Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

The Stoneridge Ladies, all 16 of us, traveled down to Lewiston this past weekend to participate in the 2010 Northern Region Golf Association Tournament South. It's a 2-day event, which we willingly turn into 3. Stoneridge Pal and team captain Debbie organized the group, making sure everyone had a ride and a room.
Last year my Stoneridge Bunch was 4 to a room, this year we all decided we needed more space so decided to just double up.
I joined Stoneridge Pals Patty, Terry & Carol for the 3 hour drive down. Patty drove, I navigated and Terry & Carol made sure both of us did our jobs properly. It was a quick trip made eventful with a stop at A&W for happy hour. Who can pass up 1/2 price root beer floats?
Within our group we had two Mother-Daughter Teams with us. Diane and Rachea with Linda and her 80 year old Mom Lucy. 
After we checked in we needed to make a stop at a local grocery store for appetizers needed for the get together with the rest of our team after volunteering Betty & Sherry's room to be party central.
By 6pm drinks have been poured and plates are piled with a variety of tasty treats. Having only a dresser and desk in the room along with 2 queen beds and being the ingenious gals we are the ironing board was set up to hold the platters. We all learned one very important fact... Howard Johnson's has very sturdy beds.

Wait! Where's Betty?

Following our little party, the few gals that arrived early to play a practice round gave the rest of us an update on the course. It seemed there was one central theme to everyone's advice: "Stay on the fairways!". The roughs were thick and very hard to get out of. There isn't a flat lie ANYWHERE! The greens all slope and are incredibly hard to read. After this update some of the gals were ready to pack up and head home, but were all good and didn't party to hard. Some left to grab a bite to eat, and we were all in our own rooms and settling in by 9pm. 

Monday was our first tournament day at Lewiston Golf Club. Tee time was 8:30am and luckily the weather couldn't have been better. It's been so rainy here at Stoneridge lately it was such a pleasure to be in the sun. All but 2 of us played in threesomes or foursomes with ladies from the 7 other clubs. The game is individual best ball with a team best ball to create comradeship within each foursome. 

 Mother/Daughter Team Lucy & Linda

 Our Captain, Debbie collecting the score cards

After my 3rd hole I understood what the gals were trying to explain to us the night before. Unfortunately my attempt to "Stay in the fairways" didn't hold up. As I hacked my way through the rough, out of bunkers, from under trees and attempting to navigate my ball into the cup I came to the realization that I would probably NOT be helping my team out in the scoring. To my surprise, it seems that the field was sharing my fate.After golf we all headed to town for an early dinner at Anthony's where we celebrated our best finish ever.

These were the winners from our group after the round in Lewiston:

Individual Winners

Rachea - Tied 2nd Place Net, 2nd Flight (75) $20.25

Kathy - 2nd Place Net, 3rd Flight (78) $23.00

Stoneridge Gal - Tied 2nd Place Gross, 4th Flight (107) $17.50

Patty - Tied 2nd Place Net, 4th Flight (79) $20.25

Carol - 2nd Place Net, 5th Flight (80) $23.00

Terry - Tied 4th Place Net, 5th Flight (84) $6.00

Team Best Ball - $15.00 Each

Kathy, Rachea, Stoneridge Gal

After the 1st day...Stoneridge's Overall

Team Standing - 4th Place!

Clarkston Country Club was the site for our 2nd day of the tournament. We died and went to heaven! It was flat. Now don't get me wrong, the course's slope/rating was higher than Lewiston. It is flat, but it was longer, tree lined and had water. Overall, the entire field improved.

Even though we wore our red, we weren't able to move up in the overall standings. We did have winners!

Individual Winners
Sherry - 1st Place Gross, 1st Flight (92) $35.00

Rachea - 1st Place Net, 2nd Flight (69) $35.00

Kathy - 2nd Place Net, 2nd Flight (70) $23.00

Patty - Tied 2nd Place Gross, 4th Flight (104) $20.25

Carol - 1st Place Net, 4th Flight (71) $35.00

Betty - 2nd Place Net, 4th Flight (74) $23.00

Julie - 3rd Place Net, 4th Flight (75) $17.50

Kathy - Tied 4th Place Net, 4th Flight (76) $2.50

Team Best Ball - $15 each

Kathy, Rachea

We all had a great time,  the Stoneridge team did great and I can't wait to see what happens when the NRGA moves up to our neck of the woods.