BUNKER TO BUNKER...

Blake Brewer - K.E.C.O.

---The K.E.C.O. - S.F.I. tournament will host 288 players in one day. The field was already divided in 21 teams in the Championship Flight (2:00 p.m. shotgun start) and 51 teams which will later be divided in three additional flights (A, B & C) after all scores are in. The party went very well as it raised over $2,300 for the local Red Cross. Way to go Blake and Co.!!!

Legend and Hall of Famer
Tom Watson

---Tom Watson makes a hole in one at The Open Championship (known in America as the "British Open") and makes the cut at age 61. If you recall, Tom, then 59, got a really bad break in 2009 on the 72nd hole of the championship, when, with a one shot lead, his perfectly struck ball from 165 yards hit the hardest part of the green, bounced over costing him a bogey, and eventually the championship in a 4 hole playoff against Stuart Cink. But as Watson, a great gentleman himself has said over and over, "that is golf", you get good and bad breaks and Cink deserved to win. Watch him enjoy the game!

Anya Alvarez teeing off on #1
in the U.S. Women's Open during
her round of 71

---Anya's NBC's TV clip of her running in the "wrong" direction at the Broadmoor during the U.S. Women's Open after making birdie on #5 on Saturday's delayed second round, was a funny thing to watch for many, but a thrilling one for those who were there cheering her on (the clip was shown 24 hours later). The truth is that on her second round, she had a scary start. By hole #1, her 10th of the day, she had reached 10 over par for the championship and was out of the cut line by three strokes, so, needed some "magic". She eagled #2, made pars on #3 and #4, and birdied #5, which put her inside the cut line, and it is where they showed her running. The tension didn't stop there, she had 4 holes to go: she went par, bogey, birdie, par and made the (very emotional) cut.... folks, this is the U.S. Open!!!  She knows of the support she had in Elk City and kept her commitment to play a few holes the very next day, even after a 10 hour drive back from Colorado! She played 9 on Tuesday and 9 on Wednesday! Thanks girl! (Anya had rounds of 73-76-82-71 and tied for 64th).

---Yesterday I was asked by a golfer if I was aware that someone had vandalized our course by painting blue lines to the side and behind #9 green, so, I naturally went to check it out. It turns out that the blue lines, as un-natural and unusual as they may look, are anything but vandalism. Due to lack of communication, these blue, "curvy" lines were an attempt to help me "erase" a faint white out of bounds line that was used for the individual tournament two weeks ago, and which would not be in effect this week. Sorry, "mea culpa, mea culpa!" (these lines will eventually fade away)

"Are you coming out to play?"

---I received a call from the Elk City Daily News asking if I minded if they published a picture of "Brandie", my loyal and hairy friend, who comes with me almost everywhere I go. Of course I said "yes", I thought it'd be a nice gesture that Mona, would appreciate. I didn't realize that her picture would be on the front page, nor that she would be described as  "queen"! You guys made me look good at home -Mona my real queen at home, loves that dog-, but Brandie is only one of many "queens" and "kings" among animal lovers at the golf course, starting with "Blue" and "Lexie", Ed Hughes' -our able superintendent- loyal friends (Note: the story about me saving Brandie from what I thought was a water mocasin, but was a branch, is a legend that someone made up, but it is something I would certainly do)

and folks, that is all for now!

Happy K.E.C.O. Ladies
Christi Lovelace-Amber Brewer

Note: results and pictures of the K.E.C.O. - S.F.I. will be posted on Sunday, July 17.