I stopped in at the Play Golf Minneapolis Summit today. The Columbia GC banquet room was packed. The line was long for buying season passes, Player’s Cards, and signing up for golf leagues. There were several options for free food. I sampled them all (multiple times, just to confirm my first impressions) and I enjoyed them all.
Many of our Men’s Club member were there — some as volunteers, manning the GMC table, and others (like me) just showed up to to schmooze, nosh, and collect enough check marks on our booth- visiting card to earn a spin of the prize wheel. By the time I made my way to the wheel, there were only two prize categories left — 50/50 chance of mini-sleeves of two ProV-1s or a coupon for a free round at Theodore Wirth. Anybody want to join me at Wirth this summer?
Here are a few photos from the event. It was kind of fun to see a few other golfers I know and hang out with a bunch of people who all have one thing in common — they can’t wait to get out on a golf course.
Thank you to these fellow GMC members for volunteering today: Bill Oas, Mark Bryden, John Wicks, Dave Aiekens, Ken Troia, Scott Helgerson, Paul Bussman, Jim Hunninghake
Columbia Golf Course Clubhouse banquet room.
Ken Troia, Bill Oas, Mark Bryden, Scott Helgerson
Columbia’s back porch is beautiful.
John Wicks and Dave Aiekens, recruiting new members
Here’s Bill Oas talking to people at the Meadowbrook table. At first I was worried that he was considering jumping ship and joining their club. But then I saw what he was really up to, when he shouted, “Hey! Do you guys see that fire truck outside the window?!?” When they turned around to look, Bill stuffed his pockets with most of the candy in the big bowl and calmly walked away.
The weird kicker to this story is that there really WAS a firetruck outside the window — after a false alarm had been pulled. Hmm . . . seems like a lot of work when the candy was already free.