Breakfast on "Old Cape Cod "
Drove down to Great Grampys house on the Cape with Mom, Dad, and Riley Friday night, spent the night, and woke up bright eyed and bushy tailed ready for some fun Sat.
We did have fun too, doing our usual fun stuff, swam, hung out near the water, played Miniature Golf etc and in general had a fun filled day.Got up Sunday with idea's of a repeat of fun planned for Sunday, and we did have a great day.
Late Sunday afternoon, Pop Pop and Mom Mom came down from VT, after they arrived we hung out for a while and later picked up a couple of Pizza's for supper.
We ate out back on the deck and enjoying the very nice late afternoon.
After we finished we drove out to find a driving range and hit a few balls, the main reason to go was to give Riley a chance to hit a few balls with his news clubs since he hadn't done so already, and he had a tournament the next day, so we wanted him to at least get in a few swings in before that.
When we finished at the range we stopped at a local stand and had some Ice Cream, and then went on home and turned in with our anticipation of another busy and long day Monday.
We were all pretty tired and Riley and I hit the sheets early and we were out like a light, but woke up at 5:00 AM ready to get going.
We ate some doughnuts for breakfast along with a banana and then loaded in the car with Pop Pop and Mom Mom and headed to the Bay Pointe CC in Onset MA. which was about an hr. away.
We ate some doughnuts for breakfast along with a banana and then loaded in the car with Pop Pop and Mom Mom and headed to the Bay Pointe CC in Onset MA. which was about an hr. away.
BAY POINTE COUNTRY CLUB
We arrived at Bay Pointe CC around 7:25 giving us about 45 minutes to chip and putt before my round. I had an 8:20 Tee time and Riley had one about 9:40, so with Pop Pop on the bag and Dad videoing the first few holes we were off roughly on time.
I was paired with my new found golfing buddyand competitor Charlie Campbell from Brewster MA. our 3rd pairing did not show up for some reason, not exactly sure why.
Charlie had his Dad on the bag today, and he had picked up some new clubs since last week, so with me having Pop Pop as my stand in Caddy, and Charlie with new clubs we were both affected by new arrangements, he had new clubs so it was more of a change for him than me, since Pop Pop and I do play a lot of casual golf together.
I had about 4 or 5 shots I wish I could get back from that round, (of course we all have those every round) 3 of those were from using an old 3 wood I had in my bag from last year which I seemed to hit good at home, but with the extra adrenaline generated by tournament golf I hit 3 high right hooks with the softer shaft on some approach shots, (lesson learned about that).
Then by letting off on a couple of other swings trying to reduce the hook thing I had going, I hit a couple of pushes left, in an attempt to reduce the "hooked on a feeling" I had with the old 3 wood. So I took the 3 wood out of play for the remainder of the round.
Too little too late though, but I still ended up shooting a 40 with a birdie/par finish which was not great but good enough to win.
Picture of me and Charlie on 18.
After the awards ceremony we went back out on the course and picked up Riley and his group on the 15th hole and watched them come in also.
Riley finished with a 46 in the 6 yr old group for the win, besting Derek Tevekelian who finished in 2nd place , they had a great time and were paired with 7 yr old Will Harrington.
We get to do it all over again next Monday at Newton Commonwealth CC in Newton MA.
Picture of me and Riley after the awards ceremony.
Stay tuned here, or maybe we'll just see you there.
"Email below from the tour director to all participants, Who is doing a fantastic job in his new role as tour director.
We are very lucky to have him.
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"I would like to thank you all for taking the time out of your lives yesterday and heading down (or up) to Wareham for Event #3 of the 2010 Boston Tour for U.S. Kids golf. The lack of rain and high temps are starting to show some distress on courses, as fairways are browning out. The plus sides of dry and fast courses are very long distances on tee shots. We can only hope for some quality rain in the near future. However, the greens were in great condition and I want to thank all staff and management at Bay Pointe for allowing us to play yesterday.
Summary-
1- Say hello to Riley Richards! In his 1st event he shot a smooth 46 to win the 6 year old division. Looks like a new trophy room needs to be under construction for the Richards home in VT
2- Derek Tevekelian makes another birdie with a 3 on the 2nd hole.
3- PJ Schmitz made his return form a week off to win the 10 yr old division with a 44
4- Bryson Richards continued his steady play with a 4 over par 40 which included a birdie on the par 5 17th hole.
5- Charlie Campbell made a birdie on the par 5 17th hole to squash the skin.
6- Lauren Thibodeau mad a birdie 3 on the par 4 14th hole en route to a 42.
7- Vivian Pang played her usual steady round of golf to win the 10 year old girls division with a 41.
8- Michael Thorbjornsen made a birdie on the par 4 14th hole to help him shoot 40 and take home gold.
9- Alexandra Chicharro won the girls 9 year old division with a score of 44.
10- Brennan Thacker made a par on the 15th hole.
11- Matt Epstein made a birdie 4 on the par 5 17th hole.
12- Sophie Morrill made a par 4 on the 14th hole.
13- Jason Temel made 2 pars and a birdie on the 17th hole en route to a 47.
14- Dillon Brown made 3 pars in 9 holes
15- Isaac Blinn, Jack Geiger, William Harrington and Jack Yanakakis all made pars on the 14th hole.
16- Alaina Steed made a par 5 on the 15th hole.
17- Jack Yanakakis made a par 4 on the 14th hole.
18- Jack O’Donnell made a par 3 on the tough 12th hole.
19- Tucker Dalton Gullbrants made 2 pars en route to his 46.
20- Darren Pang tasted victory again with a solid 38 and the only player in the 9 hole division to par the 10th hole.
21- Charlie Goldberg shot the low score of the day for 18 holes with a 79.
22- Brandon Gillis shot 80 with 2 birdies and 2 triple bogeys, oh what could have been.
23- Matthew Conti made a birdie on the par 3 seventh hole and hit a fantastic 50 yard bunker shot on the 17th hole.
24- Claudio Soukamneuth won the 12 year old division with a score of 80 which included a 37 on the back nine.
25- Trevor Pennypacker made a birdie 4 on the 9th hole.
26- Dante Newman made a birdie 3 on the 16th hole.
27- Caleb Axelson made back to back birdies on holes 6 and 7."
