GOLF AT PINE LAKES, 4/29/13

CYPRESS KNOLL WGA
LOW NET
FLIGHT 1: RITA MILLER 73. FLIGHT 2: PAT KAWA 58, ALICE MANTHEY 56. FLIGHT 3:
TIE, JUDY IVEY AND CAROL ROSS 75. BIRDIE: PAT KAWA NO. 3

DEB CROWLEY, ONE OF THE BEST GOLFERS IN FLORIDA AND IN STATES OF THE NORTH, WAS ABSENT FOR THIS EVENT, A RARE HAPPENING FOR A HALL OF FAME GOLFER.
SHE WAS INDUCTED FOR THAT SPECIAL HONOR IN A SOLD-OUT GATHERING AT PINE LAKES.
CROWLEY IS ORIGINALLY FROM MASSACHUSETTS BUT NOW SPENDS HER FREE TIME DURING COLD PERIODS IN FLORIDA AT A NEW HAMPSHIRE SITE WHERE SHE ALSO EMERGES AS AN OUTSTANDING GOLF PERFORMER.

RESULTS AT GRAND RESERVE
MONDAY, APRIL 29
LADIES LEAGUE/LOW GROSS-LOW NET
FLIGHT 1: LOW GROSS DIANE FOUNTAINE 85 M/C. FLIGHT B:  LOW GROSS JANICE PETERSON 93.
LOW NET BARBARA CVETKO 75 M/C. FLIGHT C: LOW GROSS DIANA MARIANO 102.
LOW NETMARIE SPOSA 70. CLOSEST TO PIN: MIMI LENIO NO. 4, DIANE FOUNTAINE NO. 16. BIRDIE: MARIE SPOSA.

PALM HARBOR WGA MATCHES. PRO BOB DUQUETTE CHOSE THE 9 HOLES THAT WOULD COUNT FOR THE TOURNAMENT.  A TON OF APPLAUSE ERUPTED WHEN CAROLYN ORR BROKE THROUGH FOR AN EAGLE ON THE NUMBER 12 HOLE.
IN THE GAME PLAYED ON APRIL 30, CAROLYN ORR SCORED FIRST PLACE IN THE TOUGH FLIGHT 1 WITH A 28.  IN 2ND PLACE WAS BRANDA WARD WITH A COUNT  OF 33.5. THE POPULAR MIMI LENIO SQUEEZED OUT A THIRD PLACE TIE WITH GERRY BELL TO ROUND OUT THE OPENING FLIGHT.
JANE STURGIS HAMMERED HOME A SCORE OF 30 TO WIN THE 2ND FLIGHT.  ANN STEELE WAS ON HER BACK ALL THE WAY AND ALMOST MADE THE DISTANCE WHEN SHE SCORED A 30.5.  CAROL ROSS TOOK 3RD PLACE WHEN SHE HAMMERED HOM A COUNT OF 35.5.
BIRDIES ALSO FLEW ALL OVER THE PLACE THANKS TO THE PLAY OF  BRENDA WARD, HOLLY POND, GERRY BELL, ANN STEELE AND JANE STURGIS TWICE - HOLES NUMBER 11 AND 17 -

MATANZAS GOT BACK IN THE PICTURE WHEN ED MCLEAVEY LED THE WAY IN WINNING THE OPENING WHITE FLIGHT WITH STABLEFORD POINTS, NET AT THE HOLE, THE CHALLENGE. 
GORDON PATRICK SWEPT THE REMAINING NUMBERS FOR 2ND PLACE ON A SCORE OF 83-39.  PLEASE NOTE THE FIRST NUMBER, IN THIS CASE THE 83, IS WHAT THE PLAYER ACCOMPLISHED WITH AN OUTSTANDING ROUND OF PLAY ON A TOUGH GOLF COURSE. DAVE KAUFMAN GRABBED 3RD PLACE WHEN HE SCORE AN 86 FOR A NET OF 38.
IN THE ORANGE FLIGHT, DAVE YORK SLAMMED THE HAMMER DOWN WITH A SCORE OF 90 AND A NET OF 40. STEW MANTHEY, A GOLF STAR AT BOTH CYPRESS AND PINE LAKES, SPUN THE WHEEL FOR A ROUND OF 96 WITH A NET OF 37 AND WINNER OF A CARD MATCH.  RUSS BROWN TOOK THE GOLD FLIGHT WITH A NIFTY 95 AND A NET OF 39.  A DETERMINED BERNIE SHERIDAN WAS RIGHT BEHIND HIM FOR 2ND BEST, A NET SCORE OF 34.

THE GRAND CLUB NINERS WERE ALSO ON THE MOVE, PLAYING PINE LAKES AND COUNTING THE 5 BEST HOLES.  CANDY SCHMIDT WOTN FLIGHT A WITH A COUNT OF 16 ON A CARD MATCH, NAIDA REYES TAKING 2ND BEST. 
GINNY SCHUBERT WAS ANOTHER SOLID WINNER, SCORE A 16 ON GOOD PLAY AND A CARD MATCH.  NAIDA REYES HUNG IN THERE ALL DAY, HANGING UP A 16 OF HER OWN BUT LOST THE TOP SPOT ON THE SCHMIDT CARD MATCH.
FLIGHT B WENT TO GINNY SCHUBERT WITH A SCORE OF 18 AND ANOTHER CARD MATCH.  BONNIE BRUNSON LOST FIRST PLACE WHEN SHE TIED WITH 16 BUT MISSED OUT FIRST ON THE CARD MATCH.

FINALLY, I WANT RICK MCARDLE TO KNOW THAT WE AND OTHERS ARE STILL APPLAUDING WHEN HE WON THE GRAND HAVEN CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP, A SPECIAL EVENT HE HAS ACCOMPLISHED SEVERAL TIMES.
MCARDLE IS ONE OF THE NICEST PEOPLE YOU WILL EVER MEET IN YOUR LIFE.  NOT ONLY IS HE AN EXCEPTIONAL PLAYER OF THIS TOUGH GAME, HE LENDS HIS TALENT WHENEVER HE CAN TO HELP THE GOLF TEAMS AT LOCAL HIGH SCHOOLS.
ON A PERSONAL NOTE, WHEN I'M BLESSED TO SEE MCARDLE ON OR OFF THE GRAND HAVEN GOLF COURSE I SIMPLY STAND BACK AND APPLAUD FOR AS LONG AS THE GOOD HANDS WILL ALLOW.
IN MY SOMEWHAT BIASED OPINION, YOU OR I WILL NEVER MEET A BETTER PERSONALITY THAN RICK MCARDLE AND ONE DAY IN LIFE I AND OTHERS WHO ADMIRE AS WE DO WILL HAVE THE SINGULAR HONOR OF WATCHING RICK MCARDLE SLAM THE LITTLE WHITE BALL OR JUST SIT THERE AND TEACH HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AS HE DOES.
ALWAYS REMEMBER, GOLF IS A FASCINATING SPORT BECAUSE IT IS THE ONE AND ONLY THAT WE CAN PLAY ON THE LINKS TO THE EDGE OF 90 AND EVEN BEYOND.
REMEMBER THE GOLFER FROM PORTLAND MAINE WHO PLAYED UNTIL HE WAS 99 AND STILL SLAMMED THE GOLF BALL IN THE LOW NINETIES.

AND PLEASE ALWAYS KEEP IN MIND: PLAYING GOLF AT PINE LAKES OR CYPRESS KNOW IS TWO OF THE PLEASURES IN LIFE.  AS I'VE WRITTEN BEFORE, ANY TWO GOLF COURSES BUILT BY ARNOLD PALMER AND LITTLE BIG MAN GARY PLAYER HAVE PUT A SPECIAL MARK ON THE GRAND CLUB T HAT WILL STAND FOREVER.  GO PLAY THEM AND SEE FOR YOURSELF.

FINALLY, AS ONE OF MY VERY CLOSE FRIENDS IN THE NEWSPAPER COLUMN USED TO WRITE AT THE END: "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE!"
THANK YOU LEO CLOUTIER, WHEREVER YOU AE.