A PERFECT DAY FOR GOLF AND A VERY FAST TRACK!

NOTE: This week’s volunteer contributing writer is long time ATAGer Tom Kisgen, a professional engineer by trade but better known to all of us as the ATAG Humorist.

April 19, 2016 ATAG Reporter: Tom Kisgen

A full field of golfers showed up for this week’s match on Ansley’s onerous back nine, playing considerably shorter these days thanks to the dry Spring weather and the short zoysia grass which is just starting to wake-up from a long winter’s nap.   Twenty lucky ATAGers were rewarded by Mother Nature with beautiful mild weather and a gentle breeze on this day

Commish’s team does it again!

Well, that’s not actually true, but the Commish’s pre-match pick as this week’s favorites nearly pulled it off. John Wymer, Mike Gaddis, Tom Houle and David Danzig won the match in a tie-breaker over the Commish’s odds on favorites– Ron Majors, Brooks Cowles, Tim Martin and Frank Corrigan. This week’s winning score was a not so impressive 8 under, considering the ideal scoring conditions. Sponsoring the free drinks for the winners were the DAL team of William Thornton, Jeff Colbath, Pat Murphy and Mike Schmal with a score of 2 under. And with the other two teams turning in scores of 3 under and 4 under, this was a day of mediocre play with perhaps 1 or 2 exceptions. But, congrats to the winners! And better luck next time to all the rest of us.

LOW NET WINNER: Frank Corrigan, firing a blistering 43, for a net 31, was unchallenged as this week’s low net champ! Frank advised that his card featured 4 pars, 1 birdie (more on that in a minute) and 4 “others” in his round, which nearly won low gross honors.   Frank took home this week’s purse of twenty bucks.

LOW GROSS WINNER: Narrowly squeaking by Frank’s 43 gross was this week’s low gross winner Ron Majors with a score of 42. Ron confessed that the best thing about his round was showing up on the first tee and witnessing Frank’s great play.

PINK LADY WINNER: In a rout, Kevin McGlynn posted a net 10 over to walk away with the pink lady award this week.

SHOT OF THE DAY: Numerous candidates for shot of the day included Scotty Greene’s skulled hybrid approach to hole number 17, which bounced off the wall of clear creek and scooted up onto the green for an improbable par, and John Wymer’s remarkable pars on holes 15 (sunk a 75 foot par putt) and a pitch from somewhere near the tennis courts to 3 feet from the pin on number 18 green to save par. But, the clear cut shot of the day belongs to Frank Corrigan, whose tee shot on 18 was stiff to the pin for a tap in birdie!   Way to go, Frank!

BIRDIE CLUB: The Birdie Train kept rolling thanks to the individual efforts of Frank Corrigan and Jeff Colbath, each of whom birdied # 18, the latter making his first ATAG appearance of the year.

SEEN ON THE COURSE: Debra, our lovely former drink cart lady, back in town for a short visit, graced us with her presence at the first tee, where she gave out those warm soft Debra hugs to several of her favorite ATAGers.  The Commish’s team was apparently awarded a mulligan on those hugs over at the 12^th tee. (see Gallery) And not seen on the course this week thankfully, was that loud and obnoxious helicopter moving up and down along the Beltline right of way, and disturbing our peace. Good riddance.

19^TH HOLE CHATTER: A perfect day for golf turned into a perfect evening for lingering on the upper porch, enjoying good company, good wings (more on that in a minute) and the pleasant weather. Danny Morris notched a cameo appearance after he came by to catch the recap of the stories of our golfing exploits. Double D (aka David Danzig)  was chastised for his blistering commentary on the quality of the free wings the previous week, along the lines of not looking a gift horse in the mouth. Someone coming to his defense commented about the undersized and overcooked “quail wings” they served last week. Scotty Greene’s name came up in reference to his late arrival to the match, causing him to miss his tee time, a no no and who was also noticed to leave early (another no no).  A couple of us (names intentionally omitted) commented about the sheer luck of not hitting any cars with our blocked and sliced drives off number 10 tee to start the round.

All in all, another great day for golf and the continuing saga of ATAG.

COMMISSIONER’S COMMENTS:

Thanks to Mr. Kisgen for his concise recap. It was a truly beautiful and warm afternoon that saw another full field of 20 ATAGers, and I was glad that the Commissioner’s Team dodged the curse by barely escaping the dungeon thanks to a woeful performance by another pairing. And, congrats to “Lucky Frank” Corrigan, who has a garage full of pink golf balls, for his best ever round of 43 for a net 5 under to win his first ever low net booty. Corrigan claims he had won it before, but a review of the stats from 2006 through 2015, could not substantiate such a claim.

That’s it for this week’s recap. Check out the photos in the Gallery and scroll down for the individual scores from today’s match.

4-19-2016   Final Results    Back Nine   Gross/Net

Majors                                                      42/38

Corrigan                                             43/31

Martin                                                      43/37

Gaddis                                                       44/38

Murphy                                                      45/38

Nichols                                                       46/35

Thornton                                                    46/40

Schmal                                                         46/41

Wymer                                                         48/36

Danzig                                                           48/36

Greene                                                         48/41

Kisgen                                                           49/37

Colbath                                                          49/39

Williamson                                                    49/41

Jobson                                                             50/39

Healy                                                                50/42

Sellner                                                              51/39

Cowles                                                               51/41

Houle                                                                 53/42

McGlynn                                                            56/46