Cat Piss' long run at the top of the team standings is now history after a fourth loss in a row. This time it was Duh...Winning pulling up the carpet with a 34-11 win. Fua Twoa pounced on the opportunity with a 34.5-9.5 victory over a fading Dos Hickies team. Fua now has a 16.5 point lead over second place Duh with three weeks remaining....hardly a comfortable lead, but not bad when you consider how tight things are behind them. Only 2.5 points separate Duh and the fourth place team Stickit & Lickit, who is coming on like gangbusters. Week 13 features a Fua Two v. Stickit & Lickit match that promises to weigh heavy in how the team race is decided. Underwood and his new 4.52 handicap faces Diwik and his new 8.27 handicap, while Joe Ayers (fresh off a 38/29) faces Dr. Death but will be getting 5 shots.
On the Individual front, KC Budzik defeated Dr. Tazz 12.5-2.5 and in the process extended his lead over second place to 8.5 points. Second now belongs to John Brinkman who has made a steady climb up the leaderboard. Similarly to the team standings, it is hard to call Budzik's lead comfortable but a little perspective reveals that there are six golfers within 8.5 points of Brinkman. Things are so tight in the Individual Standings that yours truly fell from 4th to 9th in Week 11. Jockeying for position over the next two weeks will be vitally important as the Crony in 2nd place after Week 13 (or 3rd place if Brinkman remains in the top two) will receive a first round bye at the CGA Match Play Championship at Black Diamond. This is because we now have two Cronies that will not be in attendance at BD, Brinkman and Geraghty.
Week 11 set a new standard for difficult Player of the Week decisions. Steve Geraghty was able to put the day's stock market losses out of his head and completely annihilated me 14-1, a historic drubbing. The only blip on Steve's round was the 9 he took on number 4; aside from that he had 2 birdies, 3 pars and 3 bogies on his way to a 42-31. Then there was Jason Diwik who made the game look easy with 5 pars and 4 bogies, good for a 40/30 and 12.5-2.5 victory over second place (at the time) Tommy Fry. But it is Joe Ayers who narrowly gets my pick for POW with his 38/29 that featured 2 birdies, 3 pars and 4 bogies. The effort earned Ayers a 12-3 victory of Porterfield, tied him for lowest net of the year and was one shot away from lowest gross of the year.
