Busy days

We caught the movie West Side Story Sunday afternoon at the Ohio Theater. 2 hours and 46 minutes. That’s just far too long for me. Just as the Jets and Sharks are ready to fight, they always break into song. Come on guys - step it up.

After that, we went and caught Barry Manilow’s farewell concert. 84 year old performer going thru lung cancer treatment and the guy still put on a quite a show. Certainly all the 60 and 70 years old women squealing like 14 year old girls seemed to love it.

FGL Season 2026 comes to a close!

Another year in the books! Not much late season drama in this season.

Paul picked a great team! But the win goes to Monica who ran away from the rest of us. It was Cam Young and Matt Fitzpatrick that dominated for her, not Rory. Even Wyndham Clark had a great year. Crazy stuff. This marks Monica’s 2nd FGL title!

Doug locked up 2nd place in the FGL. Congrats!

Jaustin had a great Rocket Mortgage tournament and jumped from 5th up to 3rd place. Congrats. Very good - other than a lower initial draft pick next year.

For the 2nd year in a row, the manager that picked first won the Tommy O. Last year’s winner, B.T.O., is back in the basement. But tied for 6th are Kevin and Big J. Big J - with the 2nd pick in the draft this year, certainly not your usual year. But for next years’ draft, we’ll flip a coin to see whether Kevin or Big J gets the 2nd overall pick.

FGL Draft ‘27 will take place Sunday, February 21st. Mark your calendar. Paul - make sure you’re on a plane. We don’t want to hear of your picks again!

Going low at the 3M

I don’t know who this kid is that won. But after only a few PGA starts, that is pretty impressive.

But as for the FGL, not much happened. To no surprise, PAK-Mon has locked up the Tommy O award for this season. Total domination!

We wrap it all up in Motown. Decent field for the Rocket Morgage tourney. Guys trying to climb that board to qualify for the Fed Ex Cup tournament series.

Manage Golfers expected to play 

Doug   Chris Gotterup, Si Woo Kim, J.J. Spaun  

PAK-Mon   Cameron Young,  Jake Knapp, Wyndham Clark  

Commish Don Henley, Sudarshan Yellamaraju, Nicolai Hojgaard  

Big J   Jacob Bridgeman,  Jordan Spieth  

B.T.O. Hideki Matsuyama, Harris English, Akshay Bhatia, lil Rickie, Billy Horschel  

Kevin   Tony Finau, Brooks Koepka

Jaustin Xander Schauffele,  Keegan Bradley, Patrick Cantlay, Corey Conners, Sungjae Im

Jim   Christiaan Bezuidenhout

A lovely Wednesday in Hamilton, OH

Thank you Woody from Delta Dental for the invitation to play in the Food & Cafeteria Worker’s Union golf outing at Walden Ponds. Beautiful day. For those of you who remember former FGL Manager 3-Finger Tim, his son Cody played in our group. The kid is a stud. Hits the ball as far as I’ve ever seen anyone.

And Congrats to Big J for winning the closest to the pin award on the 158 yard par 3.

The Open!

Cameron Young made a frantic push up the leaderboard Sunday at The Open. Yes - Cameron Young - one of Monica’s studs. Some just might call that greedy. How many points does she need? He ended up in 2nd place losing to Ryan Fox. Never saw that happening.

My boy George Burns put up a fight but just didn’t have enough gas to make it over the finish line. But I can’t complain. George died in 1996 at the age of 100. Kind of hard to expect him to go 4 rounds. But it left me with 3 guys in the Top 10 and enough to claim the sidebet victory.

Dave - zero points? Clearly you spent too much time watching soccer and not your FGL golfers.

Did DeChambeau cheat? It depends who you ask. But my point to all the coverage is - he’s not on anyone’s FGL team. Please move along!

Went with Woody to see Silence of the Lambs. He requires sitting in the very front row!

For non-Ohio managers, last Friday was incredibly smoky here. It was like the entire outside was a giant cigar bar. Here’s a couple pictures from Cedar Point of what it was like. I wanted no part of that. I stayed home and made sure Mrs. Commissioner was getting her chores done.

The excitement of the consolation round…..

Get ready for the Open!

Doug had a good tournament at the Scottish Open and picked up 13 points. Looks like him and Jim will be battling it out for 2nd place.

Monica picks up 9 points but after all, this is the Year of Monica.

My boy Aberg bogeyed his last hole Friday to miss the cut by one shot. Not to be outdone, my Sepp Straka was able to bogey his last 2 holes Friday to also miss the cut by one shot. Some years are just like that.

And Scottie missed a cut for the first time in thousands of years. It goes like that sometimes Kevin.

With our final Major coming up, one has to wonder, will Jim or Monica win it? They’ve split the first four. Oh it’ll probably come down to Fleetwood Mac against Fitzpatrick for the Sidebet win.

Took a couple of the grandsons to the Ohio Theater Sunday to see an old Star Wars movie. Should have realized the boys were most interested in running through every inch of the place. And while tickets were very cheap, I still somehow ended up paying $60 on all kinds of concessions!

Time for the British!

Manager Golfers expected to play 

Jaustin Xander, Alex Noren, Milton Bradley, Patrick Cantlay, Jimmy Conners, Sungjae Im

Jim Fleetwood Mac, Pete Rose, Justin Thomas, Maverick McNealy, Max Homa

Doug   Chris Gotterup, Shane Lowry, Gary Woodland, Si Woo Kim, J.J. Spaun, Min Woo Lee

PAK-Mon Rory, Cameron Young, Matt Fitzpatrick, Jake Knapp, Wyndham Clark, Keith Mitchell

Commish Don Henley, Sepp Straka, Ludvig Aberg, George Burns, Nicolai Hojgaard  

Big J Robert MacIntyre, Viktor Hovland, Jacob Bridgeman, Jason Day, Jordan Spieth, Collin Morikawa

B.T.O. Hideki, Harris English, Akshay Bhatia, lil Rickie, Horchak, Daniel HamBerger

Kevin Scottie, Sahith Theegala, Brooks Koepka

Happy 4th of July!

It marked some big birthdays. 250 years for - oh you’ve heard enough about that. But also a happy 74th birthday to former FGL Manager The Doctor. And also happy 4th birthday to Julian, part of team Jaustin.

I enjoyed watching some of the US Senior Open at Scioto. (Not in person, on TV). So many old familiar names like Peppermint Patty, Stewart Kitchen Cink, Fancy Pants, the Predator. Oh such fun!

I was walking the neighborhood streets Saturday when I noticed Archie walking towards me. Big floppy hat, sweaty old OSU t-shirt and he’s only about 5’ 6” so it was clearly him. I just said “hi” as I walked by but started planning for the return trip down the sidewalk! On the way back, I asked him if the nasty heat made him want to put the pads back on again. He told me , “God no. but this is the time of year that the Bengals would open training camp and it was so painful!” Interesting note on all that was the entire time he kept walking; walking away from me. My second question was to see if he remembered signing a Hooters calendar for a 10 year old boy at our Brewseum Open but never got the chance.

Oh - we also had some FGL golf over the weekend. Jim picked up 9 points with Homa’s 2nd place finish and moves up on your FGL leaderboard to 2nd place. Doug grabbed a win and is now tied for 3rd place.

Scottish Open up next

Manager Golfers expected to play 

Jaustin Xander Schauffele, Alex Noren,  Patrick Cantlay, Corey Conners, Sungjae Im

Jim Fleetwood Mac,  Justin Thomas

Kevin Scottie, Sahith Theegala, Tony Finau

Doug Chris Gotterup, Shane Lowry, Si Woo Kim, J.J. Spaun, Min Woo Lee

PAK-Mon Rory, Matt Fitzpatrick, Jake Knapp, Wyndham Clark  

Commish   Sepp Straka, Ludvig Aberg, Sudarshan Yellamaraju, Nicolai Hojgaard  

Big J Robert MacIntyre, Viktor Hovland

B.T.O. Harris English, Billy Horschel,  

It happened!!!!!!

The Tommy O has been hung in its rightful place at the B.T.O. estate!

And congrats to Manager Jim as I hear he’s headed to Europe for a long river boat cruise! ENJOY!

A wonderful night at the Blossom Music Center. Caught Don Felder play a lot of Eagles songs for the opening act. Chatted with one of the ladies working there during the break and she ended up moving us up from the 80th row to the 15 row for The Guess Who. A very comfortable night!