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Mike and I won the Trunkslammer Member/Member golf tournament today

Mike McCorkle and I won the "Trunkslammers" "Member/Member" golf tournament today at our club. It was fantastic. The format was different each six holes. The first six were "best ball," the second six were "best ball individual net" and the last six were "alternate shot" by each player.

In the first six holes, Mike was playing great until he injured his back on the 7th hole and then he really played thru a lot of pain and lack of range of motion the rest of the match. It was such a gutty performance. There were so many exciting moments; it was the most fun day of golf I ever experienced.

Something funny happened the morning after the match (Sunday morning). I got up early and was having coffee with Sandra. Naturally I wanted to talk about the match because "it was the most fun day of golf I ever experienced." I started out explaining the shots on hole 1 and went on to discuss each of our shots for the first hole. By the time I got to the 2nd set of shots on the 2nd hole Sandra began to laugh uncontrollably. "You are not going to tell me each shot by each of you for 18 holes are you?" After I recovered from my initial hurt feelings, I started to laugh too. It was pretty funny.

Sandra, realizing the importance of the story then implored me to tell the story of the match which I did, hole by hole all the way to the end including the action in the club house as the scores were posted. It was so memorable.

In terms of personal high moments, I got a real birdie on 11 for a net eagle that helped the effort and made a few puts but the day really belonged to us a team and particularly to Mike because of his injury. It was a great memorable experience that I won't forget.

Fun golf game with Jeff Johnson

I had a fun golf game with Jeff Johnson this morning at CCO. We started early and finished before storms closed the course for the afternoon.

Good day with the Trunkslammers

I had a fun game today with theTrunkslammers. We won today with 15 under. The format is the two best balls per hole net of handicap. I played with John Bilgalke, Scott Johnson and Bill Moss. Today was a first for me, I had 4 pars.

Good 9 holes with Steve

My club is just around the corner from my house so I often will stop by to hit a few balls on the driving range. I was hitting them pretty good today and saw an old acquaintance, Steve Appel. We decided to play a quick nine holes. I shot a 49 which is good for me.

Steve and I were in Leadership Orlando in the Class of 1988 and have see each other over the years. He is a good golfer, this was the first time we have played together.

Rained out (actually lightning)

Our golf game got delayed by lightning once for 30 minutes and then an aberrant lightning strike hit very close to us and we decided to call it a day.

Central Florida is a lightning center. Here is an interesting article about it.

I had a chance to go see a friend at the hospital. He is one of our "Trunkslammers" group. He is coping well.

Trunkslammer Golf

I had a fun game today playing with Mike, Charlie and Hugo. We won with 11 under par but I did not contribute much, only a 2 under par. Hugo had a great chip in on 16 that was the winning margin getting a birdie.

We took a group picture and made a card for one of our own who is pretty ill right now.

Trunkslammer Golf

I had another fun day with the "Trunkslammers" group playing golf.

Today's group was Jim Garner, Doug Woodman and John Bigalke. We finished 10 under. Aside from having a good time it is just fun to be with these folks. Generally it is a different group each week. You respond to an email early each week and let them know if you want to play and you are paired with three other members.

Yesterday it was hot and I walked with a pull cart. I was beat. After we tee'ed off on 16 bottom center next to the club house, I noticed that Jim Garner had taken off down the fairway with my pull cart. John and Doug said "Nathan we think you need to ride", it was so nice, I think I was worse off then I thought:

After the match, all the Trunkslammers gather in the 19th hole to talk, watch golf on tv and congratulate the winners. My long time good friend Richard LaRue and a newer friend, Rawn Williams, won with 17 under. The format is a four person team with the best two net of handicap scoring for each hole. Richard's game is really improving, he had a great day.

Golfing in Winter Park

I had a good time today golfing with my friend Joe Alvarez. Wow was he hot in putting! He played par overall for the first nine holes and must have had 4 or 5 one puts. We played at the old 9 hole course in downtown Winter Park near our office. It was a lot of fun.

Their material says it is the 2nd oldest golf course in Central Florida at 1912. I think our club at CCO must be the oldest because it was founded in 1911 and already had a course before the founding according to the web site.

 

Golf on Saturday-Trunkslammers

I have a weekly golf game at my club called the "Trunkslammers" because the players keep their clubs in the trunks of their cars instead checked at the club.

This week I played with Ed, Norman and Tom. We had a great time and won with a 13 under par playing against five other teams.

My form is not great but I have only been playing regularly for the past year and it is so much fun particularly with the fun group of guys I play with on Saturday. There are usually 25 playing each week.