2016 SCORES
Calcutta Final Event Results - 2016
PGA Pretenders Final Green Jacket Standings - 2016
Event 8 Update
Gents,
Attached is my spreadsheet with the scores for last Saturday’s round at Pagoda Ridge. Of more importance is the Tab for the Green Jacket race (see last scoring sheet on this page, steve). The calculation gets a little tricky with not everyone having played all rounds and having to add rounds for the highest net to make up a sufficient number of rounds for scoring purposes. The net of all this is this year’s Green Jacket race is very much a three-man affair. By my calculation Kim Madsen is in the lead with Dale Borland and Peter Sidonio lurking just two strokes behind. In fourth place is Steve Cain but because of our averaging mechanism Steve would have to make up 17 net strokes on Kim in the final round and 15 on both Dale and Peter to vault into the lead. If you want a real long shot at the bottom of the list is Al Goulding and Dave Alexander who would need to make up 55 strokes to win the Jacket. The rest of us are comfortably somewhere in-between sad and bad. If we are sticking with doing the wind-up at the course on Saturday the determination of the Green Jacket winner should be fairly straight forward. If Dale and Peter beat Kim by two strokes I may have to pull out my calculator to the 10th decimal point to confirm the final winner but it shouldn’t be that difficult. I will wait until Wednesday to finalize the course handicaps but I am not expecting any significant changes.
VG
Gents,
Attached is my spreadsheet with the scores for last Saturday’s round at Pagoda Ridge. Of more importance is the Tab for the Green Jacket race (see last scoring sheet on this page, steve). The calculation gets a little tricky with not everyone having played all rounds and having to add rounds for the highest net to make up a sufficient number of rounds for scoring purposes. The net of all this is this year’s Green Jacket race is very much a three-man affair. By my calculation Kim Madsen is in the lead with Dale Borland and Peter Sidonio lurking just two strokes behind. In fourth place is Steve Cain but because of our averaging mechanism Steve would have to make up 17 net strokes on Kim in the final round and 15 on both Dale and Peter to vault into the lead. If you want a real long shot at the bottom of the list is Al Goulding and Dave Alexander who would need to make up 55 strokes to win the Jacket. The rest of us are comfortably somewhere in-between sad and bad. If we are sticking with doing the wind-up at the course on Saturday the determination of the Green Jacket winner should be fairly straight forward. If Dale and Peter beat Kim by two strokes I may have to pull out my calculator to the 10th decimal point to confirm the final winner but it shouldn’t be that difficult. I will wait until Wednesday to finalize the course handicaps but I am not expecting any significant changes.
VG
Week 4 Update from our Scoring Meister
Back in the GJ lead is Dale Borland with a net 70.0. With his last two rounds being net 68 and net 69 I would expect to see his index begin to drop from 7.8 where it has been since the beginning of the season. Statistically you would think that his index should go down to as low as 5.8 so that his net scores will begin to average 72. We will see what his RCGA posting yields. If this occurs this should tighten the race with 13 of the 20½ players in the 70 -75 net average range with 5 rounds still to play.
This week’s low net was Bob Garries with a net 66. Playing with Bruce Davidson obviously had the effect of putting Knuckles on the roller coaster, in a good way. JR, also in the group, was convinced that Bruce Davidson wasn’t recording the scores correctly so who really knows what happened in that group? Drew Lyon had his best round of the year with a net 67 as did Doug Player who pulled some horseshoes out of his ass and one-putted enough greens to record a 39 on the back which carried him to a net 67 as well. Kim Madsen had one of the KPs but I didn’t catch who got the second one? The Pink Ball was won by Group 4 (Burns, Walters, Leigh Sr and Overgaard) with a net -5 on the Pink Ball. 3 of 5 groups kept the Pink Ball for all 18 holes which must be close to a PGA record. Is the average quality of play in our group improving or is everyone getting so old that they can’t hit the ball far enough into the bush to lose it? Ken Sherk had one of those days to forget, losing the Pink Ball for his group and shooting a net 83 for the high net of the day. He got over it quickly however and seemed unusually happy with his prize of half a hat and a couple of sleeves of NXT balls?
VG
Back in the GJ lead is Dale Borland with a net 70.0. With his last two rounds being net 68 and net 69 I would expect to see his index begin to drop from 7.8 where it has been since the beginning of the season. Statistically you would think that his index should go down to as low as 5.8 so that his net scores will begin to average 72. We will see what his RCGA posting yields. If this occurs this should tighten the race with 13 of the 20½ players in the 70 -75 net average range with 5 rounds still to play.
This week’s low net was Bob Garries with a net 66. Playing with Bruce Davidson obviously had the effect of putting Knuckles on the roller coaster, in a good way. JR, also in the group, was convinced that Bruce Davidson wasn’t recording the scores correctly so who really knows what happened in that group? Drew Lyon had his best round of the year with a net 67 as did Doug Player who pulled some horseshoes out of his ass and one-putted enough greens to record a 39 on the back which carried him to a net 67 as well. Kim Madsen had one of the KPs but I didn’t catch who got the second one? The Pink Ball was won by Group 4 (Burns, Walters, Leigh Sr and Overgaard) with a net -5 on the Pink Ball. 3 of 5 groups kept the Pink Ball for all 18 holes which must be close to a PGA record. Is the average quality of play in our group improving or is everyone getting so old that they can’t hit the ball far enough into the bush to lose it? Ken Sherk had one of those days to forget, losing the Pink Ball for his group and shooting a net 83 for the high net of the day. He got over it quickly however and seemed unusually happy with his prize of half a hat and a couple of sleeves of NXT balls?
VG
Week 2 Scoring Notes
Bulls Eye is now directly on the back of Steve “Citizen” Cain and Kim “Pumpkin” Madsen who are the new frontrunners after early co-leaders Killeen and Mason suffered a slip in 2nd round performance. Beware of ZZ Borland always lurking near the lead, known to compensate for a bad shoulder with the late delivery of a confusing scorecard. In the “isn’t it a shame” category is Doug “Beerhead” Player who would also be in a share of the lead were it not for his punishing 8 stroke sanction for not posting his April 2nd score in a timely fashion…..
VG
Bulls Eye is now directly on the back of Steve “Citizen” Cain and Kim “Pumpkin” Madsen who are the new frontrunners after early co-leaders Killeen and Mason suffered a slip in 2nd round performance. Beware of ZZ Borland always lurking near the lead, known to compensate for a bad shoulder with the late delivery of a confusing scorecard. In the “isn’t it a shame” category is Doug “Beerhead” Player who would also be in a share of the lead were it not for his punishing 8 stroke sanction for not posting his April 2nd score in a timely fashion…..
VG