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FROM JIM MOOREHEAD:
Hi guys, I had the most interesting conversation with Keith Kimball yesterday. Keith is 94 and has given up golf at this point and his memory isn't that bad to my estimation. Here are some thoughts be they correct or not....to the best of his recollection.
When they first started (as we know) it was Bill Burkardt and Al Woodside and someone I didn't know about was a "big guy" from the Palisades. He seemed to think the cost was $15.00 with $4.00 going to prize money. He said they had three boxes and you would go to the course, put your name and handicap on a piece of paper and put it in the appropriate box. When the numbers were off they would borrow from say the "B" box to add to the "C" box to even numbers. He thought each "C" player would choose *his* teams by picking one player at a time until all teams were made up.
It seems Edgewood didn't have a liquor license so they would all throw a few bucks into a "beer and pop" donation and someone would buy a bunch of pop n beer and put it into a container for everyone to use. Keith said he never remembered anyone getting out of line.
At the end of the year they would have a banquet somewhere and bring their wives and that is sort of how the Ladies started their Fifty and Over. After a while not only did they have players from Palisades, Edgewood and Oakville but also from Lakeview, Lena, Mount Morris, Lake Carroll, Bucks Barn and more as the time went on...
Since Keith was sort of in the group from the start with Bill and Al, I think some kind of a letter of introduction using these different bits of knowledge could be incorporated into our website somehow....
Thanks guys for your interest...
Fairways and greens,
Jim Moorehead