Pilgrim’s Oak Results

Yes, the trip to Pilgrim’s Oak golf course in Peach Bottom, Pa was long. Yes, the clubhouse lacked in providing decent variety of food. However the course layout was varied and challenging. And the greens were not a pushover by any means. This lead to a variety of scores.

Playing on the Pilgrim’s Oak course requires good footing and a couple of players were donning new footwear. Bruce Grau was wearing the innovative $210 SQAIRZ shoes that advertise to provide better alignment with the square toes and add 8.8 yards of distance. Bruce stated he lost about 10 yards of distance and is losing more golf balls in hazards than ever before. Bob Ingram on the other hand was wearing his $82 Contour Footjoy shoes newly purchased at Golf Shoes of America in Myrtle Beach. Bob stated that the shoes felt comfortable and that he did not lose a golf ball all day long as he shot a 41 on each side for a net 74 to capture first place. In close second were both Jerome Lyons and Rick Princinsky with a net 76.

All four par 3’s were eligible for CTPs and each par 3 provided challenges. Greg Muolo was able to overcome the challenges as he captured two CTPs on hole #4 with his A wedge and hole #17 with an 8-iron. Rick Princinsky nutted his 7-wood to capture the CTP on the long 177 yard par hole #8 and Bob Ingram floated a 9-iron on the #12 hole to capture that CTP.

Rick Princinsky started off on fire as he captured CLEARs on holes #1 and #3 and Bob Ingram birdied holes #8 and #12 to capture two CLEARs. Jerome Lyons grabbed a CLEAR on the difficult 349 yard #13 hole and Brian Duffy secured a CLEAR with a birdie on the par 5 #14 hole.

In light of Phil Mickelson’s recent victory at the PGA championship, let me steal a phrase from Michael Jan that he was using throughout the day at Pilgrim’s Oak — “These old guys are good”.

Next event is June 26 with the venue TBD.

The breakdown of scores and prizes are below.