Today we played our May event at the beautiful Lake Chelan Course. My foursome today was, from left to right: Betty Gilmore, Paula Williams, and Ruth Toler.
As a reminder, the Apple Valley Women's Golf Association is a group of 8 ladies clubs from around the region that gets together each month for two-person best ball competition.
I love match play because it is a hole-by-hole competition and individual score is essentially irrelevant. In two-person best ball only one player needs to do well on each hole. One person can have a terrible hole, but if their partner does well no damage is done. If you're having a bad hole, you can literally pick up your ball and let your partner finish out. There is 1 gross and 1 net point at stake per hole.
This month my club (Three Lakes) played against Apple Tree from Yakima. Apple Tree is the best team in the group and it can be intimidating playing against their very low handicappers. Ruth (22 handicap) and I (13 handicap) played against Paula Williams & Betty Gilmore who have an 8 and 9 handicap respectively. This gives them a significant advantage for gross points, but we would have the advantage with net points IF we played well.
As it turns out, Betty was having a bad day and allowed it to negatively affect her and, ultimately, her partner. Ruth & I managed to be a good team and took 24.5 points out of a total of 36 (10.5 gross and 14 net). I've had bad days like this... and it seems the harder you try the worse it gets. You've just got to give in and put it all in perspectve with real tragedy. We should all be so grateful to have the opportunity to be out on such a beautiful day.
When it was all said and done my score card read 90... but it doesn't matter because we did well in the overall point category. That's what match play is all about.
Paula... if you're out there reading this I want you to know I enjoyed playing with you (and thanks for the glass of wine). I don't think I got to know the real Betty today but, perhaps, we can play together again sometime and she can enjoy the day too.
Next game: Tuesday for the Wenatchee Golf & Country Club's annual Spring Fling.
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