang! Tom played his last round for the year before heading into knee replacement surgery. Gosey shot a 2 under par and won by 4 strokes over Flott, Schmehl, and Rubright!. That is Tom's 4th win of the season, he obviously leads the league in wins! It is too bad he will miss the playoffs to finish out a great season. Gives him a good feeling and hope for 2027, along with several other players that are on the DL list this year that should be returning after the winter break: Wurster, McFeaters, & Mitch H. We got Sarig and Wardhammar back for the championship run!

With his win, Goserud parked his cart in 2nd place just behind Diane by 1 point. Schmehl is also tied with Goserud one point behind Diane.

The Championship points start next week at Rich Maiden: 25 pts for each winner, 2nd = 22 pts, 3rd = 20 pts, etc each one 2 pts less Take best 4 out of 6 "rounds" using the 5 championship rounds and the final regular season points. All putts must be putt out, all other rules stay the same.

We had 12 sign-up for Blackwood and 11 show-up. We were going to be 4 foursomes of 3 players, and we ended up with two foursomes and a threesome. Play moved along nicely, nothing really held us up. It was raining in Lebanon from 9am until departure time for golf at about 11:30, and rain on the Turnpike from the Lebanon exit to the Reading exit, but dry the rest of the drive to Blackwood. All good, until the first group teed off and was heading up the fairway with the 2nd group on the tee. We got a 2 minute downpour just to make our shirts wet and increase the humidity to 100%! After that, no rain and the grass dried off by the time we got to the back 9. Whew! I don't know how Diane does it, but she and Mother Nature are pretty tight.... Mother Nature was obviously a school teacher and in the teachers' union!

The course was pretty good. With the wet weather it produced some early fall leaves on the greens, and a lot of unrepaired ball marks. Greens and fairways were soft, so we did not get any bounces onto the greens. And if we hit the green on the fly, balls stayed on or near the green. Roughs were somewhat thick, and we had to use an extra club to get our distance.

Dinner was at BlackJax and attended by 10 of the 11 players. One waitress, lots of drinks, pretty quick food service. We were rambunxious and I saw the table next to us shaking their heads as we poked fun at each other and then sang happy birthday to Mitch. He didn't say his age, but the pool had the over/under as 82...or was that his net score if he had played (side note, Mitch lost the bet to stay home and doggy sit DeeDee, the pleasant house guest we all met last week at the Hettinger picnic. But he did make the trip to dinner).

Handicap indexes were updated below. 5 players got better, 4 did the "September Sandbagger", and everyone else stayed the same. 2 of the 4 that got worse are 2 players returning from injury.

As stated earlier, next week is the first round of playoffs at Rich Maiden, dinner at Ozgoods. Stay tuned for an update on the other 4 locations for the playoffs. Diane is still juggling the schedule for October 8th. But I think the other courses will be Reading CC, Berkleigh, and Blue Mountain.

A new definition for dryer: The 3rd group that got to sit in their carts during the 2 minute downpour on the first tee at Blackwood...

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