Brooksville Golf Match Results!

[Dicktator]

The results by Bruce Clark, Red Baron


This was a memorable day of golf for all. The day started very cool at 52 degrees. Warmed up to 60 degrees by the 19th hole. The wind started slow in the morning but reached near 20 MPH in the afternoon.
After a number of different betting scenarios were discussed we finally decided upon young versus old..... I think young was still pretty old.

Dictator and Gene challenged Alex and Bruce for the coveted Brooksville bragging rights cup. It was a match that saw the leads vanish as quickly as they appeared. The match consisted of a total team score on each hole with the winner getting one point for the hole. The winners of the front, back, and total would win $5 for each segment. The most anyone could lose/win was $15. Dick was offering free blinking brake light install if he lost.

Gene and Dick won the front 9 with five holes won to four for the losers. Alex and Bruce won the back nine with three holes won to two for the losers. No blood!!
High score on a single hole was won by Alex and Bruce with a 16 on the par 5 fifth hole. Not to be outdone Gene and Dick scored 14's on the par 4 14th and par 4 18th.

Individual scores were as follows:

Gene 97
Dick 95
Bruce 87
Alex 115

A warning for golfers who wish to play for money with Gene or Dick. They complain about this hurting and that hurting, pains they have not had in years, not having played more than once or twice in a year, antiquaited equipment (Dick still plays with persimmon clubs and golf balls made from feathers), but will take your money if you are not very careful. Nose picker should be called pocket picker. This man can chip and putt.
If you play with Alex then you will learn to appreciate a player who uses every ounce of strength on every swing. You will not hear Alex ever say "I knew I should have swung harder."

We hope to do this again and possibly attract enough for another foursome.

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[Dicktator]

It is TRUE, we, Gene and I have lots of pains. Mostly the guys we play golf with.

Bruce's HOME course, any help, NOT once. Well, OK, once he said stay left, yup into the trees. One tee box he said AFTER we hit, "there is water on the right". BIG help he was.

I did get to use my Prized "Dicktator" putter, made for me by Mark Craft. WOW, it is really a great feel. THANKS again Mark!

YES, my clubs are OLD. Hogan, radials, 1976 vintage, D2 weight. I have tried Graphite, metal woods, (no such thing as metal wood), and I always go back to my Hogan's.

Had it not been so dam cold, frost on the greens, chill factor way below my level of comfort, we would have beat those "Young Whipple-snappers".

As I told Bruce, "I shoot around 70, if it is colder than that, I don't play".

And as the Red Sox's used to say "Wait until Next Year"!!

We had a Great Time, Great Course in spectacular condition and hope we can do it again.

Dicktator