September 16, 2007

ALPINE LAKE, WV — Greg Long, the 8-year member of Golfapalooza, continued to release smidges of his new book, “Memories: How I lived Golfapalooza”, which is due out to book stores in a couple of weeks. Long, a.k.a. Slick, was asked to walk through Chapter 6, which is titled, “The Back Nine” as it provides his insights of how to play the Ron Forse par 72 golf course.

"The 14th hole, Careful, is a short hole made shorter by it's drop from the tee box to green," said Slick of the 148-yard shot. "This green is not like the 12th hole behind it, but it does slope a little from front to back. You need to be very careful and swing like a pussy off the tee. I have yet to see a ball hit the green and roll anywhere except towards the 15th tee box. A ball on the fringe or just short on the apron is not a bad shot provided the pin is not in the back of the green.

The vast majority of the tournament field will score bogey here. This means a lot of loozers are going to receive lots of points.

If you get zero points for triple bogey, you lose ground statistically and you cannot do anything about it. Similar to the opening hole, you need to be very aggressive because bogey and quadruple bogey have similar results in respects to the Leaderboard.

My last memory includes Stacey Bartlett walking down and pointing at his 8-foot slider during the 2-man Scramble back in September 2002. Barlett was on fire all day, but this particular putt was his career best. It wasn't the length or the incredibly fast right to left slider. It was the confidence you could feel while he stood over the ball. He walked the ball into the hole pointing at it like Tiger Woods. The putt was part of 5 birdies on the back nine and record low 4-under 32."