KACC Golf Tournament

Chris, Andrew, Paul and I formed a 4-player scramble team for the KACC Golf Tourny and played a fun round today. I played in a 2-player scramble in college with Aaron for the IM tourny, but this was my first one in a long time. Tournaments like these are always a lot of fun for a variety of reasons.

1: It’s golf, golf is fun. Besides, I took work off to play, and work is less fun.

2: There are a lot of prizes along the way. Aaron and I each won a cool skill related prize in college. Today, I won a raffle, but winning a prize is winning a prize, the method does not matter.

3: You usually get to play in an exclusive course. We played at Silver Creek Valley Country Club in San Jose, one of the nicest courses in a very exclusive neighborhood.

Unfortunately, I quickly realized that I am a worthless scramble player. It runs along the theme that I’m not particularly good at anything, but am fairly decent at everything. Like Doug always tells me, I’m a very boring player. I don’t have the longest drives. My irons are accurate, but not THAT accurate. I rarely make mistakes with putting, but usually need 2 putts to hole out. A player needs to excel at their greatest strength in a scramble format tournament, and when your greatest strength is ‘minimal mistakes’… that doesn’t help. Regardless, I’m proud to say that my shots WERE played (basically when EVERYBODY screwed up), and that it was a blast to play with these guys. I’ll remember to practice ONE aspect of the game for weeks for next year!