June 4, 2010 - Parity at last (sort of)

Parity, what a concept! Have we finally gotten the handicaps right? Has old age slowed down our hotshot golfers? Does Bagel whiz in the woods? This year we recognize four different golfers for four different accomplishments.

We're proud to welcome Ray Bailey to the IE6T7 winner's circle and award him the trophy. Ray carded a gross 105 and after applying his ginormous 36 handicap, he had a net 69 which was enough to slip past the despondent Pullam and Bagel who each thought they had won before the tally was completed. Here Les reluctantly hands over the trophy to the exuberant Ray.

Not to be outdone, Flinch took the low gross of 85, after many cries of "Did you see where my ball went?" Adare took long drive (yes you heard me, Adare) mostly because the competition put their balls into the rough. Pretty sneaky to pick that narrow uphill par 4, eh Doug? And Gup won close to the hole with a spectacular 8-iron that nearly hit the cup but rolled a few yards long.

Les introduced a new feature starting in 2010 called the Ted Swain Lifetime Achievement Award. This sounds like it may be a difficult concept to get your head around. Les decided that Swan must have achieved something in his life, so each year starting in 2010, he will choose some deserving member of our gang and acknowledge them in Ted's name.

This year after much abuse from our west end whiners (well, one whiner in particular) we decided to play Lakeview Golf Course in Mississauga, and it was pretty good. The fairways and greens were in good shape and the course is fun to play so we may return soon.

The turnout was greatly improved this year with a waiting list that could not be cleared. Returning after a long absence was Dave Peryer, our associate IE6T7 Mining Engineer and creator of the "Let Les Win" trophy. Good thing you didn't win it Dave or you'd have to come back from Philly next year.

After golf we moved on to California's in the Applewood Mall and imbibed on beer and munchies and lusted after Nicole. You know this gang is getting old when they have to send out for more O'Doul's.

Here's the data:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 out 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 in grs hcp net Adare 5 4 4 5 8 5 5 5 5 46 4 5 6 8 5 7 9 4 7 55 101 25 76 Bailey 6 8 4 6 8 7 6 5 4 54 4 8 6 5 6 6 6 4 6 51 105 36 69 Fenwick 5 5 3 7 7 6 7 8 5 53 3 4 8 6 5 5 8 2 7 48 101 18 83 Fraser 8 8 4 7 10 8 10 8 6 69 3 8 8 8 8 8 10 4 7 64 133 40 93 Guppy 4 5 3 3 6 5 6 8 4 44 4 7 5 4 5 4 7 3 6 45 89 15 74 Kingsbury 7 8 4 8 8 7 8 7 6 63 4 8 8 7 5 5 7 4 8 56 119 38 81 Lynch 4 5 3 6 7 5 5 5 3 43 3 5 3 5 5 5 7 3 6 42 85 11 74 Peryer 4 4 3 6 6 6 6 5 5 45 4 6 6 6 5 5 7 6 7 52 97 15 82 Pullam 4 5 3 4 7 5 8 5 4 45 4 5 6 6 5 4 7 3 4 44 89 17 72 Segal 4 5 4 5 8 6 7 6 5 50 3 5 4 6 4 5 8 4 7 46 96 23 73 Stephens 6 6 2 5 7 6 5 4 5 46 3 6 5 5 4 6 6 4 4 43 89 11 78 Swain 8 5 3 8 6 5 5 8 4 52 4 7 5 6 4 5 6 3 7 47 99 22 77
And the documentary evidence ...