ATAG Date: July 11, 2006

Ansley Tuesday Afternoon G olf Tour

Issue #: 21

The Nickelodeon
Chronicling The Play and Behavior of ATAG Tour Players

TURMOIL ON FIRST TEE!

Chief Editor
Don Nichols GOLF COURSE
Graphic Design Manager OVERBOOKED!
Amanda Nichols July 11, 2006
By: Don Nichols
Ansley Tuesday Afternoon Golf Tour
Sales and Marketing
Manager
“Pool Bar Dave” Nichols The 13th week of the ATAG season was met with bedlam
on the first tee as over 30 golfers milled around the
Editorial Assistant putting green or sat in carts waiting to play the first hole
open of a nine hole golf course, including 19 ATAGers who
showed up for the first reserved tee time at 5:09 pm. The
scene, reminiscent of an opening day at a county fair, was
apparently caused by a tournament held earlier in the day
that caused the tee times of several groups to be pushed
back and to start their rounds in a shotgun format,
resulting in three groups arriving at the first tee to
complete three or more holes of their rounds at the same
time that the ATAG match was beginning. Club
Photography management maintained order by allowing the earlier
open golfers to alternate with the ATAG teams, but this
accommodation delayed the third ATAG group getting off
Publisher until close to 6 pm and required the last two teams to
Nickelodeon have their own shotgun start in order to finish in time for
Publications, Inc the social activities. An earlier random pick of numbers
Since 2005 out of the hat resulted in the following teams:

Group 1 Group 2 Group 3

Danny Morris Tom Kisgen Rick
ATAG Eaton
Ansley Tuesday Afternoon Andy Tyber Jim Williamson Richard Gilmore
Golf Tour
Bill Benning Ron Majors Tom
Ansley Golf Club Thornhill
1912 Tom Player Scotty Greene Don Nichols
196 Montgomery Ferry Dr
Score: -10 Score: -10 Score: -16
Atlanta, Ga 30309
Group 4 Group 5
Mike Gutt Marty Arnold
P.J. Wade Henry Sawyer
 Brooks Cowles Mike Gaddis
Scotty Greene* Bill Buist**

Score: -12 Score: -8

*indicates randomly selected draw partner for the threesome

whose score was adjusted accordingly. Draw partner
participates in that group’s fate.
**indicates visitor

SEASON BEST 16 UNDER GRABS

THE GUSTO! TIES ALL TIME ATAG
RECORD!
Team 3 members Rick Eaton, Richard Gilmore, Tom
Thornhill, and Don Nichols played well and used the
right combination of low to mid to high handicappers to
“The main idea in golf as brother in law their way to the season’s best score of
in life, I suppose, is to 16 under to blow away the field, with Gilmore and
learn to accept what Nichols each posting net 5 under scores to help lead
cannot be altered and to their team to victory. The 16 under score puts them into
keep on doing one’s own a tie for the all time ATAG record (well, since records
reasoned and resolute have been kept) which was posted last year by Tim
best whether the prospect Martin, Andy Tyber, Doug Healy, and draw partner
be bleak or rosy” Tom Kisgen. Finishing last, literally and figuratively,
Bobby Jones were Team 5 members Marty Arnold, Henry Sawyer,
Mike Gaddis, and new Arnold sponsored Ansley
member Bill Buist who filled in for one of the four match
day cancellations. The woeful foursome, which was forced
to start on # 7 and then found themselves behind a slow
twosome, finished some 30 minutes after the fourth group
Golf Truism: only to learn that their 8 under score entitled them to be
The more expensive ball the day’s sponsor of the highly coveted premium barley.
that you buy, the more
powerful will be its
magnetic attraction to GUTT WINS FIRST ATAG TOUR
water.
PURSE FOR LOW NET! EATON AND
TYBER SHARE LOW GROSS
HONORS! WILLIAMSON RISES TO
NEW HIGH!
For the first time, an ATAG Tour purse was established
for the Low Net—open to all players who contributed to
the pot of $1,900. (well, I may have added a couple of
zeroes to capture attention and $1900 sounds a lot better
than 19 bucks) Nevertheless, grabbing the nineteen
ATAG singles was nineteen handicapper Mike Gutt who
edged out Richard Gilmore and Don Nichols by one
Ansley Tuesday Afternoon
Golf Tour stroke with a net score of 6 under, putting him into a
tie with Henry Sawyer for the clubhouse lead. Sharing
Ansley Golf Club
low gross honors were single digiters Rick Eaton and
1912
196 Montgomery Ferry Dr Andy Tyber who each posted a 39. Topping the charts
Atlanta, Ga 30309 on this day was seventeen handicapper Jim Williamson
who rose to his season high of 48 which was good (bad)
enough for the recognition since perennial favorites Craig
 Sellner and Frank Corrigan did not play, and last year’s
winner Bill Benning posted a respectable score of 44.

GREENE CLAIMS SHOT OF THE DAY!

Leaders In The There were several good shots of the day, but Scotty
Clubhouse: Greene grabbed top honors for his approach shot on #
4. After a weak tee shot that left him 215 yards from the
Low Gross: Bernhardt: pin, Greene managed to make the long distance call with
34 a seven wood, landing within 15 feet of the hole, and then
ATAG Record: Reese: 33 sinking the putt for birdie, net eagle. Other good shots
were made by Jim Williamson who did have one bright
Low Net: Gutt, Sawyer: spot by chipping within a foot from 50 yards out on # 8 to
-6 make net par, Tom Kisgen who sank a 20 foot putt for
ATAG Record : Gutt , birdie, net eagle on # 2, Richard Gilmore who nearly
Sawyer: - 6 holed out his shot from the sand trap on # 1 to make par,
net birdie, and Mike Gutt who put his 145 yard
Most Birdies: Tyber: 10 approach shot on #2 within four feet to make birdie, net
ATAG Record: Tyber: eagle.
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Eagle Club: 2006-none BIRDIE CLUB ADDS NEW MEMBERS

2005: Majors, Meagher P. J. Wade, Scotty Greene, and Mike Gutt were
admitted into the Birdie Club for the first time while
others who added to their cumulative total included Andy
Best Team Score: -16 Tyber, Tom Kisgen, and Bill Benning.
Eaton, Gilmore,
Thornhill, Nichols
ATAG Record: -16 Tie OTHER TIDBITS:
Martin, Tyber, Healy, • It was a typical hazy and hot late summer Georgia after
Kisgen(draw partner) noon and, despite the turmoil on the first tee, turned out
Eaton, Gilmore, to be yetanother great day in the ATAG annals.
Thornhill, Nichols
•Doug Healy, though having to cancel on game day, was
on the porch in street clothes to greet the players and
participate in the social interaction. Also making brief
cameo appearances were C.J. Young, Ollie Kennon,
and Tim Martin who were attending the Ansley Sharks
swim team celebration party in the upstairs ball room.
The Ansley Sharks captured the country club
championship for the 19th year in a row! (The last
time they lost, Martin was a college freshman and this
writer was almost wrinkle free.)

•It was not joke night, but Tom Kisgen entertained one
of the tables with some new material that emitted some
guffaws from those within ear shot and prompted Danny
Morris to subsequently retell it to the other tables after
Kisgen had departed for the evening.
ATAG
Ansley Tuesday Afternoon •Today’s “bad boys” were Ben Cass, who was fined for
Golf Tour
canceling his reserved spot at 3:30 pm on the day of the
Ansley Golf Club match, well beyond the required 2 pm deadline, and
1912 Scotty Greene who responded to the Commissioners’
196 Montgomery Ferry Dr
subtle suggestion that Greene’s group was playing slow
Atlanta, Ga 30309
with a loud expletive deleted barb. Mr. Greene has been
 censured for his affront to the Commissioner and a
Letter Of Reprimand has been placed in his file.

Next week we take on the back nine. See everybody then!

Box Scores: front nine

Eaton 39 Kisgen 44
Tyber 39 Cowles 44
Gutt 40 Thornhill 44
Majors 40 Benning 44
Nichols 40 Sawyer 45
Arnold 41 Greene 45
Thoughts For The Day: Wade, PJ 42 Player 46
Gilmore 42 Buist 46
In just two days, tomorrow Morris 43 Williamson 48
will be yesterday. Gaddis 43

Clones are people two.

More Summer Reading

(now available at your
local bookstore):

“How To Hit a Nike

from the rough when
you hit a Titliest off
the tee”

“How To Find The Ball

That Everyone else
saw go into the
water.”