The seniors of Cedar Creek golf course are an active group. They play three different type of formats during the week if weather permitting. Tuesday is a scramble day and usually has the most participants.
This is the most interesting to watch as the teams are chosen. Colored tags are normally drawn from a hat and players match them with others to determine the teams.
The fun begins as the tags also have numbers on them. Some of the players are color blind; others have difficulty in hearing and some have poor vision. Combine this with short term memories and you begin to see how a simple task can quickly turn into chaos. The ones who are color blind look at the numbers on the tags which have absolutely nothing to do with choosing their team mates. Shouts of numbers and colors finally get all members into the correct groups. Then everyone starts outs the door and alas, someone forgets who they are with. So, you have to redirect them again.
Thursday is memorial point days. This is tournament play which consists of eight or more monthly events. The winner is presented with a trophy at the Christmas dinner. The trophy is named for two former members who passed away – Lester Puckett and Earl Sykes. They were avid golfers and great assets to our club. During each event the players are required to earn points based on their individual handicaps to determine upon their past five rounds of golf. All players must putt the ball into the cup, no gimmies are allowed during these events.
Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays are dinosaur days. You may ask what a dinosaur and golf have to do with each other. Well, it all started with Rev. Charles Davis found a child’s toy on the course and presented it to the losing team captain (Jerome Wicker) after a round of golf.
This occurred under the large oak tree at the edge of the parking lot. This place is in the shade and players gather here to call out their scores.
When Charles presented the dinosaur to Jerome, players were laughing so hard they almost fell out of the golf carts. Ever since then the losing team gets the dinosaur. Now this thing can turn a scratch golf into a hacker in a moment’s notice. Players that usually hit booming drive now begin to top the ball of the tree. Others hook the ball into the woods or the lake or into the trees. When they do manage to get the ball on the green they putt as if their hands are made of stone. A four foot putt quickly becomes a ten foot come back putt to the cup. Sometimes when you get the dinosaur it seems almost impossible to get rid of it.
The seniors are active in the club and quickly pitch in to assist in any effort to make the club more enjoyable for everyone. They clean, paint and maintain the pool, repair bridges and aerate greens, paint the club house and clean up the grounds. They also assist in the annual four ball tournament by cooking sausage for the players.
Recently the seniors have begun to have a cookout for themselves after they play golf. This normally occurs once a month on a Thursday. To date, they have served red beans and rice, hamburgers, fish fry, chili and homemade soup. These guys and girls play hard, work hard and have tons of fun. The very best part is the tremendous fellowship they share with others.
We welcome anyone over the age of 55 to join us and have some fun.
