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This past weekend was my annual golf trip to Kentucky. We had some guys who couldn't go so we went down there with 10 players which is two short of what we want.
We had been told that our normal first day course, Mineral Mounds, was in bad shape so we decided to play Arrowhead in Cadiz which is the closet town to Lake Barkley Lodge. My round started great with a birdie on the first hole and then started downhill on the second before going totally kaput. A bad golf day was made worse when the remote to my vehicle wouldn't work but I could still open the door and get it started so I had to make a 30 mile trip to the nearest Dodge dealer to have the battery replaced. The process only took a few minutes so it was to the cabins for supper and setting up teams and remembering some of the rules. Day two was 36 holes at Boots Randolph golf course with the morning being your own score and the afternoon being a five man scramble. My bad play continued most of the morning session shooting a 52 on the front and feeling pretty bad about my game. I did turn it around somewhat on the back but had to finish birdie and par on the last two holes to break 100 with a 46. After a lunch break we were all ready to go when the rain came and we were forced to hole up in cart storage shed for a lengthy wait. Just as we were thinking real hard about calling it a day the rain let up and we were able to get out on the course. It was cart paths only which made for a lot of walking but with five people on a team it wasn't too bad and my team was able to overcome my continuing poor play to win the event. Day three was the big day! Morning was the medal round and the afternoon was the legendary Lenn Carsrud Pink Ball Tournament. I was in the first group in the morning with Gary and Mike so we were able to move along pretty quickly. On the front nine I got off to a good start with a bogey and a par and continued to play a lot better recording a 44 and feeling a lot better about my game. On the back nine I kept it up and ended shooting a 45 for a total of 89. Not great but I knew I wasn't bringing back the dreaded last place trophy with woman golfer on top which I'd 'won' last year which was my #1 goal for the weekend. As players started coming in for our lunch break my score managed to hold up so I was the medalist for 2016 both gross and net. We then headed out for the pink ball tournament in which each team gets one pink ball and the person with the ball is allowed to tee off from the women's tee. Once the ball is lost the team can no longer tee off from the women's tee which is a big advantage. Last year I lost our pink ball on the very first hole so goal #2 was to not lose the pink ball. My team was Tim, Mike and myself plus whoever had the pink ball got an extra white ball shot since we only had three players. We played really well and only had a couple of close calls on losing the pink ball plus we made all but three of our putts with it so that was worth an extra point each time. We also finished with our pink ball so we got an extra five point bonus for a total of 48 points which we were feeling pretty good about. After the other two teams finally showed up scores were compared and we won which was great but then it was brought out that we'd scored it wrong and actually had 53 points. That night was the awards 'ceremony' which was a lot better than last years as I got low gross, net and my team won the pink ball. A lot better than last year when I had the high score award and took a lot of ribbing on losing the pink ball on the first swing. Day four was back to Arrowhead for the anticlimactic two man scramble. My team was me and Mike and we managed to compliment each other and pull out some pars that shouldn't have been plus a few birdies. With two holes left we were even par when Mike hurt his forearm and I had to carry on along which was too big for me and we bogeyed the last two for a 74 which was good enough for the win. Overall a very fun but exhausting weekend with a lot better results than last year.
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