May 2016 archive

2016 RYDER CUP PREVIEW

Game #1 Scramble Thomson & Elliott vs Maxwell & Burke There is no denying this is an intriguing match-up. Power and Poise vs Consistency and Guile. The Commissioner and Double-Double know each other’s game intimately with a variety of skills that should mesh nicely. Maxwell-Smart and Grampy will be annoyingly down the middle all day …

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AVON LEA OPEN REPORT

If you haven’t already noticed, there is a runaway super senior hell bent on golf destruction in the KWGA to start the 2016 season. After a winter dominating the senior circuit in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, the symbol simply known as Grampy tore down the field at the Avon Lea Open Saturday for his first …

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MUNICH OKTOBERFEST REPORT

“Dad, you can’t win…let alone set a course record.” And so Barry Bannister-Hennigar’s day began with his young son’s early morning decree whilst sharing a bowl of Lucky Charms. A statement so calm yet so callous in its biting assessment of a father’s ability, or perceived lack thereof. Well, young son can eat some consonants …

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LEGENDS LOUNGE REPORT

Saturday the KWGA paid homage to one of the Valley’s best and most historic entertainment spots, Legends Lounge, a night club that spanned the varied ages that encompass our great league. If those Legends walls could talk, I dare say there would be a stampede to Kentville’s Law Court’s not seen since Hortonville’s nine “Barry Boys” …

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SKOAL BANDITS REPORT

Mark Twain once wrote, “Always do right. This will gratify some people…and astonish the rest.” And so it would be, after a winter of discontent and a spring of uncertainty, KWGA verteran Kevin “Hunchback” Newcombe did just that Saturday morning, astonishing his doubters with a stalwart net 67 en route to his second career victory …

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