Chipmunk Chatter

Men’s Morning League

League president, Tony Papa, decided that we would play 18 holes this past Wednesday to make up for the previous week’s rain out.

Our stat man extraordinaire, Joe McDermott, reports that the team of none other than he and his partner, Tony Papa, won the first nine (week one) with a net score of 29.

Jim Spinney and John Schleicher tied for second with Carl Sanford and Steve Hersch with 31. Don Means and Dino Dinucci were third with 32.

On the second nine (week two) Sanford and Hersch were first with a net score of 25. In second place were Spinney and Schleicher with 27 and in third place were Kent Booher and Bob Laird with 29. McDermott and Papa had the lowest number of putts for week one with 12 and Sanford and Hersch had only 9 putts for week two, tying the Morning League record set by Olsen and Laird several years ago.The unusualI must comment on two excellent and unusual shots that I have never seen before.

Carl Sanford placed a shot high on the steep bank behind the left bunker on the seventh hole which must have been buried in the grass because it did not roll back into the sand.

Carl carries a cane in his bag for just such difficult shots as this. He carefully climbed the bank and when he finally got to his ball, he steadied himself with his cane in his left hand, and swung a lofted club with his right, making a nice shot to the green.

On the 17th hole his partner, Steve Hersch, placed his drive just to the right of the small boulder well short of the green. Steve had just enough room to make a clean shot to the flagstick, which was back and on the high side of the green about 30 to 35 yards distant.

It was a completely blind shot, and all one can do is hit it and hope. He played his shot far to the right of the pin knowing that there was a big break from right to left. It looked good, but none of us had a view of the result.

When we finally got up on the green, there was no ball to be seen. It was in the bottom of the cup!

Now you might call that lucky, but when you know about the distance and the slope of the green, as Steve did, you give luck a good chance to happen. These two had a very successful day finishing tied for second on the first nine and first on the second.Aces

So far this season we’ve had two holes in one. In early spring Wally Whitney scored one on the eighth hole. The second was made on June 16 by Deb Myers also on the eighth hole and was authenticated by Kelsey Leeman.

According to the two hole-in-one plaques in the Fairway Restaurant, there has been only one other lady who has achieved a hole-in-one, and that was Brenda Feltis a few years ago. These plaques were started around 1984. Makes you wonder about our previous 50 years of unrecorded history. Hopefully we will have more aces achieved by our lady golfers in the future.A few short shotsBud Elwin and Ted Silar came up with a novel idea for creating a large flower pot on the enormous, old maple stump near the front porch. They used a chain saw to hollow out the hole for the “pot”. Bud said the stump was extremely hard like it was almost petrified. You never know what our creative members might do to add beauty to old Wawenock.

Those of you who might have been on the course late last Friday afternoon suffered through the worst onslaught of black flies that I have ever experienced, and I thought the season for those little critters was over.

My three guests had dozens of flies buzzing around them, and I noticed for the first time that white shirts actually attract the flies. Fortunately we were prepared with repellant.

If you would like to view a truly outstanding exhibit of paintings, you should visit the hallways on the ground level of Miles Memorial Hospital. The talented artist is Claire Hancock, wife of club member, Doug Hancock.

The Pro Shop Team asks that, if your group is unable to use your tee time, please let them know so that other golfers may use that time slot.

Remember, there’s a fine line between a “golf nut” and a “nut case.”Evening Ladies League The Wawenock Evening Ladies League played a game of Bingo, Bango, Bongo June 18. This game required that proper golf etiquette be followed. Each player played their own game, and a point was awarded for the first player on the green, the player closest to the hole after all players were on the green, and the first person who put their ball in the cup.

First place honors went to Alice Sherman with a total of 14 points. There was a two-way tie for second place between Traci Beier and Anne Knott with a total of 13 points.

Thanks to Trudy Snediker for the report.Women’s Morning League

On June 21, the Women’s AM League played its first nine hole game of the 2012 season. Since most members are eager to have post-able scores for the computer, Judy DiNucci, our games person, devised an individual game of the day in which each player added her scores for the par four holes minus one-quarter of her handicap. Winner of this game was Jackie McDermott with 45.75. Judy DiNucci was second with 46. There were no chip-ins.

Thanks to Carol Lindquist for the report.