Mrs. Commissioner showing off!

Monday, 4/20, Mrs. Commissioner underwent open heart surgery at Mt. Carmel East. She came through it with no issues and said she had little pain. Today (Tuesday) is a little different as reality is setting in and she is quite uncomfortable. But doing well. Dealing with a breast cancer diagnosis and treatment and now open heart surgery within 12 months - that’s pretty impressive. So I guess she’s allowed to show off.

PAK-Mon win again

This time it was Fitzpatrick. She is on quite a roll! This is Fitzpatrick’s 2nd Plaid jacket at Heritage, which I must admit I find quite ugly. And to think Davis Love has 5 of them!

Once again, Scotty came through with a 2nd place finish. Impressive. And yet I think Kevin needs him to start pulling in some wins.

Doug has all the “Woo’s”. Min Woo Lee and Si Woo Kim. Not sure that’s ever been done before.

Rumors are swirling about a potential trade. A trade from Monica. I know - hard to believe. And it’s a type of trade this Commissioner has never processed before. Word on the street is that Monica is thinking of trading Paul. We’ve never had a manager traded before. “I like my studs young”, Monica was quoted as saying. We’ll see where this goes.

And finally, for those at the Draft, you may remember our hostess Kat. What I’ve learned is that she was at the Heritage tournament and is good friends with Scottie’s caddy. Crazy all the connections people have to the FGL.

Nice outing

Had some of the Shadowbox folks out for a night at TopGolf.

But beyond the Shadowbox team, I should point out that Mrs. Commissioner has her own fan club…and in a most shocking place. Over at Twin Peaks (similar to a Tilted Kilt) some of the waitresses and one in particular somehow considers Mugsy to be her twin. Oh, and that she is so much fun. She is a celebrity in there and we are both so confused. But anyway…..

We're headed down the road to Hilton Head

The Heritage. Another “signature” event which means a fairly strong field with NO cut.

Manager Golfers expected to play 

B.T.O. Harris English, Akshay Bhatia, lil Rickie,  the HamBergler

Jim Fleetwood Mac, Justin Thomas, Maverick McNealy, Max Homa
Jaustin Xander Schauffele, Alex Noren, Keegan Bradley, Patrick Cantlay, Corey Conners, Sungjae Im
Doug   Chris Gotterup, Shane Lowry, Gary Woodland, Si Woo Kim, Min Woo Lee, J.J. Spaun
PAK-Mon   Cameron Young, Matt Fitzpatrick, Jake Knapp
Commish Don Henley, Sepp Straka, Ludvig Aberg, George Burns 
Big J Bobby MacIntyre, Viktor Hovland, Jacob Bridgeman, Jason Day, Jordan Spieth, Collin Morikawa
Kevin Scottie, Sahith Theegala, Tony Finau 

Wild and Busy Master’s Weekend

Where to begin: let’s go with the sidebet champion and our new leader on your FGL leaderboard. Rory’s win as well as Cam Young’s 3rd place finish were a huge part in the Team PAK-Mon win with 38 points! That’s more points in one tournament than several managers have for the whole year.

Manager Jim picked up 24 points. Big J drops into 2nd place with several of us just a few points behind.

As for Big J - TRADE ALERT he has dumped Min Woo Lee. Kind of sad. In his spot is a guy from his team last year (and a guy Doug just released early Thursday morning) - Mr. Colin Morikawa.

I had the amazing opportunity to get out to OakHaven Golf Club in Delaware this past weekend with Managers Big J and Doug. A wonderful day. Not many great shots but just enough to bring us back again!

Also got out Friday afternoon to catch some Master’s action with Ms. Monica, Doug, Maxine and Mrs. Commissioner. Gallo’s was pleased to host us.

One of Kevin’s traditional picks got himself in trouble last Thursday. Mark Calcavecchia thought he might be a last- minute sentimental pick-up by Kevin. Two problems. Mark was only AT the tournament; not in it. And then he got busted on his cell phone trying to reach Kevin. He was then immediately escorted out of the golf course.

Big J’s Bobby MacIntyre was burning quite hot Thursday. Slamming his club into the fairway and flipping off the green got him a nasty reprimand and soon thereafter a missed cut.

Congrats to Maxine for her upcoming retirement at the end of the month. I’m sure there will be fireworks and perhaps we’ll have a parade.

I was amazed watching the Artemis moon adventure. Everything went so perfect. But I often found myself trying to remember the 7 year old version of me that watched Neil Armstrong jump around on the moon and then I’d go outside and look at the moon and try to comprehend how that was even possible. This was an amazing adventure but reinforces how incredible it was to do that 55 years ago plus land & then take off from the moon with astronauts climbing outside the vehicle which did not happen this time. And back then, they pretty much did it all with paper, pencil and a slide rule.

Sunday brought Monster Trucks! Huge beasts. And louder than an AC/DC concert.

Doug loses his mind at team meeting

We don’t often think of Doug as the Bobby Knight type. But clearly something has set the young captain from Carey off on a rage! Two weeks ago, he had 0 points. Then he has a big week and drafts Spaun and Si Woo. Not sure how it happened but Spaun won in Texas and Si Woo finished top 10. Another 14 points and up to 3rd place on your FGL leaderboard.

Big J had a nice week with Bobby MacIntire’s 2nd place finish and takes over the 2026 FGL lead.

Totally unrelated and a few weeks overdue, the Commissioner’s office is happy to hear that co-manager Paul is safe and doing well in Hawaii. When I hear of hurricanes, fires, earthquakes, etc in Hawaii, I always assume it’s one of the other islands. I presumed the same with the latest mud and flooding madness. I was wrong. It all went down on Paul’s island. Nasty stuff. But Paul is still standing.

Pack up. We’re all heading to Augusta for our first Major.

Manager Golfers expected to play

B.T.O. Hideki Matsuyama, Harris English, Akshay Bhatia, Daniel HamBerger

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

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

Doug Morikawa, Chris Gotterup, Shane Lowry, Gary Woodland, Si Woo Kim, J.J. Spaun, RAHM

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

Commish Don Henley, Sepp Straka, Ludvig Aberg, George Burns, Bryson DeChambeau

Big J Bobby MacIntyre, Viktor Hovland, Jacob Bridgeman, Min Woo Lee, Jason Day, Jordan Spieth

Kevin Scottie, Brooks Koepka

A pretty good Tuesday night

Went over to Newark to Shipp Brothers Brewery. Self-serve beer. Really good food.

We followed that with a stroll over to the Midland Theater and some George Thorogood. George still sounds great and is amazing on the guitar. At 76, he doesn’t jump around the stage like he once did. A great night. Although seeing George with Big J is always such a unique adventure compared to Mrs. Commissioner. But we still found our way.