This past weekend I was involved in two different Golf Scrambles. The first was a two-person scramble for the Boy Scouts council at Esquire Country Club in Barboursville WV. My friend Dallas teamed up with me for the event and we had a good time even though we didn't finish very well in the standings. Our final score was an 88. Granted, to some this might not seem like a very good score (OK it isn't a very good score) but neither of us plays much golf and an 88 was the best score I have reached in a 2 man scramble so I was pretty happy.
Yesterday Dallas and I again teamed up but this time we were inserted into a team for a four man scramble for the American Lung Association at Edgewood Country Club in Sissonville, WV. Edgewood is a private club so this was my first, and probably my only, chance to play there. Our two teammates were co-workers Ryan and Richie from a local accounting firm and both were much better golfers than Dallas and I. Our teams final score was a 64 - or 7 under par! The match seemed kind of ho-hum and Richie and Ryan were both somewhat disappointed with our final score figuring we weren't going to be low enough to finish in the top 3. It, like all scrambles, was a shotgun start and we started on the par 3 6th hole.
Each of the par 3s (except one) had closest to the hole contests. Ryan won the closest to the pin on hole 6. He also won on hole 17 (i think). Richie won the closest to the pin on hole 2 and, amazingly, I won it on hole 4 with what was close to my best shot ever. It was a 148 yards uphill into a very slight breeze. I took out my 8 iron and plopped the ball 6 feet to the left of the cup. Dallas was about 10 feet and Richie was about 11 so our team was in great shape to get a birdie even if I hadn't had a great shot. Sadly, we all missed the put for birdie and we even burnt two mulligans.
Missed putts were the story of our day. Nobody on our team ever got on track with putts. We had four different hole's lip out which would have given us a 60 (11 under). The winning team had a 59 so we still wouldn't have won and in fact, the 60 and the 64 would have amounted to the same thing - we came in second!
We each got a $50 gift certificate to the club's pro-shop (you can't get much with $50 at a private club shop). We also received golf privilege cards which gives us a discount at over 70 courses in WV. I also now have a nice ping 60° lob wedge. It is a $100 club. It's funny because my entire set of clubs only cost me $150.
Dallas and I had a pretty good time at both events. Both had pretty good food and the Lung Association even gave us polo shirts and ball mark repair tools. I had a little more fun at the Boy Scout one but I was stoked we finished so well at the Lung Association one. Plus, now that I have this crazy club, maybe I will do better on really short chips around the greens and get a sub-100 score! Watch out Tiger here I come!