November 1

From your favorite spin doctor--------the true story----------------

Justin told us the golf channel might be there when we we were playing, to film the history of the course, narrated by Nick Faldo. A camera crew of two, with Nick Faldo and playing partner, and a female reporter completed the crew. While the rest of us were getting ready to play Mr Don Shingles starts pestering Nick Faldo on the putting green and saying, don't you remember me, you took a picture for me and with me and my grandson. Not only did Nick remember, he had nightmares about it. Sir Nick has won the Masters and he has to put up with this bullshit, unbelievable. While we were dragging, pushing , and pulling Shingles to the tee, MDS decides to name drop and says, Sir Nick, perhaps you know one of "OUR VERY GOOD FRIENDS, SIR ALAN CRUSE, THE LORD-MAYOR OF WALES." Whereas Sir Nick Faldo is indeed a knight of the British empire, he smiles in an amused way and looks at Shingles and says, "Lord-Mayor of Wales, REALLY?", I have not ever met him or heard of that title???? Most of the rest of us needed a stiff shot of Glenfiddich Millennium, but we went about our business. Bob Halback scored on every hole, shot a 43 and was +6 to win the top individual. LOFT reigned supreme on the closest to the pin contest. In team play, the bronze medalists were Guido and Steve McK, once again Guido was reduced to muttering in Espanol after giving El Conejo more of his dollars. The silver medalists were Jack and Bob Halback, and the wining team was Mr Don Shingles and El Conejo. Shingles had vowed to "put away" Jack and Henry, but after an unfortunate OB on hole #8 leading to a triple bogey, and drilling "literally drilling" the large camphor tree on his 2nd shot while the golf channel was attempting to film him, think pressure here, he faded to +5 with a 42 and was co-medalist, but alas and alack, the rabbit went hopping. For more details, tomorrow at 230 pm and I am pretty sure the golf channel will NEVER come again when we are playing. Remember the "legends of the game" video, co-starring Jim Cooper and Bruce Bartholomew, I do not think many of you remember but we have indisputable video evidence that this was indeed filmed. Truth is indeed stranger than fiction. HPfing