Initial
Event Date: 8/93 Venue: Mens Golf, Ladies & Juniors Competition and
Family Picnic (Families
Mandatory) Location: Various Greater Atlanta Courses
2005 FORMAT-
Individual Scoring. Low Net Score in each
Flight wins. 2nd Place Trophy also.
RULES
For
every stroke you shoot under your declared score you pay $2 per to the
Katrina or Rita Red Cross Fund (I’ll collect)
For
every stroke you shoot over your declared score you pay $1 per to the
Katrina or Rita Red Cross Fund (I’ll collect)
One
mulligan on the front only.
ANY SHOT!
Out
of bounds or lost ball is loss of stroke but not distance.
Winners
in each flight will be determined by NET SCORE (Your score minus your
handicap). 1st and 2nd place awards.
Double
Par is the MAXIMUM score you can post on any hole.
Cash
Prizes for closest to Pin on all par 3’s
Cash
Prize for Longest Drive
SNAKE PUTTING GAME!!-
"(Snake) is a putting game. The betting amount is $10 per
foursome. Whoever three-putts first gets and keeps the 'snake'
until someone else three-putts, then it changes owner to that golfer ...
and so on. Whoever is the last with the snake pays $10 to the Katrina
(or Rita) Hurricane Fund.
Ellen
Back At It In 2005!!
Leading the charge for Event Logistics is
Ellen!
Her only comment..."if ya see me...bring me a glass of
wine!!"
Vince
Terry becomes the first "son" to estimate a lower
score than his father! Looks like there could be
some bragging rights going on here. Good money says
bet on papa!!
VFSE
Probing Poll
2005 VF&SE Golf 'n
Grille
River Pines Golf Club
Alpharetta, GA
October 1, 2005
2005 FINAL SCOREBOARD
RESULTS
Top Flight Winner: Mike
Lackey 72 Net (75 gross)
2nd Flight Winner: Mark
Valentino 66 Net (87
gross)
3rd Flight Winner: Chris
Ramby 70 Net
(112 gross)
Ladies Champion: Ellen
Van Frayen
Juniors Champion: Scott
Terry
Closest to Pin Winners:
Pete Barnett (2)
Bob McGowan
Mike Lackey
Long Drive:
Tie: Bob McGowan & Jim
Thorn
G'nG 2005 Pairings
TOP FLIGHT "The Big
Boys"
NOTE: This Group To Use BLUE TEES
Ever wonder why
golf is growing in popularity and people who don't even play go
to tournaments or watch it on TV? These truisms may shed light
on reasons why.
Golf is an honorable game, with the overwhelming majority of
players being
honorable people who don't need referees.
Golfers don't scratch their privates on the golf course.
Golfers don't kick dirt on, or throw bottles at, other people.
Professional golfers are compensated in direct proportion to how
well they play.
Golfers don't get per diem and two seats on a charter flight
when they travel
between tournaments.
Golfers don't hold out for more money, or demand new contracts,
because of
another player's deal.
Professional Golfers don't demand that the taxpayers pay for the
courses on
which they play.
When golfers make a mistake, nobody is there to cover for them
or back them up.
The PGA Tour raises more money for charity in one year than the
National
Football League does in two.
You can watch the best golfers in the world up close, at any
tournament,
including the majors, all day, every day for $25 or $30. The
cost for a seat in
the nosebleed section at the Super Bowl will cost around $300 or
more.
You can bring a picnic lunch to the tournament golf course,
watch the best in
the world and not spend a small fortune on food and drink. Try
that at one of
the taxpayer funded baseball or football stadium. I brought a
Coke into Oriole
Park at Camden Yards last year, and an usher came to my seat and
told me I had
to dispose of it, or I would not be allowed to stay in the
stadium.
In golf you cannot fail 70% of the time and make $9 million a
season, like the
best baseball hitters (.300 batting average) do.
Golf doesn't change its rules to attract Fans.
Golfers keep their clothes on while they are being interviewed.
Golf doesn't have free agency.
In their prime, Greg Norman, Arnold Palmer and other stars,
would shake your
hand and say they were happy to meet you. In his prime Jose
Canseco wore
T-shirts that read "Leave Me Alone."
You can hear birds chirping on the golf course during a
tournament.
Ladies are welcome players.
At a golf tournament, (unlike at taxpayer funded sports stadium
and arenas) you
won't hear a steady stream of four letter words and nasty name
calling while
you're hoping that no one spills beer on you.
Also: If
you have re-gripped your golf ball retriever more than once you
might question if this game is really for you.
1. Golf can best be defined as an endless
series of tragedies obscured by
the occasional miracle.
2. "I wish I could play my normal game...just once."
3. "Golf is harder than baseball. In golf, you have to play
your foul balls."
4. If you find you do not mind playing golf in the rain, the
snow, even during a hurricane, here's a valuable tip: Your life
is in trouble.
5. Golfers who try to make everything perfect before taking the
shot
rarely make a perfect shot.
6. The term "mulligan" is really a contraction of the
phrase "maul it again."
7. A "gimme" can best be defined as an agreement
between two golfers ....neither of whom can putt very well.
8. An interesting thing about golf is that no matter how badly
you play; it is always possible to get worse.
9. Golf's a hard game to figure. One day you'll go out and slice
it and shank it, hit into all the traps and miss every green.
The next day you go out and for no reason at all you really
stink.
10. I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't
play.
11. If your best shots are the practice swing and the "gimme
Putt", you might wish to reconsider this game.
12. Achieving a certain level of success in golf is only
important if you can finally enjoy the level you've reached
after you've reached it.
13. Golf is the only sport where the most feared opponent is
you.
14. Golf is like marriage If you take yourself too seriously it
won't work... and both are expensive.
15. The best wood in most amateurs' bags is the pencil.
16. To some golfers, the greatest handicap is the ability to add
correctly.
Golf Club Rules
1. Back straight, knees bent, feet shoulder
width apart.
2. Form a loose grip.
3. Keep your head down.
4. Avoid a quick back swing.
5. Stay out of the water.
6. Try not to hit anyone.
7. If you are taking too long, please let others
go ahead of you.
8. Don't stand directly in front of others.
9. Quiet please... while others are preparing to
go.
10. Don't take extra strokes.
Very good. Now flush the urinal, go outside, and tee off!
If you drink, dont. drive. Don't even
putt.
Dean Martin
When I die, bury me on the golf course so my
husband will visit.
Author Unknown
I'm hitting the woods just great....but having
a terrible time getting out of them!
Author Unknown
If you think it's hard to meet new people, try
picking up the wrong golf ball.
Jack Lemmon
1. Never try to keep more than 300 separate thoughts in
your mind during
your swing.
2. When your shot has to carry over a water hazard, you can
either hit
one more club or two more balls.
3. If you are afraid a full shot might reach the green while the
group
ahead are still putting, you have two options: you can
immediately
shank a lay-up, or you can wait until the green is clear and top
a
ball halfway there.
4. The less skilled the player, the more likely he is to share
his ideas
about the golf swing.
5. If it isn't broke, try changing your grip.
6. Golfers who claim they don't cheat also lie.
7. Everyone replaces his divot after a perfect approach shot.
8. A golf match is a test of your skill against your opponent's
luck.
9. It's surprisingly easy to sink a 50 foot putt when you lie
10.
10. Counting on your opponent to inform you when he breaks a
rule is like
expecting him to make fun of his own haircut.
11. Nonchalant putts count the same as chalant putts.
12. It's not a gimme putt if you're still away.
13. The shortest distance between any two points on a golf
course is a
straight line that passes directly through the large tree.
14. There are two kinds of bounces: unfair bounces and bounces
just the
way you intended to play it.
15. You can hit a two-acre fairway 10% of the time and a 2-inch
branch
on a tree 90% of the time.
16. Every time a golfer makes a birdie he must subsequently make
three
triple bogeys to restore the fundamental equilibrium of the
universe.
Feast on These!!
Golfer: "I've played so poorly all day; I think I'm
going to go drown
myself in that
lake."
Caddy: "I doubt you could keep your head
down that long."
Golfer: "I'd move heaven and earth to be able to
break 100 on this course."
Caddy: "Try heaven. You've already moved most of the
earth."
Golfer: "Well, I have never played this badly
before!
Caddy: "I didn't realize you had played before,
sir."
Golfer: "Caddy, do you think my game is improving?"
Caddy: "Oh yes, sir! You miss the ball much closer than you
used to."
Golfer: "Please stop checking your watch all the
time, caddy. It's distracting!"
Caddy: "This isn't a watch, sir, its a compass!"
Golfer: "Caddy, do you think it is a sin to play golf on
Sunday?"
Caddy: "The way you play, sir, it's a sin any day of
the week!"
Golfer: "This golf is a funny game."
Caddy: "It's not supposed to be."
Golfer: "That can't be my ball, caddy. It looks far too
old."
Caddy: "It's a long time since we started, sir."
Golfer: "Do you think I can get there with a
5-iron?"
Caddy: "Eventually."
Golfer (screaming): "You've got to be the worst caddy in
the world!"
Caddy: "I doubt it. That would be too much of a
coincidence!"
17. If you want to hit a 7-iron as far as Tiger Woods does,
simply try to
lay up just short of a water hazard.
18. To calculate the speed of a player's downswing, multiply the
speed
of his backswing by his handicap. Example, backswing 20 miles
per
hour, handicap, 15, downswing = 300 m.p.h.
19. There are two things you can learn by stopping your
backswing at
the top and checking the position of your hands: how many hands
you have, and which hand is wearing the golf glove.
20. Hazards attract; Fairways repel.
21. You can put "draw" on the ball, you can put
"fade" on the ball, but
no golfer can put "straight" on the ball.
22. A ball you can see in the rough from 50 yards away is not
yours.
23. If there is a ball in the fringe and a ball in the bunker,
your ball is
in the bunker.
24. If both balls are in the sand, yours is in the footprint.
25. Don't buy a putter until you have had a chance to throw it.
26. The inevitable result of any golf lesson is the instant
elimination of
the one critical unconscious motion that allowed you to
compensate for
all your errors.
When
I die, bury me on the golf course so my husband will
visit--Author Unknown
I
don't say my golf game is bad, but if I grew tomatoes they'd
come
up
sliced.--
Author Unknown
I've
spent most of my life golfing. the rest I've just wasted.--
Author Unknown
They
call it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken.
-- Raymond Floyd
The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest
if somebody would put a
flag
stick on top.~Pete
Dye (His golf courses reflect this belief!!!)
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives
think
they are out having fun.~Jim
Bishop
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in
baseball. I
did
it in one afternoon on the golf course.~Hank
Aaron
Golf
is a game in which you yell "fore," shoot six, and
write down
five
~Paul
Harvey
Give
me golf clubs, fresh air &a beautiful partner, and you can
keep
the clubs and the fresh air.~Jack
Benny
Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?~Al Boliska
The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf
course.
-- Billy Graham
Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you
are
inclined
to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect
golf swing.~Ben
Hogan
Go
play golf. Go to the golf course. Hit the ball. Find the
ball. Repeat until the ball is in the hole. Have fun. The
end.~Chuck Hogan
If
you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up thewrong
golf ball.
~Jack
Lemmon
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while
they
are
still rolling.~Mark
Twain
Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.
~Harry
Vardon
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with
implements
ill adapted for the purpose.~Woodrow Wilson
A
golfer's diet: live on greens as much as possible .~Author
Unknown
Golf
and sex are the only things you can enjoy without being good at
them.~Jimmy DeMaret
If
I hit it right, it's a slice. If I hit it left, it's a hook.
If Ihit it straight, it's a miracle.~Author Unknown
The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't
improve your lie.
George Deukmejian
Golf
is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out
of a bagpipe.~Author Unknown
