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The Annual Awards Banquet:
THURSDAY  DECEMBER 7, 2017
COVERED BRIDGE 12:00
EVERYONE HAS CONFIRMED THEY WILL ATTEND.

 JIM HAS VOLUNTEERED TO HANDLE THE POOL MONEY ($82 plus $4 each for the 12 personal best members).

THE HEDGE FUND MANAGER HAS SIGNALED THAT THERE WILL LIKELY BE A DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS SHORT OF ANY MARKET DISASTERS WHICH APPEAR LIKELY IF THE REPUBLICANS CANT FIGURE OUT HOW TO IMPROVE THE TAX CODE.

CHUCK HAS ISSUED THE GIFT EXCHANGE INSTRUCTIONS.

PLEASE BRING A GAG GIFT FOR YOURE FAVORITE MEMBER

Golf: Hidden Creek 10:42
Breakfast: I-Hop on exit 5 at 9:15

Playing:
 Bobby, Mike, Stoney, Mark, Al, Biff, Don, Chuck, Jim, Joe, Billy, Denny (checking)
Have 12 no openings assuming Denny is in.

John,  we will probably need a weatherman call. Go easy on us and make the call as if you were playing,  PLEASE!

 Default meeting at Covered Bridge bar at noon IF WE GET RAINED OUT.

Out: Paul (out for awhile...in Florida ), JJ (JJ on injured reserve), John (on injured reserve),

Subs when needed:
Joe, Ted, Gerry, Earl, Billy

Special Awards: none this week

Big Cheese: Don, Stoney, Al

Frog: Jim. There are a couple versions of the story being released, but I think this one is the closest to what the committee would like to see in print. You have to go back to the previous week to get the whole picture. Jim is the quietest member, in fact he’s the only quiet member so it was a little odd when he spoke up last week. Remember Al was the proud holder of the frog at the time and with the year closing out and AL’s garage filling up with tasty spiders and crickets it looked like whoever held the little guys after November 8 might close out the year with the frog and win our least coveted award - the Chuck Paskovics Frog trophy.

Not many of our members think ahead more than about a minute which is why they are frequently sitting in a golf cart enjoying a cigarette when they should be hitting their shot, but Jim is different. He is a highly trained engineer and always looking ahead - except occasionally on the golf course. Anyway, Jim had figured out that you don’t want to win the frog on Nov. 8 if you can avoid it and the best way to avoid it would be to play a course with little or no water. He set up the bait and switch.
So it comes time to select the course for the November 8th meeting and out of nowhere comes this voice suggesting first Nevel Meade and then after a loud protest by you know who Jim comes back without the slightest hesitation and suggests Oldham County. Al, flush with his victory after nixing Nevel Meade with its stupid little water feature fails to remember that Oldham County has almost no water. Bingo! In an instant the members elect Oldham County - all but Al have figured it out. Jim sits back, quiet as a mouse with a satisfied smile.

The stage is set and Al has had a week to try to figure out how to transfer the frog before winter sets in. He’s so sure his plan will work that he has agreed with Sue that this year they will hire an exterminator to get rid of the bugs in the garage. This is something that Sue has wanted for years. Al is meticulous about the house and keeps everything in perfect order but the freakin garage. It never made sense, but now in his later years he has agreed to get that mess cleaned up. Sue actually thinks she might be getting a new car for Christmas. Why else would he finally clean out the garage.?

Biff arrives at the course and sets about to pick the teams using Chucks system which typically takes about a half an hour,  but Al comes over and suggests a different faster approach. Biff, being late as usual, hasn’t got time to argue so he goes with AL’s system. Al, without Biff’s knowledge, has decided that Jim and Mike need to be in the last group to add pressure when they get to the frog hole. He pulls a few strings and manages to dupe Biff into getting them selected in group 3. The stage is set.

Jim and the rest of group 3 get to hole 3 and to their considerable surprise the frogs have the tee. Hole three at Oldham is a very short and usually pretty easy par four with a tiny creek  about 60yards back from the green. Biff, Mark, and Mike have already figured out that they don’t want to be the last one to hit over the creek so they lay up splattering golf balls all over the place but well short of the creek. On the other hand Jim has been so focused on his last 6 electronic golf lessons that he has completely lost track of his master plan. He Blasts a perfect drive (if it weren’t the FH) to 6 yards short of the creek in the flat, wet grass right in the middle of the fairway. The other three have all hit over the creek. Jim is thinking birdie until the frog enters the back of his mind. Jim has sent out an e-mail telling everyone how wet it was and even though he was only 66 yards from the green the wet ground forced him to try to “pick”the ball off the fairway. The committee has learned that the pick shot was to avoid getting mud on his trousers. Phyllis had given him some suggestions as he left home in the morning to play golf.

He took the club back  faster than even Don Davis had ever done and went for the pick shot. Hitting the ball slightly above the equator it skipped off the creek but buried itself so deeply in the bank on the other side that it was never recovered. Had it bounced off the water about a foot higher birdie might still be in play. Jim, clean trousers and all, was presented the two frogs on the fourth tee in a short but respectful ceremony and group 3 moved on. Beware the engineer. Al, the clever little fella,  not only got rid of the frog he also won the big cheese with his team selection.

Hedge fund: $525.50 hope for a great tax bill before The Meeting.


Side bets this week. Jim has the list

Table bet: Jim has the list

Personal Best pool members:
Chuck, Biff, Denny, Al, Bobby, Don, Stoney, John,  JJ, Mark, Jim, Mike
The personal best pool is closed out for the year.
Denny and Chuck have $24 coming to them at the annual meeting. Each member shown above will contribute $4 at the annual meeting to the two lovely individuals that had personal bests in 2017.

We can decide what to do with this pool in the future at the annual meeting.

PGA Pool: starting 10/04/2017 1st tournament of the season for the
2018 pool season
Same rules: if there is a second place he gets 25% a third gets 5%

2018 pool for week of 10/25/2017  winner Jim ($20),tied 2nd Stoney (4), Bobby (4)

Pool $28
Winners to date : Mike(39), Jim(34) Butch(3) John(28), Stoney(4), Bobby(4)
Total $112
Won to date + current pool = Total
112+ 28= 140
Everyone owes $10
14x10=140


The 2017 pool is closed out. Winners are shown below. Money will be distributed at the annual meeting. Each member owes $82 to the pool.

Pool Money winners for the 2017 season.
Biff(21+78+2).  Mark(53+28). Butch(28+112). Chuck(3). Stoney(7+112). Jim(2+28). Al(2+14). Denny(2+63). Paul(140+1). Bobby(21+27+21). Don(7+80). Mike(28+84). JJ(140+42+2)
Total 1148

Owed by all members 14x82=1148

Won to date+ money in the current pool= total owed in 2017
1148+0=1148