What a Glorious Day It Turned Out To Be, Kinda !!
Well, A Really Nice Day, Hmmm.. It was a day!
The morning of August 15th dawned bright and clear, with Josh Kiev and Gary Rawson busily icing down case after case of water and sports drinks at the pavillion of the Legends Club. All the preparations came together like the smooth movement of a watchmakers arts. The raffle items were displayed, and the tickets ready for sale. Nice gifts, a Sanyo flat screen television, an O'Gio golf bag, a Nautica gym bag. The prizes for "closest ball to the pin" and "longest drive " were a georgous set of 24 Titlest balls, and there were golf gloves, umbrellas, coffee mugs and shirts.
The Club pros tell us that 128 players are optimal for a shotgun start, and the ACF had 112 signed up with three or four jumping in at the last moment. The turnout was great as registration started. Cathy and Ramona got everyone registered as Ruth Schiflin and her husband sold the raffle tickets. There was a bunch of freebee's, hats, pens, divit fixers, box cutters, and the proverbial forever golf towels- everybody loaded up and jumped on their cart.
The teams included: Sheraton Music City, J&M Catering, Overton Produce, US Food Knoxville, US Food Lamb Weston, US Food Tyson, FoodService Inc, Atlanta Foods, T.W. Wilson, TRA, Nashville Gas, Unilever Best Foods, Lipman, JCD Manufacturing, Purity Dairy, Inland Seafood, Schwans Bakery, Robert Orr Sysco, Golf Nuts, Manchester Co. C.C., Bluegrass C.C., Buckhead Beef, Schreiber, Food Staff, Coca-Cola, Gordons Food Service, and Marketing Specialists. - Not a bad bunch of guys and gals.
By 3:00 pm the first thunder boomer dumped on the golf course. The horn blew and all the teams had to leave the fairways. The rain lasted about 20 minutes, and all were ready to jump back out on the course. Well... sure enough after 13 holes played, the rains came again, the horn blew again and everyone got off the course again. This time the field judges called the tournament due to rain. Unfortunately, a golf course gets unplayable and easily damaged after being soaked, so according to PGA rules, the judges called it.
Mark Weber and some of Josh's guys from the Bluegrass Country Club fired up the steaks and baked potatoes. The raffle prizes were given out, but the trophies will have to be bumped to next years tourney. A couple of guys did win on the two smaller contests. "Closest to the Pin" was won by Jeff Bailey of Fresh Point Overton, and "Longest Drive" was won by Mallory Church of Coca Cola - congratulations.
The steaks were great, the beer refreshing and the company was fun. Plus, the ice cream sandwiches provided by Purity Dairies were a big hit.
So, just like the fishermans story, this tournament is the big one that got away. A good story for the telling and held in high hopes for next year.
In primitive society, when native tribes beat the ground with clubs and yelled, it was called witchcraft; today, in civilized society, it is called golf.
Golf is an expensive way of playing marbles.
Golf is a game in which the slowest people in the world are those in front of you, and the fastest are those behind.
Golf: A five mile walk punctuated with disappointments.
The secret of good golf is to hit the ball hard, straight and not too often.
There's no game like golf: you go out with three friends, play eighteen holes, and return with three enemies.
Golf was once a rich man's sport, but now it has millions of poor players.
An amateur golfer is one who addresses the ball twice: once before swinging, and once again after swinging.
Many a golfer prefers a golf cart to a caddy because the cart cannot count, criticize or laugh. |
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