The Reading open festivities started when Witzee and l’il witzee arrived on Thursday afternoon from north carolina via picksburg for a 800 mile trip.  Shortly thereafter, we cruised down to the airport to pick up Donna and clay who took the relaxing method of a 1 hour flight from NC.   Josey showed up at 11 am  Friday with the new Witzee cup  and Shane brought in the Rock band set up.  We loaded up the van with coolers and enough sets of clubs for everyone – even witzee’s kid remember to throw his dad’s bag in.  By the time everyone showed up we had a total of 16 and Pops found Christian  wandering around the course at hole #4 and delivered him to his foursome.  Davey and the elitists went out first followed by the five some of Josey, Sweat, Pops, Ted ford and Bill Donovan.  Clay, Craig and shane went off next (Christian will join them when  he finds the course) and Burnzee, the butcher of geisinger, witzee and Lukie were off last.  Things surprisingly moved along fairly well in the 95 degree heat with 95% humidity.   The pops 5-some played a scramble and were able to keep right on davey boys ass. 

Take me to the highlights - I'm Bored

Craigee won the closest to the pin on number 9 just squeezing out sweat and pocketed $80 large – giving $5 back to papa witz.   We left davey boy and his elitist buddies in the clubhouse and shot back to the Howard ranch for the doll’s famous strombolis.  Pops took the3 yutes out on the back porch and taught them how to smoke cigars – he’s good like that.  Then we started putting the poker game together and Pops bailed out cause lukie was making fun of how he held his cards.  He had a total of 12  - Karen burnzee and the yutes  (Christian, shena, craig and clay) were down stairs while lukie, joe, sweat, bily d, manchild , and witzee were upstairs at the man’s table.  Burnzee forgot his “no confrontation policy and was the first one out – to everyone’s delight and he headed to the losers lounge on the back porch with pops in the cigar bar.  Then there was a flurry of activity as Christian was knocking out one player after another with his reckless play.  It eventually got down to 4 Howards and a manchild but lukie got knocked out by shaney and Christian fell to manchild and then there were 3.  josey was short stacked and dropped  quickly then manchild and shaney went back and worth until shaney took him down with a pair of tens to a pair of nines for the 2010 reading Open Poker Championship.  From there josey stirred up a  great game of apples to apples just to piss off burnzee and other than that it was a pretty laid back affair.   

On Saturday morning, the cocktail party really didn’t get underway until about 9 am with greg marshall and his little buddie opting to sleep in and not tell their partners about the late tee time – which resulted in a severely damaged Craig Gaul.  The Manchild dusted off Kermit and brought him to the event – stillers tattoo and all - and they arrived 1.5 hours before their tee time.  Things went off without a hitch  and moved along nicely.  Donna the beer wench was excellent providing refreshments but her refusal to lift her top could place her on probation for next years event.  It was unbearably hot and humid but Pops made it through so Rosie will have to wait another year to cash that insurance policy – sorry Rose – we did our best.   Most disappointing about the event was the lack of a true drunk  - No deano, pete the drunk, Grappo, Hinkle, or Hinkle’s friend Derek the drunk  - what the hell is happening.  Joe howard did his best but was having an off day and Kyle Camels tried pick up the slack but he’s not a strong candidate for a “pete the drunk” role.   And now for the awards

Closest to Pin  Winners 

Long Drive Winners 

Other Prizes 

Money Holes 

The Big Winners 

And now for the Greater Reading Open Champions.  The Softball Guys and Rick's Dad (Manchild, Rick the Coach, Rick's Dad and Stiller Loser - Kermit  came in at 61 and their score was immediately protested by the Take it to the bank group ( that's greg marshall with a new set of ringers).  They accused the softball guys of drinking soda and ice tea violating the very principle that the Greater Reading Open was founded on.   The case was put before the honorable Pops and he said "What?"  - so the score stood as is.   They accepted the new Witzee Cup with a new 2 foot base weighing over 50 pounds and te crowd was extremely disappointed when Lukie failed to spill the cup all over that stiller loser Kermit.   Is this thing turning into a kinder gentler kind of event - WTF - if so you can count me out!!

27th Annual Greater Reading Open 

Saturday, July 16th, 2011 

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