The First Event of 2006:
Fleming GC
2006 is the season where we are hoping this club gets back into the swing. The Executive Committee is trying some new ideas to increase enthusiasm within the club, and we're all doing a lot of talking to past members to try to get larger turnouts than in 2005. We are scheduling less events, on more days, with more 18-hole events. All in an effort to maximize the number of people who come to each event. If you know any golfers get em out here!
So our first outing as due for April 20. Unfortunately, that first event is a cancellation. The rains that have pummelled us for a couple months now finally let up and the city crews had to spray the Lake Merced area for mosquito control and they chose the morning of April 20 to do so. Fleming was closed for the day, and Presidio and Lincoln were both too rough to play. So we wait and May 4 will be our start of the season.
See you there.
The Sixth Event of 2005:
Presidio G.C. 5/18
Notes from Tom Henke: Your humble narrator was looking forward to playing on Wed at Presidio all week. It had been a tough one around the office and the break sounded great. But we awoke to find...rain. The return of winter here half way through May. Bill, Peter and I stayed in touch all day, watching out the window as the weather turned quieter, then drier, then windier, overcast all the way. By 3 it was decided that the rain hadn't been that bad and we could hit it. But the wind was substantial, it even knocked down a mighty cypress on Lone Mountain an hour before we left.
The course was of course wide open, but the bar was not open at all which was unfortunate. The first tee found Bill balooning up a slice which got pushed by the wind right into the range. He recovered nicely and played a fine round, but we're not sure that new driver is doing him any favors. It took me 8 holes before I hit a decent iron shot, and 9 holes before I got on a green in regulation, so it was a long day for me. Peter had an up and down round with crazy off line shots followed by peaches. Don't you love this game.
The 9th was particularly wacky. The rain started up as we were teeing off, and we all decided this would be our last. I hit my best drive of the day, 250 plus and straight. Going for it in 2, things are improving. Peter hit his extremely high and dead left into the trees. Reloaded and hit a safe one. Bill hit his first hard high and a slice into the OB of the range. Reloads and hits a hard wild screaming hook into the forest on the left. Reloads again and hits it in the trees again. So we decide that's enough and get hunting. Turns out in typical luck, Peter's is gone stayed in the tree, but Bill's somehow hit a tree and flew dead right 75 yards and wound up in the middle of the fairway.
Peter continues to hack down the fairway. Bill gets down there a bit with his next. I get out the 5-wood and splat, top it, around 75 yards. Then proceed to hit my first square iron shot of the day, on in reg miss the birdy by half a turn and look ma it's a par. Peter misses a long putt too, Bill is bad to worse into the bunker and to hell with it take an 8 and let's get outta here.
It was a fine day, really. Wish you'd made it.
The First Event of 2005:
Golden Gate Park 9-hole Warmup
Well, the season got off to a less than rousing start, as a thin little skeleton crew of four diehards came out to the park for the first tee up of the season. We even had our first flakeout as your player of the year never made it, stranding our earstwhile club president at the clubhouse to drown his sorrows in Bud Light hoping against hope that someone would show up to make a second group. A pity and a shame that's what it is.
Anyway, the indefagitable foursome of stallwarts from last year made the journey and here's to you all. David Silver came in with the low round of the day, a 33, but here's our Peter Helldoerfer right behind with a 34 and that is hitting 'em well for a guy with a handicap in the 20s. Jim Fambrini made it also, good to have you back, and Kurt Hueg must have hit a few bumps in the fareway but stuff happens.
Well done all of you. Now that the tuneup is done, let's hit the season running. See you next week.
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Mike Kelly, Club President
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Last Update: 05/2/06