I have so much fun covering that event. Thank you for the link. That's LAST year's preview, BTW. This year's is here:
http://jayflemma.thegolfspace.com/?p=4379It's a bummer Michael Wharton-Palmer and Jamie Slonis will miss this year. Are there any other GCAers playing besides them?
One last thing - my favorite part of last year was this:
"The day saw one more bit of eye-popping drama: the horrible, yet mesmerizing self-immolation of Garden City member, bon vivant, and all-around great guy Billy Kreitsek. I don’t know how he offended them, but he did something that made all the Furies of the Golf Gods come riding down on his head on their Steeds of Vengeance. Out of contention for the championship flight, but still well within the cut-off to play the weekend, Billy came to the 18th looking to give the large gallery of members and friends a thrill.
What they got was a massacre.
Billy has been fighting a swing flaw too – a much deadlier one than Ed "Scissorhands" Gibstein faces.
“I’ve been taking the club way too far inside and fighting the ____.”
You know what word he used there. The dreaded “s-word.” Rhymes with rank.
“I proceeded to hit four hosel rockets into the water or into John Garcia’s backyard,” he moaned miserably. “I had already lost two balls, so I was down to my last one.”
And here’s where the Golf Gods turn the Steeds of Vengeance around and come rumbling back for another pass, shouting, “Get him again! He’s still kicking!”
“I sh____ed another one which hit a tree and came back in play, landing a whopping 15 foot off the tee box. But I was blocked out by a tree, and all I could do was hit sideways back onto the tee box,” he lamented. “I hit that at least, but then I took out wedge and hit a sixth hosel rocket right into the pond. I would have been lying 10 hitting 11, but I was out of balls…in front of everyone, the whole place watching. It was the most embarrassing thing that ever happened in my golf life. I started with seven balls and lost five on 18, a par 3!”