The Final Four??

With a devastating loss to Ron at his home course, Karl(with a K) may be on the brink of elimination from this year's Provisional Mulligan Cup. Last week he suffered defeat in a close match with LT, and finds himself clearly behind both LT and Ron at this point . Ron, Sam, K, and K's son in law, Ryan went to Humboldt this past Friday. Ron had to give K 2 strokes. Karl was quickly up 3 with a par on #1, but when Ron birdied #7 it was all square. Ron's par on #8 put him up 1. Meanwhile, Sam despite bogies on #1and #2, went on to record a one over 36. When he birded #15 he was back to even. A disappointing bogie on #16 was costly, but Sam went on to record a 1 over 71. Karl started the back with 2 pars and was back up 1. However, Ron birdied #12 to even things up. As they approached the difficult #17 (a 310 yard monster par 4), Ron held a 1 stroke lead. Ron was happy to get a 6 while Karl managed to only take 4 shots from 55 yards out for a 5 and to square the match up. Karl hit his tee shot on #18 into #17's fairway, so he took his mulligan and hit it into the green side pond. He dropped by the ladies tee box on #17 and hit his 3rd shot 3 feet from the hole. Ron took an easy par, but despite the penalty stroke, all Karl needed was to hit the short putt for a tie. It wasn't even close. When asked about his experience of getting to play with the Friday Fivesome, Ryan had this to say:"Without a doubt, it was the highlight of my life. What amazing athletes! You can read the blog all you want, but until you actually experience the intensity of these matches, you really are clueless." Karl owes Ron 1 lunch and will get 3 strokes next time.

Scores-Birdies

S-36/35-71-2

R-40/4o-80-2

K-43/40-83-0