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Moe, I apologize for being so slow in getting back with you. I am hoping you see this!! I absolutely had a great time reading and rereading all you wrote. Busy last week. I figured that we would know or have met many of the same players. I did play a lot with Mike Reid. His older brother Bill was the Ass’t Pro at Broadmoor in Seattle where I grew up playing. Mike started coming out to spend the summers and part of the winters when he was about 17. And Bob Allard? Yes, so many of those guys could really play. And you trying out for the Ducks? Oregon always had very good teams. I think the best player our age I played with from Oregon growing up was Mitch Mooney who went to New Mexico. I got one of the spots with him in Salem or thereabouts for the World Junior in San Diego. After my car accident and finishing college I never paid attention to what happened to guys. But watching the US Senior Open saw a lot of guys and they too look older!!! I hated the rain in Seattle growing up but the Pacific Northwest has had many good players through the years. And yes, I played at Indian Canyon a few times. The last time I think in the WA State Am when I was about 17. I think it one of the few times I had all “4’s” on the card. Obviously I was stellar on the par 3’s!
I hope your daughter loves it in Missoula! Beautiful spot. Those are fun times watching the kids. Our youngest leaves for college in about three weeks. Thankfully he is close enough to drive, watch a game and even get home for bed. He has tournament again this weekend in AZ and is determined to hit 90+. He is about 6’5”/180+ so has a lot of room to gain weight and is finally getting real man-strength. We helped a friend with hay bales on Saturday and he is big time strong now. Mariners? You never know. So yes to the tickets someday!!! I think somedays he could do no worse than about half of the Rockies rotation!
And it is great to find out about each other’s adventures around the links. Someday as old timers it would be fun to share a cart for 18 holes!!! It sounds like you a lot of fun memories from the ’85-98. Golf wise I did nothing during those years. I played about 4-6 rounds a year max. Normally would go a year or two without hitting a practice ball. But it is still fun. I am grateful for Ben Doyle teaching me sound fundamentals but the it is hard to have good muscle memory when both the mind and muscles are shot!
Please don’t worry about typos! I have LOTS! In fact, right when I was hitting send I thought….you dummy, it is Reid not Reed. Tired!! Oh yes, my email is jeffgwinn@aol.com.
Jeff