Friday, May 28, 2010
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Way Cool Recovers at Deer Creek 2010 GGW Event No. 7 By: Nathaniel Curry On: May 05/26/10 12:38 PM
Last year was very tough for the US economy. Trillions in wealth disappeared. Billions of new debt added. Millions of jobs lost. However, this year the stock market has bounced back, home values are increasing and labor market is improved. Several other economic indicators also show signs of a solid recovery.
On a much smaller, more relevant scale, many of you Golfers Gone Wild showed solid signs of recovering from your early season slumps. On Saturday, May 22, GGW met to compete in our 7th Tour Event of the season at Deer Creek Golf Club in University Park. Our very own Way Cool took full advantage of the (finally) warmer temperatures to emerge victorious.
Way Cool also had a tough year last year. Battling through minor injuries and juggling other time commitments; left Wayne without a Tour win in all of 2009. But on Saturday, Way Cool prevailed by hitting some miraculous recovery shots; starting at the first tee and continuing through #18. His first drive hooked under the trees on the left, but he recovered to make bogey. Throughout day Way Cool hit solid recovery shots to make par or save bogey and finished with 45 on the front. But he saved his most amazing recovery shot for the last hole. #18 at Deer Creek is a hard dog leg right. Wayne hit his coolest drive of the day, 250 yards straight; but it went through the fairway, past the sand trap into the rough. Way Cool then hit a remarkable 2nd shot through the trees, onto the green, made par to seal his first win of the 2010 season, finishing with a net 68.
Cadillac Blue came in second 2 strokes behind. Blue hit several greens in regulation, but not close enough to have easy birdie putts. To coin a phrase, he must have “figured out some things” and looks dangerous come summer. Double D finished third with net 72. After struggle on the first three holes, Dennis settled down and shot a solid 48 on the back.
Several other members of Golfers Gone Wild had good rounds at Deer Creek. Rifleman and Hawk both finished with net 74. The Gambler and Quick Draw both had net 75. Grade A and Country Strong both had net 76. TaylorMade Kid, with net 77, spent his energy recovering from several issues including wardrobe malfunctions and carded a 50 on the back nine.
Two others simply could not recover from bad rounds. Kappatain Styles (85) with the best game off the tee box usually never has to hit a recovery shot, but desperately needs to recover a short game. And Medicine Man (83) could not recover from whatever is ailing his game.
The Gambler won the Nassau bet and also won 4 skins. But Skins play was dominated by Rifleman. Chuck was playing so well and feeling so frisky, he was even able to even recover balls from standing water in a sand trap, twice! Rifleman ended up winning 9 skins on the day with a key solo par on #14. K Styles won two skins and of course, Quick Draw who has game to win skin on any hole, won the first three but couldn’t recover to win any after that.
Others GGW members were kept away from this event due to various needs for recovery. The only good excuse comes from Lucky Lefty who has been recovering from surgery for the past month. Silent Assassin wasn’t available while trying to recover money lost at golf from his bowling pigeons. Big Dog, whose household economy must be pretty good about now, given three consecutive weeks’ worth of GGW winnings, just couldn’t recover from effects of late night party.
Memorial Day weekend marks the official start of Midwest’s summer golf season. To celebrate, the Golfers Gone Wild Tour will make two stops in Indiana. On Saturday, we will be at Sherwood Golf Course in Schererville. Where Kappatain Styles is the current Titleholder. On the Monday, we plan a first official GGW round at Turkey Creek Golf Course in Merrillville. Summer is back. The US economy’s coming back. We’re almost back. Full recovery begins this weekend.
On a much smaller, more relevant scale, many of you Golfers Gone Wild showed solid signs of recovering from your early season slumps. On Saturday, May 22, GGW met to compete in our 7th Tour Event of the season at Deer Creek Golf Club in University Park. Our very own Way Cool took full advantage of the (finally) warmer temperatures to emerge victorious.
Way Cool also had a tough year last year. Battling through minor injuries and juggling other time commitments; left Wayne without a Tour win in all of 2009. But on Saturday, Way Cool prevailed by hitting some miraculous recovery shots; starting at the first tee and continuing through #18. His first drive hooked under the trees on the left, but he recovered to make bogey. Throughout day Way Cool hit solid recovery shots to make par or save bogey and finished with 45 on the front. But he saved his most amazing recovery shot for the last hole. #18 at Deer Creek is a hard dog leg right. Wayne hit his coolest drive of the day, 250 yards straight; but it went through the fairway, past the sand trap into the rough. Way Cool then hit a remarkable 2nd shot through the trees, onto the green, made par to seal his first win of the 2010 season, finishing with a net 68.
Cadillac Blue came in second 2 strokes behind. Blue hit several greens in regulation, but not close enough to have easy birdie putts. To coin a phrase, he must have “figured out some things” and looks dangerous come summer. Double D finished third with net 72. After struggle on the first three holes, Dennis settled down and shot a solid 48 on the back.
Several other members of Golfers Gone Wild had good rounds at Deer Creek. Rifleman and Hawk both finished with net 74. The Gambler and Quick Draw both had net 75. Grade A and Country Strong both had net 76. TaylorMade Kid, with net 77, spent his energy recovering from several issues including wardrobe malfunctions and carded a 50 on the back nine.
Two others simply could not recover from bad rounds. Kappatain Styles (85) with the best game off the tee box usually never has to hit a recovery shot, but desperately needs to recover a short game. And Medicine Man (83) could not recover from whatever is ailing his game.
The Gambler won the Nassau bet and also won 4 skins. But Skins play was dominated by Rifleman. Chuck was playing so well and feeling so frisky, he was even able to even recover balls from standing water in a sand trap, twice! Rifleman ended up winning 9 skins on the day with a key solo par on #14. K Styles won two skins and of course, Quick Draw who has game to win skin on any hole, won the first three but couldn’t recover to win any after that.
Others GGW members were kept away from this event due to various needs for recovery. The only good excuse comes from Lucky Lefty who has been recovering from surgery for the past month. Silent Assassin wasn’t available while trying to recover money lost at golf from his bowling pigeons. Big Dog, whose household economy must be pretty good about now, given three consecutive weeks’ worth of GGW winnings, just couldn’t recover from effects of late night party.
Memorial Day weekend marks the official start of Midwest’s summer golf season. To celebrate, the Golfers Gone Wild Tour will make two stops in Indiana. On Saturday, we will be at Sherwood Golf Course in Schererville. Where Kappatain Styles is the current Titleholder. On the Monday, we plan a first official GGW round at Turkey Creek Golf Course in Merrillville. Summer is back. The US economy’s coming back. We’re almost back. Full recovery begins this weekend.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Coyote Run Challengers Crushed By Big Dog 2010 GGW Event No. 6
Coyote Run in Flossmoor is a familiar golf course to you Golfers Gone Wild. Coyote Run has a familiar layout, with 6478 yards of well manicured fairways and greens, long par 3s and significant water hazards on 11 of 18 holes. Coyote Run has familiar surroundings, a 3 hole three warm-up, grass practice facility and spacious putting green. Northwoods Restaurant at Coyote Run is a familiar 19th hole club house with some of the South Suburbs best golf course food and drink. And, in what has become an all too familiar result for the GGW, Coyote Run produced another Tour victory for Big Dog.
On the Saturday, May 15, Golfers Gone Wild held its 6th Tour event of the season. Almost everyone was selling Wolf Tickets at the first tee. Main target was Big Dog, winner of the last two events. Challenged with prop bets left and right, the GGW put on the pressure to perform. How did he respond? Lonnie started out with birdie on #1. He made the only other birdie on the day at the long par 5 #14 and crushed the challengers; finishing with a net 68.
Four strokes back was a rejuvenated Country Strong. Coyote Run is one of his many “home” courses. You play as much golf as Ron does and almost every course can be called home. But, Country Strong had very unfamiliar, vagabond-like start to the 2010 season, carding triple digit scores in 4 of 5 events. Country Strong may have returned to form with 89 raw score, in 2nd place just ahead of TaylorMade Kid.
TaylorMade Kid had a nice round but missed plenty of opportunities to make up the 0.7 stroke difference in handicap index. Even though Taylor had his second straight 3rd place finish, he continues to impress with outstanding iron play. It’s familiar for The Kid to come up short net score because of handicaps. What was most unusual was TaylorMade Kid and Country Strong had identical gross scores 44-45, so they shared winning the Nassau bet.
The familiarity of the course also benefited the rest of the field as no player shot worse than net 80. Silent Assassin (net 73) and Quick Draw (net 74) finished in the money. Along with Way Cool (75), that threesome finished the 18 holes in what has to be a record time (3 hours and 35 minutes).
Hawk (76), Cadillac Blue (77) and Medicine Man (77) fought a duel to the death. Unfortunately, the only thing they really killed was time; as that group needed 4 hours and 50 minutes to finish.
Cadillac Blue did manage to put together a string of pars on the back nine and won 2 skins on the day. TaylorMade Kid won 3 skins and Silent Assassin won 4 skins with a solo par on #10, a 440 yard par 4. But the big winner on the day was Big Dog. Besides the two birdies, he also made par on 516 yard #6. Big Dog won a total of 9 skins on the day to vault into contention for that season long honor as well.
No Matches were played on Saturday. Will we let the defending champion go the whole year without even having to fight to keep his title? We call it Match Play Competition for a reason. Let’s compete.
Next weekend, Golfers Gone Wild Tour heads to Sherwood Golf Course in Schererville, Indiana. Kappatain Styles is the reigning GGW Titleholder at Sherwood. TaylorMade Kid is the reigning Match Play Champion. Big Dog has reigned supreme winning the last three Tour Events in a row. Which GGW Challenger will rain on the parade for those three?
On the Saturday, May 15, Golfers Gone Wild held its 6th Tour event of the season. Almost everyone was selling Wolf Tickets at the first tee. Main target was Big Dog, winner of the last two events. Challenged with prop bets left and right, the GGW put on the pressure to perform. How did he respond? Lonnie started out with birdie on #1. He made the only other birdie on the day at the long par 5 #14 and crushed the challengers; finishing with a net 68.
Four strokes back was a rejuvenated Country Strong. Coyote Run is one of his many “home” courses. You play as much golf as Ron does and almost every course can be called home. But, Country Strong had very unfamiliar, vagabond-like start to the 2010 season, carding triple digit scores in 4 of 5 events. Country Strong may have returned to form with 89 raw score, in 2nd place just ahead of TaylorMade Kid.
TaylorMade Kid had a nice round but missed plenty of opportunities to make up the 0.7 stroke difference in handicap index. Even though Taylor had his second straight 3rd place finish, he continues to impress with outstanding iron play. It’s familiar for The Kid to come up short net score because of handicaps. What was most unusual was TaylorMade Kid and Country Strong had identical gross scores 44-45, so they shared winning the Nassau bet.
The familiarity of the course also benefited the rest of the field as no player shot worse than net 80. Silent Assassin (net 73) and Quick Draw (net 74) finished in the money. Along with Way Cool (75), that threesome finished the 18 holes in what has to be a record time (3 hours and 35 minutes).
Hawk (76), Cadillac Blue (77) and Medicine Man (77) fought a duel to the death. Unfortunately, the only thing they really killed was time; as that group needed 4 hours and 50 minutes to finish.
Cadillac Blue did manage to put together a string of pars on the back nine and won 2 skins on the day. TaylorMade Kid won 3 skins and Silent Assassin won 4 skins with a solo par on #10, a 440 yard par 4. But the big winner on the day was Big Dog. Besides the two birdies, he also made par on 516 yard #6. Big Dog won a total of 9 skins on the day to vault into contention for that season long honor as well.
No Matches were played on Saturday. Will we let the defending champion go the whole year without even having to fight to keep his title? We call it Match Play Competition for a reason. Let’s compete.
Next weekend, Golfers Gone Wild Tour heads to Sherwood Golf Course in Schererville, Indiana. Kappatain Styles is the reigning GGW Titleholder at Sherwood. TaylorMade Kid is the reigning Match Play Champion. Big Dog has reigned supreme winning the last three Tour Events in a row. Which GGW Challenger will rain on the parade for those three?
Big Dog Survives a Cold May Day at Tuckaway 2010 GGW Event No. 5
t was cold. Tee time was at 9:06 am and the wind chill was around 40 degrees. Twenty minutes before the round only three players had arrived. It looked like we wouldn’t have a qualified round. Then, like a mob of homeless who heard rumor they were serving hot meals, people started showing up; bundled up; ready for whatever. You Golfers Gone Wild must be crazy.
On the Saturday before Mother’s Day, May 8, the GGW held its 5th Tour event of the season at Tuckaway Golf Course in Crete. Tuckaway is definitely tucked away near the Illinois-Indiana border, surrounded by horses and farms. Another unorthodox layout, Tuckaway has par 35 front and 37 back. It played to 6037 with uneven lies in the fairways, elevated tee boxes and undulating greens on almost every hole.
Add in some frigid May temperatures, vicious high winds and we had conditions more suitable for an episode of Survivor Alaska than playing Golf. But, even with play not nearly as good as last week, Big Dog was the sole survivor, under par, with a net 69. For the second straight week, reportedly playing golf every other day and using his prodigious drives (along with an equally prodigious handicap index), Lonnie finished on top.
Coming in second was the Silent Assassin. Sam shot a 98, net 73. Only 1 stroke more than he had during his unsanctioned practice round played in ideal conditions on Wednesday. (Please note: his official excuse was he was there to check the playable condition of the recently aerated greens. Instead of chastising him for taking our money, we should trust that he was just looking out for us). Sure he was.
TaylorMade Kid shot the best scratch round of the day with a 90 (net 74). Placing third, Taylor shot a 43 front and again won the Nassau bets from the serious gambling addicts. Holder of the lowest handicap index at 16.1, The Kid surrenders 11 strokes to Big Dog and almost 7 strokes to the average players in the field before the race even starts.
How did the GGW racing sheet handicap these other average horses trying for a win at Tuckaway?
Way Cool (78), Until Warmer Weather Comes, A Win?, No Way.
Quick Draw (77), Doesn’t Even Care, He Just Bombs Away.
Cadillac Blue (79), Can’t Hit a Green When Skies Are Grey.
Grade A (81), Kept Missing Fairways All Damn Day
The Gambler (81), a Winner Last Year, But Not Today
Rifleman (82), He’s Wealthy and Somebody Has to Pay
Kappatain Styles (84), Hey, Maybe He Knew It Wasn’t His Day
Double D (86), He Just Showed Up, Didn’t Come to Play
Country Strong (90), Going from Bad to Worse, What Can I Say?
Agree with me. Yay or Nay, That’s what happened to the also rans in the field, Saturday at Tuckaway.
However, six of twelve players won skins. TaylorMade Kid was the big winner with 7 skins all on the front side. Grade A picked up 3 skins and took over the season skins lead with 19 total. The Gambler, Cadillac Blue, Big Dog and Silent Assassin all won 2 skins each.
No Matches were played on Saturday. Since handicaps are used and everyone schedules their own matches perhaps the GGW needs to Beware of Big Dog. He is a better player than the index he carries. Two wins in a row raises several questions.
Why was the handicap calculation changed and when? How much better must one play to break par and win? What will it take for those high handicap brothers to drop? And, Who, in the hell, Let The Dog Out?
On the Saturday before Mother’s Day, May 8, the GGW held its 5th Tour event of the season at Tuckaway Golf Course in Crete. Tuckaway is definitely tucked away near the Illinois-Indiana border, surrounded by horses and farms. Another unorthodox layout, Tuckaway has par 35 front and 37 back. It played to 6037 with uneven lies in the fairways, elevated tee boxes and undulating greens on almost every hole.
Add in some frigid May temperatures, vicious high winds and we had conditions more suitable for an episode of Survivor Alaska than playing Golf. But, even with play not nearly as good as last week, Big Dog was the sole survivor, under par, with a net 69. For the second straight week, reportedly playing golf every other day and using his prodigious drives (along with an equally prodigious handicap index), Lonnie finished on top.
Coming in second was the Silent Assassin. Sam shot a 98, net 73. Only 1 stroke more than he had during his unsanctioned practice round played in ideal conditions on Wednesday. (Please note: his official excuse was he was there to check the playable condition of the recently aerated greens. Instead of chastising him for taking our money, we should trust that he was just looking out for us). Sure he was.
TaylorMade Kid shot the best scratch round of the day with a 90 (net 74). Placing third, Taylor shot a 43 front and again won the Nassau bets from the serious gambling addicts. Holder of the lowest handicap index at 16.1, The Kid surrenders 11 strokes to Big Dog and almost 7 strokes to the average players in the field before the race even starts.
How did the GGW racing sheet handicap these other average horses trying for a win at Tuckaway?
Way Cool (78), Until Warmer Weather Comes, A Win?, No Way.
Quick Draw (77), Doesn’t Even Care, He Just Bombs Away.
Cadillac Blue (79), Can’t Hit a Green When Skies Are Grey.
Grade A (81), Kept Missing Fairways All Damn Day
The Gambler (81), a Winner Last Year, But Not Today
Rifleman (82), He’s Wealthy and Somebody Has to Pay
Kappatain Styles (84), Hey, Maybe He Knew It Wasn’t His Day
Double D (86), He Just Showed Up, Didn’t Come to Play
Country Strong (90), Going from Bad to Worse, What Can I Say?
Agree with me. Yay or Nay, That’s what happened to the also rans in the field, Saturday at Tuckaway.
However, six of twelve players won skins. TaylorMade Kid was the big winner with 7 skins all on the front side. Grade A picked up 3 skins and took over the season skins lead with 19 total. The Gambler, Cadillac Blue, Big Dog and Silent Assassin all won 2 skins each.
No Matches were played on Saturday. Since handicaps are used and everyone schedules their own matches perhaps the GGW needs to Beware of Big Dog. He is a better player than the index he carries. Two wins in a row raises several questions.
Why was the handicap calculation changed and when? How much better must one play to break par and win? What will it take for those high handicap brothers to drop? And, Who, in the hell, Let The Dog Out?
Big Dog and the GGW Chews Up Lincoln Oaks 2010 GGW Event No. 4
It’s too early to call anything a trend. After 4 weeks, you can’t be sure the White Sox will lose more than half their games. After 4 weeks, you can’t say Tiger Woods is going to continue to miss more than half his cuts. So after 4 weeks, you can’t predict high handicappers will win more than half our tournaments.
Golfers Gone Wild held its 4th Tour Event at Lincoln Oaks Golf Club. A unique course, Lincoln Oaks has six par 3s and five par 5s covering 6186 yards. It winds through an upscale community in Crete, Illinois. Crete is a beautiful town where neighbors play with their children, work on their lawns and jog with their dogs.
On Sunday May 2, those neighbors, kids and pets just watched as the GGW led by its own Big DOG chewed up Lincoln Oaks. Finally straightening out his driver, Lonnie shook off early season swing inconsistency to shoot a 9 under net 62. Big DOG hit fairways, greens and played consistent bogey golf to card a 46-46 round. Subtract a high handicap from previous poor play; and it adds up to the best net finish so far in a GGW event this year.
It wasn’t just Big DOG marking his territory at Lincoln Oaks. Three other golfers; Medicine Man, Grade A, and Way Cool all played much better and broke net par.
Medicine Man playing his first event of the 2010 season; served notice that this year’s Medicine may not go down so easy for us. Sherman shot a 47 front and finished with a net 65 overall for second place. Grade A ate up the course, using monster drives off the tee to shoot his GGW best ever round of 92. Grady finished third with net 66. Way Cool started out as leader of a wild pack; making par on the first two holes and needing only 44 on the back nine. Finishing fourth with a net 67, Wayne will be dangerous if he is back to his pre-injury 2008 form.
Cadillac Blue (net 72), Rifleman (net 73) and TaylorMade Kid (net 74) had a spirited and competitive foursome with Way Cool. TaylorMade Kid stopped messing around after taking 51 going out. He dropped a 39 on us coming in for 90 and was winner of Nassau back/overall bets. Cadillac Blue was neither spectacular nor suspect with 48-48. And Rifleman played the unorthodox Lincoln Oaks layout using an unorthodox club set. One player said it consisted of 13 woods and a putter. GGW did not independently verify this report, but an 9 wood was allegedly the club of choice on at least nine holes.
Whatever works. Few clubs of any kind were working for Hawk (net 76), Double D (net 82) and Quick Draw (net 80). Quick Draw’s highlight birdie at #3 was a push. Double D at least managed to win 2 skins with par on tough #14. TaylorMade Kid won 4 skins with back to back pars on the final two holes.
But the big skins winner of the day was Grade A. His second birdie at #12 won all of the first 12 skins. Grady A chipped in from the fringe on the par 4 with a sloping fairway. He celebrated for a minute then chased away a bunch of trespassers trying to jump between our groups at #13 tee.
The GGW doesn’t know what’s wrong with The Gambler (net 81) and Country Strong (net 86). We’d hate to see them get put down. These are top 5 players from last year who routinely chased scores below 90. This year they just seem to be resting, watching and waiting to be fed. Or, maybe they’re following that old country saying, “if you can’t run with the Big Dog; just lie on the porch”.
Next week Saturday, the Golfers Gone Wild Tour continues its swing down I-394 to Tuckaway Golf Club also in Crete. Big DOG leads GGW Points. Double D and Grade A leads GGW Skins. Who knows if these early trends will continue? What is clear is that the higher handicap brothers have come to play.
Golfers Gone Wild held its 4th Tour Event at Lincoln Oaks Golf Club. A unique course, Lincoln Oaks has six par 3s and five par 5s covering 6186 yards. It winds through an upscale community in Crete, Illinois. Crete is a beautiful town where neighbors play with their children, work on their lawns and jog with their dogs.
On Sunday May 2, those neighbors, kids and pets just watched as the GGW led by its own Big DOG chewed up Lincoln Oaks. Finally straightening out his driver, Lonnie shook off early season swing inconsistency to shoot a 9 under net 62. Big DOG hit fairways, greens and played consistent bogey golf to card a 46-46 round. Subtract a high handicap from previous poor play; and it adds up to the best net finish so far in a GGW event this year.
It wasn’t just Big DOG marking his territory at Lincoln Oaks. Three other golfers; Medicine Man, Grade A, and Way Cool all played much better and broke net par.
Medicine Man playing his first event of the 2010 season; served notice that this year’s Medicine may not go down so easy for us. Sherman shot a 47 front and finished with a net 65 overall for second place. Grade A ate up the course, using monster drives off the tee to shoot his GGW best ever round of 92. Grady finished third with net 66. Way Cool started out as leader of a wild pack; making par on the first two holes and needing only 44 on the back nine. Finishing fourth with a net 67, Wayne will be dangerous if he is back to his pre-injury 2008 form.
Cadillac Blue (net 72), Rifleman (net 73) and TaylorMade Kid (net 74) had a spirited and competitive foursome with Way Cool. TaylorMade Kid stopped messing around after taking 51 going out. He dropped a 39 on us coming in for 90 and was winner of Nassau back/overall bets. Cadillac Blue was neither spectacular nor suspect with 48-48. And Rifleman played the unorthodox Lincoln Oaks layout using an unorthodox club set. One player said it consisted of 13 woods and a putter. GGW did not independently verify this report, but an 9 wood was allegedly the club of choice on at least nine holes.
Whatever works. Few clubs of any kind were working for Hawk (net 76), Double D (net 82) and Quick Draw (net 80). Quick Draw’s highlight birdie at #3 was a push. Double D at least managed to win 2 skins with par on tough #14. TaylorMade Kid won 4 skins with back to back pars on the final two holes.
But the big skins winner of the day was Grade A. His second birdie at #12 won all of the first 12 skins. Grady A chipped in from the fringe on the par 4 with a sloping fairway. He celebrated for a minute then chased away a bunch of trespassers trying to jump between our groups at #13 tee.
The GGW doesn’t know what’s wrong with The Gambler (net 81) and Country Strong (net 86). We’d hate to see them get put down. These are top 5 players from last year who routinely chased scores below 90. This year they just seem to be resting, watching and waiting to be fed. Or, maybe they’re following that old country saying, “if you can’t run with the Big Dog; just lie on the porch”.
Next week Saturday, the Golfers Gone Wild Tour continues its swing down I-394 to Tuckaway Golf Club also in Crete. Big DOG leads GGW Points. Double D and Grade A leads GGW Skins. Who knows if these early trends will continue? What is clear is that the higher handicap brothers have come to play.
Glenwoodie Turns Out To Be TaylorMade for the Kid 2010 GGW Event No. 3
In the game of golf, some days, things just seem to turn out right. Long drives land on the “right” side of the fairway. Solid approach shots give you the right looks into the green. Pure putts drop into the hole with just the right pace. And, certainly comfortable weather makes it easier to hit the right shots.
The weather forecast for Glenwood, Illinois on Saturday, April 24, was questionable. Heavy rain fell overnight in Chicagoland and more severe storms South and West were headed our way. This weather was similar to last year’s event where the course was declared unplayable. But, for the quick 4 hour golf window we needed; warmer temps, gentle breezes and NO rain, made sure this day at Glenwoodie would turn out just right for the Golfers Gone Wild 3rd Tour Event of the season.
Known as the oldie but goodie, Glenwoodie is a 6437 yard compact layout with a deep ravine of Deer Creek meandering through four of the back nine holes. The course drained well from the rainy night before and had very few soggy spots. The always tough, sloping greens held approach shots and rolled true.
Like an expensive, Italian 3 piece suit, Glenwoodie turned out to be tailor-made for the TaylorMade Kid. The Kid cut up the course and the 10 man GGW field, stitching together a tour season best round of 82. TaylorMade Kid started hot; making par on 5 of the first 6 holes, birdie on #8, and shot a 3 over par 39 front side. The Kid had the Nassau bet and his first win of the season practically sewed up before we hit the turn. Taylor finished with a net 65, a measurement almost 7 net strokes better than runner-up.
Coming in second was Grade A. AG averaged about 297 yards off the tee box and fashioned his long drives into a net 71. Double D continued a pattern of solid play for 2010 and finished third with a net 75; less than ½ stroke better than Cadillac Blue. Cadillac was tuned up early (45 front) but choked up late. Lucky Lefty shot a net 77 for fifth place money.
The always competitive 2009 Player of the Year, Lefty will be headed for the shelf and unable to play for the next few weeks. Call the Competition Committee. No golf for 5-6 weeks for Miller, competing with Taylor, who reportedly plays three times a week, including an unsanctioned practice round at Glenwoodie last Wednesday. Come Saturday, that unsanctioned round made The Kid very well prepared for GGW. Regarding the rest of the field? Let’s just say at least they were very well dressed.
Quick Draw? Looked great; sporting a new jet black hooded rain suit. Unfortunately it was last seen on the way to shooting a net 81. Way Cool? Just chilling in high end Nike Dri-Fit apparel, but shot a net 80. Country Strong? Decked out in TW Victory Red, continued his early season struggle with a net 82. The Gambler? With his $1000 designer watch, started timing us at the 1st tee; finished quick, but with net 81. Silent Assassin? Admittedly playing on little sleep, still always nattily attired, Sam shot a butt ugly net 92.
However, golf at Glenwoodie wasn’t all about well tailored clothes. Way Cool did play well enough to lead in skins on the day with 6; using a nice looking drive to par #13. Quick Draw stopped styling just long enough on #7 to win 4 skins. TaylorMade Kid, pushed off his birdie hole by Lefty, still managed to win 4 skins. Grade A was also credited with 4 skins, playing ahead of the curve, with pars on #2 and #18.
Next week Sunday, the Golfers Gone Wild Tour hits another old school course, Lincoln Oaks Golf Club. Located in Crete, Illinois, Lincoln Oaks has some tight carries, multiple par 3’s and postage stamp greens. Glenwoodie seemed to be TaylorMade for the Kid…..….Whose game will be the right fit for Lincoln Oaks?
The weather forecast for Glenwood, Illinois on Saturday, April 24, was questionable. Heavy rain fell overnight in Chicagoland and more severe storms South and West were headed our way. This weather was similar to last year’s event where the course was declared unplayable. But, for the quick 4 hour golf window we needed; warmer temps, gentle breezes and NO rain, made sure this day at Glenwoodie would turn out just right for the Golfers Gone Wild 3rd Tour Event of the season.
Known as the oldie but goodie, Glenwoodie is a 6437 yard compact layout with a deep ravine of Deer Creek meandering through four of the back nine holes. The course drained well from the rainy night before and had very few soggy spots. The always tough, sloping greens held approach shots and rolled true.
Like an expensive, Italian 3 piece suit, Glenwoodie turned out to be tailor-made for the TaylorMade Kid. The Kid cut up the course and the 10 man GGW field, stitching together a tour season best round of 82. TaylorMade Kid started hot; making par on 5 of the first 6 holes, birdie on #8, and shot a 3 over par 39 front side. The Kid had the Nassau bet and his first win of the season practically sewed up before we hit the turn. Taylor finished with a net 65, a measurement almost 7 net strokes better than runner-up.
Coming in second was Grade A. AG averaged about 297 yards off the tee box and fashioned his long drives into a net 71. Double D continued a pattern of solid play for 2010 and finished third with a net 75; less than ½ stroke better than Cadillac Blue. Cadillac was tuned up early (45 front) but choked up late. Lucky Lefty shot a net 77 for fifth place money.
The always competitive 2009 Player of the Year, Lefty will be headed for the shelf and unable to play for the next few weeks. Call the Competition Committee. No golf for 5-6 weeks for Miller, competing with Taylor, who reportedly plays three times a week, including an unsanctioned practice round at Glenwoodie last Wednesday. Come Saturday, that unsanctioned round made The Kid very well prepared for GGW. Regarding the rest of the field? Let’s just say at least they were very well dressed.
Quick Draw? Looked great; sporting a new jet black hooded rain suit. Unfortunately it was last seen on the way to shooting a net 81. Way Cool? Just chilling in high end Nike Dri-Fit apparel, but shot a net 80. Country Strong? Decked out in TW Victory Red, continued his early season struggle with a net 82. The Gambler? With his $1000 designer watch, started timing us at the 1st tee; finished quick, but with net 81. Silent Assassin? Admittedly playing on little sleep, still always nattily attired, Sam shot a butt ugly net 92.
However, golf at Glenwoodie wasn’t all about well tailored clothes. Way Cool did play well enough to lead in skins on the day with 6; using a nice looking drive to par #13. Quick Draw stopped styling just long enough on #7 to win 4 skins. TaylorMade Kid, pushed off his birdie hole by Lefty, still managed to win 4 skins. Grade A was also credited with 4 skins, playing ahead of the curve, with pars on #2 and #18.
Next week Sunday, the Golfers Gone Wild Tour hits another old school course, Lincoln Oaks Golf Club. Located in Crete, Illinois, Lincoln Oaks has some tight carries, multiple par 3’s and postage stamp greens. Glenwoodie seemed to be TaylorMade for the Kid…..….Whose game will be the right fit for Lincoln Oaks?
2010 GGW Event No. 1 Quick Draw Wins A Windy Season Opener
Like Tiger Woods’ return to the PGA Tour, you Golfers Gone Wild got back into action for our 4th season.
Each year around Easter weekend, the GGW begins its annual competition tour of Chicago area golf courses. Twelve members of Golfers Gone Wild took to the links on Saturday, April 11, to play a traditional season opening round at University Golf Club and Conference Center in University Park.
Compared to last year’s opening round, the weather was surprisingly good. But with unpredictable winds gusting up to 25 miles per hour, University GC was to prove a tough test. Players were ready, like gun fighters with itchy trigger fingers, waiting for a challenger in the middle of the street.
After all the shooting was done, the winner was Quick Draw. Perry, piggy-backing on plenty of positive practice rounds recently, led all players with a net 72. Good ball striking finishes on both front and back nine holes, gave Quick Draw the first tour victory of the season, placing him into the very early lead for Player of the Year.
Lucky Lefty, the defending 2009 Player of the Year, placed second. Lefty had the day’s best scratch round of 91 (net 74). Hawk and Silent Assassin finished in a virtual tie for 3rd with a net 76. Double D who supposedly had not picked up a club since November had a 5th place money finish with net 77.
Several other players struggled to score on the first week of the season. A newcomer on tour in 2010, Lonnie Clemens, now known as Big Dog, carded the only birdie on the day and shot net 78. TaylorMade Kid and Cadillac Blue both recorded net 79’s. Rifleman rounded out the field, shooting a net 82.
The Windy day played particular tricks with shots from two normally reliable players. The Gambler couldn’t hold up a shooting a 105 (net 88). Country Strong had only a weak explanation for his net 89, something about him having to carry the lowest GGW handicap.
As last year’s skins leader Country Strong, started like he left off in 2009, with a solo par and skin on #1. But, that would be his only skin on the day. Silent Assassin won the next two and 5 skins total with solo pars at #3 and #14.
Double D was the skins leader with 7. As the only survivor a particularly wind challenged short par 4, Denis won all 7 skins carrying over through hole #10. That solo par kept Big Dog to a single skin win even though Lonnie made birdie at a 205-yard par 3 #11. Cadillac Blue managed to win some money at the end of the day. Blue won the final 4 skins by making par on 3 of the final 4 holes.
Next week Sunday, Golfers Gone Wild Tour will travel to Silver Lakes Country Club in Orland Park, Illinois. Quick Draw drew first blood last week, winning a Windy Season Opener. He is off his mark and running. Do you feel you’re fast enough to challenge him?
Each year around Easter weekend, the GGW begins its annual competition tour of Chicago area golf courses. Twelve members of Golfers Gone Wild took to the links on Saturday, April 11, to play a traditional season opening round at University Golf Club and Conference Center in University Park.
Compared to last year’s opening round, the weather was surprisingly good. But with unpredictable winds gusting up to 25 miles per hour, University GC was to prove a tough test. Players were ready, like gun fighters with itchy trigger fingers, waiting for a challenger in the middle of the street.
After all the shooting was done, the winner was Quick Draw. Perry, piggy-backing on plenty of positive practice rounds recently, led all players with a net 72. Good ball striking finishes on both front and back nine holes, gave Quick Draw the first tour victory of the season, placing him into the very early lead for Player of the Year.
Lucky Lefty, the defending 2009 Player of the Year, placed second. Lefty had the day’s best scratch round of 91 (net 74). Hawk and Silent Assassin finished in a virtual tie for 3rd with a net 76. Double D who supposedly had not picked up a club since November had a 5th place money finish with net 77.
Several other players struggled to score on the first week of the season. A newcomer on tour in 2010, Lonnie Clemens, now known as Big Dog, carded the only birdie on the day and shot net 78. TaylorMade Kid and Cadillac Blue both recorded net 79’s. Rifleman rounded out the field, shooting a net 82.
The Windy day played particular tricks with shots from two normally reliable players. The Gambler couldn’t hold up a shooting a 105 (net 88). Country Strong had only a weak explanation for his net 89, something about him having to carry the lowest GGW handicap.
As last year’s skins leader Country Strong, started like he left off in 2009, with a solo par and skin on #1. But, that would be his only skin on the day. Silent Assassin won the next two and 5 skins total with solo pars at #3 and #14.
Double D was the skins leader with 7. As the only survivor a particularly wind challenged short par 4, Denis won all 7 skins carrying over through hole #10. That solo par kept Big Dog to a single skin win even though Lonnie made birdie at a 205-yard par 3 #11. Cadillac Blue managed to win some money at the end of the day. Blue won the final 4 skins by making par on 3 of the final 4 holes.
Next week Sunday, Golfers Gone Wild Tour will travel to Silver Lakes Country Club in Orland Park, Illinois. Quick Draw drew first blood last week, winning a Windy Season Opener. He is off his mark and running. Do you feel you’re fast enough to challenge him?
Monday, May 10, 2010
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Market Lies
Look, I am sick and tired of the market. It is so unfair that the normal human being has little information about how to make money on Wall Street. So do not trust it. Fixed accounts are the way to go with your serious money. Fuixed accounts do not lie. Fixed accounts tell you what you are getting and that is it. Keep playing the stock market and get burned or get a fixed account and chill.
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