"That's Good"

"That's good" are words every player loves to hear, even if they don't hear it. (I'll explain later.) S,K,R, and M traveled to Dyersburg to play The Farms on an unseasonably cool and beautiful Friday. Although a little wet,(cart paths only), the course was in excellent condition. Mike was feeling frisky and demanded that we play from the back tees. M gave R 10 strokes and R gave K 2. Ron hit a 22 foot putt on #1 for birdie. Karl hit the shot of the day on #2, a 215 yard 5 wood into the wind to within 6 feet. He hit the putt to go 1 under. His stellar play continued and despite having two 5 foot putts lip out, was 2 over going into #8. Karl hit a perfect drive over the lake, He took his trusty 5 wood and hit a good shot pin high but left. Unfortunately, the ball had apparently hit the cart path and was just out of bounds. Karl went to drop where his drive was and completed the hole. However, as he stood over his putt for an 11, the rest of the group had departed for #9. Karl hit what he thought was a perfect 5 foot putt only to have it go 365 degrees around the hole, so he tapped in for a 12. While Karl struggled on the hole, Sam had his only birdie of the day. At the turn: S-37,M-40,R-41,K-46.Ron putted well all day and sank a nice putt for his second birdie on #12. Karl fought his way back but was only able to get within 3 going into #18. Karl laid up his second shot to 138 yards. Ron, however, hit his second into the water. Ron's 4th shot just made it over the water(thanks to encouragement from Karl) and was to the left of the green. Karl's 3rd was about 14 feet from the hole. He hit an absolute perfect birdie putt, only to see it lip out. Ron was able to get on, 2 putt, and get a 7 for an apparent 1 stroke victory over Karl. Mike hit a nice 9 footer for his only birdie of the day, but Ron was able to beat Mike by 2. Now, back to "That's Good". As the four players headed to Neil's for lunch, Karl was reminiscing how many putts he had lip out, and especially the one on #8 for a 12. His partner Mike then asked: "You mean you counted that missed putt? Ron had already said "That's Good". So Karl went from the depths of despair to the sweet taste of victory(or at least a tie).
Scores: birdies
Mike-40/39-79: 1
Sam-37/43-80: 1
Ron-41/47-87: 2
Karl-45/44-89: 1

Mike owes Ron 1 lunch and will give 9. Ron and Karl are even and Karl will get 2.

Darby Celebrates Early Birthday

Today, Ron takes one step closer to the senior tees and TFF wishes the Yankee Doodle Dandy a happy birthday! Yesterday, he hit drives like he should have already been hitting from the white tees, and his ability to keep score showed early signs of Alzheimer's. S,K,LT, and R went to the newly reopened and renamed Chickasaw GC. It was in good shape and had the best crowd playing that TFF had ever seen. However, TFF fears that the green fees are too high and will hinder many from playing. TFF would highly suggest lower fees, promotions, advertising,anything they could do to increase play. Anyway, the weather was perfect, but the score keeping was not. The problem occurred on #1 where R hit his second shot in the water and somehow managed a bogey 6. Four hours later, on the way home, R confessed that he should have had a 7. It was too little too late for K. K birdied #3 and was playing well until hole #8 where he took a double. Ron was all over the course, but thanks to Sam finding his ball on every hole was scoring well. His drive on #8 just missed the hole for an easy birdie and a 3 stroke swing with K that would prove to be the difference in the match. Sam hit the ball well all day and made the turn with a 37(1 bogey 3 putt on #8). He was feeling pretty good about himself until Ron announced that he had a 38.(This would be later changed to a 39) LT was struggling but was only 4 strokes behind K at the turn. However, his start on the back appeared to do him in. His first drive appeared to be in the ditch. His mulligan went deep into the woods. He dropped and hit his third shot into the woods. While crossing the ditch LT was prepared to drop and hit his 5th shot. Guess what he ended up getting? That's right a birdie! Only the current Provisional Mulligan Cup holder and creator of "LT Rules" could pull off such a score. He found his drive across the ditch, knocked it up onto the green then hit a 29 foot putt for birdie! K took a bogey 5 and suddenly LT was within 2 strokes of K. However,LT was right back out of it with a 8 on #12 and never regained any steam. Sam's good play continued paring the first 2 but took a double on the par 3 12th. He got 1 back on the tough #17 with his only birdy. and finished with another 37. Karl believing that he was 2 strokes down (with 1 stroke R had to give) hit the drive of his life on #18 and was 115 out. His 2nd shot was 14 feet from the hole. When his birdy attempt was just short, he gave Ron a 5 footer for par thinking the match was over. This brings us back to the controversial scoring by R on #1. Oh well, it's too late now, Happy Birthday Ron!
Scores and Birdies:
S-37/37-74--1
R39/39-78--1
K-41/39-80--1
LT-45/46-91--1

K will be gone next week, be sure to save the card.

The Fans Have Spoken!!!

In a landslide vote, Karl(with a K) was the overwhelming choice as the leader at the half-way point for this year's Provisional Mulligan Cup. The vote total slightly missed surpassing American Idol's almost 100 million votes. A TFF spokesman stated," We would have easily out numbered American Idol's total if we allowed more than 1 vote per person like they do." Nonetheless, the fans spoke loud and clear about their choice. Karl totaled 57% of the votes, while the other 4 combined accounted for only 43% with Mike a distant 2nd with 21%.Karl stated:"I'm really surprised that I didn't win by more, but alot of these fans know very little about what The Provisional Mulligan Cup is all about. I'm sure if you asked the other 4 in the group that I would be the unanimous choice at this point and barring some catastrophe this year's trophy is all mine."
TFF blogspot has some catching up to do. The lawsuit by LT put everything in limbo and we just now have our feet back on the ground. To refresh your memory, the lawsuit was over the missing scorecard that was later found to be in Karl's home. It was the scorecard from the first victory of the year by team LT/R at The Tennessean. They dominated the match closing out on hole #17.
Scores:
M- 40/40-80
K-47/50-97
LT-48/41-89
R-44/40-84
Birdies:
M-2
Pars:
R-10
M-6
LT-5
K-0

The next update was with K,S,M,and R at Falcon Ridge.
Scores:
K-42/49-91
M-38/38-76
S-40/39-79
R-41/45-86
Birdies:
M-2
S-1


The next update is from Jone's Creek that was in poor playing condition.
Scores:
M-41/37-78
S-43/36-79
K-43/43-86
R-46/50-96
Birdies:
S-1
A couple of notes:
1. Hole #16 is now a par 4 making par 71.
2. Ron's friend Ernie played with us and as a result "The Ernie Rule" was instituted as part of TFF's rules. It states:" If a player brings a friend that is dumb enough to pay off his lunch debts for him than he is allowed to do so."

Last week, K,S,M, played with Mike's friend Rusty(he didn't even offer to buy anybody a coke, so there will be no "Rusty Rule".) at Falcon Ridge. Mike had the round of the year posting a 73(1 over), while pretending that his back was hurting just in case Rusty beat him. Mike bogied #'s 5 and 10 and his lone birdie was #4. Congratulations to Mike for his score and for hopefully being a grandpa by the time he reads this!
Scores and birdies:
M-36/37-73--1
S-38/40-78--0
K-39/51-90--1

TFF blogspot will henceforth make every attempt to report scores on a more timely basis. We are still missing 1 score from when LT,R,and S played at Falcon Ridge, but according to rule #63, a scorecard must be presented. As best that we can tell:
All players are square on lunches (due to K forfeiting one lunch to LT as part of lawsuit.) R and LT give K 1 stroke. Mike gives Ron 10. LT/R get 14. Hope to see all Friday!