It is interesting to see all these incredibly low handicaps.
I may be wrong, but the only members of this august site that I have seen that have played with me at CPC and MPCC that scored anywhere near their potential were as follows.
Lou Duran was four under after the fourteenth at CPC, a phenominal performance. His caddie steered him wrong at the 15th and his 9 iron was over the green by the water cooler. A couple of holes later his score was under water. Joel Stewart, Tom Huckaby and Mike Benham were equally adept at playing to their index, but on the whole I cannot think of anyone else that impressed. My friend from New Zealand, Ash Towe, did well, but I was not there to witness it. There are others that played at Cypress but were unaccompanied and I did not check the scores.
If I have slighted others who played the Point do forgive me, at my age the memory synapses close at the most inopportune moments.
Bob
Addendum:
I have received a message from an uninterested lurker, sent at great expense by Fed Ex, that one player who not only played with Lou Duran that fateful day one who shot a sparkling 74, three strokes below his handicap. I daresay I was concentrating on the main man and considered the rest of the group to be nothing but spear carriers.
It was none other than the putative Earl of Sutherland, or as we know him, 'Dornoch Rich.'
Bob
Bob, I'm crushed.
Taking into consideration the inopportune closing of your memory synapses, I still held out hope that I was at least dimly memorable, seeing as we played together less than a month ago. I had myself at 79 at MPCC, Huckaby had me at 76 -- either way, that qualifies as close to my 5 handicap -- doesn't it?
As for CPC earlier in the day (a round you were not there to witness), I admit I was in awe of the place all day, and couldn't shake out of my stupor until the eighth hole. But I did post a 38 on the inward nine.
Fighting for my reputation
,
Rick Shefchik (4.
