Well, the 2026 Duffer season has concluded and we have a Champion! Some players gained some good points this week, I'll start with that. There was a bit of shuffling in the top 5. It has been an interesting run at the HUGE trophy. I will also say this, we had 5 weeks of Championship play and 5 different winners. Ahh, sweet. Did any of the weekly winners get enough points during the other weeks to be at the top of the list? Could the winner have been consistent thru the Championship rounds without a win? You'll just have to wait and see. It will be announced at the banquet. The suspense might sell a few more tickets to the big banquet event! Or we could just live stream the Duffer Banquet like a Texas execution.

It was another gorgeous fall day at Blue Mountain. We had a baker's dozen of 13 Duffers sign up and show up. Some of the Duffers earned more points toward the Championship, one of them might have earned juuuuuust enough points, and some just waisted their time whacking their balls for fun and earned no additional points.

The handicaps were extremely low this week as Blue Mountain is supposed to be an EASY course...it was NOT! Only one player shot their handicap for net par, everyone else was waaaaay over par. What got us all in trouble were the greens. There are no flat greens first of all, secondly the green speeds were some of the fastest greens we played all year. Yes, Blue Mountain and fast greens are like diet soda and a double-bacon cheeseburger. We even had uphill putts that stopped short and rolled back to almost where we putted from. Not many approach shots stayed on the greens either. The 3-putt rule was quite handy! Other than that, leaves and long grass certainly were not a problem. Blue Mountain is mostly pine trees and we had a lot of dead pine needles all over the place, but not leaves.

Dinner was nearby at the Fredericksburg Hotel. The place was busy, but our food and drinks came out pretty quick. Our lady prez bought the first round of drinks, mainly pitchers of beer, that lasted not just for the first round, but the whole dinner. Thanks Diane, you quenched our thirst and kept our dinner tabs low!! They sat us at two tables of 6 (one lone Duffer did not join us for dinner, even though he is the Duffer Emeritus, his initials start with BB, and we were hoping to hear some words of experience and expertise at dinner. Also, spoiler alert, BB is NOT the champion for 2026).

That's all I got. This is my last regular weekly report. I will send out a final report with all the stats to make you go cross-eyed, after the banquet. Thanks for subscribing to my channel. Don't forget to hit the LIKE button. Not sure where the Like button is, but you certainly have pushed my buttons all year, and I liked it!

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Statman BeerZ