Report from the Greens Committee

Attention All Stans,
Your ever vigilant AI Greens Committee, just back from a weekend in Asheville, NC (the Woodstock of the south) immediately returned to work to examine the alleged renovation of the tournament course at Bay Hill, venue for nearly every previous AI Championship round.  Not that we're paranoid and imagine that Arnold Palmer Enterprises would fabricate a press release to its membership and the national media for the sole purpose of leading the AI to believe the course is closed.  Although, one might wonder if the Palmer brain trust is tired of the constant comparison between the API and the AI.  One might also wonder why one might wonder that.  And that at least they have a brain trust.  Where were we?  You know, we recently wondered if it was too soon to take a test designed to measure cognitive deficits.  We decided it was.  Too soon, that is.  Now, see these photos of the home of the AI, and the API, and possibly the UPI.

             looking greenward  from the right fairway bunker on #5

              gazing down the fairway of #6 from #6 tee on the Charger

So it is clear that Palmer and his cohorts will go to any lengths to prevent the staging of AI-XIX at Bay Hill.  Will we be deterred?  Will we be interred?  Stay tuned.

Handicapping AI-XIX

With the latest GHIN Handicap revisions out today, the AI Handicap Committee thought it timely to present the initial report for the projected participants in AI-XIX.  We will list indexes rather than course handicaps as the Committee is still researching the venue(s) where the tournament will be played and neither have we been able to find the proper calculations to translate these indexes for Wii Golf.............

Onward.

As of May 15, 2015

Robert Pease:   4.6 *
Mitch Burke:     9.8
Rich Heimsch:  11.1 **
Gordon:           16.3

For those of you organizing your betting strategy for AI-XIX, a couple of notes before you call Betfair.

*  that Mr. Pease's index is followed by an 'R' -  From the USGA website:   "R designates that a handicap has been automatically reduced for exceptional tournament performance.  A “reduced handicap” must be reviewed by the Handicap Committee and the committee may decide to let the reduction run its normal course, override the reduction or adjust the reduction."  Obviously, the USGA has never encountered Mr. Pease play during the pressure of an AI Tournament.

** that Mr. Heimsch has not posted a score in April or May.  This is a potential red flag in that, traditionally, no one plays more golf than Mr. Heimsch.