Sandbagger XX: September 11-12-13 – UPDATE
Gentlemen, start your engines…or at least start polishing your clubs.
Sandbagger XX is shaping up well. Our defending champion, Michel “Shiv” Ranger, has already accepted the inevitability of giving the famed Pewter Mug to someone of lesser talent but higher handicap. (Yes, Greg Jarvis, that means you won’t win in 2015, either.)
A return to beautiful Badass Lake is on our agenda. (I will acknowledge that Bass Lake is the boring name the locals go by.) We are fortunate to once again be able to enjoy the comfort of the cottages belonging to Rick Cunliffe and Jeff Mains. Food arrangements will be settled closer to the date but expect meals to be at the cottages.
As usual, there will be a warm-up round for those available Friday afternoon. Tee-offs for up to 12 people have been booked at Lombard Glen, the site of one of Rickety Cunliffe’s impressive personal best rounds recorded earlier this summer. The first tee time on Friday is at 1:30 pm. Please let me know if you’ll be joining us for this round.
For Saturday, the first of our two championship rounds, we will play at the home course of Brooke Henderson, whose $450,000 in earnings on the 2015 LPGA tour still doesn’t get her past the LPGA’s little requirement that she be at least 18 years old to have a tour card. Rumour has it that Brooke’s professional success is largely due to some golfing tips she picked up five years ago, while observing the Sandbagger contestants battling it out on the 12th fairway. Tee times at the soon to be world famous Smiths Falls Golf Course, Saturday, September 12, 2015 are as follows: 10:09, 10:18, 10:27, 10:36
On Sunday, September 13, the dramatic final round will be played at the rolling terrain and babbling brooks of the Perth Golf and Country Club, notably yet another site where Tricky Cunliffe recorded a personal best score earlier this summer (are you getting the hint?). Our Sunday tee-times at Perth are: 10:33, 10:41, 10:49, 10:57.
So far, we have a great field, including 8 past champions (who collectively have hoisted the Pewter Mug 12 times in our first 19 years). I already have the following 13 confirmed:
Anderson, Jim (1997 and 2008 Champion)
Arbique, Brian (2005 Champion)
Bonnar, Brian (2001 Champion)
Cunliffe, Ricky (1999 and 2009 Champion)
Hockley, Derrick
Jarvis, Greg (2006 and 2012 Champion)
Johnston, Blake
Maidment, Michael
Mains, Jeff
McMahon, Steve (2004 and 2013 Champion)
Posthumus, Andrew (2010 Champion)
Ranger, Michel (2015 Champion)
Riccoboni, Lou
Regrettably Unavailable
Hodgins, Greg (a conflicting golf weekend booked, poor priority setting)
Hogeveen, Richard (2007 champion, in-laws visiting from overseas)
Mooney, Brent (1996 Champion, will be away on European travels)
Murdock, Bruce (four time Sandbagger bridesmaid has a son’s birthday conflict)
Still to be Determined (or in some cases still to be heard from)
Anderson, Doug
Boychuk, Brian (2011 champion)
del Castillo, Andres (el Foldo)
Feschuk, Scott
Joe, Brian
Laframboise, Guy
Oliver, Geoff (2000 Champion)
Pantalone, Jack (a definite maybe)
Smith, Graham (2002 and 2003 champion – the only back-to-back winner in Sandbagger history)
Please update me if I have misunderstood your plans, if your plans have changed or if you have just been too busy to respond to my previous messages.
Looking forward to a fine weekend with as many of you as possible!
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