Tournament Time

Today is the final day of the Heights Classic, the annual Men's Invitational.  Since we try to provide the best conditions possible, day in and day out, the tournament is not greatly different from any other day. However, there is a little more detail work, a few extra rolls of the greens, and of course, early start times to get the course prepared.

The staff did an excellent job in all respects of tournament preparation.  We handled an irrigation power outage to half the course without anybody noticing and no turf loss.  Greens were rolling a consistent 11 on the stimp meter from start to finish.  We also experienced zero mechanical breakdowns besides one flat tire.  All in all, it was a great tournament week.

To reward the crew, we joined in on the fun and conducted a putting contest of our own on the creative design prepared by Jacob and Mike from the Golf Shop.  The theme was "great moments in golf," but was more like ridiculous moments in golf such as Sergio in the tree on #10 at Bay Hill and Phil slipping on the rocks at Pebble.  There were trees, bunkers and water hazards and many tight fairways with OB on both sides.

The crew had so much fun on this track in a competitive outing.  At the end, it came down to a playoff with a two-way tie at +1.  Jose Luis completed an impressive round, carding two aces after an opening double bogey.  Juan was the early favorite and followed through to tie for the lead.

The five hole playoff, watched by the whole crew, wasn't decided until the final putt lipped out on the fifth hole, a replica of #18 at Augusta.  Congratulations to Juan Mendoza, this year's champ in what is sure to be an annual event.