Tuesday, February 20th: Johnson Threepeats with a (-1) !!!

Notes from Hilton-Head:  This past Saturday, Sunday & Monday, Tom, Ray and Jeff Cozzo had the opportunity to play the three Palmetto Dunes courses that Mike Clark worked at during his professional golf career. We played the Arthur Hills (Par 72… Rating-Slope 71.1-124… Yards 6,122), the Robert Trent Jones (72… 70.6-132…6,141) and the George Fazio (70… 70.8-130… 6,239). These courses we all gorgeous, most with very green winter rye in the fairways & tee boxes. They had a nightmarish number of fairway & greenside traps, water hazards, OB everywhere and alligators.  Many of the greens were smallish &/or narrow with challenging undulations and pin placements being well protected by traps.  With the fairway traps and OBs, tee shots demanded a threading of the needle.  Many approach shots required long irons or fairway woods.  Course knowledge is of a premium value when playing these courses.  Although scoring was challenging, we all had a blast!  We had great weather on Saturday and Monday, but it was quite windy & cold on Sunday at RTJ.  Hilton Head is a beautiful place to visit.  We stayed at the Hilton Omni on Palmetto Dunes.

NOTE:   Closest to the holes are now #3 & #14.

Conditions:  On Tuesday, five golfers participated on nice sunny February day , 59-64 degrees, 4-8 mph winds, 40% humidity, soft fairways and slow greens.

Individual Winners:  Johnson & Purschke tied the front (-1).  Hall won the back (+1).  Johnson won the total (-1).

Closest to the Holes:  Eggert won #3 and Hall took #14.

Even/Plus Points Club: None.

75 & Below Score Club:  None.

Golf Quote: “If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better than it is.” – Horace G. Hutchinson

Quota Increases    None

Quota Decreases:   All (-1):  Meyer

Quotas: Aholt 31 * Alferman 34 * Bean 33 * Blackwell 28 * Clark 36 * Coleman 30 * Cozzo 26 * Crow 33 * Curran 27 * Curtis 31 (White Tees) * Dister 28 * Dunlavy 24 * Eckelkamp 36 * Eggert 29 * Eichelberger 31 * Fortner 27 * Gildehaus 29 * Hall 28 * Herrick 23 * Hoemann 34 * Johnson 31 * Kavanaugh 25 * Kossmann 26 * Lindhoff 31 * Loyd 23 * Miller 20 * Mitchell 27 * Moosman 29 * Morris 25  * Meyer 28 * Nealis 23 * Palumbo 31 *  Parmentier 32 * Purschke 20 * Scheer 20 * Scheidegger 33 * Schrader 33 * Sharma 28 *  Stapp 33 * Stoehner 25 * Tiefenbrunn 27 * Triplett 30 * Viox 27 * Voss, Chas 25 * Voss, Colby 32 * Voss, Dean 34 * Zastrow, Owen 25 *  Zastrow, Josh 36