BRAD & DAYVA SPITZER SAVE THEIR BEST FOR LAST...

Brad & Dayva finally
got it right on the course

Brad & Dayva Spitzer, both accomplished golfers, seldom combined their skill for a low score during the season's Thursday Night Couples Scramble. In fact, it was surprising that these two golfers could no do better than second place a couple of times during the season, but yesterday, during the final for Couples, everything worked out fine, and not only did they turn the best gross score, a 62, but also turned in the best net score, a 56, that gave them a two shot win over second place.

Jackie & Jerry Oldham
Always Competitive

The Couples Final promised to be so much fun, that it attracted club champion Joby Gray to play with friend Haley Gunkel, and Women's club champion Ann Cowan, whose last minute partner's cancellation did not deter her from seeking an "emergency" partner, even if her team ended up being a woman-woman team as she ended up partnering with Mona Alvarez.... good choice by the way, they ended up with a gross 63 and a 58 net, that won them second place!

Gary & Jeneatte Scott
Never missed the action

The weather could not have been better for golf, with temperatures in the mid 70's and a slight breeze. Not that it mattered for Gary & Jeanette Scott, who, wind, rain or shine, never missed one Thursday this season (is there a prize for "perfect attendance"?); or to several other couples who seemed to be present most of the time unless they had something personal going on.

Following the tournament, players were invited to participate in a putting and a chipping contest as well, both of which were conducted while the players ate pizza, pasta and lasagna at the new deck which served as "grand stands" for the show.

Tori & Haley, rivals on the
greens, sisters in between holes

There were several teams tied for third with a 60: Jeff & Linda Rule, Rodney & Sara Cloud and Jerry & Jackie Oldham, since the Oldhams had the lowest gross (64) score of the three teams, they won the tie breaker for third place (This is the first time, to my recollection, that the results would have been exactly the same had the tournament not been handicapped).

Sara Cloud cheering for
husband Rodney

The putting contest saw 4 players tied at 17 strokes (on under par) in the tough little course set up for the competition. The playoff, which started with 4 players on the toughest hole of the course, #5, a sharp breaking, downhill 35 footer that had to be putted through the fringe to have any chance to make, or even to get close. Jerry Oldham and Tori Windsor were eliminated on the first playoff hole, that left club champion Joby Gray and Rodney Cloud, clearly the underdog. Joby hit a great putt to about two feet, the best among the participants so far... that is until Rodney rolled his in the hole, dead center!

Chloe & Brandie... "lets you and I
I get acquainted. I don't care who wins"

In the chipping competition, Jeff Rule looked like the winner until the very last participant, Jeff's combined 34 feet between his two shots to the tough #18 from two locations, were bettered by 3 feet to 31 feet when Haley Gunkel hit one to 4 feet in her last try.