The first full weekend of August is in the books, and I am spending the week celebrating my team's victory in the Dynomite Dave's Golf Tournament held at Chateau Elan this past Saturday. For those of you who may not know, the Dyno Dave Tourney is a 4th of July tournament that is held in August. It is a very gimmicky tournament, with only 4 holes "straight-up" golf. Teams are a random draw the morning of, and this year there were 11 teams (8 foursomes and 3 threesomes). I was fortunate to draw outstanding teammates in Zach Davis and Mike Carlson. Zach's putter was an inferno, and Mikey G was crushing the ball of the tee and dominating the gimmick holes. I contributed when I could, but willingly admit that I was the weakest link. As a team, we fired a 6-under 66, but lost 2 orange balls, which left us coming in with a 4-under 68. There were two other teams under par, and both teams were loaded, but they could not overcome the outstanding score that we came in with. Kudos to my partners, Dyno Dave Champions! One thing I have learned by winning the tourney is that "a donk gonna donk and a hater gonna hate".
In the world of Major League Baseball, the Atlanta Braves took two of three from the New York Mets this weekend at Citi Field. In the 3rd and deciding game, it was only fitting that Larry Wayne Jones delivered the game-winning hit in the top of the 9th inning over the Mets. Freddie Freeman's 20-game hit streak was snapped yesterday, but Dan Uggla stretched his streak to 28 games. A 28-game hit streak is pretty impressive for anybody, much less Dan Uggla after his struggles for most of the year. One thing about Uggla is that when he struggled he never made excuses, dodged the media, etc. he just kept working. This makes it easy to root for the guy, and I would love for him to push the streak further. I, personally, think that Joe D's streak of 56 games is untouchable, but it would be nice to see it at least challenged a little bit. To put 56 games into perspective, Uggla is only HALFWAY there. Good luck Uggs!
For more Braves info, check out my next blog, "Rookie of the Year".
Football is under way, which means practices are heating up in Athens. There will be a blog by the end of th week previewing the upcoming UGA season. Stay tuned.
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