[Golf Sheet / Week 16 Thursday, 09-03-2026]<-click
SBITES (aka Snapper Bites)
CUDOS :
GREENIES: WOLF & TONY T
Birdies: JWOLF got 2…..CMO got 1 ….SHANG got 1…WAY TO GO GUYS
5-HOLE: SHANG’S BIRDIE WAS ON THIS HOLE!
TEAM SKIN : carry over..we will break the pot this week
LOW ACTUAL : NICE “38” WOLF actual and “32” net SNAPPER
OK HERE WE GO FINAL POSITION ROUND TONIGHT FINISHES THE 2026 SEASON…UNLESS we wanna finish with a scramble dinner and awards?
I have booked tee times and dinner tentatively to RETURN TO WHERE IT ALL STARTED:
TYRONE HILLS GOLF CLUB if you want…here it is:
$125 BUY-IN covers 18 holes/ea …dog at turn..dinner and INCLUDES $25 greenie and skins $$
AS USUAL 1st Sunday after Labor Day, this year SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2026 @ 10 am
TELL ME ASAP if you are coming so we can get enough guys for foursomes. WOLF and JWOLF cannot attend so subs MIKE WALKER? GRANT STAHLEY? GLENN SIMMINGTON? ART KARDITZ? We can do 16 0r 20 whatever works out. TELL ME NOW IN OR OUT?
Blade’s Slice
Pop Quiz
- The Snappers moved to the Majestic in 2005, which was the golf course’s ___ year.
a) first year of operation.
b) claim to fame.
c) semiquincentennial anniversary!
d) 12th year of operation - In 2017 ______ was awarded Golf Course of the Year by the Michigan Golf Course Association.
a) Ye Nyne Olde Holles in Charlevoix County
b) The Wawashkamo Golf Club on Mackinac Island
c) A-Ga-Ming at Torch Lake
d) The Majestic at Lake Walden in Hartland - The course was designed by _____, who has designed over 100 golf courses, most of them right here in Michigan.
a) Chris Matthews
b) Dave Matthews
c) Clay Matthews
d) Jerry Matthews - The Majestic is supported by 15 dedicated _____.
a) Beer Babes
b) pontoon boat captains
c) Somali Learing Centers
d) shareholders - We have 110 Yamaha quiet-tech _____.
a) Roombas
b) Samurais
c) Rickshaws
d) gasoline carts - Majestic has ________ that takes golfers to and from the 10th tee.
a) a chairlift
b) a suspension bridge
c) the Jolly Mon’s magical dolphin
d) a 24-foot Tri Toon Pontoon boat - Lake Walden is 150 acres and the course is 333 acres spread over 150 feet of _____.
a) nutella
b) lost Rams
c) Blade’s tears
d) elevation change. - It is approximately 8.3 miles around 1-18 and 4 miles around holes 19-27.
a) which is 21,648 total yards.
b) but only a total of 142 yards from the gold tees.
c) but triple that “as the Blade flys”.
d) all are true (ish) - The _____ is 4,000 square feet and can seat 180 people.
a) bathroom stall
b) pontoon
c) last hole gallery
d) clubhouse - We have over 75 team members working behind the scenes to give everyone a great experience.
*This is obviously true, and the Snappers League would like to thank each and every one of you…
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
The answer key (below) is a sign on the wall directly eye level when standing at one of the bathroom urinals (except for Timmy, who has to stare at the urinal cake). Did you get them all correct?
And the sign said “Long-haired freaky people Need not apply”
Speaking of signs, the Snapper league has a long history (and sometimes conflicts) with signage.
There were times when THERE WAS A SIGN, but it was ignored (or misinterpretted). I’m guessing this was one of those times?
OR how about this one (that led to an AOTD win)
6/1/2000
Bill Cape was runner-up when, upon arriving to the course, pulled his vehicle into a parking spot clearly marked by a “Reserved for Golf Professional” sign. Bill’s defense was that he felt the sign was “kind of vague” since it didn’t actually name a particular golf professional. Even his own partner, Dave Lawless, wasn’t buying it when he rhetorically asked “what was your score again tonight Bill?”
*Sometimes blatant anarchy!
And sometimes an honest attempt at compliance!
The LETTER of the law conveyed by this sign states “CARTS ARE TO BE DRIVEN IN ROUGH EXCEPT WHEN CROSSING.”
So when Rick Bailey and partner Mike Kennedy were spotted driving in the landscaping by this sign, were they following the SPIRIT of the law?
Speaking of following the spirit of the sign…
PHANTOM SIGNS? Those times when there really wasn’t a sign (but should have been one?)
ASSHOLE OF THE DAY, June 16, 2011:
Dishonorable Mentions: Bill Cape, for driving the passenger tires of his golf cart erratically over large landscape rocks which were placed precariously beside the paved cart path near the worker’s booth just outside of the clubhouse prior to the round. When “John” the shuttle driver objected, Bill feigned a back and neck injury, boisterously complaining the fact that there were no warning signs of “ROCKS NEXT TO CART PATH AHEAD”. “Why are there no arrows or reflectors clearly marking this hazard?,” inquired Bill. Darren answered this question with his own, “Don’t the large rocks mark themselves?” To which Bill retorted, “Obviously the safety of the customers are not a top priority,” as he rubbed the back of his neck and dangling the prospects of a class action as bait in a feeble attempt to get Nakes to take the case. “Besides, I was distracted by my partner Dave’s yelling,” to which Jamie responded, “Yeah, he was yelling ‘WATCH OUT FOR THE ROCKS'”. Jamie also made the point that Bill had no business piloting a cart at the clubhouse prior to the boatride to the starting tenth tee. Partner Dave successfully argued that they shouldn’t be expected to walk the 20 feet from the booth to the shuttle pickup in front of the beer boat.
AND LAST but not least (for now), where is this “FREE BEER” sign?
Asshole-of-the-day (July 3, 2006)
TIMMY KACHELSKI, for authorizing the giving of “FREE BEER” by the Majestic Golf Course or by WDFN radio station or by …well who cares anyway…it’s “FREE BEER” isn’t it? …isn’t it? No, it wasn’t. When the Snappers finished play this week and collected at one end of the deck outside the clubhouse awaiting the official start of the post golf Snapper Meeting, they found local sports talk radio station WDFN broadcasting live on the air at the other end of the deck.
Long rumored to be hosting a live broadcast from the course on Snapper League night, they were finally here. Local Club Pro Steve Tanner with full radio microphone headgear was seated at a table with two other curious looking show hosts similarly attired, fielding phoned in questions about golf. Across from them was another table with a cardboard box with a slit in the top, several notepads and pencils and a whole bunch of red plastic souvenir cups with the WDFN logo on them stacked as a pyramid clearly awaiting anyone who wished to have one.
Free? Seeing his opportunity to win a golf ball, and embarrass a few fellow Snappers in the process, Timmy K began pointing to the far end of the deck and authoritatively announcing to Snappers who finished after him, starting with Snapper himself, that they were to go there, fill out a sheet with their personal info and put it in the box for a chance at free Tiger tickets, then take a red cup, go inside and Laura, the unfortunate employee to have drawn inside beer duty would fill it with beer for free. Snapper realized two things almost immediately upon following Timmy’s instructions to the letter, First, Laura had no damned idea what he was talking about as she clearly had not been instructed that the beer she was selling would under any circumstances be free, and second that he left his wallet in his golf bag in the car having an unfinished bourbon & coke with him for the meeting and no intention of purchasing a beer. Snapper determined to utilize his lawyerly powers of verbal persuasion and upon insisting the proper number of times that in fact “they told us to do this, it’s free, really” without one time allowing her to ask who “They” were caused Laura to relent and he and his buddy Les Helmkay walked out with free beers. The crowd of Snappers outside were beside themselves with delight when Rick & Les came out with their brewskies until Les convinced them that we really had not paid for the beer…really.
Snapper left Les to explain the Johnny Cochran-like oratory he had just witnessed, and went to the parking lot to retrieve his wallet to pay for the beer only to pass the next group with Micha Fulgham & Chad Ellis on the way in. Unable to refrain, Snapper nodded towards the deck and simply stated “FREE BEER” in as nonchalant a manner as one can utter those two words, to see if Timmy would do it again. He did, over and over.
Honorable Mentions:
Rick Carlson, for falling for such a prank without knowing better;
Micha Fulgham, for incredulously insisting to Laura (immediately after Snapper had in fact paid for his previously pilfered beer and Laura in on the gag) that it could not be so…he saw red cups with beer in them in front of Snappers on the deck and Snapper, his lawyer, had never lied to him before. Steve Peltier, who was sitting next to Timmy the whole time and obviously in on the gag for nevertheless successfully representing himself and talking Laura into the same deal as “that guy in the green shirt (Snapper) got”, successful only until Snapper flipped his $20 over Steve’s shoulder & explained to Laura, who stated the obvious in gathering the change, she was simply waiting for Mr. Tanner to get off the radio to verify she was right in giving away beer.
…and there you have it. Snapper lore meets Signs.
Just remember, be like THE GLACIER TWINS.
SMILE IT’S ONLY A GAME – VISIT THE CHUCKWAGON!
GO SNAPPERS 2026!!!!
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