Magical Six Tree Tour

Well it was a fitting end to our last rated round played at Kincaid for the summer. It was a little windy. We had 17 people show up and toss plastic in the wind, hopefully generally towards the blue b ... show more ›

Well it was a fitting end to our last rated round played at Kincaid for the summer. It was a little windy. We had 17 people show up and toss plastic in the wind, hopefully generally towards the blue baskets.

Groves led the whole field with his -2 taking down first place in A pool. He wasn't shooting lights out, but he was the only player to only have one bogey on the round. And in the wind, that means he was king. But he still get props for getting his 3 birdies on the harder gets on the night. He was the only birdie on hole 17, one of two people to get hole 1, and one of four to birdie hole 11. Sidenote, you had to be named Scott to birdie hole 1, congrats to Scott Haviland for also getting that birdie. Travis showed up and battled Groves all round, but Grove's birdie on 17 put him up one for the win leaving Thompson at -1 for 2nd place. I took 3rd (E) and was the only one to birdie hole 14.

Sramek, Benedict, and Munoz all crossed the finish line together with their +2, and thus winning B pool. They all did it in separate fashion by Sramek getting one birdie, Benedict two, and Munoz none. Either way they all split the cash at $12.67 each. And what kind of recap wouldn't want to recognize that Sramek indeed birdied hole 8 again, I for one was on pins and needles to see if he could do it twice in a row. But this time he shared the honor with a couple of his lowly A pool brethren. Oddly enough, 4th place in B pool was also split by 3 fellas, all at +7.

DelReal pulled out the victory in C pool against the mighty Scott of hole 1 fame. Didn't have any spectacular holes, but he kept it level headed and tossed a lot of over-stable plastic in the wind. Truth be told he tosses a lot of over-stable plastic in the calm. He's Anchorage's own Aaron Gossage, but less mustachey.

Hole 4 played the easiest for us, but not by much with the wind. We were only .18 strokes under par, and 5 players got the birdie. Hole 1 was the only other hole to play under par at .06 under and 2 birdies (the great Scotts). Hole 14 played at par and every other hole was over par.

And over par they were. Hole 6 was a full stroke over par with no birds. Though I saw a picture, that Travis swears on his least favorite putter, claiming his drive landed in circle earlier in the day. Hole 12, 10, and 17 all played at more than a half stroke over par with only half of team Scott getting a bird on 17. There were no holes that weren't bogey'd at least once.

As our schedule shows, that was our last rated Kincaid round of the summer. We'll be at Alcantra next week as we prepare to rally at the valley.

This weekend is the final Moose Pretzel tourney of the summer. Plenty of room to get signed up. And the weather looks fairly decent.