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In honor of Lou and Gary's hog ride George and Tennessee the remaining competitors decide to tee it up at RHGC for a skins match. Much chatter was heard about the thrashing someone (named Chuck) would apply once we moved form the white tees to the MANLY blue tees so the game was joined at 7:30 Am on a lovely Florida morning.

Oh lest I forget a late day new flash has it that CW driver has been returned to him with a new Head placed on the ample shaft.  Seems it was not a stress fracture but a fractured head. Hmmm thumping on ground or hard concrete could generate this result.  So needless to say CW has to return the wonderful driver he has used for the past two weeks.  Or maybe not seems we have had a significant redistribution of wealth this past week as all the gammers have been purchasing improved ball striking equipment.  I mention this here so Lou will have an opportunity to prepare himself prior to the next event scheduled for June 26th at 8Am RHGC. To further prepare Lou, Mr. Mann has retooled all his Irons. Mr. Williams has a new bag and what he though was a new Driver is repaired.  Mr. Ruddy has new balls. The author is hoping they are BIG. Now back to the match.

The 1st tee at RHGC comes with a mulligan ( non golfers that is a do-over) and once the boys move back to the Blue tee the lake is a more intimidating factor so Mr Mulligan may become an important play.  Mulligan sounds great but it does come with some consideration.  Say you hit a ball that is low and to the left or right. Yes you can call for your mulligan but once it is hit it becomes your ball in play. Yep that means if it is in the water you go back to the tee and hit again.  Your first ball that was short and on the left has no meaning.   Today it was not an issue as our lads drove well across the lake.

Mr. Mann won the first hole ( stroke play is a hole by hole event, if any ties it is known as a carrie over).  JR won the 2nd. The next 2 holes where tied and carried over to the par 3 5th. Greg hit a great chip shot to within 10" of the hole and JR's put missed to give greg a 3 hole win. On it went with JR winning 6 and Greg the 7th. JR won 8 and 9th. 

At this time in this read you should hear Chuck yelling in the background WHAT ABOUT ME!  Because we all know in this small part of the universe we live in. It is always about Chuck. Sorry CW you have to perform to make the copy floor.  

So as competitors in the CW we never lose track of the score at the end of 9 it is JR in the scoring lead followed by 1 by Greg and CW is 12 back.  Yet Greg is leading in skins 5/4 over JR CW is looking for one.

On to the 10th. Who'd thunk.  Greg is in the water. Not to worry he pulls out a 7 and CW registers his first hole. Holes 11 and 12 have some great golf shots but in this game it does not matter they are tied so we press on. Number 13 had another group of great shots but it comes down to drive for show put for Doe, Greg did it and won 3 more holes. 14 has a large lake in front of the tee and it was a good day for it to be dry.  JR wins the hole and we are on to 15. CW hits a great drive followed by a short 2nd into the bunker, hits a great bunker shot followed by a great put to win his 2nd hole.

On to the 16th where CW is feeling his oats and attempts to fly the trees. Not so. Greg goes on to win the hole.  JR takes 17 and the 18th is won by Mr Mann. This group never gives up on the overall score as we have been taught by the CW. The Skins game was a win for Greg with a total of 10 JR had 6 and Chuck had 2. Yet as our players are always looking at score it was JR by 2 over Greg followed by 11 for CW. Drive on...