The 25^th Anniversary officially got underway when the Witzee and l’il Witzee arrived on Wednesday evening from NC via Picksburg.  The adults and kids all got together for some scrabble like word game and  soon Witzee was about ready to flip the kitchen table when the Doll wouldn’t wouldn’t let him use the word woohoo.  Lukie's beer meter pegged shortly thereafter.   The banner was flying on thursday but nothing much happened on  as the crew was somewhat hungover.  However, Witzee did pull his car onto the front lawn and worked on getting out the dents he put in it on the way over from picksburg.  And like the true red neck he is, he was shirtless and shoeless while performing the task.  After a quick  stop to watch Stephanie’s softball game (well, it actually turned into the longest game ever played) it was time to pick up Donna-Donna and Clay at the Airport after their flight had been delayed for a few hours.  By the time everyone was in the house it was near  midnight and everyone hit the sack.  On Friday morning, Josey, Torch and Shane showed up at about 11 AM,  When pops arrived we loaded up the vans with designated drivers Shane and Christian and  headed over to the course to meet with some other derelicts with a total of 20 golfers going off in the pro-am.  AT the course Witzee discovered his clubs didn’t make the trip and threw a little hissy fit directed at the boy. Things went off around 1 o'clock with the teenagers leading things off followed by Pops, Jim, Sweat and a surprise appearance from the security boy (who ran out of excuses why he couldn’t make it).  Sweat was serving up frozen kamikazes and deano was drinking heavily.  Davey and the lovely trish  also made an appearance and the blue drinks were flowing.  Click here for in depth coverage of the Pro-Am   A slight rain shower came in forcing the last 3 foursomes to wait things out at the pavilion (after 15 holes) before eventually calling it a day.  We headed back to the house for some stromboli’s, cigars  and liquor.  By about 7:30 the poker game was underway with 2 tables and 17 players.  Deano was bullying the Card table and Gator was taking command of the Pool table.  Players were dropping fast and furiously but they all seemed to come up with another $30 to rebuy jacking the winners pool up to record levels. Click here for a more detailed report on the Poker Action.  

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 Witzee got knocked out with trip aces  and all the little kids also got knocked out early.  It was eventually down to Deano, Nascar Paul and Gator and all the sudden chips went flying and fists were pumping and in all the excitement nobody really knew what happened and in fact a winner has still not been declared.   Then it was out to the porch to review the poker antics before another poker game (Man or Mouse) broke out in the kitchen with Gator surrendering most of his Texas Hold em winnings.  Everyone eventually went to bed around 4 AM except Dean who was missing in action.  Early the next morning, Lukie pulled out of the driveway in the minivan and heard a loud bang as Deano came rolling out of the back seat onto the floor in the front apparently having bedded down in the back of the van.  The crew all headed over to the course at about 8:30 with everyone following pops.  After about 40 minutes, Witzee  realized Pops didn’t know where he was going so he turned around and headed to the course leaving Pops to fend for himself.  Pops showed up 5 minutes before tee time and pulled his caddy into the front row.  Things went pretty smoothly until the golfing stared.  Josey played fairly well in between throwing beer bottles and raking sand traps.  Pete the drunk was golfing well and didn’t even get drunk until the back nine – what a disgrace.  The shot girls were again serving up some tasty libations and driving Pops to a near heart attack situation.  Deano continued his 4 day drinking binge and after putting out on hole #14, he abandoned his fivesome and found a nice spot under a tree in the 15^th fairway and caught up on some sleep.  Billy-bob and Cuzzin Jimi kept thanking me for pairing them up with Shane and Christian  and the Doll was carrying Jim, Sweat, and Security Boy with her pinpoint putting.  Eventually everyone finished (well, except Dean) and the award ceremony was underway.  But first there was the drawing for the huge Basket of Cheer.  Speedy, the main salesman pulled the winner from the goldfish box and an excited Big Bob Small came up to claim his prize.  He wasn’t too excited after he removed the cellophane and saw that most of the bottles were half empty ( an optimist would say half-full) and over 25 years old.  But the important thing is that over $200 was raised for the Human Fund.    

   Closest to Pin  Winners 

Long Drive Winners 

 Other Prizes 

Money Holes 

The Big Winners 

And now for the Greater Reading Open Champions.  The Country Clubbers (ADS, Pussy-whipped Hooven, Big Bob Small and Doc)  came in at 62 and the Prohibitive Favorites ( Greg the marshall marshall, Dave ifso Yatsko,  Rob "facebook" Brockman and Craig ringer Gaul) came in at 62 on one card and 63 on another card.  Not wanting to go through another tiresome playoff hole, the commish declared the prohibitive favorites had a score of 62.5 and therefore the Country Clubbers took the championship by a half of a stroke  - it doesn’t get any tighter than that.  It should be noted that Mike Pussy-Whipped Hooven was the winner of the inaugural Greater reading Open and yes he was still pussy whipped back in 84.   It should also be noted that ADS made a mess of himself spilling beer all down his shirt while trying to drink from the cup. 

After the awards some of the gang hung around at the pavilion doing shots of liquor from the Basket of Cheer that the winner “forgot” to take with him.  The Irish Mist and Drambuie were crowd favorites.  After getting yelled at by the owner for letting the kids run wild in the carts the party settled down and we headed back to the Howard Dump where the party fizzled out.  Things continued on Sunday with a trip to Maple Grove Raceway – SUNDAY-SUNDAY-SUNDAY!!!   Only 11 months til the next Reading Open

26th Annual Greater Reading Open 

Saturday, July 17th, 2010 

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