The 2014 Season of the Long Island Insurance Golf League

The Long Island Insurance Golf League Standing Thru Week #10

1st Place - Team #4: 2 Points in Week #10. Total Points: 48         

2nd Place - Team #3: 6 Points in Week #10. Total Points: 44

3rd Place - Team #1: 6 Points in Week #10. Total Pionts: 42

4th Place - Team #12: 6 Points in Week #10. Total Points: 38

5th Place - Team #9: 4 Points in Week #10. Total Points: 34
                           Team #11: 0 Points in Week #10. Total Points: 34

7th Place - Team #7: 4 Points in Week #10. Total Points: 33

8th Place - Team #8: 0 Points in Week #10. Total Points: 28
                           Team #16: 6 Points in Week #10. Total Points: 28

10th Place - Team #2: 2 Points in Week #10. Total Points: 26

11th Place - Team #13: 4 Points in Week #10. Total Points: 22

12th Place - Team #14: 0 Points in Week #10. Total Points: 21

13th Place - Team #5: 4 Points in Week #10. Total Points: 18

14th Place - Team #6: 0 Points in Week #10. Total Points: 16

15th Place - Team #10: 4 Points in Week #10. Total Points: 12

16th Place - Team #15: 0 Points in Week #10. Total Points: 9

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No Golf Today: The Long Island Insurance Golf League

No Golf Today.  

Week #6 of the Long Island Insurance Golf League has been postponed due to rain.  

Peninsula Golf Course is not allowing carts on the course due to the inclement weather.

Week#6 will be postponed until next week, Wednesday June 20th, 2012.

All Tee Times and Scheduled matches will be the same.  

Thank You Very Much

Weather Update for Week #6: Wed June 13

Long Island Insurance Golf League Weather Alert!!!!!

Massapequa, NY: Today: Wed. June 13th, 2012 

• E at 13 mph
• Gusts: 24 mph

Mostly cloudy and breezy with rain tapering to a couple of showers around 1pm.  

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Week #6 Schedule and Tee Times

Below you will find the Week #6 Schedule and Tee Times for 

The Long Island Insurance Golf League.

*Tee Times and Schedule for Week #6: June 13th, 2012

3:00pm: Team #8: Bye Week

3:08pm: Team #4 vs. Team #5

3:16pm: Team #1 vs. Team #13

3:24pm: Team #3 vs. Team #6

3:32pm: Team #12 vs. Team #14

3:40pm: Team #2 vs. Team #7

3:48pm: Team #9 vs. Team #17

3:56pm: Team #11 vs. Team #15

4:04pm: Team #10 vs. Team #16

Week #5 Results and New League Standings

1st Place - Team #3: 4 Points in Week #5.  Total Points: 26

2nd Place - Team #4: 4 Points in Week #5.  Total Points: 24

                     Team #1: 6 Points in Week #5.  Total Pionts: 24

 4th Place -  Team #7: 2 Points in Week #5.  Total Points: 20

                       Team #11: 6 Points in Week #5.  Total Points: 20

  6th Place - Team #10: 6 Points in Week #5.  Total Points: 19

  7th Place - Team #12: 4 Points in Week #5.  Total Points: 18

  8th Place - Team #16: 2 Points in Week #5.  Total Points: 14

                    Team #13: 6 Points in Week #5.  Total Points: 14

   10th Place -  Team #2:  0 Points in Week #5.  Total Points: 13

                   

11th Place - Team #6: 4 Points in Week #5.  Total Points: 12

                       Team #8: 2 Points in Week #5.  Total Points: 12

13th Place - Team #14: 0 Points in Week #5.  Total Points: 11

14th Place - Team #9: 4 Points in Week #5.  Total Points: 10

15th Place - Team #15: 0 Points in Week #5.  Total Points: 9

16th Place - Team #5: 2 Points in Week #5.  Total Points: 6

17th Place - Team #17: 0 Points in Week #5.  Total Points: 2

* Schedule and Tee Times for Week #6 to Posted Shortly.....

Week #5: Schedule and Tee Times

The Long Island 

Insurance Golf League

*Tee Times and Schedule for Week #5: June 6th, 2012

3:00pm: Team #13 vs. Team #15

3:08pm: Team #12 vs. Team #16

3:16pm: Team #2 vs. Team #9

3:24pm: Team #1 vs. Team #14

3:32pm: Team #5 vs. Team #6

3:40pm: Team #3 vs. Team #8

3:48pm: Team #4 vs. Team #7

3:56pm: Team #17 vs. Team #11

4:04pm: Team #10 vs. Bye Week

'Baseball players quit playing and they take up golf.  Basketball players quit, take up golf.  Football players quit, take up golf.  What are we supposed to take up when we quit?'  

                                                            ~George Archer

Week #4 Results and League Standings

Week #4 Results and League Standings as of the end of Week #4.  

*All handicaps have been adjusted according to League Play Results through the 1st 4 weeks.

1st Place - Team #3: 4 Points in Week #4.  Total Points: 22

2nd Place - Team #4: 4 Points in Week #4.  Total Points: 20

3rd Place - Team #1: 6 Points in Week #4.  Total Pionts: 18

                  Team #7: 4 Points in Week 34.  Total Points: 18

5th Place - Team #11: 4 Points in Week #4.  Total Points: 14

                  Team #12: 6 Points in Week #4.  Total Points: 14

7th Place -  Team #2:  2 Points in Week #4.  Total Points: 13

                   Team #10: 2 Points in Week #4.  Total Points: 13

9th Place - Team #16: 6 Points in Week #4.  Total Points: 12

10th Place - Team #14: 0 Points in Week #4.  Total Points: 10

11th Place - Team #8: 4 Points in Week #4.  Total Points: 11

12th Place - Team #15: 0 Points in Week #4.  Total Points: 9

13th Place - Team #6: 2 Points in Week #4.  Total Points: 8

                    Team #13: 4 Points in Week #4.  Total Points: 8

15th Place - Team #9: 2 Points in Week #4.  Total Points: 6

16th Place - Team #5: 2 Points in Week #4.  Total Points: 4

17th Place - Team #17: 2 Points in Week #4.  Total Points: 2

* Schedule and Tee Times for Week #5 to Posted Shortly.....

'If I hit it right, it's a slice.  If I hit it left, it's a hook.  If I hit it straight, it's a miracle.'


                                                             ~Author Unknown

Week #1 Team Scores and Recap

We teed off yesterday for Opening Day of the Long Island Insurance Golf League's 2012 Season. 

Even though it was a bit damp and chilly towards the end, 

the weather held off (That cell passed right through huh Senoir?) 

and the course held up nicely under the conditions resulting in 

a successful kickoff to our 2012 campaign.

For those that couldn't make it down to the course yesterday you were missed. 

But there is always the coming weeks to catch up on the points 
that were left on the table due to yesterday's absence.

Here Are the Team Results from Yesterday:

1st Place: Four Teams Are Tied with 6 Points:

Team #2

Team #3

Team #6

Team #10

5th Place: Team #14 with 5 Points

6th Place: Three Teams Are Tied with 4 Points:

Team #4

Team #11

Team #12

9th Place: Three Team Are Tied with 2 Points:

Team #7

Team #8

Team #15

12th Place: Team #5 with 1 Point

13th Place: 5 Teams Tied with 0 Points:

Team #1

Team #9

Team #13

Team #16

Team #17

The Meaning of Opening Day

At long last Opening Day of the 2012 Long Island Insurance Golf League is upon us.  It is the first day of a long and arduous 17 week regular season and 18-hole end of the year tournament.  Beyond the pageantry of Opening Day, which is something akin to New Years Day, the meaning of Opening Day is that golf is back and winter is over, even if it tries to hang on a few more weeks.

Can Team #1 repeat their championship from last year?  Who will challenge for the Championship among all our newcomers?  Which returning team is most improved from last year?  Teams which are expected to do great things sometimes collapse due to injuries, unexpectedly poor play by players that are supposed to have a good season or a failure of teams to consistently show up every week to play.  And sometimes - teams with low expectations rise to the top.

For those reasons I take all predictions made on opening day with a grain of salt.   This is reality and what makes golf so much fun!!  You never know how this long campaign will play out.

I love golf because it really is an allegorical play about America and life. There are the highs and lows, the disappointment of unfulfilled expectations and the excitement of the underdog team that pulls it all together to win.  The meaning of Opening Day is that it is a beginning and not an end.  The end will only be seen when the last out ball goes in the cup at the 18th hole of the tournament!!!   

...The Best of Luck to All Our Teams

Here are some great golf quotes to commemorate 
Opening Day of the 2012 Long Island Insurance Golf League:

"Eighteen holes of match or medal play will teach you more about your foe than will 18 years of dealing with him across a desk."  ~Grantland Rice

"Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child.  Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five."  ~John Updike

"It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place this world is when one is playing golf."  ~Robert Lynd

"Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad."  ~A.A. Milne

"I have a tip that can take five strokes off anyone's golf game:  it's called an eraser."  ~Arnold Palmer

"Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course - the distance between your ears." ~Bobby Jones

"I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer.  That's the distance my left ear is from my right."  ~Ben Crenshaw

"Golf is like a love affair.  If you don't take it seriously, it's no fun; if you do take it seriously, it breaks your heart."  ~Arthur Daley

"Golf is a fascinating game.  It has taken me nearly forty years to discover that I can't play it."  ~Ted Ray, Golf - My Slice of Life, 1972

"The number of shots taken by an opponent who is out of sight is equal to the square root of the sum of the number of curses heard plus the number of swishes."  ~Michael Green, The Art of Coarse Golf, 1975

"If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out."  ~Paul Gallico

"Golf is like an 18-year-old girl with big boobs.  You know it's wrong but you can't keep away from her."  ~Val Doonican

"Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic."  ~Author Unknown

"It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification."  ~Bruce McCall

"Forget your opponents; always play against par."  ~Sam Snead

"If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better than it is."  ~Horace G. Hutchinson

Long Island Insurance Golf League Week #1 Schedule

Here are the tee-times and opponents for Week #1 of the Long Island Insurance Golf League:

Wednesday May 2nd, 2012

3:00pm: Team #1 vs. Bye Week

3:08pm: Team #2 vs. Team #17

3:16pm: Team #3 vs. Team #16

3:24pm: Team #4 vs. Team #15

3:32pm: Team #5 vs. Team #14

3:40pm: Team #6 vs. Team #13

3:48pm: Team #7 vs. Team #12

3:56pm: Team #8 vs. Team #11

4:04pm: Team #9 vs. Team #10

Good Luck to Everyone.

Reminders:

1. Please be at the course atleast 20 minutes before your scheduled tee-time.  Thank You.
2. If you CANNOT make it tomorrow and have yet to inform us please do so immediately.

Thank You

Bobby Jones: How I Play Golf from HowStuffWorks.com

Inside this Article

1. Introduction to Bobby Jones: How I Play Golf
2. "How I Play Golf" and "How to Break 90"

Bobby Jones Golf Image Gallery

The original Bobby Jones golf films were released in the 1930s.  See more Bobby Jones golf pictures.

Photo courtesy Steve Chamberlain Productions

The equipment and terminology of golf have changed a great deal since 1930, the year when amateur phenom Bobby Jones won all four major tournaments in one year. Today's golfers might not even recognize the names of some of the clubs Jones used, like "Niblick" and "Spoon." Jones' clubs were made of Hickory wood. The most popular clubs on the market today are made from materials like titanium, graphite and steel. The size and shape of golf clubs have changed dramatically, as well. In the last decade alone, the average size of a driver head has doubled from approximately 200 cc's to more than 400 cc's.

The newly re-mastered DVD box-set editions of the 1930s instructional films "Bobby Jones: How I Play Golf" and "Bobby Jones: How to Break 90" provide a fascinating window into the game's past, illustrating what has changed and what has remained the same. While the equipment, style of dress and manner of speaking on display in the films are all different from those of today, the techniques Jones teaches are as helpful to today's golfer as they were to those who played the game in Jones' time.

This HowStuffWorks article explores the Bobby Jones short instructional films, how they came together and the ways they are still useful to golfers today.

Bobby Jones enjoys the results of his tutorial with Frank Craven.

Photo courtesy Steve Chamberlain Productions

"How I Play Golf" and "How to Break 90"

After winning the "Grand Slam of golf" -- the USGA Open, USGA Amateur, British Open and British Amateur competitions -- in 1930, Jones became a national celebrity. Convinced of his star power and his appeal to the everyman, Warner Brothers signed him to produce a series of instructional films bringing basic golf techniques to the silver screen. George Marshall, director of the famous "Perils of Pauline" serial, was chosen to direct the Bobby Jones series. If you've ever seen a cartoon or TV show where an evil, mustached character ties a young woman to railroad tracks, then you've seen a distant cousin of "The Perils of Pauline." O.B. Keeler, Jones' personal beat writer and biographer, went to Hollywood with Jones to write the films.

Jones wanted to take on the game of golf club by club -- to show the viewer each successive piece of equipment in the context of a real-life hang-up or common mistake. Each episode starts with a skit performed by the biggest stars of the time, including W.C. Fields, Edward G. Robinson, James Cagney and Douglas Fairbanks. The skits are based on humorous, stereotypical characters of the time, like the boss who is always sneaking off to play golf and the nagging wife who turns out to be smarter than the husband. Jones makes an appearance as himself, a concerned onlooker ready to help solve whatever golf problems come up for the main character in each skit.

Jones recalled, "There was a story line in each episode, but we didn't have a script -- they made it up as we went along. The plots wound up at the end of each 10-minute short and there was a lot of horseplay and comedy, with the instructional business woven in."

The skits are as interesting as the golf lessons for their examples of old-school trash-talking and a bygone lifestyle that involved tobacco pipes, fedoras, pressed white shirts, v-neck sweaters, argyle socks and short pants. In addition to the lessons on golf, the skits teach us that in the '30s, trash-talking was an art form. These old duffers have a way of getting under each other's skin with plain, profanity-free language. The practice of being aggressively smug seems to be a lost art.

ReCap of Meeting On Wednesday March 21st

Thank you to all the prospective golfers that showed up to our first meeting of 2012 on Wednesday March 21st at H.R. Singletons in Hicksville, NY.

It was a great turn out.  We have received multiple emails from attendees who said that they had a good time and are looking forward to the season.   

And thank you to all the golfers that reached out and expressed interest in playing in the league this year but was unable to attend the meeting on the 21st  due to prior engagements.  

We are going to hold the 2012 Season of The Long Island Insurance Golf League at the Peninsula Golf Course  in The Nassau Shores Section of Massapequa, NY.  

The League will start on Wednesday May 2nd, 2012.

The cost to join the league is $250 plus weekly green fees.  The $250 covers the end of the year outing, prizes, and dinner that night.   

Below you will find a link to register for the upcoming season.

Registration will be open until Tuesday May 1st, 2012 at 8pm.  

Please Note:  Please click on the link and register even if you have previously filled out the initial form that was sent out and on the website.  We need to start to get an accurate count of the league members.

We appreciate you taking the time out of your day to do this.

This link will be open until 8pm on the 1st of May when registration ends.  Click Here

You can always find the link on the LI Insurance Golf League's website.

See You on the Course,

The Long Island Insurance Golf League

"Practice puts brains in your muscles."

                                                        - Sam Snead

Golfing Magazine: 2011 Long Island Dream Golf Club

Golfing Magazine, the long running Long Island based paper publication, has again published its annual Long Island Dream Golf Club. Golfing Mag’s editors draw on their extensive playing experience to find 18 holes that exemplify the best of Nassau County and Suffolk County golf. This year’s list is split evenly between public and private courses. Don’t forget to checkout the best practice facility and best ’19th hole’.

This years edition plays almost 7,000 yards… Here’s a run down…