Bud's Boys Week in Review

A day of high scoring, a slightly high scoring day, and a day of exactly even scoring. Also, a first in BB's history.

All the details plus a short story of suspicious scoring in KCC's recent 2-day tourney.

A quick read today.

Tuesday

Four of our six groups finished before the horn sounded to get off the course.

The storm came a couple of hours earlier than predicted, wiping out today's play.

Wednesday 8/20

Six 3-man teams were smacked in the face by the team of Brandon, Marty, and Ray. All three double jumped with Brandon's Medalist best plus 8 and +7's by his partners. Ray added to their take by winning his 4th CTP.

Ron, Rodney, and KZ all scored +3 or better and front loaded their scoring to take the Front 9.

Aces and 3's were enough for Jeff, Keith, and Butch to win the Card Game.

Thursday Aug 21

Scottie wins his 2nd straight Thursday Medalist today. I guess that means next Thursday he will go for his 3rd to stamp his name on that achievement.

Butch, by far the worst player of the day (-6, no one else even close), wins the CTP on #18. Suddenly, all sins forgiven.

Friday

Today's round is an instance where it would be so cool if we had live scoreboards. The Back 9 had 4 of the 5 teams within 2 strokes and all 5 teams close on the Total. Probably the closest spread for 5 teams in a while.

Butch bounces back from worst Thursday score to best Friday score with a +4.

Doc's CTP and +3 score along with even rounds from Scott and KZ are enough to win 3 of today's events.

Dave, Norris, and Brian eke out the Back 9.

What about the 5th event, the Friday Rabbit?

Only once before has the Rabbit run to #18, but a birdie caught him.

Today, the Rabbit ran through all 18 holes with no winner, A BB's first.

A Statistical Oddity, Sandbagging Style

All golfers know about 'Sandbagging'.

No, not this kind. The 2-day Jacks and Jennies golf tournament kind.

This is a subject that I do have some knowledge of. It is well documented that Tom and I, along with our 2 partners, are the only known team to be double bumped in a 4-person tournament here at KCC a couple of years ago. A first day 67 followed by a second day 56 jumped us from C flight to A flight.

And yes, we had couple of known local teams do their usual incredibly clutch second day improvement to win again last weekend. However, I have never witnessed a team improve 18 strokes. Yes, 18 strokes. A first day 86 followed by a magical second day score of 68. Incredible indeed. But here is the fun part of the story. They didn't get bumped. They were able to cash their 3rd place finish.

How, you ask, is that possible?

Well, you do have a bump number. For C flight it was 8. Yes, 18 is over that number. But you also add the strokes that you are behind the leaders, in this case they were 7 behind, so that makes their bump number 15. Hold on Sparky, we aren't finished. You are also given the strokes the leaders improve to give you a chance to tie them.

Since C flight is where many baggers reside, so that number was 7. Now their bump number is 22!!

They could have shot an 86-64 and not been bumped.