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Sunday, February 20, 2022

Dear Harvey: gPage-A-Palooza 2022

Dear Harvey,

Cathy and I are back in Austin for a stretch, and we were thrilled to see so many friends at the club yesterday. My game was a little jet-lagged, but my heart was happy that Jim 'Master of the Games' Hopke and his bride, Kathy, organized golf and dinner.

The game was foursomes counting two low net balls (full handicaps from selected tees) for $10/$10/$10 for the first, second, and third sixes. Plus a $10 individual net skins game. "Bring $40 American CASH and give it to the Commissioner before you tee off." (My plea for a Stableford format and payment in quid fell on death ears.)

Team gPage took the first and second six, and Team Tips won the last six. On Team gPage card, Michael Beiter won two skins with net eagles on 1 and 5, and Don Stuart won two skins with a net eagle on 2 and a gross birdie on 9. Michael Costello also took a skin, and Anna 'Blue Devil' Morales took two (3 & 17). Unless I missed it, Anna's score of 75 was tops for the day. Nicely done!

The golf course was in great shape, and the infrastructure build-out seemed more extensive than any year for the upcoming WGC Dell Technologies Match Play.


Harvey, I imagine your view from above is pretty special!

Team shots to follow,

gPage

P.S. We were all saddened to learn head pro Dale Morgan lost his father over in College Station this weekend. Our prayers are with Dale and his family.

Team Tips: Bob Whitlock, Henrick Olsson, Clas Olsson, Michael Costello

Team gPage: Michael Beiter, Page Singletary, Jim Hopke, Don Stuart

Team Slick: Ken McFarland, Clint Bybee, Anna Morales, Ed Healy

Master of the Games with his new Augusta National Ball Mark.

Anna repping her Blue Devils from top to bottom! Great time with her husband Tom at dinner learning about Richmond, UK, where he grew up, literally right around the corner from where we live now!


Letters to Harvey from The Kingdom:

Other 'golfy' scribblings:
"Millions of people were charmed by the homespun golf advice dispensed in Harvey Penick's Little Red Book, a sports classic that became the best-selling sports book of all time. Yet, beyond the Texas golf courses where Penick happily toiled for the better part of eight decades, few people knew the self-made golf pro who coaxed the best out of countless greats -- Tom Kite, Ben Crenshaw, Betsy Rawls, Mickey Wright -- all champions who considered Penick their coach and lifelong friend." - Kevin Robbins, author of Harvey Penick: The Life and Wisdom of the Man Who Wrote the Book on Golf.
"And if you play golf, you are my friend." - Harvey Penick
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