Saturday, August 25, 2007

Did Joe get to golf on Friday with all the bad weather?

The short answer is yes he did! The course we were playing for the Family Rescue charity golf outing was flooded on the back nine and wet on the front, but we were able to play at least. Actually we ended up playing a full 18 holes by playing the front nine twice. My foursome was the four-time defending champs and with a solid team back together, a fifth was looking pretty good.



And win again we did!! Steve-O, DD and Lil'Tim were my teammates and we all played pretty solid golf. Lil'Tim was inspirational the way he hit the ball. Using the various scoring gimmicks that you can buy (mulligans and strings), we were 14 under par for 9 holes, which is the number of holes they decided to use because not everyone could finish. We were -20 for all 18 holes (used up all of the gimmicks).



After the awards were handed out and the raffle prizes were awarded, the organizers announced that the shelter needed a new stove. Apparently for several months now, people were going out somewhere to heat up food or buy it and bring it back. They wanted to raise $5,000 for a new stove and to stockpile some canned goods, simply by taking cash donations from people who raised their hands. In doing so they raised roughly $7,500!! That was in addition to the close to $30,000 that they make off the event. Nicely done!!!!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great job Lakeview...but how about getting in line with the team uniform which was clearly white!

Lakeview Coffee Joe said...

They left me out of the loop! Though I actually played in a yellow shirt and changed after the round was over.

alexis said...

I'm amazed you got golfing in giving the terrible weather. Way to be committed!

Lakeview Coffee Joe said...

If they were going to open the course, I was going to play!! While we were shooting, the weather was fine, fortunately.