A Day of Firsts

 I'll get to the relatively uninteresting results in a minute (Team 4 Sweeps,) but the conversation while waiting for their arrival was the highlight of the day ... maybe the year.  In no particular order, I'll go over the topics.

1.  One of my partners who is usually one of the best in our group, pointed out to me that he wasn't playing well because the golf cart was too noisy and the exhaust fumes were toxic and messing with his ability to chip.  A first for excuses.

2.  Leroy Eggert is going to be the first in our group to play golf in Busch Stadium.  Today, November 11, 2022, Leroy and his son are going to play in the St. Louis area's first stadium golf event.  We wish them well and are eager to find out how it will be contested.

3.  Three of our Oldtimers swept last week's Chili Open here at FCCC.  Messrs. Clark, Crow and Eichelberger finished 1, 2, 3 in the Championship Flight.  Congrats to you all.

4.  Jim Eichelberger had back-to-back eagles in the event.  Because holes 7, 8, and 9 were closed due to the weather, Jim eagled 6 and then went directly to 10 where he eagled again.  None of us can think of ever seeing back-to-back eagles in a round before.  (Some of us are still trying for eagles in back-to-back decades.)  Congrats to Jim.

5.  But wait! Another first for Eichelberger is that he finally confirmed ... publicly ... that he is, indeed, a jac***f, and that he's known it for a long time.

6.  That brought the conversation around to how many of the Oldtimers have s**t their pants ... or played with someone who s**t their pants ... during a round of golf ... and kept playing after the event occurred.  Hall digressed when he told us the story of the day he was interviewing a client when the client s**t his pants.  Another member knows a guy who s**t his pants while walking Augusta National during The Masters and refused to leave to clean himself up because the ticket was so hard to get.

HILARIOUS DAY!

Now the results.  Thirteen players.  Four teams. The team of Moosmann, Kossmann, Aholt and Merrick went +6, +5, +11 to sweep the team event.    Individually, Terry was 1st on the front with a +3, Dennis was 2nd at +2 and Dave Aholt (who moved to the Gold tees for the winter ... another first) was one of three people who tied for 3rd.

On the back, Aholt took first at +4, and Charlie Voss (the only guy from another team whofinished above 3rd) took 2nd at +3 and Drew Herrick took 3rd at +2.  Aholt's +5 took total, Voss was 2nd at +4 and Terry and Dennis took total 3rd at +2.  That's right.  All 4 players on the team were plus for the day.

Dave Aholt +1 to 30.  Drew Herrick +1 to 28.  Charlie Voss +1 to 30.  Tom Dunlavy -1 to 23.  Jim Eichelberger -1 to 32.  Charlie Johnson -1 to 29.

Winter Quotas
Aholt	30	*
Baer	29	*
Blackwell	31	*
Clark	36	*
Coleman	32	*
Cozzo	27	*
Crow	33	*
Curran	28	*
Curtis	30	*
Dister	27	*
Dunlavy	23	*
Ecklekamp	36	*
Eggert	30	*
Eichelberger	32	*
Fortner	30	*
Gildehaus	29	*
Hall	30	*
Herrick	28	*
Johnson	29	*
Kavanaugh	27	*
Kossmann	25	*
Loyd	23	*
Miller	21	*
Mitchell	27	*
Moosmann	29	*
Morris	23	*
Nealis	23	*
Purschke	22	*
Sharma	30	*
Triplett	30	*
Viox	27	*
Voss, Chas	30	*
Voss, Colby	32	*
Voss, Dean	36	*
Zastrow	33	*