Team Smooth Take a Commanding 5-1 Lead after First Round

Wang/Fung 6&4

Robby/Erik  1up

Alika and Rob just got destroyed by Jason and Dean.  Lynbrook class of ’92 straight representing!  Considering the final outcome, hard to believe it was ever a battle, but experience was gained and lessons learned, I guess :{.

Jason/Dean 7&6

Pham and Ryth finally gets Team Cool on the god damn scoreboard.  Little did they know, that was going to be it in the first round.  Not quite sure, but maybe a special brownie had something to do with the outcome.  Needless to say, this started off a very productive weekend for Pham.

Pham/Ryth  7&6

Ryan and Victor 4&2

Byron and Johnny 7&5

Deficit cut to 7-5 after strong second round by Team Cool

Pat/Ryth 1up

EZ/Alika 5&4

Sands/Erik 2&1

Randy/Wimpy 3&2

Pham/Nick 7&6

Victor/Tae 1up

Team Smooth Dominates Singles and wins 15-9

Jason proves once again, he has no equal in the crew.  Although Alika battled him to the end, Jason just made more putts and he overall play was just slightly better.  Great match filled with quality shots.

Jason 1up

While the score was surprising, the result wasn’t.  Derrek showed on Saturday his has “skills to burn”  and proved it on Sunday.  While Wang is still one of EG’s top players, Derrek said “Na Foo”.

Derrek 5&4

In a tale of 2 nines, Robby shot a 1 under in the front, but a back nine 60 while losing 7 consecutive holes to the eventual winner, Pat.  Give Pat credit for hanging in the match in the front nine, but this sounds like Robby gave Pat a gift all wrapped up with a bow on top.

Pat 2&1

Although Fung took an early 1up lead over EZ, this match really wasn’t one and had Fung considering retirement.  Fung did hole out from off the green on 18 to minimize some damages.  Overall, a under inspired Fung led to a mismatch from the start.

EZ 4&3

Nick started his day like he started on Saturday, not good.  Victor took control early and never let up.  The Buzzsaw went to work on Sunday and his stock if off the charts.  Going 3-0  and possessing a solid short game, the Buzzsaw is a player to beat going into the next event.

Buzzsaw 7&6

Recap of Day 2 (continued)

Not knowing how Randy’s game was, and knowing Ryth was the dominator Saturday, this result might have been to most surprising.  Randy must have beat Ryth both physically and mentally for a quality stick to let it go this bad.  Randy proved he has game.

Randy Chang 5&4

In one of the more anticipated matches, Phamage improved his record to 3-0.  It proved to be a battle and an even matchup.  Pham’s star is on the rise, how high can he go?

Matt 2&1

Hole #12 and a 6 putt holds heavy significance in this matchup.  Again, another even battle that Team Smooth found a way to win.  This has the smell of rematch.

Ryan 1up

After a grueling 36 holes on Saturday, Tac might not have had enough in the tank to truly give Byron much of a fight.  Byron had a slightly lower handicap, and proved it on Sunday with a convincing win over Tac.

Byron 5&4

This was truly one of the most enjoyable matches of the entire weekend.  The match went back and forth and was tight all the way to the end.  In a match that featured a phantom fist pump, Johnny closes out 18 with par, and preserves his perfect record.

Sands 1up

Based on handicap, this really shouldn’t have been a match, and it wasn’t.  Although Wimpy has a victory over Dean in the past, Dean proved to be the better player and put the smack down on Wimpy.

Dean 3&2

In another matchup that was doomed from the start, Rob gave it his best effort, but it wasn’t nearly enough as Erik took control early and never let go.  Rob has the attitude to really improve and perhaps return the favor sooner than later.

Erik 5&4

Last weekend which was going to be the Kungo Reno tournament turned into the Cache Creek tournament.  It was a great event with great company and a wonderful course.  It was a great weekend and I had to dominate the field with my excellent play (and 34 stroke handicap lol)  The course was a really nice layout and was pretty challenging, though it was made much easier because of the course rule that if you hit your ball into what will soon be a marsh and can find your ball, then you get to walk in and get it and can take lateral drop without penalty from the spot that you found your ball.  Now I didn't get hooked up by this as much as people would have thought, I think I only saved about 3 or 4 strokes from this.  I will say that my ball was a soldier, there was at least three times, two on one hole that I should have lost my ball, but due to some fortunate bounces my ball happened to have despite the Hater-aid that Tac was trying to give it.  So being that I was able to go through the round without losing a ball which is usually my downfall, I shot an unadjusted 99. 

My group was fun to play with and I thought we all played reasonably well, and we talked about it, since we were all really high handicaps we were able to swing freely and play really relaxed since most of the time double bogey meant par for us anyways, so confidence was high and we just played good relaxed golf and I think it showed for the most part except for Huan who is prone to a lot of F bombs and club throws which were pretty entertaining.  But all in all it was a great day of golf, but I guess winning will always make you feel that way  anyways no pictures for this one, but here are the Net results, handicaps listed by the players: 

Anyways it was great seeing everybody, and congrats to Leland for taking second place, and Unsmizzy for taking third.  I had a great time though I found that what was missed most was the being able to hang out and shoot the shit with everyone after the round and the shit talking about the upcoming round, and the drinking that usually goes with it.  We had the buffet at CC and it was great, though with no golf the next day it just wasn't the same.  THOUGH the next Sactown vs. San Jo tourney email just came out so end of Sept., early Oct. it will be own and crackin

So I picked today to be the first day I rode my bike to work.  With this crazy wind going on, and that the wind is directly in my face riding in, it took me longer then I expected, and as stated above, now I can't feel my legs   Man I had no idea how out of shape I am.  My boss did say that I did pick the worst day of the year to ride to work.  I should be flying home though with the strong tail wind

On a happier note, this weekend we are off to LA to play in the Tiger's tournament again.  Should be fun and interesting to see how Kato does, since he is getting his cast off today.  Universal Studio's should be fun, and there will probably be a trip to Hawaiian Garden's, and maybe a club.

On a different note  Magic online has sucked for me, got beat in my last two drafts, after winning the previous two, but I did manage to pick up a Bitterblossom in the last one.  I have also found that my Dota team is consistently either the best of the worst, or the worst of the best depending on how you look at it.  We always have a really good regular season record, and always get destroyed in the first round of the playoffs.  Oh well such is the life of a gamer who doesn't dedicate his life to gaming.

Tragic story, I have no idea what I would have done if this happened to me.  So a friend of mine, has that planned this huge party for when he passed the bar exam, and invited all of his friends and family and bought all kinds of drinks and food and stuff for about 40 people only to find out that he didn't pass...He decided to make it a birthday party, but I don't know if I could face everyone like that, but I guess you can't run from it forever.  Still I don't know how he built up the fortitude to do that so early.  My friend (who passed the bar) said it was also really uncomfortable because everyone else at the party that took the bar passed it, so his dad asked each person how they did, and commented that they must be the smart one at the party.  Now I have been known to make back handed sarcastic comments at opportune times, but not counting the fact that it was his father, that is just flat out mean.  Anyways this friend of mine has been to busy "Lawyering" to hang out so when I do see him, it is always good to hear his stories, plus since he is working with Law, and I am working on Legislative stuff, we have work stuff to compare.

WTF the wind has shifted on me since this morning, guess it is going to be a tough ride home too...Anyways enjoy your Holiday weekend everyone