Mercedes

Seven Smart Singher's

Written: January 08, 2007 10:40 AM

From start to finish, the VEEJ makes it look easy at Kapalua. Seven of youse picked him and start fast...right out-of-the-blocks. Nice going! The youngin's (Scott, Immelman, Holmes and MacKenzie) fared well but couldn't catch the old dog, V.J. who has now won more times (18) on Tour past the age of 40, than anyone.

Two passing comments: Holmes hits it a mile and can't putt and MacKenzie's a head case.

I thought it might be a cute idea, seeing as how there's so many new players this year, that we supply some info about each other. In that spirit, I have attached a recent photo of three pool players on the first tee at Sun Valley Resort Course last year. The Fourth guy, Joe Malay (second from the left) deserves a mention because he's such a character around the Idaho golf scene. He hits the ball a mile and, because his wedge game sucks, uses his putter when he's anywhere inside 75 yards. He flustered the USGA establishment when he showed up 2 years ago at Bel-Air C.C. in L.A. in the Senior Am dressed, quite normally, in his mis-matching, loud, Bozo-The- Clown outfit. He's a fun guy and the "face" of irreverent golf in Idaho. First guy on the left is Dave Cropper (one-half of the infamous, last-place Cropper Bros. Brother Richard, not shown, lives in Salt Lake City). They are both solid players with Dave's big claim-to-fame is his victory in the Idaho State Senior Championship a couple of years ago. Bob Lutz, on the far right in the photograph (now retired from the tool rental business he started in Ketchum, Idaho) travels the country playing important senior events and was recently listed as the 70th best Senior Amateur player in the country. He has won numerous statewide events. I'm the short guy in the picture and I will drive you nuts hitting it short and down the middle. My only problem is I need a golf brain replacement.

So...send me a short bio and/or digital picture so we can all get to know each other.

Again, congrats you Seven Smart Singh Selectors. But, let me warn you...don't for a minute think the ballgame is over! There are 39 events left to go and experience tells us that there are many changes to come. You can only gloat for 10 minutes in this pool and the year goes real fast.

Final Notes:

You will need your computer to have the capability to view EXCEL to see the results that I will attach each week. Do You?

Four Toms, four Appelby's, three Singh's, and three Campbell's this week in the Sony.