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__: Sunken Meadow - Red |
Thursday,
October 15, 2019 |
Highlights: Drew and Hank played the 9 holes on a cool morning teeing off at 8:12 Am and finishing at about 10:40 AM. |
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__: Sunken Meadow - Blue |
Tuesday, September 24, 2019 |
Highlights: Drew and Barry got paired up with Charlie, who is a retired pipe fitter who lives in the area. Beautiful weather. Started at 7:54 and ended near 10:15 AM. No one was behind us the entire time. |
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__: Sunken Meadow - Blue |
Tuesday, September 17, 2019 |
Highlights: Drew, Hank and Ken got paired up with Paul, who is a retired accountant and teacher from Melville. Beautiful weather. Started at 8:03 and ended near 11 AM. |
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__: Sunken Meadow - Blue |
Tuesday, September 10, 2019 |
Highlights: Drew got teamed up with Brad and Howie, two retirees from LIRR, and Vincent, who owns an insurance company selling employee related insurance products. Tee off was at 7:54 AM and we ended at 10:20 AM. Cloudy day but no rain. |
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__: Northport Golf Club - Northport Post 694 at VA Hospital |
Tuesday,
August 27, 2019 |
Highlights: Hank and Drew played the nine holes here since Sunken Meadow washosting a youth PGA event. We were paired with Bart, who is an 86 year "young" retired air traffic controller, ex-military, just marked his and his wife's 65th wedding anniversary. Has 5 kids, 2 grand kida nd 1 great grand kid. |
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__: Northport Golf Club - Northport Post 694 at VA Hospital |
Thursday,
August 20, 2019 |
Highlights: Hank and Drew played the nine holes alone since Sunken Meadow was on a hour plus delay due to last night's storms. |
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__: Sunken Meadow - Green |
Wednesday, August 14, 2019 |
Highlights: Hank and Drew played he Green alone with two much olderand even slower guys in front of us and three ladies trailing. Teed off at 7:54 AM and finished the 9 holes by 10:00 AM. |
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__: Sunken Meadow - Blue |
Tuesday, August 5, 2019 |
Highlights: Hank and Drew were joined up with Ken, who owns Dunken Donuts stores and Ed. who is a retired teacher and administrator from the Bay Shore Long Island School District. |
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__: Northport Golf Club - Northport Post 694 at VA Hospital |
Thursday,
August 1, 2019 |
Highlights: HanK and Drew joined up with Lew from Wantagh, newly retired from the logistics business near JFK Airprt. His brother lives in Northport. Sunken Meadow had 90 minute wait while one course was down for repairs. Drew sunk a put on 1 for a Par. After that, just got through it. |
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__: Sunken Meadow - Red |
Thursday,
July 25, 2019 |
Highlights: Drew and Hank teamed up with Richard. retired Music Teacher turning 80 Au3 rd, and Mike retired History Teacher with birthday August 1st, for 9 holes before going to Blue Angel for late breakfast and on to theoffice. Drew chipped one in from a knoll near the 5th geen for a par and the shot of the day. |
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__: Sunken Meadow - Blue |
Tuesday, July 9, 2019 |
Highlights: Hank and Drew were joined up with two docs from Dix Hills, Robert (Bob) and Arthur. It was hot but the course was in great shape and all went well. |
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__: Ballyowen, Hamburg, NJ |
Thursday, July 4, 2019 |
Highlights: Anthony and Drew were joined up with John, who was squeezing in a round of golf before attending a friends wedding later that evening. It was the hottest day of the years thus far. What a beautiful course it is. |
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__: Sunken Meadow - Blue |
Tuesday, June 4, 2019 |
Highlights: Hank, Barry, Ron and Drew for nine before work. (Ron had to leave after 6 holes to pick up Marilyn whose car was towed to the dealiership. All is well. |
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__: Sunken Meadow - Blue |
Tuesday,
May 28, 2019 |
Highlights: Hank, Barry, Fred (a fellow they hooked us op with) and Drew for nine before work. |
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__: Sunken Meadow - Red |
Tuesday,
May 21, 2019 |
Highlights: Barry, Ken, Ron and Drew for nine before work. |
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__: Sunken Meadow - Blue |
Tuesday,
May 7, 2019 |
Highlights: Hank, Barry, Ken and Drew for nine before work. |
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__: Sunken Meadow - Blue |
Tuesday,
July 31, 2018 |
Highlights: Don, Barry, Hank and Drew for nine before work. |
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__: Sunken Meadow - Red |
Wednesday,
July 18, 2018 |
Highlights: Gerry joined Barry, Hank and Drew for nine before work. Gerry had not played since he was 14 and he is turning 64 on the 25th of the month. He just hit and stayed up with the rest even if he had to pick up the ball to keep the game moving. Nice weather after very stormy Tuesday. . |
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__: Sunken Meadow - Green |
Tuesday,
July 10, 2018 |
Highlights: Earlier than usual start due to shceduled grounds work. Drew, in his ne car left late, slow trip and missed the exit onto Sunken Meadow Parkeay, missed the first two holes. Sores were never quite right by the end of the round. But, the golf was still fun. |
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__: Sunken Meadow - Blue |
Tuesday,
June 26, 2018 |
Highlights: Beautiful moring. We were a foursome; Drew, Ron, Barry and Hank until mid way in the round Keith, who was palying as a single after his tow young playing partners left early to attend a job interview. The same "Kevin" who played with us the week prior. |
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__: Sunken Meadow - Green |
Tuesday,
June 19, 2018 |
Highlights: Beautiful moring. OK. It was a little warm but with enough of a cloud cover that it was never to harsh. We were three and they teamed us up with Kevin" from Melville, whose wife belongs to the Mid-Island Y JCC. He's 80 and he and Drew were paired up at Sunken Meadow before. He recalled Drew lives in NYC and sells mats. Nice round of golf. |
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__: Northport Golf Club - Northport Post 694 at VA Hospital |
Tuesday,
June 12, 2018 |
Highlights: Beautiful moring. OK. It was a little chilly going out at 58 degrees. It was Hank, Barry, Ron and Drew. Hank and Drew walked while Barry and Ron took a cart. (Drew lost the score card after the 3rd hole so the card of record was to the best of our collective memories. |
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__: Northport Golf Club - Northport Post 694 at VA Hospital |
Tuesday,
June 5, 2018 |
Highlights: Finally, the weather was great. No rain expected until afternoon, and that is whjat happened. It was Hank, Barry, Ron and Drew. Hank and Drew walked while Barry and Ron took a cart. |
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__: Northport Golf Club - Northport Post 694 at VA Hospital |
Thursday,
May 31, 2018 |
Highlights: Overcast and threatening rain, but it didn't rain until later in the day. We had zero wait time and got out at 7:20 AM with absolutely nobody in sight for at least 3 holes into our round. Course is in good shape and well cared for. Had not played here in a several years. Drew chipped one in from the fringe on the second hole for his one highligh film clip. Ron had a Birdie on the 8th for his big thrill of the day and a nice round of 41 and 6 Mulligans. Let's leave out Mulligams and just take the penalties and stick to the rules. Mulligans interupt the flow of the game for everone else waste time to boot. Barry his long put for a Par on the 9th with his dad's putter, which Barry had rewipped into shape. Nice memories. Don was hitting the ball and had a nice Par on the 5th. Breakfast at Professor's in Kingspark was very good. We may be going back to Northport from time-to-time. |
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__: Sunken
Meadow State Park - Red |
Thursday,
May 10, 2018 |
Highlights: Weather was over cast and sunny off and on towards end of the 9 hole round, whuch started around 7:30 AM. They are doing a great deal of work on the course but, for the most part, the course was in good shape. It was the first time back for Drew, Ron is also just back from surgery, Ken played on the weekend for his first time since last season and Hank is also back for the first time and has a charity event on Monday. The game moved right along, which is always nice. |
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82: Sunken
Meadow State Park - Red |
Thursday,
October 7, 2010 |
Highlights: Weather played a part in todays truncated round but perhaps a little more than the weather as well. We were shy Don again die to his back. They teamed us up with a guy named John from Plainview who had a way of playing his own game by walking out in front ot guys who were away. Talk about dangerous. But, we were rushed onto the course at 8 am at Sunken Meadow after first having attempted getting on the Blue at Bethpage. There were two tourneys going on and the Blue start time was 8:30. Well, it would have been better to have waited cause we might have finished the round there. Feeling rushed when golf is not your native language makes things rough at best. Everyone, except for Drew, hit way off to the right of the first tee. It got worse for them from there. So much so that Ken announced that he would get some coffee and wait for us to finish the round while he read the book he had brought. Hmm. We played three more holes and it rained lightly for that period of time. The results for Hank and John were frustrating and John walked off at the end of the fourth hole and Hank and Drew looked at each other and decided that if it wasn't fun they would leave, which they did. Drew had been pretty much on his game with a double bogie on 1 and 2 a bogie on 3 and 4 and some nice putts holed. The rain was brief and really not that difficult to play though, but it was declared that the season for the POTUS golf was officially at an end because the frustration of not mastering the game for most of the guys was wearing on them too greatly. Next season’s plans were left open with no body committing to play or not to play as we have been for the last few years; at least not as a group. |
| Round
81: Sunken
Meadow State Park - Blue |
Thursday,
September 23, 2010 |
Highlights: Weather was great. The course was in pretty good shape. Ken could not play due to a last minute phone meeting at 10:15 AM. Hank was getting off the tee with great consistency and nice distance. His irons and putter were not as dependable though but he was able to lower his overall score by a stroke over last week's round, which was a plus. Don had his share of victories with a bogie on 1 and a Par on 3, but he lost control on 4, 8 and 9, which elevated his total to 55 for the day. Drew retired the 3 wood he had been using in favor of one that matches the Big Bertha 5 and 7 woods he had picked up at a yard sale last summer and has been using with some success. There were immediate dividends when he used it on his second shot on Hole 1 landing on the green a few feet from the pin. He missed the birdie putt by a few inches and settled for Par. He parred the 3rd again missing the first putt by about a foot. His new 3 wood came in to play again on the 9th when he hit his second shot between two trees of some girth advancing the ball significantly to set up for a pitch onto the green and eventually three putts for a double bogie 6. The rest of the round was mostly double bogies, a triple bogie and one bogie for a total of 50, which helped him continue his trend of lowering his round totals. |
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81: Sunken
Meadow State Park - Red |
Thursday,
September 16, 2010 |
Highlights: Beautiful morning again. We went back to Sunken Meadow even though our outing at the nearby Oyster Bay was on some pretty luch surroundings, but the idea of paying for 18 and only playing 9 was pretty darn off putting. We got off in record tiome again. Just about waked on as we arrived. Ken an Don were having a tough go of it even though they both had some terrific shots. Hank hit a 60 and seemed pleased with his results. When he hit the entire ball, it goes great. Whern he gets only part of it is when he gets irratic results. Hmm. Drew started off with a bogie 5 and was on the fringe of the par 4 second hole in 2. His chip was near perfect and ened up to the left of the hole about a half a ball width from going in for what would have been a birdie. He tapeped in for par and went on the third hole and again chiopped close, about 5 feet away, and sunk it for a second par. Two more bogies and only one hole, the par 5 7th, that completely got away from him, gave him a pleasing round of 51. |
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80: Town of Oyster bay Town Golf Course |
Thursday,
September 2, 2010 |
Highlights: Beautiful morning again. |
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79: Sunken
Meadow State Park - Green |
Thursday,
August 26, 2010 |
Highlights: Beautiful morning again. |
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78: Sunken
Meadow State Park - Red |
Thursday,
August 19, 2010 |
Highlights: Beautiful morning. |
| Round
77: Dix
Hills Park Golf Course |
Thursday,
August 11, 2010 |
Highlights: We opted for Dix Hills Park Golf Course since Don's foot is still ailing but he wanted to walk, which would be easier for him than one of the longer course we have been playing. What we found were greens that were in horrible shape, which made the round some what less than enjoyable. The future of the s=course though looks bright since there is a lot of construction and tree removal and new tee boxes being made, which should be nice when its all done. Hank and Ken were kind of slugging it out on the high end of the score card having hit 54 and 56 respectively, and Drew and Don were going at it in the next notch down. Each of them made two pars; Drew on the 4th and 8th and Don on the 6th and 8th. They were a stroke apart going into the 9th with Drew being able to maintain his narrow margin by matching Don stroke for stroke on the 9th for a 43 to Don's 44. |
| Round
76: Sunken
Meadow State Park - Red |
Thursday,
July 22, 2010 |
Highlights: Don was back but had to ride to give his healing foot a chance to continue it healing ways. He was joined by Steve, who has played with us in the past and who brought his booming drive along to show Ken how impressive it really can be. Hank was visiting grand kids. We had a reserved time of 8 AM on the Red at Sunken Meadow, which worked out well. The weather was warm but the breeze off the Long Island Sound kept us fresh; at least some what. By the end of the 9 holes everyone was pretty well cooked. Don worked on his basics and sparks of brilliance were evident while he worked on putting good shots togeter to make good holes. His best was a bogie on the eighth. His round total was 61. Ken also had a bogie on the thrird and it was his first time ever hitting a green in one shot. Cool. His 67 for the moring was not reflective of the really good hits he had along the way. Steve had a bogie on the second and on the eigth but a series of blow ups gave him a total of 58. Drew kept up his course management ways. His best holes of the day were bogies on the second and third. His round total of 54 was the low score of the day. |
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75: Sunken
Meadow State Park - Green |
Thurssday,
July 1, 2010 |
Highlights: Don is still sidelined but should be back in action next week. Having played twice in last few outings on the Sunken Meadow Blue Course, we now were offered a chance to play on the Green Course and to see how it compares. It is safe to say that as a group we got to see parts of the Green course that are very rarely seen by most players. There were the occasional bright moments, such as Ken's par on hole 8, which caused him to his little victory dance, but for the most part, balls were flying every where, hitting all sorts of trees and scooting over and around holes on putting greens with excruciating regularity. There were any number of Mulligans, do-overs and lost balls that needed to be replaced all of which tuckered everyone out and with all the extra trudging around searching for balls and going from one side of the rough to the other with only infrequent stops on actual fairways, the group went to breakfast at the Blue Angel pretty much pooped. Ken ended up with a 65, which was 9 strokes better than his last outing on the Blue. Hank had a 65, which was about as he did on the Blue last week. Mike, who was at last experimenting with the woods in his bag, tallied a 78. Drew had a couple of bogies, and few hole that cost him a bunch, but he was able to keep within two strokes of his last outing with an even 60 for the day. |
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74: Sunken
Meadow State Park - Blue |
Thurssday,
June 17, 2010 |
Highlights: Don is still recuperating from his surgery. Mike had office stuff at the last minute, so Hank, Ken and Drew returned to the Sunken Meadow Blue to see how they would do on this longer and much more challenging course. It is a beautiful setting and offers what everyone seems to what at this juncture in the way of a golf experience. At the end of the round it was noted that if Hanks drives could have been combined with Ken's putting, it would have been an unbelievable score card. Ken sank four or five longer than moderate puts and short ones when in with regularity. Hank had several very nice starts with drives that soared like eagles and some second shots that were similarly exciting. But, the other parts of their respective games lofted their scores to 64 for Hank and 74 for Ken. Drew flubbed his first shot but salvaged bogie on hole 1. He blew up with a 10 on the second but calmed down and hit bogie on the third hole and alternated between double and triple bogie for the remainder of the round for a 58 total, which is four strokes better than his effort the week before. |
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73: Sunken
Meadow State Park - Blue |
Thurssday,
June 10, 2010 |
Highlights: Let the games begin. Hank had been urging us to play a longer course in preparation for the two golf outing he and Drew will be playing in later this year; the American Kidney Fund on August 2, and the one in favor of the Jewish Children's Museum in July. Everything had worked against their doing so until now. The group was able to get on at 8:09 AM and the round took a full 3 hours to play; just 9 holes. Parts of the course were visited that are very rarely seen by anyone. It was a humbling round for the length was so much longer that what we were used to and the layout is, at once beautiful and challenging. The scores do not reflect the goodly number of good shots made by every one at one pint or another. They do show the need for consistency across the board. Ken, Drew and Hank each chalked up a bogie, which were the best single-hole scores of the day. Hank and Drew had a couple of double bogies to mollify thins a little. Then, it was just a matter of how much each man let the holes dominate that made the scores soar to what ever heights they did. Hank and Ken tied at 74, Mike, in for Don, who was still healing his heel, hit 78 and Drew kept things down to 62. |
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72: Dix
Hills Park Golf Course |
Thurssday,
May 27, 2010 |
Highlights: It was Drew, Hank Ken and Mike, who was substituting for Don, whose operation was a success but wh is still on the mend. Mike has not lost anything since last year and rolled in nice round of 45. Ken came alive with a neat little par on the 6th hole but was struggling the rest of the way ending with a 54, which is still an improvement from this time last season. Hank had some moments he will not forget on both sides of the ledger; and ended wigth a 50 and looking forward to getting onto some courses with par five holes in preparation for the two charity rounds he'll be playing in this Summer. Drew warmed up slowly with with boggie and tripple boggies on 1 and 2. But he kept focus throught the next six holes posting three pars and three boggies. He had 35 going into the 9th but lost focus again and finished with a 42. More good than bad, but a lesson in the need to make each shot count; not to rush and to stay focused. |
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71: Dix
Hills Park Golf Course |
Thurssday,
May 20, 2010 |
Highlights: Hank and Drew were joined by Al who changed his grip to ease some finger discomfort hed had been experiencing and has been driving better ever since. Hank shot the same 54 as the week before with some rifling drives and some crisp and timely saving shots that got him out of hot water a few times. Al proved what he had said about his game having improverd by zero putting the first hole for a par and repeating par, but not by chipping in this time, on the 5th hole. He stayed even with Drew through the 8th but was admittedly tired as the 9th began. He took his only Mulligan at the tee and went 2 over par by the time he tapped in the last putt and a total of 42. Drew matched Al's two pars with one on the 2nd and trhen when it was needed most on the 9th foir an even 40 for the morning. The course is being "rebuilt" and some of the greens were drenched in sand that made putting near impossible. But, they were the same greens for all so it worked. |
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70: Dix
Hills Park Golf Course |
Thurssday,
May 13, 2010 |
Highlights: Hank and Drew hit some pretty terrific shots. But, those shots were sandwiched in between some less than terrific shot. Still, it ended about like the week prior with Hank at 54 and Drew at 43. |
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69: Dix
Hills Park Golf Course |
Thurssday,
April 29, 2010 |
Highlights: Hank and Drew kept the efforts to dust off the of the old golf game that has been sitting around waiting for the nice weather to return. But Ken was busy elsewhere and Don needed to be available for his wife Merna, who was hospitalized but who is doing better now. Hank was having a tough round until he hit a nifty shot on the 3rd and ended up getting par, which was important since he stayed right around double bogie from then on except for a tough finishing hole that give him a total of 57 for his first day back. Drew was right around bogie golf all day except for a double bogie on 2 and a complete blow out quadruple bogie on 9. But his par on 5 and a nice as can be birdie on the 8th gave him a round of 41 for his second effort of the season. |
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68: Dix
Hills Park Golf Course |
Thurssday,
April 22, 2010 |
Highlights: The winter would not let go of its powerful hold on our area, which kept delaying the start of your golf outings. But, with great trepidation, we scheduled our first 2010 round for April 22 and everyone signed on. There was a late night cancellation the night before when Hank and Elaine learned of the eminent birth of their second grandchild, who indeed was born the next day7 at 12:15 PM. Don, Kenny and Drew played as a threesome with the first couple of holes being a little rough with just one bogie by Drew on the 1st. Then, bogies for all on the 3rd and 4th except for Drew, who gave back a stroke with a double bogie on the 4th. He won back that stroke by paring the 5th and hit bogie from then on until a double bogie on the 9th for a round of 44. Don hit a 51 and Ken hit a 54 with several nice shots by both of them keeping them from breaking their golf clubs over their knees. Congratulations to Hank and Elaine. |
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67: Dix
Hills Park Golf Course |
Thurssday,
October 10, 2009 |
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66: Dix
Hills Park Golf Course |
Thurssday,
October 1, 2009 |
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65: Dix
Hills Park Golf Course |
Thurssday,
September 24, 2009 |
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64: Dix
Hills Park Golf Course |
Tuesday,
September 1, 2009 |
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63: Dix
Hills Park Golf Course |
Thursday,
August 27, 2009 |
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62: Dix
Hills Park Golf Course |
Tuesday,
August 25, 2009 |
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61: Sunken Meadow State Park - Red Course |
Saturday,
August 23, 2009 |
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60: Dix
Hills Park Golf Course |
Tuesday,
August 18, 2009 |
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59: Sunken Meadow State Park - Green Course |
Monday,
August 6, 2009 |
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58: The
Hamlet Golf and Country Club, Commack, NY |
Monday,
August 4, 2009 |
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57: Dix
Hills Park Golf Course |
Thursday,
July 30, 2009 |
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56: Dix
Hills Park Golf Course |
Thursday,
July 23, 2009 |
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55: Sunken
Meadow State Park - Blue |
Thursday,
July 16, 2009 |
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54: Bethpage State Park - Yellow Course |
Saturday,
July 11, 2009 |
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53: Sunken Meadow State Park - Red Course |
Thursday,
July 9, 2009 |
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52: Sunken Meadow State Park - Green Course |
Saturday,
July 4, 2009 |
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51: Dix
Hills Park Golf Course |
Thursday,
June 25, 2009 |
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50: Christopher
Morley Golf Course |
Thursday,
April 16, 2009 |
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| Round 49 Eisenhower
White Course,
East Meadow, NY |
Sunday,
May 25, 2009 |
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48: Dix
Hills Park Golf Course |
Thursday,
May 21, 2009 |
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47: Sunken
Meadow State Park - Blue |
Thursday,
October 16, 2008 |
Highlights:
Our foursome was reduced to a twosome with Don still feeling the ill effects
of having been hit by a golf ball on the weekend and Ken off at a political
function. Hand and Drew squeezed in what might be the final round of the
season. It was damp and humid but an overall beautiful day. They moved
right along with nobody behind them and ample sp[ace in front. Hand felt
he had 8 really good strokes but over all struggled to stay out of the
woods and to make his putter behave. Drew was mostly able to maintain
his focus, had a pretty dependable driver, fairly accurate short irons
and his putter was about 50-50 getting him three bogies and a total of
53 for the round. |
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46: Northport Golf Course of American Legion Post 694 located at the Veterans
Administration, Northport, NY |
Thursday,
September 25, 2008 |
Highlights:
We were surprised again by "unscheduled" maintenance at Dix
Hills and opted for the VAGC in Northport. It is a little out of the way,
but proved to be a challenging, well kept and enjoyable course for us
to play. The greens, which are the old fashions postage stamp sized ones,
had been aerated and sanded, which made them some what uneven and very
fast making even the most lofted of shots have a tendency to roll rather
than to stick. Though, after a few holes, most of us were dealing with
that situation. It was a kind of two tier battle with Ken and Hank going
back and forth on a hole-by-hole basis and Ken ending with a 64 and Hank
with a 68. Both Ken and Hank were getting good shots off and then either
missing almost completely or topping the ball. Solving that will surely
make a huge difference in both their games. Don and Drew were with in
one stroke of each other or tied each other on every single hole. Don
led by 1 through the 4th, when Drew tied him on the 5th with a bogie.
Don pulled ahead on the 7th with the only Par of the round for the foursome.
But, Drew bogied the last two holes to draw even and nose Don out by one
stroke on the beautiful if frustrating Par 3 finishing hole. Drew was
carrying a new 6 iron, which was loaded with a graphite shaft as an experiment
to see whether he might not want to have his clubs upgraded to graphite.
He used that club on several occasions in the round and it seemed to serve
him well. |
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45: Sunken Meadow State Park - Green Course |
Thursday,
September 18, 2008 |
Highlights:
We opted for a bigger challenge while the Dix Hills Course was closed
for maintenance. The foursome traveled out to Sunken Meadow where we played
the Green course, which is the more highly rated of the three courses
in the park. Ken was introduced to the rigors of a course with Par 5s
in the circuit and he could see the increase in the requirements both
in stamina and in consistency. He had several bright moments which included
a Bogie on the 1st and a Par on the 8th for a round of 74. It is a different
game on these longer more topographically interesting courses. Hank also
parred the 8th hole and finished with a 73. Don Bogied the 8th but Parred
the 9th, which gave him a round of 59 and four better than Drew, who parred
the 8th hole but other wise was having a tough time. |
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44: Dix
Hills Park Golf Course |
Thursday,
September 11, 2008 |
Highlights:The
good forward moving strides by Ken and by Hank over the recent rounds
continued with Ken hitting a Bogie on the 3rd, a Par on the 4th and another
Bogie on the 5th for a total of 49. Hank Bogied the 8th but kept his game
much more under control than earlier in the season for a round of 52 and
a feeling of progress. Drew had some moments of control as exemplified
by his par on the 4th, but he was only able to escape with a total of
50 giving Ken a chance to be out in front except for Don, who was not
at his best but who still Bogied the first 3 holes as well as the 5th
and 6th holes and Parred the 7th and 8th holes for a total of 42 for the
day. |
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43: Dix
Hills Park Golf Course |
Thursday,
September 4, 2008 |
Highlights:
The foursome played a very tight round for the first time. We saw the
flourishing of the investments in new clubs by Hanks 46 for the round,
which tied Drew's total. Drew had started out Par. Bogie, Par, Bogie but
the game got away from him to where breakfast could not come to soon.
Ken's back was back and allowed him to swing freely and got him a Par
on the 8th hole and a Bogie on the 9th. Don hit an 8 on the 1st but gained
control slowly to bag 5 Bogies and two Pars the rest of the way for a
respectable 42 for the morning. |
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42: Dix
Hills Park Golf Course |
Thursday,
August 28, 2008 |
Highlights:
Don was absolutely on perhaps as he never was before. While Hank contested
against Drew playing him to a 48 stroke to Drew's 43 stroke round, and
while Kenny tried to keep his bad back from getting any worse and hobbled
around to a 61 stroke total, Don pared the 1st and the 6th holes and sunk
a birdie put on the par three 7th hole. He had 5 bogies and only double
bogied the 9th hole for a blazing total of 38 for the day. |
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41: Dix
Hills Park Golf Course |
Thursday,
August 21, 2008 |
Highlights:
The round was fiercely contested on several levels since the advent of
Hank and his new clubs last week when he stepped into a leadership role
last week. The first hole belonged to Drew with a straight if not so long
a drive that set up his 24 degree wood, which landed on but rolled through
the green. He chipped and ran the ball on with a 7 and two-putted for
5. Don came back to gain back the stroke on the 2nd and to go ahead by
one on the 3rd. Hank and Ken were hanging in there just a few strokes
off the pace. Don and Drew parred the 4th. Don picked up another stroke
on the 5th but gave it back when Drew parred the 6th. They both pared
the 7th and Drew tied it up with a bogie on the 8th. But, he could not
take the pressure and muffed his drive and hit the follow up shot into
the woods. He got back on track but finished with an 8. Don made sure
not to be short of the green on his 2nd hit and went over, but set himself
up for a shot at par and settled for a bogie and a total of 41 to beat
Drew by 3 strokes. Ken totaled a 56 just 3 behind Hanks 53. |
| Round
40: Dix
Hills Park Golf Course |
Thursday,
August 14, 2008 |
Highlights:
Even a severely injured finger that kept him from playing basketball the
day before did not interrupt Hank's rapid-fire progress towards golf's
elite shooters. Par, Bogie, Bogie, Bogie, Par Trippple Bogie, Par is how
it went for him through the 7th hole. Balls were flying in the air and
landing on the green with little or no detours into the woods or even
into the deep rough. Putts were rimming the cup or just dropping in like
they new just what was expected of them. If this isn't the prelude to
the launching of a sports page in Hank’s newspaper, we will be surprised.
We left out the 8th and 9th holes because the real Hank returned to finish
out the round: Double bogie 6; not so terrible but then followed by a
quadruple bogie 8; that was a bit of a downer, for a personal best so
far of 44. But, chalk it up for a victory since Drew trailed by one at
the end of the round with a 45, Don trailed by 4 with a 48 and Ken; well,
Ken had to stop playing when his back began to tighten, but let's just
say Hank beat everybody and that's that. Nice game Hank. Don's round can
be summed up as moments of greatness, like his two pars, punctuated by;
well, not-so-greatness". Drew's round was similarly spotty; just
his punctuation was a little better than Don’s; by three strokes
any way. The questions that everyone is asking, including Hank, are: Was
it Hank's new clubs? Was it Hank’s hurt finger? And, who's having
fun now? |
| Round
39: Dix
Hills Park Golf Course |
Thursday,
August 7, 2008 |
Highlights:
The American Kidney Fund Outing held just three days earlier on Monday
and the extra round of 9 holes played by Hank and Drew at the Sunken Meadow
State Park's Blue course on Saturday,
August 3rd, must have steeled Drew to stay the course to the very
end this round and must have warmed Hank up to further his attack on breaking
50. Hank bogied the 3rd and parred the 7th and had some very nice long
and straight drives leading to his total of 51 for the day. Ken brought
some real regularity to his stokes today with a bogie on 7, a string of
double bogies on 2, 3, 4, and 6 and then a par on the 8th hole. He was
a shoe in for breaking 50 going into the 9th and surely knew it when he
looked at the aggregate score on his bag score minder device. That may
have been the thing that shook him up. He did what he could to stay calm
but the hole got longer and smaller at the same time taking 8 strokes
for him to hole the ball for a round total of 50. Don had a bitter beginning
with an 8 on the 1st and a 6 on the 2nd giving Drew a 2 stroke lead. But,
he reigned himself in by paring the 3rd to catch Drew and paring the 4th
to pull ahead by one stroke. Drew was able to pull even with Don with
a bogie on the 6th. Stayed even through the 7th and pulled ahead with
a par on the 8th after missing Eagle with a fairway hit using his 24 degree
rescue club. They both hit bogie on the 9th giving Don a 45 and Drew a
44; the reverse of their round of July 31st. |
| Round
38: Dix
Hills Park Golf Course |
Thursday,
July 31, 2008 |
Highlights:
Are these guys getting better or what? Ken breaks 50 with a round of 49.
Hank zeros in on breaking 50 with a 53. Don registered pars on the 2nd,
and then down the stretch, on the 7th and 8th to pull within one of Drew,
who had a par on the 1st and the 4th with bogies on the 3rd, 6th and 7th.
Ken made par on the 4th and again on the 8th to bring about that 49. Hank
made par at the 5th hole and a bogie on the 8th, which added up to more
encouragement about his new clubs. Drew must have forgotten the messages
of the book The Inner Game of Golf when Don pointed out that unless he,
Drew, blew it completely on the 9th, he would surely win. Drew blew up
with an 8 to finish with 45 strokes, which was one stroke more than Don’s
come-back 44. |
| Round
37: Dix
Hills Park Golf Course |
Thursday,
July 17, 2008 |
Highlights:
Ken could not join us again so we played as a three-some. Hank to a few
holes to get off the double bogie train when he bogied the 4th. But he
was off in to the stratosphere again until the par 4 eight hole, when
he hit a might drive to the mouth of the green and was on in one and down
in two for par. He went back to double bogie land for the 9th for a total
of 51.Don and were in one of their battles again with a mutually rough
start on 1 and 2 and then Drew parred the 3rd bogied the 4th, 5th and
6th and parred the 7th and 8th, while Don bogied the 3rd parred the 5th
and 8th to where it would take and ace from him and a 9 from Drew on the
9th for hit to catch Drew or so he said. Well, the seed was planted and
Drew drove short missing the fairway to the left and hit his rescue club
to just short of the green, then chipped over, chipped again and 3 putted
for a 7. Don hit a blast to the left and the ace was not to happen, nor
a duce, nor anything near them. He had his chance to close the gap but
settled for a 6 and gave Drew a 5 stoke advantage at the end. |
| Round
36: Christopher
Morley Golf Course |
Tuesday,
July 8, 2008 |
Highlights:
We were joined by Mike the friendly CPA, who was hitting in for Don, who
was at a breakfast meeting of the Niptypooteepoptee, which is also a CPA
related thing. It was a warm and fairly muggy morning and we opted for
Christopher Morely Park Golf Course since at the Dix Hills Park Golf Course
we would run into leagues. Here we stepped right on with no wait and never
were pressured by the twosome behind us either. Hank was pleased to be
back at Morley where he hit 4 bogies and really on ran into trouble on
the 3rd and the 7th, which is that 300 yard par 4. His 490 felt much better
too. Mike and Ken battled to a one stroke differential. Ken was getting
better and better as the round advanced to where he boggied the 7th and
then got two pars in a row on the 8th and 9th holes for a total of 45.
Mike had his ups and downs. After a rough first hole, he boggied the 2nd,
got par on the 3rd and boggied the 4th and 5th before he ran into some
trouble on the next two holes. But he regained his composure and hit a
bogie on the 8th and matched Ken's par on the 9th, which gave him a 44
for the morning’s 9. Drew took up where he left off last week at
Dix Hills by sandwiching two bopgies on the 2nd and 3rd between two pars
on the 1st and 4th holes. He lost it a little on the 5th but hobbled back
with a bogie on the 6th. His efforts on the long 7th got him on in 3 but
his putter went long and he ended the hole with a double bogie 6 and stayed
erratic with another double bogie on the short8th hole. But, he came back
to life on the somewhat truncated 9th hole with its tee box being closed
for renovation, by driving to just short of the green on the right and
then pitching to with in two feet of the flag and sinking his putt for
a birdie 3 and a round total of 39. It may have an asterisk next to it
in the official Christopher Morley record books, but it sure felt like
a birdie and it sure felt like a 39 as well. |
| Round
35: Dix
Hills Park Golf Course |
Tuesday,
July 1, 2008 |
Highlights:
It was clear now why we always just walked on without a wait on our regular
Thursday games at Dix Hills Park Golf Course. There are leagues on Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday and we got on just in time to be ahead of them but
not in time to be ahead of "Straight-down-the-middle-Bob" and
his 91 year old playing partner Bill. But, things moved a long at a fair
pace with only one or two holes where we had to wait. The weather was
warm and muggy and the course was in fine shape with pretty deep rough.
There were two battles going on in the score department though nobody
was seemingly aware of just how close the scores were until the end of
the round. Ken and Hank were with in one or two strokes of each other
throughout the round with Ken's bogie on the first hole being matched
by Hanks bogie on the 6th hole. They ended with Ken having gone around
in 54 and Hank in 55. It is not saying that it would have made exciting
TV Golf, but it was a close contest of sorts. Meanwhile, Don and Drew
scoring well and keeping it close also. They both parred the first hole
and the fourth hole with Don giving up 2 strokes with a tough experience
on the second hole. Drew picked up 2 more strokes with a bogie on the
5th but dropped a stroke to Don when Don bogied the 6th. Drew lost another
stroke on the 7th when even his saving sand shot, which landed him close
enough to the pin to allow him to get a par 3, was overshadowed by Don's
long putt for a birdie, which he read just right and sunk. Drew drove
well on the 8th, pitched to just off the green and chipped close to set
up a one putt for his fourth par of the round. Meanwhile, Don, who had
hit left lost his ball and with the penalty, had to settle for a bogie
5. Drew had 32 strokes approaching the 9th to Don's 35. Don hit a mighty
blast to the right. Drew's drive was more lackluster but down the center.
His fairway wood brought him to inside a hundred yards from the pin. Don
lost his way a bit but got up and down for a 5 on the 9th a total of 40
for the round. Drew's 3rd shot with a pitching wedge landed him on the
back of the green about 20 feet from the hole. He changed his pattern
of marking and waiting to putt in favor of putting out. The 20 remaining
feet took him 3 strokes to complete and brought his total to 38 to edge
out Don by just 2 strokes. |
| Round
34: Dix
Hills Park Golf Course |
Thursday,
June 26, 2008 |
Highlights:
Rain was threatening and the morning was thick with humidity and heavy
dew on the fairways and greens. But, the course was again in fine shape
and we were virtually alone until late in the round of nine when golfers
behind us caught up. So, there was really no pressure on us other than
what we put upon ourselves. That does not mean there were not other factors
that could affect our performance. Don was at a Mets game the night before
and did not wake up until the 5th hole, which was the only one that he
won out right with a boggie. He boggied the next hole as well, which helped
him secure the second spot in the over all for the morning with a 52.
Hank started out with a mighty blast right down the middle on hole 1 and
had a few more nice drives with great distance and fair to good direction,
but his irons and his putting were sporadic, which held him back from
really breaking that 50 mark and left him in the third slot with a 53
just one out of second. Ken may have hit some kind of record by scoring
6 on 7 out of the 9 holes. It landed him 4th but he ended with a flourish
by sinking a tremendous putt on the 9th hole to secure his 57 for the
round. Drew was about as on as he has been this season. He parred the
first and hit boggie on 2, 3, 6, 7 and 9 with double boggies on 4, 5 and
8. His drives were mostly playable with only one provisional ball needing
to be hit but not used. His fairway woods made up for distance lost to
not so very lengthy drives and his irons and putter were working well
to yield for him a of 42. |
| Round
33: Dix
Hills Park Golf Course |
Thursday,
June 12, 2008 |
Highlights:
The weather was beautiful. The course was in superb shape and we got right
on with only Don unable to play. We were joined on the 3rd-whole by Matt
W of Huntington, who proved to be a long ball hitter with a passion for
the game transferred from his martial arts history and a military background.
His bogie on holes 7 and 8 demonstrated how effective he can be when he
strings good shots together. Hank broke 60 with a sparkling 55 total,
which made him as happy as he could be. If he does get a new set of clubs
more suited to his body type, he noted that he will loose his excuse for
the scores he gets. So, he's not so sure he wants to do that. Ken had
a bogie on hole-4 and hole-8 and hit one particularly nice putt that he
would have loved to have on tape. His round of 54 was higher than it might
have been were he able to take back a few rushed shots and ones where
his focus was simply not on golf; but that's pretty much always the case
with all of us. Drew hit a 51 for the morning's round getting off to a
slow start on 1, 2 and 3. He was on in 2 on the 4th and sunk a mid-length
putt for par, which helped him catch up. His bogie on 7 and 8 and double
bogie on 9 kept him slightly ahead for the round and showed him that his
new clubs, which he has now rounded out to include the 6 and the 8 irons,
are making a difference as he starts to get used to them. He also switched
from his mock Ping 3-wood to the 3-wood that matches the driver he acquired
from an antique dealer in Oyster Bay last Summer when he got some miscellaneous
clubs for his company's summer interns to use during the company’s
day of golf. In the few times he called on it, it seemed to work fairly
well. |
| Round
32: Sunken
Meadow - Blue |
Thursday,
June 5, 2008 |
Highlights:
Threatening rain was not enough to keep us off the Dix Hills Park Golf
Course. The fact that it was closed for maintenance when we arrived to
play was enough. We drove further out to Sunken Meadow State Park and
signed up to play the Blue Course and to Tee off at 8:09 AM. We had not
been back to Sunken Meadow since October 16, 2006. The course had benefited
from ample rain; being lush and green. The greens had been aerated in
a less labor intensive way due to a reduction in the usual staffing numbers,
so the plugs with sand which makes the green a horror show, were not what
we found. The greens were beautiful and true, which seemed to help every
body's putting and made for softer landing on the greens that allowed
balls hit well to hold. On the 3rd Hole, after struggling mightily on
1 and 2, Don got on in one and rolled a 44 foot putt to the rim of the
cup and let it roll around the edge until it circumnavigated the entire
thing and, when it got back to where it had started the circuit, it gave
up and dropped into the cup for a fabulous birdie 2. He bogied 6 and 9
to finish with a 54 for the round. Hank had a nice bogie on 6 as well
and showed some great potential by making a few rifle shot drives that
seemed to bore through he air and just go and go and some dramatic putts
that seemed to indicate that reading greens is his specialty. It was agreed
that his clubs do not fit him and that he would do well to get professionally
fit for new clubs. When he gets them; look out and watch those scores
plummet. Drew, who had been putting well on Saturday, continued to enjoy
the good greens that helped him get in in 2 on 6 holes, in just 1 twice
and had only one 3 putt situation and that one only missed by a fraction
of an inch. He was driving fairly well with a bogie on 1, 3, 6, and 9
and really only blew up on holes 4 and 5. His new clubs have been delivering
on their promise to give him the dependability he wanted. He ended the
round with a 53 to edge Don by one stroke. |
| Round
31: Dix
Hills Park Golf Course |
Thursday,
May 15, 2008 |
Highlights:
We were rained out last week and, except for Don, who was on business
in Chicago, we were ready to take on Dix Hill Golf Course again with Mike
filling with his brand new set of clubs. Some pretty wonderful things
happened, not the least of which was Mike staring down a putt for Birdie
on the 6th hole. He may have had to settle for a Par, but he did seem
more confident as he strode off that green and on to the next Tee box.
Until he reads this, he thinks he shot a 50, but the numbers keep adding
up to 54. Still, not bad at all playing with new clubs on a new course
and being bothered by all kinds of accounting questions from the rest
of us. Ken had some "come back" shots as well. Those are the
ones where after your hit them and they go so well that you say, "I'm
coming back." His Bogie on the 7th hole was a prelude to his Par
on the 8th, which would have made him the lead off man as we walked to
the 9th were it not for a certain editor of a certain newspaper. Hank
had labored throughout the round but on the 265 yard Par 4 8th-hole he
had perhaps the singularly most exciting hole of the day. His drive landed
short of the green by a few paces and with an uninterrupted view of the
cup. His 2nd shot lagged a bit and died just a few feet away from the
hole leaving him with an under 8 foot putt for Birdie, which he proceeded
to sink just a nice as can be; like on TV. We understand that Hank is
now considering starting a sports section in his paper. Drew seemed to
tire at the end of the round after having had a couple of bogies and for
the most part having demonstrated an even handed steady play. But, the
stand out moment for him came early in the round. On the 248 yard Par
3 2nd hole after he had flubbed his third shot leaving him a 38 foot long
putt from atop a ridge that feel away to the hole located mid way on the
downward slope. Getting it close and leaving it above the hole would be
difficult. His putt was firmly truck and rolled some 30 feet along the
top of the ridge and just along its crest when it slowed to almost a dead
stop and began to list, first slightly, and then lumbered off the ridge
and moved down haltingly at first and then, picking up momentum it inched
towards the cup and finally lingered for a brief time on the edge before
tipping forward and disappearing with that wonderful clunking bouncing
sound into the hole in the fashion of putts by Tiger Woods. It was a thing
of beauty. Where are those cameras when we need them? |
| Round
30: Dix
Hills Park Golf Course |
Thursday,
May 1, 2008 |
Highlights:
It was supposed to rain. Ken had a stiff neck. Drew was up late the night
before and really tired. Hank had forgotten his golf shoes. Don was ready
to play. And play he did. He parred the first hole, bogied the next two
holes, parred the fourth-hole and bogied the fifth. He lost some ground
on the remaining holes with bogie, bogie and two triple bogies for a round
of 46. We walked away thinking it was a 42 again, but the recount showed
the true tally. Ken worked his neck problems out and shop par on the 265
yard par 4 8th-hole getting on in 3 and in one put. His total was 52 again
as last week. Hank had some brilliant strokes with great saving shot from
the woods on hole-2 landing feet from the stick and putting for par. He
settled for bogie but will remember that scrambling shot from the woods
for a while. He shot par on the 5th and brought his total for 9 down by
4 strokes to 59 compared to last weeks round; progress. Drew had three
bogies but was mostly struggling to recover from flubbed shots. His new
clubs were working but his concentration was off; way off. He ended with
57. |
| Round
29: Dix
Hills Park Golf Course |
Thursday,
April 24, 2008 |
Highlights:
We launched out foursome's 2008 season at a new venue, Dix Hills Park
Golf Course, which is a delightful executive 9-hole course with some impressive
hills, some longish holes that gave Don a chance to use his driver an
extra time or two. They mow the woods, which is particularly helpful to
most of us who spend a fair amount of time in there. Hank was nursing
a wounded ankle so was working at a deficit with sneakers instead golf
spikes. His surgery from mid-December is well on the mend, but we needed
something to defend or explain his score of 63. Still, he did bogy the
5th hole and the 8th, which is what golf for us is often all about. Ken
shot a 53 with a bogy on the 3rd and a string of double bogies at the
end of the round showing that he has not lost his touch over the long
winter break. Drew was working with his new Henry-Griffits clubs (the
PW, 9, 7, 5 and a savior; no a rescue club which is like a 3 iron but
is a wood). The seemed to fit just right because he was playing some pretty
fair position golf and were it not for a flub or two and some overly strong
putting he would have given Don an even stronger run for the lead. As
it was, Drew shot a 44 with Pars on the 5th and the 8th holes and bogies
on 4, 6 and 9. It was Don's big drive on the 8th that was the made him
extra happy for having joined us on this day. He punched the ball 265
yards to a few short feet from the pin and was putting for eagle when
reality stuck and he hit the ball with his fabulous new wooden hand carved
putter and it rolled two inches to the left of the cup but stayed near
enough for him to hole it for a birdie. Everyone seemed optimistic about
the golf we had played and we are all looking forward to more of such
encouraging rounds going forward. The weather was grand and the course
was very nice and totally without the pressure of crowds. |
| Round
28: Christopher
Morley Golf Course |
Tuesday,
September 25, 2007 |
Highlights:
The day was absolutely beautiful. High sky, cool breeze, warm sunshine
and not a very big crowd of players. And now we know why. The course was
being groomed for Fall and the first hole had been aerated to where we
were in caked-on mud everywhere we went. We had to keep cleaning off our
clubs and the golf balls to get any kind of predictable results. By the
2nd hole we were back to almost normal except for the greens, which had
been plugged and were bumps as can be. Still, even after not having played
since September 6th, we had not lost much; some balls maybe, but our scores
were about as they had been. Don struggled but came away with a 44. He
made the best drive of the day on the 300 yard 7th with a 260 yard poke
that helped him get a bogie. Hank had the hard time with a 52 but now
is certain he needs longer clubs and want some lessons; perhaps over the
winter break. Ken had his moments and ended with a 52. Drew was working
with his Henry-Griffits
5-Iron again and sees some hope for it and perhaps will be adding to the
set. He drove the green and was in in 2 for par on the 4th. His second
shot on the 8th was a pitching wedge that landed about one inch from the
cup redeaming him from his poor tee shot and setting up his second par
of the round. He hit a smooth fade around the "oh no you don't"
tree and set up a bogie to end with a 43. |
| Round
27: Christopher
Morley Golf Course |
Tuesday,
September 6, 2007 |
Highlights:
We played shorthandded with Don caught up in meetings and client appointments.
The struggle continued for Ken and Hank, though there were a sufficient
number of good shots by each that will bring them back again, though the
next round's date is still to be scheduled. Drew had some controls in
place and though got off to a slow sart in hole 1, his new Henry-Griffits
5-Iron helped hi land in birdie range on hole two, which he ended up two
putting for par. His 5 bogies got him a total of 43. |
| Round
26: Christopher
Morley Golf Course |
Tuesday,
August 30, 2007 |
Highlights:
Ken got a par on hole 6, the 152 yard par 3 and Drew chipped one in for
par on the 143 yard par 3 number 2 hole. After those high points, we struggled.
Hank had a couple of bogies and Don had three. But, as tough as it was,
it was a nice round. |
| Round
25: Christopher
Morley Golf Course |
Tuesday,
August 30, 2007 |
Highlights:
Ken got a par on hole 6, the 152 yard par 3 and Drew chipped one in for
par on the 143 yard par 3 number 2 hole. After those high points, we struggled.
Hank had a couple of bogies and Don had three. But, as tough as it was,
it was a nice round. |
| Round
24: Christopher
Morley Golf Course |
Thursday,
August 23, 2007 |
Highlights:
This was a very special round where Don and Drew introduced two neophyte
golfers to the game. Playing with clubs courtesy of Norman G., who gave
Jonathan K. an old set of Tommy Armour Clubs and Drew Kopf, who purchased
a used set of clubs from a second hand shop for use by Matthew N. the
foursome made it around the Christopher Morley nine hole layout in what
might be termed a teaching round. The "dos and don'ts" of golf
were introduced to help both young men move safely around the course while
keeping the gave going so the normal flow of the process continues as
those infront and behind us would expect it to. Both Matt and Jon hade
their share of great shots, so common to beinners in any thing and also
a number of what could be called "learning moments" when balls
went all over the place or went untouched; which is called a wiff and
would normally count as a stroke. We did not record the strokes of the
teens that morning, but as we go forward, we do intend to. Everyone had
a swell time and we marked the event by breakfasting together at the Blue
Angel Diner. Everyone was great a breakfast. |
| Round
23: Christopher
Morley Golf Course |
Tuesday,
August 14, 2007 |
Highlights:
Hank is back from vacation in Argentina. He didn't even miss a round with
us as we were rained out and otherwise lost players due to leaky sky lights,
rearranged work scheules and fatigue from the American
Kidney Fund Golf Outing, in which Don and Drew participated on the
6th of August. Today's round got Hank a Par 3 on the 4th Hole along with
three bogies on the 1st, 2nd and 8th for a solid 50. Ken played mostly
bogie golf exhibiting newly acquired controls that have him putting at
pars with great regularity. Don got off his attraction to hills as seen
on the AKF Golf Outing and scored pars on the 5th and 7th holes. The 7th
saw him hit his best drive ever; straight, and long and unswerving, which
is what we are expecting from Don from here on out. He also enjoyed making
4 bogies and is in the process of forgetting some holes that just plain
got away. Drew learned that consentration and pre-ball striking rutines
need to be observed right from the get-go. His 9 on the first hole was
his tuition fee for that lesson. But, he regained his process for the
most part by parring the 2nd, 4th, 8th and 9th where he drove to inside
a foot from the green and about 12 feet from the cup. a couple of bogies
and a lost ball on the 7th gave him low score honors over Dons 43 by one
stroke. |
| Round
23: Christopher
Morley Golf Course |
Tuesday,
July 31, 2007 |
Highlights:
More in the right direction. Lot of boggies and much more control than
seen earlier in the season. |
| Round
22: Christopher
Morley Golf Course |
Tuesday,
July 24, 2007 |
Highlights:
Now we are really rolling. Everyones game is picking up. Hank and Don
scored the only pars of the day but there were a great number of nice
things happening. |
| Round
21: Christopher
Morley Golf Course |
Tuesday,
July 10, 2007 |
Highlights:
Welcome back to Hank, who had been recovering from his car accident. He
had a few very nice shots during this inaugural round and we are sure
he's starting to roll since he is now sporting a brand new hand pull cart.
Don led the way with an all time low score for him on this course with
a 37. He bogied 7 holes and parred the other two. Nice work Don. Ken also
had his lowest score to date at Morley with a nice round of 45 that included
two bogies, one par and one birdie on the fourth. He was one in one and
sunk that put. Nice going Ken. Drew had three bogies, two pars on the
2nd and fourth and escaped with a 43. The round was somewhat interrupted
by a rood twosome who tried to replay the 7th, 8th and 9th holes by driving
on to the 7th while we were finishing the 6th hole. When approach by one
of our group who pointed out that golf is a game of integrity and that
by doing what they were doing they were cheating the county, everyone
of us, by interrupting our game as they were, and cheating themselves
because if they could cheat like this how much more so would they be cheating
on their scores. They were implored to realize what they were doing and
how wrong it was and they finally decided to leave as they should have
in the first place. |
| Round
20: Christopher
Morley Golf Course |
Tuesday,
June 26, 2007 |
Highlights:
This was a round of advancement for each of us. But first, we should note
that we were joined again by Vito of Floral Park, who shot a wonderful
round of 35 with a sparkling birdie and only one hole, the 6th, worse
than bogie. He is over 70 years old but you would never guess it. He visits
the driving range three times a week, plays golf twice a week and when
ever he has a felling he needs help takes a lesson from a local pro. Ken
hit 51, one of his best rounds to date, with a very nice round-ending
par on the always challenging 9th hole. Don parred the 4th and the 9th
and had two bogies to a total of 43. Drew parred the 1, 4, 8 and 9 with
the one on the 9th coming via a nifty pitch and run from 20 plus feet
away. His 40 total was a product of some very nice putting results and
some several recovery shots after miss-hits that might otherwise have
spelled disaster. Everyone parred the 9th lifting sprits across the board. |
| Round 19: Christopher
Morley Golf Course |
Tuesday,
June 19, 2007 |
Highlights: |
| Round 18: Christopher
Morley Golf Course |
Thursday,
June 14, 2007 |
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| Round 17: Christopher
Morley Golf Course |
Thursday,
June 9, 2007 |
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| Round 16: Christopher
Morley Golf Course |
Thursday,
May 31, 2007 |
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| Round 15: Christopher
Morley Golf Course |
Thursday,
May 24, 2007 |
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| Round 14: Christopher
Morley Golf Course |
Thursday,
May 10, 2007 |
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| Round 13: Christopher
Morley Golf Course |
Thursday,
May 3, 2007 |
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| Round 12: Sunken
Meadow - Green |
Thursday,
October 26, 2006 |
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| Round 11: Sunken
Meadow - Red |
Thursday,
October 22, 2006 |
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| Round 10: Sunken
Meadow - Blue |
Thursday,
October 16, 2006 |
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| Round 9: Christopher
Morley Golf Course |
Thursday,
October 5, 2006 |
Highlights:
We reshuffled the deck today at the last minute. Hank had canceled to
hold his wife Elaine's “other hand” (his words) while she
had shoulder surgery this morning. Mike took his place, but drove up announcing
that Ken would not be playing today in order to be there for his father-in-law,
who had fallen and was in the hospital. We wish both patients a speedy
recovery. So it was a walk-in-the-park for Don, Mike and Drew. But, Don
made it very special one by chipping in on the 4th for birdie; tweet tweet.
He had 4 bogies to go with it, but was high enough on the other holes
to yield the low score of the day honors to Drew. Mike was there with
the occasional seasoned golf shot like his nice chip on the 8th, but he
was tree-centric and playing the part of spectator by lifting his head
(his observation) more than usual. It was Drew's 6 bogies and his par
on the 8th that gave him the game in today's round. He is anticipating
getting a new set of clubs and must be trying to squeeze all he can out
of the ones he's been using for the last 26 years. The leaves on the ground
were making finding balls sometimes almost impossible. Without the means
to have a fore-caddie, we may opt to suspend play until the leaves return
to the trees where they belong. |
| Round 8: Christopher
Morley Golf Course |
Thursday,
September 28, 2006 |
Highlights:
Almost an entire set of duplicate golfers who looked just like our foursome
showed up at Christopher Morley Golf Course and played in our stead, except
for Don; he was himself hitting a 43 with pars on holes 4 and 8 and bogies
on 3, 5 and 6. There were some moments of brilliance from Ken, Hank and
Drew, but it was slogging struggle with lost balls and all sorts of mis-hits
that made us talk about what a nice walk in the park we were having; but
not golf. Drew did nearly ace the 8th with an 8-iron that left its mark
inches from the cup, but he settled for a par. He bogied 3, 6 and 7 which
kept him not too far off of Don's lead, but finished with a 46. |
| Round
8: Christopher
Morley Golf Course |
Thursday,
September 21, 2006 |
Highlights: Ken was back from Ireland but the layoff cost him momentum;
though he started off with a bogie on the first and came back with a bogie
on the , third, he was mostly triple bogie or worse a couple of times
for the rest of the round. Th3re were isolated moments where he hit the
ball soundly, but putting them together was not happening for him. Don,
who has been playing well on the Eisenhower Blue, parred the second, but
struggled on all but the forth which he bogied. Hank and Drew played even
a 42 for the morning, which was Hank's best score of the season to date.
Drew was two strokes of his personal best on the Morley course and hit
the ball with some consistency showing the results of two recent rounds
on the Eisenhower Blue. |
| Round 7: Christopher
Morley Golf Course |
Thursday,
September 7, 2006 |
Highlights:
Don was able to put him temporary medical distraction completely behind
him and stepped up to hit pars on holes 3, 6 and 8 and, overall, shot
a 39, which averages out to be one above par for each of the nine holes,
or bogie golf. Norman was nice enough to join us again while Ken was away
in Ireland. He parred the 4th and worked on his iron play the rest of
the round. It was a soggy course and the spongy turf, solid bunkers and
slower than slow green took their toll on the rest of us. Hank sandwiched
in a couple of bogies on the 4th and 5th before he got fully warmed up
for his great finish on the 9th with a sparkling "come back"
par; when he gets a par like that and on the last hole, you can bet, Hank
is comin' back. A guy showed up who looked just like Drew, and exact duplicate,
who played his round for him but he was nowhere near the golfer that the
real Drew is. Oh sure, he had several nice shots, but he could not put
it all together like Drew had been doing up until this point. We hope
the real Drew is back next round. Note of Interest: Don came in describing
some of the high points of a review of the Morley Golf Course when Drew
informed the group that he had written that review only last week and
posted at www.golflink.com and started quoting from his article in the
way of a proof. Take a look at the Course
Review describing the Morley Golf Course and see if you agree. |
| Round
6: Christopher
Morley Golf Course |
Thursday,
August 31, 2006 |
Highlights:
Norm filled in for Mike who was filling in for Ken, who is on his way
to Ireland for a vacation. Norm had joined, Don and Drew and one other
friend, John, to form a foursome in the recent American Kidney Fund Golf
Outing at the Hamlet Golf and Country Club. The course had a delayed opening
and our opting to go for breakfast before playing delayed us further with
a 45 minute wait behind those who came to sign up to play while we were
at a local diner. In future, we will wait at the course. The round was
one of adaptation and surprises. Hole-number one was under repair which
took a good portion of it including the green out of play. Don was off
his stride having recently had a medical procedure; his golf ball kept
going right and we are still trying to figure out what caused that. Norman,
who plays mostly the full length course, showed the way by mostly playing
bogie, par and even birdie golf with nice 40 for the 9 holes. Hank found
out that he needs seven holes to warm up, because as soon as he did, he
parred the 8th and after driving the green on the 9th leaving him with
a mid-length putt for an Eagle, he got close and then got his birdie 3.
Nice going Hank. Drew had his moments with pars on the 5th, 7th and 9th
holes. The score
card for today's round has Drew's notes on where he hit and what club
he used on each hole. There is something to playing a course and getting
to know it and what clubs work where and under what conditions. It makes
the game that much more interesting and seems to be what the pros do for
a good reason, it works. |
| Round 5: Christopher
Morley Golf Course |
Thursday,
August 24, 2006 |
Highlights:
Mike, filling in this round for Hank, who was in Canada, took 5 strokes
of his previous round. Ken continues to improve taking 6 strokes off compared
to his last round got another par; this time in the 9th. Don, back from
playing on the big courses, shot another 42 in pretty much bogie golf
fashion. Drew shot his personal best of 41 with pars on the 2nd, 3rd,
6th and 9th, where he chipped for Eagle but settled for par. |
| Round
4: Christopher
Morley Golf Course |
Thursday,
August 17, 2006 |
Highlights:
Ken and Hank hit their personal bests. Mike substituted for Don and had
a couple of bogies and a several nice shots that just need to be woven
together to bring his stroke count down. Drew drove the green on the 9th
and faced an Eagle Putt for the first time. He settled for birdie, which
was his second of the morning. |
| Round 3: Christopher
Morley Golf Course |
Tuesday,
August 1, 2006 |
Highlights:
Our group was a threesome today with the great threat of super-high heat
in the 100's threatening to drive us off the course. We lucked out with
the heat by starting a half hour earlier. Don parred the 1st and 7th and
had 5 bogies for a nice round of 42. Ken hit is best score to date with
a 48 making bogie on 3, 4, 6 and 8. Drew put two pars together on the
8th and 9th along with 3 bogies to catch Don at the end with his round
of 42. |
| Round 2: Christopher
Morley Golf Course |
Thursday,
July 27, 2006 |
Highlights:
Don parred the 2nd and 9th and had a bogie on the 3rd. Ken got par on
the 8th, his first one according to him, and started to triangulate towards
knowing where he hits and where he is aiming. Hank had bogie on the 3rd
like it was meant to be. He also has some shots that went just right;
some times too far right, but there is a future there. Drew had bogie
on the 2nd, 5th, 6th and 8th with some isolated shots that looked like
golf shots on some of the other holes too. |
| Round 1: Christopher
Morley Golf Course |
Thursday,
July 20, 2006 |
Highlights:
Every one enjoyed our inagural round of golf together. Don had a swell
round with 2 pars, on the 4th and the 9th and 5 bogies on five other holes.
Drew had a par on the 6th and four bogies getting just nosed out by Don
for overall score. Hank and Ken had a couple of bogies each and saw some
good things happen as the round progressed. |
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