After reviewing the Leaderboard it is apparent the golf course won last week. If you had trouble finding the short grass and was not on the green in regulation pars were hard to find.

Our target score from the white tees is 67 and 65 from our gold tees.None of our gold tee players hit the target score and only nine players hit the target score from the white tees. This is hard to do and should be your goal each week.

On top of the gross leaderboard is:

Bob Reilly 77

Haddie Lee 78

Gary Lerro 83

Ed Kelleher 83

Troy Nikola 84

Andy Ducsak 84

Congratulations!  Only 15 players had rounds under 90 and only 52 of 102 players scores were under 100.

John Filipek was on top of the net leader board with a 9 under 62. Congratulations to John.

John Filipek 62

Bob Ragusa 65

Erik Hall 65

Gary Lerro 66

John Brancato 66

Richard K 66

Frank Blozen 66

David Miller 66

How did these players do in their age group?

A total of 10 skins last week. Again you can not win a gross and net skin on the same hole.

Five flights by age last week. Here are the flights:

35-63

64-67

68-70

71-74

75-90

Go to our portal to see how you finished in your age group.

https://lga-5flightsbyage.golfgenius.com

Also visit our web site laceygolf.sports.blog

Our event this week will be five flights by age using stableford scoring to determine winners.

Hot Dog and beverage will be served on the turn.

If you will not be playing on a given Thursday. Here is the procedure:

Tell Jay on Thursday morning at our office on the 10th tee or email

laceygolfassociation@gmail.com

jay@gamblerridge.com

732-267-4899(text or voice) if necessary

Our only attendance rule is you inform us in a timely manner when you will not play.

See you Thursday

Jay and Rural

PS: You can not reply to a golf genius email

Thursday proved to be a very nice golf day. Most of you removed one layer about the time the round started and before the end of the round I saw a lot of short sleeve shirts. Players enjoyed the lunch after the round. The lunch had a taste of Italy.Thanks to the kitchen staff at GRGC and Amanda our server.

A few words about target score. Your target score is 67 from the white tees and 65 from the Gold tees. Subtract your course handicap from your gross score and see if you hit your target score. Very hard to do.We had 18 players reaching this goal last week.

Four rounds in the 70’s:

Bob Reilly 73

Ray D. 77

Haddie Lee 78

Don Lee 78

23 of our players had scores under 90 and 63 of 104 players had scores under 100.

On the net side the top 5 were

Rich Kulaszewski 60

Jim Schembari 61

Rich Ritchie 63

Jim Kelly 63

Ernie Leta 63

39 of our players had net scores of 71 and less.

The results of our 2 best of 4 are in and to be a winner you needed to be in red numbers.The best team score was a -21. This was a 80% of your handicap event. The scorecard had your full course hanicap. Go to our portal and click on your group you will see the 80% handicap.

If you will not be playing on a given Thursday this is the procedure:

Tell Jay on a Thursday morning at our office on the 10th tee. He has the list .

email: laceygolfassociation@gmail.com  or  jay@gamblerridge.com

732-267-4899 (text or voice) If necessary

It is mandatory you informed Jay in a timely manner when you will not play.

Here are the links to our portal and website.

https://lga-2bestof4.golfgenius.com

http://www.laceygolf.sport.blog

We will flight you by age this week.

See you Thursday

Jay and Rural

Thursday was a many layer and stocking cap morning. The good news is the long range forecast for 4-18 looks good for golf. Plan to play.

The weather was no problem for new member Ray Dibenedetti who shot a one over par 72.The round included 4 birdies.

Also in the seventies were:

Jim Longmuir 78

Gary Lerro 79

Ed Kelleher 79

Bob Reilly 79

Congratulations

Low net honors went to Gary Lerro with a 11 under par 60 followed closely by Mike Ziobro with a 10 under 61.

10 of our players had rounds in the 80’s  and  66 LGA members managed to have scores under 100.

3 skins this week. Did your birdie win a skin?

If you had 40 points you are a winner in the stableford contest.

Go to our portal to see your results. The link is:

lga-drop3worststablefordscoring.golfgenius.com

Hope you plan to play this week. Please contact no later than 2pm on Wednesday if you can not play.

Jay and Rural

laceygolfassociation@gmail.com

Jay@ gamblerridge.com

Thursday was a wonderful day to play golf and enjoy some very good food and honor our Match Play Winners and our most improved golfer.

This is the link to our portal this week.

lga-twolowestnetscoresoneachhole.golfgenius.com

This week’s course stats

Visit our web site. The address is: laceygolf.sport.blog  Thanks to Jay for all his work on our web site. Pictures from Thursday are on the site.

Congratulations to Troy Nikola for a one under par 70. This was a 33-37 with four birdies. Following this round was:

Ray Dibennedetti 76 “Guest”

Haddie Lee 77

Rich Petrosino 79

Ken Flatt 80

On the net leaderboard was

John Kubilewicz 62 Second time in recent weeks

Gary Lerro 63 A Match Play Winner

Ken Flatt 63

Troy Nikola 63

Richard Petrosino 63

47 of our players had net scores of 71 or less

61 of our players had gross scores of 100 or less

Visit our portal and review your score

There were nine skins. Since we had no contest on the par 3, a skin will win you $10.

In our team event our 27 teams were placed in four flights. The Wing Foot Flight has 6 3-man teams.The other flights are made up of 4-man teams.Par for this event is 142. Three of our teams were 17 under par. A score of 125.

Go to the portal and check on your team.

All money will be paid at our 11-29 breakfast. Mark your calendar now . Time is 9am for breakfast.

Our weekly fee for the 2019 season will be $40 per week. We will collect $110 for the 2019 season. This is the first week.last week and the GHIN System.

The hole in one fund is $650.00

Jay is in charge of our golfing events and Richard and I will look after the finances of our club.

The mailing address for checks is:

Lacey Golf Association

PO Box 1132

Forked River NJ 08731-6132

It has been my pleasure to lead the LGA and to be associated with some wonderful members and some good golfers with a love for this great game. I will continue to be a member and do everything I can do to keep our association moving forward.New members are our life blood.We need new members and I hope you will help us add new members. I am so glad Jay will be leading us in the future and I know he will do a great job.

Rich and I thank you so much for your very generous gift. I wish I knew how to say more but from our hearts thank you so much.

Looking forward to seeing you on November 29 and I hope you and your family have a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Hit it Straight

Rural

Missed you last Thursday. I have the flu and felt I needed rest. I plan to be there this Thursday.

I had trouble with my email account last week and did not see all of your emails in a timely manner.I have corrected the problem

The link to our portal this week is:

lga-fiveflightsbyage.golfgenius.com

Lacey VS the course Stat Sheet

Click on the portal and check out your results and stats from last week.

Jay is doing a great job with our web site. The address for our site is laceygolf.sport.blog  Check it out.

Our six best rounds last week were:

Troy Nikola 74

Ed Kelleher 76

Tom Gargiulo 80

Gene Wawer 80

Rich Ritchie 80

Ted Foley 80

61 of our 98 golfers broke 100 last week

Our net leadeboard looks like this.

Rich Ritchie 58

Bob Murphy 62

Tony Giordano 63

Gene Wawer 63

56 of our players had net rounds of 71 or less.

A total of nine skins this week. Are you a skin winner?

This week our event will be a team event. The total of your two best net scores. Winners will be paid at our winter meeting on 11-29-2018.

Our final week of our 2018 season is Thursday. The round will be followed by a Prime Rib dinner and we will honor our 2018 winners. Please plan to stay and do not eat and run. The awards will be presented after the meal.

Our winter meeting will be Thursday,November 29. Mark your calendar.

If for some reason you will not play this week contact me no later than 2pm on Wednesday.

See you Thursday

Rural

laceygolfassociation@gmail.com

rrgjr@aol.com

Here is your link to our portal.

lga-blindpartners.golfgenius.com

League Stats fo this week:

Click on it and it will take you to our portal. You can check out the results of our Blind Partners contest and other results from September 20.

This is your link to the Lacey Golf Association web site. laceygolf.sport.blog

We have two weeks remaining on our 2018 schedule. 9-27 & 10-4. Also mark November 29 2018 on your calendar. This will be our meeting to organize for our 2019 season. More information will follow.

CONGRATULATIONS to Tom Scully. Tom was our first winner on the 13th  closest to the hole on the second shot.Tom was 26″ from the hole and made the birdie.

No birdies on the 16th hole this week but Barry Cerino third shot found the bottom of the cup from 100+ yards. Barry was still smiling when I saw him in the parking lot.

The loudest celebration was on the 17th hole when Jim Starkey long putt found the bottom of the cup for a par.

Six of our players had rounds in the 70’s. They are:

Roger Melanson76

Steve Salisbury 77

Sabi Mangat 77

Frank Fresca 78

Larry Sramowicz 79

Frank Digiglio 79

Frank Mele and Ken Flatt shot 9 over 80 to lead the players in the 80’s

Ed Andzeski,Paul Pearsall and Vince Abbuzzesse shot 90 to lead this group.

72 of our players broke 100 this week.

In our Blind Partners event 48 of the 50 teams were under par.

Joe the ranger is still improving and I hope he will join us on 10-4.

This week we are going to flight you by your age.

See you Thursday. If you can not play please contact me by 2pm on Wednesday.

Rural

laceygolfassociation@gmail.com

rrgjr@aol.com

League Stats fo this week:

WOW! What a beautiful Saturday morning along the Jersey Shore. The long range forecast for this Thursday looks this good. Make your plans to play.My thoughts are with the people on the Carolina coast .

Your link to the portal this week is:

lga-fourmanteamsflightedstablefordscorin.golfgenius.com

Check out the portal to see your results and your team’s results.

64 of our 98 golfers last Thursday scored 100 or less.We had 3 rounds in the 70’s.

Troy Nikola 73

Ted Foley 79

Larry Sramowicz 79

82 was the lowest round in the 80’s. 3 of our players scored 82

Steve Salisbury 82

Gary Sher 82

Haddie Lee 82

Earl Etzel shot 90 to be on top of the 38 players scoring in the 90’s.

Again this week new names on our net leaderboard. The leader is:

Joe Radice with a 10 under par 61.Tony Giordano was in second place with a 9 under par 62.

In our team event two teams had 142 Stableford Points and a third team had 140 points. Check out the portal to see your results.

My plans for this Thursday is an old favorite Blind Partners. Plus Gross and Net Skins.

A new way to win cash on the 13th hole this week is closest to the hole on your SECOND shot. Who will be our first winner?

Our season will end on October 4th. We will have a team event and our annual banquet and awards lunch. How does prime rib sound?

Looking forward to seeing you on Thursday. If you can not play please contact me no later than 2pm on Wednesday. If you have not played recently it would be a good idea to confirm you plan to play.

Rural