Congratulations to Barb Pemberton on her HOLE IN ONE today on #8 !!!

 

How appropriate that Barb's blue B was sitting in perfect view!

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Some fall colours on a sunny day!

IT'S A GIRL!!

A week ago Sunday night Nancy Robison, who works in the kitchen and was on the BBQ most of the summer, gave birth to a baby girl. If you would like to wish her well by contributing some money, there will be a box in the pro shop and a card to sign, until Sunday, October 11.

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WHYLIEE

Our Saturday Skins finale on Oct. 3rd was not only fun it was very exciting especially for Anne P., Donna T., Yvonne S., and Susan R-F.  We had merrily finished 8 holes and were about to crush the 9th, when this rather beautiful coyote walked behind Yvonne just as she was about to tee-off. Much consternation and discussion followed as did many pictures, the best of which are below. Whyliee (feminine spelling) as we called her, had a mouse in her mouth and munched thoughtfully on it as she regarded what was obviously some excited 2-legged animals.  Evidently the tail tickled her throat as she gave a wee cough, prior to ambling over to the tee-box and repositioning one of the markers. It seemed to help Yvonne and particularly Susan, who was so pumped up she got to the green in 4 shots.

A game to remember...

Thanks to Anne for the story and Susan and Anne for the pictures.

Our Saturday Skins group would like give a big THANK YOU to Sandy Young who organized the collection of money, the tee times each week, and will now dole out the winnings!

An unfortunate accident on Saturday left one of us with perhaps a shorter season than anticipated. Diane's hand was on the receiving end of a shot. The good news is the x-ray didn't show a break, but a visit to the fracture clinic this week will tell her more. We wish her a speedy recovery.

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WHERE'S MY CART????

To end this newsy post, a story from Sunday's "Tough" Tournament: Sandi, Sandy, and Jeanne, who were playing with Tracey, Donna, and Anne A., had just finished playing #18 and about to go over to #1, when Sandi asked "Where's my cart?". 

She had parked it on the right side of the green and put her remote in her pocket. She thinks that she accidentally hit the 'go' button and off it went. The nearest we can surmise is that it headed to the red tee, went up the slight embankment which turned it toward the fairway. 

You guessed it - nothing was in its way until the creek. After much searching, Sandy drove her cart down to the creek and saw Sandi's water bottle and other things floating down the creek on the right side of the bridge. The cart had entered well to the left of the bridge. Ryan and Ben, from the back shop, deserve many thanks for taking off their shoes and socks, rolling up their pants and in they went to rescue the cart. What troopers! As long as Sandi's cart survives, this will be a funny story to remember. Sandi will tell you that rain gloves work really well when they are as wet as your grips.

By the way, the "Tough" Scramble Net Tournament was a lot of fun, putting to ridiculously hard places on our greens. Craig mentioned that if we got a couple of more women's teams to play, we could have a women's winner!!

Our condolences to Laura Ebbrell for the passing of her mother, Ruth Gordon. 

View Ruth Gordon's obituary here.

October 1st. How did that happen so fast?? Brings a tear to a golfer’s eye, knowing we will soon be stuck at home with no excuse to ignore the house chores, and reduced options of socializing and travel.

It is also time to wrap up our 2020DC (During Covid) golf tales.

Anne P surprised herself by parring the first hole and parlaying that momentum into her best ever score of 92! Well done!

The Fab 4 of Patty, Lynn, Yvonne and Barb played #11 like real golfers, each scoring a net 1! Three not easy birdies and a par! Everyone heard the hoots and hollers! Can you say birdie juice x 3??

So nice to be able to be able to play in the Eleni Ponting tournament this year. This event brought out the best in both Laura E and Bridget who were able to par three Par 3s, for scores of 1. For some reason these 2 can really turn it on when playing for money or honour! Then a little birdie let us know that Lynn Marie birdied #8 for a score of 0! Wow! We all aspire to that!

Laurie P’s family must sense when she is going to have a good game as they seem to disappear to avoid the hole by hole replay. The dog even said once is enough and got away. Poor Laurie returned to an empty house at least knowing all her friends had congratulated her on the patio. 43 is a nice back nine score!

Janet topped off her best ever round of 74, with an eagle on 18 last week!!

Finally, the illustrious (or not) foursome of Carol, Linda M, Ene and Barb blew any chance of winning a skin on #4 after lining up their tee shots like little soldiers in the trap. Must have been the wind! Right?

We hope you had a big handful of 2020 golf stories that brought a smile to your face or an eruption of laughter. Life needs lots of these moments to make it special.

Have a safe and healthy winter season and look forward to reconvening in 2021 to whatever that golf season may allow. There is a good possibility many of us will be running into each other over the course of the off season.

Thanks for allowing us to share your stories. 

Anne and Barb

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Some early fall colour.

One additional note about the Nassau Game on Tuesday:

If your handicap is an odd number, instead of using .5 you are going to use the larger number on the front nine and the smaller number on the back nine. For example, if your handicap is 27 subtract 14 from your gross score on the front to get your net score, and similarly subtract 13 from your gross score on the back to get your net. The front nine rating is higher so you can use the higher "half" and we don't have to worry about subtracting .5's.

Now we need a sun dance for Tuesday!  

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A great day!!

A message from Susan Ross-Foster:

Our team would like to share what an incredible day we had.  Great weather, great people, and an overall awesome golf day!!  Janet said it was her best game ever!!  I have yet to break 100 again, but I did get a 105!!  We had lots of laughs and lots of pars along with:

Joanne had a birdie at #8

Moneen had 3 pars

Janet had a birdie at #4 and an eagle at #18

I almost had a hole in one, but got a birdie on #13

We finished all the birdie juice in the bag!!

Congrats all!

And thanks for sharing, Susan.

Highly Modified Closing Field Day

A message from Anne:

Given this very odd year and the fact that we cannot do a formal Closing Field Day, your Games Captain has suggested we do a Nassau Game for Tuesday, September 29.  It is an easy game and one that can be decided on the day but still brings a little fun and gamewomanship (now that has stumped spellcheck!) into the day.  Signup will be digital.

A Nassau is basically broken up into three bets -- low NET front nine score, low NET back nine score and low NET total score. There are no ties; there must be a winner for money to be exchanged.

1. I suggest a $2 Nassau bet. So bring 3 toonies or 6 loonies!
2. If you lose all your bets, the most you can lose is $6. 
3. Assuming a $2 bet, 
• Win low net for the front 9, win $6.00 ($8.00 including your own $2.00). 
• Win low net for the back 9, win $6.00.
• Win low net for 18 holes you win $6.00 OR $18.00 if you won all 3 bets. 

If your foursome does not want to play the Nassau game, just play as you normally would. There is no grand prize, no jumping into the pond on #13 and no dousing the Games Captain with champagne - unless she can have a glass first....well ...frankly... the bottle. 

Don't worry about strokes/hole - just use your handicap for 18 holes. Divide by it 2 for the front nine and the back nine. Not 100% accurate but not an issue for this kind of game.

You can all crow about your vertiginous paths to victory at the 19th hole.

So - go out there and have fun.

Anne ⛳🍇

A message from our Tuesday convenors

As you know, Dalewood is aerating the greens next week.  The Pro Shop have told us that all golf on Tuesday will only be 9 holes including Womens' League. This will give everyone a chance to play since only 9 holes will be playable.  We still have our times blocked for morning and afternoon, but just for 9 holes.  If your group finishes 9 holes and only if no one is booked on the Tee sheet (you will have to check in at the Pro Shop) the group may continue to play another 9 holes.

Where's my ball?

Yesterday, Ann Abbott, Laurie Pudwell and Diane Arsenault were walking up to the 5th. As Diane was approaching the area she noticed something shiny high up in a spruce tree. Sure enough, some poor golfer has hooked his ball into the trees and from the height of it, it was still flying when it lodged itself in the branches 10 feet off the ground. He probably looked for a long time never realizing that the ball was over his head.

Diane is now the proud owner of a yellow Taylormade 1 ball in mint condition having only played 5 holes before it got lost.

Can you find the ball?

Thanks for sending, Diane.