Well it has finally arrived. The last night of league for 2023. All I can say is that it was a cooker. It has been a real pleasure handling the Wednesday night league and I appreciate the comments from those that are interested in what is going on. I want to thank my partner, Steve Taylor, for helping me with the skins each night. Also, to Dave Strackbein for putting up with my lack of computer knowledge in getting the stuff posted to the website. Hopefully we will all see each other at the DIEHARD. Remember the top 8 teams from each division will be playing the following 2 weeks division against division so your opponents and tee times will also be sent to you as well as on the website. Remember those playing will have to pay the greens fee etc. I have asked this in a prior letter about the division playoffs, if any of you want to play in the playoffs and you are not one of the top 8 you can be a sub for those I am sure will be gone during the Labor Day week. The dark will be a problem and we may have to cut the matches short because of it but it will be determined which division is slightly better than the other. I also want you to give Jim your thoughts about the great service we have gotten this past year, especially this past week in the oven as bottled water was brought out and offered to us. No other course would have done that. I thank Rachel and anyone else that was involved in that decision. So, for the last time this season.
The winners of the flag events this past week are as follows: Accounts will be adjusted by Jim.
Hole 2 Tom Halla Hole 8 Steve Green Hole 9 Matt Meunier
Hole 12 Mark Lemke Hole 15 Dave Miller Hole 18 Peter Smith
The birdies this week totaled 19 with 3 birdies of them “NOT-IN” the skins designation. DIV1 0-5 Hdcp. Paid out three skins for $18.00 Each. Mike Payne Hole #13 and Billy Niklasch had 2 skins for holes 10 & 14. DIV1 6+ Hdcp. Had only one birdie. Jeff Weirzba on Hole# 18 earned all $35.00. DIV2 0-6 hdcp had 8 birdies with 2 “NOT-IN.” All of them cancelled out as well as the PARS so the $$ will carryover to next year, week 1. DIV2 7+ Hdcp. Had only NO birdies with only two taking away $17.50 each with surviving pars. Andy Lober on hole #2 and Brandon Kingsley on hole #1.
Below are the tee times and those teams playing each other for Division Playoffs.
4:32 4:40 4:48 4:56 5:04 5:12 5:20 5:28
| 30Aug | West | 15-31 | 4-21 | 7-24 | 10-30 | 16-29 | 5-18 | 2-25 | 3 – 26 | |
| Sept 6 | East | 2-18 | 5 – 24 | 1-31 | 7 – 30 | 16-21 | 15-29 | 4-26 | 10-25 |
Team 1 qualified but is unable to play so next in line was Team# 3. Team #1 will play the 2nd week and Team #3 will not play.
Now the YEAR END RESULTS. Div1 Winner, Team #15 consisting of Dave Miller, Jr., Chad Miller and Paul Miller with a total of 160.5 points finished first 3.5 points ahead of the 2nd place team. The rest of the standings are as follows: 2nd Place – Team #4 with 157 pts., 3rd Place – Team #7 with 151.5 pts., 4th Place Team #10 with 151 pts., 5th Place – Team #16 with 150.5 pts., 6th Place tie with Team #1 and Team #5 with 146.5 pts. each, 8th Place tie with Team #2 and Team #3 with 144.5 pts. each, 10th PLACE – Team #14 with 144 pts., 11th PLACE – Team #6 with 140 pts., 12th PLACE – Team #8 with 139.5 pts., 13th PLACE- Team #13 with 137.5 pts., 14th PLACE – Team #12 with 132.5 pts., 15th PLACE – Team #9 with 128.5 pts., 16th PLACE – Team #11 with 118.5 pts. The top three points getters was 1st – Ken Kosanke with 5.455 average. 2nd – Jay Radke with 5.267 average and 3rd – Kim Lemke with 5.188 average. In order to be eligible for the average points getter a player must have played at least 8 weeks.
Div2 Winner, Team #31 consisting of Matt Meunier and Tom Halla with a total of 169.5 points finished first 15.5 points ahead of the second place team. The rest of the standings are as follows: 2nd PLACE – Team #21 with 154 pts., 3rd PLACE – Team #24 with 152.5 pts., 4th PLACE – Team #23 with 150.5 pts., 5th PLACE a 3-WAY TIE – Team #18, Team #20, Team #29 each with 145 pts., 8th PLACE – Team# 25 with 144.5 pts., 9th PLACE – Team #26 with 144 pts., 10th PLACE – Team #17 with 141 pts., 11th PLACE – Team #28 with 140.5 pts., 12th PLACE – Team #30 with 139.5 pts., 13th PLACE – TIE with Team #22 and Team #27 each with 138 pts., 15th PLACE – Team #19 with 132.5 pts., 16th PLACE – Team #32 with 118.5 pts. The top three points getters was 1st – Tom Halla with 5.465 average, 2nd – Jeff Richards with 5.269 average and 3rd – Tim Schuh with a 5.25 average. Again, a player must play 8 weeks to be eligible. I will mention here that Chuck Averkamp had a 5.286 average but only played 7 weeks as well as Tim Turco with a 5.429 average for 7 weeks.
Complete end of season payout information can be found here.
FLAG EVENTS – There were 55 different players that won at least one of 90 flags during the season. Tom Halla led the way with 5, Ron Broetzman, Jeff Fuggiasco, Matt Meunier and Dave Miller each had 4. Joe Vachuska, Brian Klein and Andy Fix had 3 each.
SKINS – 47 different players out of 83 team players were able to win a skin. Click here for Skins Summary.
BIRDIES & EAGLES – 44 different players had a least one birdie out of a total 273 birdies and 8 eagles. Click here for Birdies and Eagles Summary.
HOLE DIFFICULTY – Hole 12 is still the toughest to birdie with only one birdie followed by Hole 4 and 2 with 5 & 6 birdies respectively. The easiest hole to take advantage of is Hole 7 with 45 birdies and 3 eagles followed by Hole 8 with 31 birdies, 1 eagle and then Hole 17 with 25 birdies and 1 eagle. Click here for the Hole Difficulty Summary.
