The Weekend Recap

What an exciting weekend. So many things to cover! RyanMallett carved up the Alabama secondary just like Tim Brando predicted, to the delight of Uncle Vern LondonQuest and Coach Garrison Daniel. Stephen Garcia did the same to Auburn until he got the late hook and had to talk to Holly Rowe. Jim Furyk hit a nice little bunker shot to win a cool $10,000,000, and the men of the Ryder Cup departed for Wales. But you didn’t come here to hear about all that. You came here to get the latest on the premier event in sub-amateur coastal golf, and that’s what you’re going to get!

Except, there is not much to report. Team Europe has gone dark, an annual ploy by the heavily favored Euros and their captain Brian Burnett. Four members of Team USA visited a golf course this weekend, though it’s believed that only three members of Team USA actually played a round of golf.


Overlooking the Practice Green
and #1 at Boswell

Late Friday afternoon, Chief sent this nice photograph of Highlands Golf Course, an Honours Golf facility. Regarded as having the nicest greens in the Birmingham area, Highlands is referred to by historians as “Boswell Municipal”.

Also Friday afternoon, Americans Big House and 17 battled at Pine Tree Country Club. Playing “one foot from the back tips”, the ol’ Yiddish club gave it to the Kiva Cup rookies early and often, earning its reputation as one of the nicest, yet challenging, tracks in East/Northeast Jefferson County area.

17 reported, “We played a foot from the back edge. It was a death match that ended all square. Somehow, Tony won $25. We were fighting to see who would be the last to puke, because both of us played poorly! Tony shot 81, I shot 92. Battle of the bads.”

Reminder: All scores should be entered in the Golf Handicap and Information Network, or the GHIN for short, in order to calculate a valid, defensible index in order that golfers of all abilities may compete on a level playing field.

Notwithstanding the pedestrian play, the rookies felt that the round prepared them for Kiva. 17 stated, “It got real edgy on the last 4 holes. No one spoke due to the tension of the match! Dead silence! Kiva like! It almost came to fist a few times! As you know, I'm edgy!”

To his credit, Big House relied on his experience and didn’t let 17’s edginess bother him. “17 is quite the competitor. The intensity level was raised quite a bit”, the rookie said.

Team USA Junior Member JRod also played this weekend, visiting the golf course at Oak Mountain State Park for an early morning round Saturday. At Oak Mountain, “Wildlife often wander onto the fairways and greens. Please honor their right of way.” “I had never played there, “ JRod said, “It’s quite the challenge. The fairways and the rough were right up there with any other public course that lets Team USA play. The Bermuda greens were a bit grassy, and very, very slow, but it was a nice experience. It was the most fun that I could’ve had shooting 47-42.”

Reminder: All scores should be entered in the Golf Handicap and Information Network, or the GHIN for short, in order to calculate a valid, defensible index in order that golfers of all abilities may compete on a level playing field.

So, that’s the weekend that was in Kiva Cup happenings. Seems the majority of participants were more interested in college football this past Saturday. Big House actually called out one team member, telling him to “wake up! Get working on your game”. The rookie being loud. This is going to be a fun cup.

Don’t forget to vote for Clarke Burns’ nickname. Round one starts today (9/27) and ends Friday (10/1). The poll is at the top right of this screen.

In closing, I’ll pass along an invitation presented by Team USA rookie Tony “Big House” Harmon. Please RSVP directly to Tony:

“Have ya'll ever heard of the Victors? Best fight song around (at least to me aka big house). If anyone ever wants to go to a Big Ten game let me know.”