Tuesday Morning League

The Tuesday Morning League, established several years ago, plays its matches on the West Hill Course of our Somers Pointe Golf Club. Its season just closed with a luncheon at the Pinnacle Restaurant.

<> Profound gratitude was expressed and heartfelt paeans were once again paid and sung to Paul Cipes, creator and organizer of our TML. It was Paul who introduced all of us to the TML tournament concept. So popular has this program become for our weekday and retired players, that our Good Shepherd is now obliged to limit how many of us he can enroll to play.

<> Cipes assigns an adjustable Quota number to each of us. He bases it on our changing handicaps and weekly performance, parameters he follows very closely. When play is concluded, our Quota number is subratcted from the points we earned according to how many aces, eagles, pars and bogeys we scored during the round. The resultant is either a positive, a negative or zero figure. It represents our individual point score and it is added to or subtracted from the Team score.

<> The competition, each Tuesday morning, with so very many players of various ages and skills playing from different Tees, is spirited and thoroughly joyful. The prizes we win as individuals and as Team members, are paid out as gift certificates, redeemable at our Pro-Shop. And, believe it or not, our restless, creative Shepherd is already thinking of using other interesting formats next year. <> Molte grazie, Paul