ATAG Date: July 25, 2006

Ansley Tuesday Afternoon G olf Tour

Issue #: 23

The Nickelodeon
Chronicling The Play and Behavior of ATAG Tour Players

GOOD GOLFING DAY!

Chief Editor
Don Nichols July 25, 2006
By: Don Nichols
Graphic Design Manager Ansley Tuesday Afternoon Golf Tour
Amanda Nichols
The 16 players that made the cut for the 14th match of the
Sales and Marketing 2006 ATAG season were glad to find that the front nine was a
Manager lot more accommodating than last week’s punishing back nine
“Pool Bar Dave” Nichols as evidenced by the number of good scores posted. Despite
scattered afternoon showers throughout the metro area, the
Editorial Assistant Ansley in town nine was able to dodge the rain pellets until 7:15
open pm, when a 25 minute rain shower affected only the last two
holes of the third and fourth groups. To start the match, the
following teams were assembled by order of arrival on the first
tee with the first group teeing off promptly at 5:00 pm:

Team 1 Team 2 Team

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C. Y. Young Doug Gooding Lee Pearson
Ron Majors Mike Gutt Don Nichols
Brad Reese P. J. Wade Jim Rowley*
Photography Brooks Cowles Danny Morris Tom
Kisgen open
Score: -4 Score: -15 Score: -9
Publisher
Nickelodeon Team 4
Publications, Inc Mike Gaddis
Since 2005 Richard Batelaan
Bill Meagher
Jim Bernhardt
Score: -9
ATAG * long time Ansley member making his first ATAG appearance
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15 UNDER GRABS THE BARLEY!
1912 INCORRECT SCORE CARD
196 Montgomery Ferry Dr
Atlanta, Ga 30309
SUBMITTED!
Team 2 members Doug Gooding, Mike Gutt, P.J. Wade,
and Danny Morris all shot below their handicaps to blow away
the field with a near record 15 under. Although the players
believed they had tied the all time record of 16 under with
their stellar play, and so celebrated, a next day review of the
 score card by the Commissioner (this is done every week)
discovered a one point addition error in the team totals.
Normally the submission of an incorrect score card calls for a
disqualification, but in this case, since the individual players
scores were recorded correctly, and because it would be rather
difficult, not to mention unsightly, for the players to return their
bounty, the Commissioner only issued a stern warning and a
reminder to all teams to check the math before submitting
the score card (especially if the score keeper is Morris). The
day’s patrons turned out to be the first arriving Team 1
members C. Y. Young, Ron Majors, Brad Reese, and Brooks
Cowles whose best ball score of 4 under earned them the
right to make the formal presentation to the victors.

GUTT WINS LOW NET PURSE

AGAIN! PLAYERS DEMAND REVIEW
BY HANDICAP COMMITTEE!
Mike Gutt, reportedly a 19 handicap, won the Low Net purse
of sixteen bucks by posting a round of 41, for a net 5 under,
edging out by one stroke Bill Meagher, Danny Morris, P. J.
Wade, and Don Nichols for the plenteous prize money. This
followed his win two weeks prior when he posted a score of 40
—net 6 under. At the players request, the money hungry Mr.
Gutt (hereinafter known as the “defendant”) has been called
before the Handicap Committee to provide documented
evidence that he is not, in fact, a professional sandbagger as
his two recent victories might suggest. The Handicap
Committee has also requested from the archives of the
Ansley Golf Club a record of all scores posted by the
defendant over the last ten years.

MEAGHER RETURNS TO FORM TO

GRAB LOW GROSS! YOUNG HAS
BAD DAY!
In single digiter competition, the honorary Low Gross was won
by six handicapper Bill Meagher whose bogey free round,
enhanced by one birdie, put him at the top of the leader board
with a one under 35, narrowly edging out four handicapper
Jim Bernhardt by one stroke and P.J. Wade by two shots.
Bernhardt later lamented that he had eight birdie putt
opportunities but managed to sink only one. The day’s high
score was earned by sixteen handicapper C. J. Young who
tripled and doubled his way to having a bad day with a score of
48 and helping his team qualify as the day’s patrons.

NO SHOTS OF THE DAY, JUST GOOD

GOLF!
There were really no “shots of the day” reported because, as
someone noted, such shots are normally born out of necessity
after making a poor shot. Jim Bernhardt did receive honorable
mention for his left handed 100 ft punch out on # 5 to enable
his saving par, and Don Nichols was crowing about his 270
yard tee shot to the top of the hill on # 5, but other than that
 it was just good golf with a lot of fairways and greens resulting
Tip From The Pros: in some good scores as noted in the box scores below.

Swing With The Slope: When

faced with an uphill or downhill
SIX BIRDIES ON THE DAY!
lie, the first thing to keep inBATELAAN CATCHES TYBER!
mind is to give the slope its due
by following it, not fighting it.
On an uphill shot take the club Whereas last week’s stingy back nine yielded only two birdies,
back low, and follow the slope this week’s front nine was more generous, allowing six
back and through. On downhill tweeters to be added to the Birdie Club totals. Adding to
shots pick up the club, stay their cumulative total were Richard Batelaan with 2
down, and let the club follow birdies( tying Andy Tyber as leader in the clubhouse) and
the downward slope. one each by Doug Gooding, P. J. Wade, Bill Meagher, and
Jim Bernhardt.

OTHER TIDBITS:
• There was not much to report on the social activities this
week as most of the players had to leave shortly after the
conclusion of the match including this writer, and Tim Martin
was not there to place free rounds on the table to
encourage the players to linger longer.

Thought For The Day:
There is no since being
pessimistic. It wouldn’t work
anyway.
More Summer Reading :
• This week’s bad boy was Marty Arnold who was a “no
notice no show”, apparently because his butler neglected to
wake him from his afternoon nap. Nevertheless, under ATAG by
laws, he now joins other ATAG bad boys on ATAG death row
where, should this grievous offense be repeated, he shall suffer
“death by boogada boogada”.
● As previously announced, Bill Benning had a hole in one
on # 7 at Settindown last week and was due to buy a round
for those ATAGers present who had not already partaken of the
customary freebie. Oddly, he was called away on business and
was unable to attend this week’s match. Nevertheless, look for
his ‘accounts payable” column to be cleared at his next ATAG
appearance.

“How To Relax When You Are That’s it for this week’s hebdomadal Nickelodeon (you’ll have
Hitting Three Off The Tee” to look that one up). Next week’s match will be played on the
onerous back nine. See you then!
“Proper Excuses For Drinking
Beer Before 10 am”
Box Scores: front nine: slope: 134
Meagher* 35 Gooding 44
Bernhardt 36 Majors 44
Wade, P.J. 37 Rowley 45
Morris 39 Gaddis 45
Batelaan 40 Kisgen 46
Pearson 40 Cowles 47
Reese 40 Young 48

ATAG Gutt**
Nichols
41
41
* Low Gross
** Low Net
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