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The
Bixby Village Golf Course
Saturday
Morning, September 20, 2008
Photographer
Barbara Sue Warrick Worsham, Paul Kartinen, Tournament Chairman Bob Chrisman, Courtney
Hansen, and Bill Cheney
Click on the golf ball to see more pictures from the tournament and select
"Slide Show" above the picture at the far left in the top row. For best viewing, maximize your screen.
If you were in the tournament and have any anecdotes
you would like to share about it (or even to refute Bob's version of your golf skills) please e-mail bruins@wilson63.com
From Tournament Chairman Bob Chrisman:
The FABULOUS WILSON CLASS OF ‘63 GOLF
TOURNAMENT set a new standard for innovation. Bob Chrisman explained the 3-club rule but many participants had trouble
with the higher math. Next time, we may make it 2-clubs to keep things simple.
The many AWARDS included:
Closest to the Hole (which was a trash can buried in a sand bunker) won by Bill Cheney after bouncing
off a nearby tree!
Longest Drive won by Bob Chrisman who nixed his Putter for a 5 wood
Shortest
Drive won by Sara Erskine Schoenfelder
Deepest Water Shot - there was a lot of disgusting competition
for this award!
Low Gross Score - won by Pat Brown who was awarded a bucket of range balls after skating
into OUR Reunion although he was from the less-classy Class of '61
High Gross Score - won by Barbara Sue Warrick
– while still only halfway towards completing hole #1.
Although
we were better "behaved" than most Bruin Oldies, it seems that the Course Marshals found and removed a suspicious
COOLER from the 6th Tee Box when it was found to contain "all manner of suspicious intoxicating liquids." Hmmmm,
next time we will bury it!
Additionally, the Marshals almost called in the
CA National Guard to get the group of Sara Erskine, Jane Welch, and Jerry and Julie Freet moving along more quickly. It seems
that they were expected to finish the 1st par-3 hole in LESS THAN 30 MINUTES! Forming a group
of Courtney Hansen, Bob Chrisman, Bill Cheney & Paul Kartinen is like asking for trouble and the group of Bob Livingstone, Fred,
Richard and Dennie Hamilton King & Jim Brun appeared competitive but Dennie soon torpedoed that!
Gary
Smith was still imposing;
Tony Duarte was on his game;
Gary Hoover
looked the part;
John McClelland thought we were bowling and Oran Knowles suggested that “Curling” might
be more fun.
Don Singleton (who set records at Lowell Elementary for hitting baseballs onto the roofs of Rogers
Jr. High) continued to chase long balls all day;
Bill Cheney practiced for his Walking Marathon by spraying balls all
over the course and nearby neighborhoods and Courtney Hansen was typically not serious about golf (seriously!) and “gimme
putts” of six feet, or more, soon became the rage!
Other
than setting a new Bixby Course 9-hole record of about Five Hours, we all had a tremendously good time and actually
made it to the Bruin Picnic at the Wilson Quad on time (& warmed-up). If any course will accept us in the future,
we will strive to obliterate existing records for hilarity and for duplicating the mere semblance of the game of golf.
From Jane Welch Sprague:
OK, hold the presses! Jane here--and I take
offense to the comment that I was slow(?). First off, when I hit my first drive off the tee box (after a few of those
orange
juice drinks) all the guys were in ahhhhh at the distance and that it landed in the fairway. They were so excited
to have me on their team!!!
And that is my story and I am sticking to it?!?!?!
We moved along quite quickly, as I recall, until we stopped to try and find that hidden treasure
cooler only to be told we were taking too long and that it had been confiscated. Oh, well. But we did have fun--or
at least I did--with my gaggle of men.*!*!*!!*
The Picnic 2008
Wilson Reunion 2008
Music:
Theme from "Star Wars"
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