Christopher Mucha
On May 31 PCM9GA, the “Golfing 9ers,” set conventional golf on its ears here at PebbleCreek with a Goofy Golf Tournament. The event was set as a tribute to retiring President Monte Page and retiring Vice President Mike D’Onofrio. That’s the point where everything normal changed. Most of all you know about conventional golf was thrown out the window in this topsy-turvy event.
Niners packed the Falls Course at TF and were greeted with surprises on every hole. This was not your normal three clubs and a putter strange-way-to-play-the-game. No, the golf gods were called upon to create the unusual and the bizarre. It was Hawaiian Shirt Day—any foursome having all Hawaiian shirts was able to deduct one stroke from their team total. The strange rules found everybody laughing hilariously and enhanced the comraderies that already exists within the club.
The insanity included the following:
*Using different color tee boxes on every hole
*Allowing higher handicap players to tee it up in the fairway on par 5‘s
*After hitting to the par 3’s—using the furthest ball from the hole and putting out with tennis balls and whiffle balls
*Playing a hole with only a driver from the tee to the cup
*Having multiple flags on a hole—foursome’s choice of play
*Putting through a flower garden obstacle course to the hole
*Free drops from sand traps and the desert
And to complete the day’s silliness, team payouts were not made to the lowest scores but rather the highest ones.
Team winners were: 1st Place: Bob Harry, Rick Fulton, Tom Pizello, and Barry Eisler; 2nd Place: Rene Lefebvre, Walt Himes, Larry Gleason and Guy Andrus; 3rd Place: Bjarne Kaer, Frank Castillo, Rob Risden, and Erv Stein. Monte Page and Don Burrows took home the Closest to the Pin money on the Par 3’s.
It was an event worth remembering and stories will be told about this event at the 19th hole for a long time.
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