The Villages Tuesday, Feb. 17th, 2009

Today, we played at Harbor Hills, just outside The Villages. Here are the scores:



Lou: 86

Dick: 89

John: 90

Jim: 101



There's been a lot of complaining to date, mostly by Dick and Jim. Dick has Lateral Epicondylitis (tennis elbow); Jim has a sore groin, and both are threatening to give up golf. I, on the other hand, have not complained at all about my carpal tunnel syndrome, my Dupitrin's Contracture, nor my knee that keeps locking up!!

The Villages, Monday, Feb. 16, 2009 President's Day

Well, today is Presidents' Day and we are playing golf in the morning and then meeting Diane and Carol at the Ocala Breeders' Sales Race Day. First the scores:



John: 87

Jim: 92

Lou: 93

Dick: 96



Ocala is horse country and has been the home of some Triple Crown winners. The Ocala Breeders's Cup is a 5 race format with some young top of the line horses and some Triple Crown caliber jockeys, like Kent Desormeux. It was fun watching them up closely in the paddock area and onto the race track.

The Villages Friday, Feb. 14-15, 2009

As I mentioned, Jim and Carol arrived on Feb. 12th. and Lou and Dick arrived on Saturday the 14th. Jim and I played a practice round at Cane Garden on Friday, the 13th. We played our first official match of the Del Masto Spring Classic on Sunday, Feb. 15th, at Spruce Creek. The format for the Championship was the lowest 3 rounds out of the 4 or 5 we were going to play. Scores were as follow:

Lou: 87

Dick: 90

John: 95

Jim: 96

Tomorrow we play at the Ocala Golf Club

The Villages 2009

We arrived on Sunday, Feb. 1st. just in time for Super Bowl. I have seen every Super Bowl game, and outside of the 1969 (Jets over the Colts), this was one of the most exciting, especially since I won $125 in my office Super Bowl Pool (which I run). I'm the office "book". Don't know what they'll do without me! As of Feb. 1st, I'm also semi-semi retired, which means I work about 25% of the time and go into the New York office about once or twice a month. The first week it was quite cold, so we didn't play much golf. Went to the movies and saw "Slumdog Millionaire", a great movie, which should win the Academy Award. We did play a little golf and some pickleball. The competition down here in The Villages (official home of pickle ball) is quite good. We visited with Janet in Leesburg and when Jim and Carol flew in we took Janet out for her birthday on Feb. 12th. Dick and Lou arrived on Saturday, the 14th, and the next day we started our annual Del Masto Spring Golf Classic, of which I was defending champion, but that's another story for another day.